Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Nonfiction!
Posted by kimford on February 2, 2009
It’s award time! Last Monday, at the midwinter ALA convention, the book awards were announced. I’m always especially interested in the Siebert Award for nonfiction and curious to see how it compares to the Orbis Pictus Award sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English. (I chair the Orbis Pictus Award these days, and more about that later.) This year one book made both lists: Kadir Nelson’s We Are the Ship: the story of Negro League Baseball. It won the Siebert Award, and was an Orbis Pictus Honor Book. It also was the Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner and Illustrator Honor Book. Wow! If you haven’t seen it, you are in for a treat. The text is engaging, and the illustrations are beautiful. Better yet, every kid in my library who has walked past the book has stopped and opened it. It just invites you to come in and turn pages. It has to be today’s BOOK OF THE DAY.
