Amelia Earhart

Tanaka, Shelley. 2008. Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator. Ill. by David Craig. New York: Abrams Books.

ISBN: 9780810970953

This biography of Amelia Earhart is the winner of the 2009 Orbis Pictus Award, the award given for "outstanding non-fiction for children" by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator contains references, resources, websites, abundant and captioned photographs, an index, and full-page, lifelike, painted illustrations. The small print allows this illustrated biography to contain a wealth of information in an attractive format. A perfect choice for middle-schoolers.

2009 ALSC Awards and the House in the Night

Below is the link to the 2009 American Library Association's (ALA) Association of Library Services to Children (ALSC) 's list of award-winning books for 2009.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/2009medawardwin.cfm
Click the link for the complete list of winners and honor books in all categories.

Here are a few highlights:

The Caldecott Medal (picture book) went to
The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson, Houghton Mifflin Co.

The Newbery Medal (J Fiction) went to
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, HarperCollins Children's Books.

Unfortunately, because it is cataloged at a Young Adult book in my library, I did not read The Graveyard Book, and now I'm on the waiting list for a copy.

The Sibert Medal (non-fiction) went to
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, Disney-Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Disney Book Group

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) also chooses an annual award, the Orbis Pictus Award for outstanding non-fiction for children.

Their choice this year is:
Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator by Shelley Tanaka, illustrated by David Craig (click the link for Honor and Recommended books)

As the saying goes, so many books, so little time!