Below are the winners announced earlier today here at the Georgia Children's
Literature Conference. I have also included some notes of interest in case
you weren't able to attend but might be interested.
STANLEY'S PARTY by Linda Bailey (Picture Book Awad winner for K-4 grades)
LOSER by Jerry Spinelli (Book Award winner for 4-8 grades)
NOTES:
The husband-wife team of Dennis & Judy Fradin began the day at the first
general session. They were very comical and fed off of each other's humor. I was
more familiar with their state books from the "Sea to Shining Sea" series,
but some of their recent works and how they got the idea for them was
interesting. From my notes..Judy started by helping her husband do research for his
books. She even took many of the picture books. Dennis wrote a book about
Crawford Long (believe he said it was entitled WE HAVE CONQUERED PAIN) and had
been to Georgia before to research this book. He said unfortunately this title
has been out of print for quite some time. A more recent book he and his wife
have worked on is one one IDA B. WELLS (led a crusade to stop lynchings and
was featured as a famous person in he TENNESSEE book from the STSS series
mentioned above. Another book on the the civil rights line is THE POWER OF ONE..a
book about Daisy Bates. Both seem very good and their passion in getting
these stories out was evident. They are working on a book about the Trail of
Tears and according to Judy, it is going to be 10 pages long. I asked her if this
was for the elementary age and a picture book...and she said she believed so.
They are not the ones doing the pictures for this book. She was not sure of
a publication date...they are still doing research on the topic. I did ask
her if she had heard of Major Ridge (she had) who lived in my hometown (Rome)
in NW Georgia where the Chieftains Museum is...and happens to have been the
house of Major Ridge.
Nikki Grimes, poet and author DANITRA BROWN LEAVES TOWN recited some of her
poetry and told a little about her family. She has a website at
www.nikkigrimes.com
Today's highlight included an excellent presentation by author/artist Robert
Sabuda. Part of his program was on the history of pop-up books and concluded
with how he creates his pop-up books. His pop-up book AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
has een on the NY Times best seller list for weeks. He has a new pop-up book
on dinosaurs coming out August 2005 and he is currently working on a project
with Maurice Sendak. The book by Maurice is called IT'S ALIVE and it was my
understanding that he (Robert Sabuda) is helping with the pop-up aspects. It was
interesting to find out that all pop-up books are porduced by hand in either
South America or Asia! The process seems to be elaborate, but due to the
efficiency of the workers they can create many copies in much less time than we
would think. I thought that the cost of the books was a bit high....but after
seeing the hard work that goes into just constructing the book by hand...it's a
wonder they don't cost closer to $100! Someone asked Mr. Sabuda how many
books he had in his pesonal pop-up collection. He responded that he had about
40-50 "old ones" and 500 total. The earliest ones were called "movables" and go
as far back as the year 1536.
Best wishes!
Tony Pope
Library Media Specialist
McHenry Primary School
100 McHenry Dr.
Rome, GA 30161
Pope1966@aol.com
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