Fwd: [LiteracyForAll] Horace Mann Book Awards

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

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> From: Cynthia McDermott <cmcdermott@ix.netcom.com>
> Date: Tue Jun 17, 2008  2:27:33 AM US/Eastern
> To: LiteracyForAll@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [LiteracyForAll] Horace Mann Book Awards
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> Antioch University Los Angeles proudly announces that it has chosen
> */Mrs. Marlowe’s Mice /*by Frank Asch and Devin Asch as the 2008 Horace
> Mann Upstander Award winner for Children’s Literature.
>
> The Horace Mann Upstanders award honors new children’s literature that
> best exemplifies the ideals of social action and encourages young
> readers to become agents of change themselves.
>
> The 2008 award winner, /Mrs. Marlowe’s Mice/, is published by Kids Can
> Press. It is the story of Mrs. Eleanor Marlowe, who by day works at the
> Purrington Street Library with her fellow cats, but at night returns
> home to her house where she is hiding a family of mice. When a nosy
> neighbor calls the Department of Catland Security, Mrs. Marlowe is
> accused of being a mouse sympathizer and it is up to her to try and 
> save
> her family of mice – and herself - from certain doom.
>
> “It's an honor and a joy to have our book receive the Horace Mann
> Upstanders Award” stated Frank Asch, author of /Mrs. Marlowe’s Mice/.
> “Horace Mann once said, ‘Be ashamed to die until you have won some
> victory for humanity.’ Devin and I love that we have made a children’s
> book of social value and appreciate the recognition that we have 
> received.”
>
> The awards were sponsored by the Antioch University Los Angeles 
> graduate
> education program, in partnership with the Better World JL Institute 
> and
> the South Bay Literacy Foundation.
>
> The 2008 Honor books included /Ain’t Nobody a Stranger to Me/ by Ann
> Grifalconi with illustrations by Jerry Pinkney (Hyperion), /One 
> Thousand
> Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II/ by Leta Judge (Hyperion),
> /The Giant of Seville: A Tall Tale Based on a True Story/ by Dan
> Andreasen (Abrams), /When I Crossed No-Bob/ by Margaret McMullan
> (Houghton Mifflin), /Sacred Leaf/ by Deborah Ellis (Groundwood Books)
> /Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It/ by Sundee T. Frazier
> (Delacorte), and /The Klipfish Code/ by Mary Casanova (Houghton 
> Mifflin).
>
>
>
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