The Coretta Scott King Book Awards 2004.The American Library Association American Library Association, founded 1876, organization whose purpose is to increase the usefulness of books through the improvement and extension of library services. (ALA) announced the annual Coretta Scott King Awards at its midwinter meeting in Boston in January 2005. The award, given by the ALA's Ethnic Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table, honors African American authors and illustrators for outstanding contributions to literature for children and young adults. The awards are presented at the ALA annual conference, June 23 to 29, in Chicago. Dr. Carole McCollough, the outgoing chair of the CSK CSK see chronic superficial keratitis. book award committee, announced the following winners for books published in 2004: Winner for Text: Toni Morrison for Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Houghton-Mifflin, May 2004 ISBN 0-618-39740-X) Honors for Text: Sharon Flake for Who Am I Without Him (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, June 2004 ISBN 0-786-80693-1) Sheila Moses for The Legend of Buddy Bush (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster, January 2004, ISBN 0-689-85839-6) Marilyn Nelson for Fortune's Bones (Front Street, October 2004, ISBN 1-932-42512-8 [see "A Soulful Place for Poetry, page 30]). Winner for Illustration Kadir Nelson, illustrator, Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange (Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. , January 2004 ISBN 0-689-82884-5) Honors for Illustration Leo and Diane Dillon Leo and Diane Dillon are a prolific American husband and wife team of illustrators. Leo was raised in Brooklyn, and Diane in the Los Angeles area. They met at the Parsons School of Design in NYC in 1953, some time after Diane moved from California to New York. , illustrators for The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, by Virginia Hamilton (Knopt; November 2004 ISBN 0-375-82405-7). Jerry Pinkney, illustrator, God Bless the Child by Ms. Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. (Amistad/HarperCollins, January 2004 ISBN 0-060-28797-7) John Steptoe Award for New Talent Text: Barbara Hathaway, Missy Violet and Me (Houghton Mifflin, May 2004 ISBN 0-618-37163-X) Illustration: Frank Morrison, illustrator, Jazzy Miz Mozetta mo·zet·ta n. Variant of mozzetta. , by Brenda C. Roberts. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux Farrar, Straus & Giroux Publishing company in New York City noted for its literary excellence. It was founded in 1945 by John Farrar and Roger Straus as Farrar, Straus & Co. , October 2004 ISBN 0-374-33674-1) |
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