Showing posts with label Charlotte Huck Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charlotte Huck Award. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

NCTE 2020 -- So Much to Celebrate!

 


Janet Wong, recipient of the 2021 Excellence in Poetry for Children Award


I Am Every Good Thing, winner of the 2021 Charlotte Huck Award 
for Outstanding Fiction for Children (along with all of the honor and recommended books)


Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball, winner of the 2021 Orbis Pictus Award
for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (along with all of the honor and recommended books)


Good thing conference attendees have 60 days to continue to access the archives! What are some sessions that were too fabulous to miss?


Wednesday, November 27, 2019

2020 NCTE Charlotte Huck and Orbis Pictus Award Winners!


2020 Huck Award Winner

Click Here to view the Huck Honor and Recommended books. My review of Room on Our Rock is here.


2020 Orbis Pictus Award Winner

Click Here to view the Orbis Pictus Honor and Recommended books.


Friday, September 06, 2019

This Happened



Oh, the joys of a book award committee.

The stacks on the left are August books that still need to be read/reviewed, and the tower of 4 boxes and a package came yesterday.

No Poetry Friday for me this week! Probably not next week either -- I'll be teaching fly fishing at Ohio's Casting for Recovery retreat.

Happy reading to me! Happy Poetry to you!

(Updated to add today's shipments: 4 more boxes and 2 more packages! Eek!)




Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Celebrating the Winners of the 2019 Charlotte Huck Award for Excellence in Children's Literature


The Charlotte Huck Award® was established in 2014 to promote and recognize excellence in the writing of fiction for children. In particular, the award recognizes fiction that has the potential for transforming children’s lives by inviting compassion, imagination, and wonder.


WINNER:


From the ashes of Victorian London emerge a girl, her Golem, and the sparks of child labor reform.


HONOR BOOKS:


Discomfort precedes understanding. Understanding precedes change.



Can Lucy be her father’s missing arm? Recovery, resilience, and the ripple effects of PTSD.



Humanity comes in many colors. Can you see me?



Familia, the glue that keeps the heart and mind together.



When war invades the hearts of adults, it is the children who make their refugee classmates feel welcome.


RECOMMENDED BOOKS:





Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Charlotte Huck Award


The winner of the 2017 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award® is


by Dan Santat
Roaring Brook Press, 2017

The NCTE Charlotte Huck Award® for Outstanding Fiction for Children was established in 2014 to promote and recognize excellence in the writing of fiction for children. This award recognizes fiction that has the potential to transform children’s lives by inviting compassion, imagination, and wonder.


This picture book will resonate with all ages. On the back of the book, we are reminded that "Life begins when you get back up." Santat's epilogue of the rather unsatisfying nursery rhyme about an egg that falls down and gets patched up is all kinds of brilliant. My 5th graders gasped aloud at the ending. They were like, "Wait. WHAT?!?!" This book will change your thinking about Humpty Dumpty and it will remind everyone that we shouldn't let our setbacks keep us down.

I am currently serving on the NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Committee. In our deliberations at NCTE this year, narrowing our list of 45 books down to one winner, five honor books, and eight recommended books, we kept coming back to the award criteria as we deliberated over each book. "The potential to transform children's lives" was a phrase we used over and over again when we spoke about this book. Don't miss it. It's an amazing book.




Monday, November 28, 2016

NCTE 2017 Charlotte Huck Awards

I have served on the NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children for the past three years. It has been an amazing experience. I've learned so much and have met so many great people.  I was never lucky enough to study under Charlotte Huck but her work has had a huge impact on me and my work.

Last year's Charlotte Huck Award committee presented the winning titles at this year's NCTE convention.

The Charlotte Huck Award is a new one and I was part of the first committee. The award's commitment is that it "recognizes fiction that has the potential to transform children's lives by inviting compassion, imagination and wonder." I have LOVED reading with the lens of the Charlotte Huck Award as the award recognizes the power of books for a child. 

I have also LOVED having the book awards announced at the Children's Book Award Luncheon at the NCTE Annual Convention. If you haven't been to this lunch, you are missing out on a fun time!  Previous year's awards are given to authors/illustrators, new awards are announced and there is an author at every table for lunch.  This  year, I got to sit with Mitali Perkins! And Mary Lee was able to sit with Loren Long!  Definitely a fun time!


Loren Long and Mary Lee at the Children's Book Award Luncheon!

This year the 2017 Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction was announced and here are the winners! I would definitely check out all of the books on the list--as it is one of my favorite award lists of the year!

2017 Winner

Ghost by Jason Reynolds



2017 Honor Books
Worm Loves Worm by J. J. Austrian



The Night Gardener by Terry Fan and Eric Fan



Ms. Bixby's Last Day by John David Anderson


The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill


The Wild Robot by Peter Brown



2017 Recommended Titles

The Seventh Wish by Kate Messner


Luis Paints the World by Terry Farish


Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk


A Bandit's Tale by Deborah Hopkinson



Hoot and Peep by Lita Judge


One Half from the East by Nadia Sashimi




The Princess and the Warrior by Duncan Tonatiuh


For past lists and more information on the Charlotte Huck award, visit the award page on NCTE's website.  You may also be interested in reading The Power of Children's Book Awards and 


Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Padlet with Resources for NCTE's Charlotte Huck Award Winning Books

I attended OCTELA on Saturday and presented with Barbara Kiefer and Fran Wilson on NCTE's Charlotte Huck award winning books from this year.  It is an honor to serve on this committee and I soooo love the premise of the award -- this award recognizes fiction that has the potential to transform children’s lives by inviting compassion, imagination, and wonder. I love the list of award books.  It was great fun to share them at OCTELA.

This week, in preparation for OCTELA, I started pulling together resources that connected to most of the award winning books. I thought it would be helpful for teachers who wanted to know more about the books and many of the links would be great to share with students.  I collected them on a Padlet and am happy to share that Padlet here. Enjoy!