Children's Book Award Handbook

Diana Marks looks at children''s and young adult book awards in depth. The history award criteria and a biography of the person behind each of the well-known awards is included. Also of interest are lists of the winners in each category teaching and exploration activities reproducible teaching aides and a timeline of events leading up to the establishment of the award. Information about well-known awards is accompanied by information on the lesser known Pura Belpr Jane Addams etc. Information is formatted in quick easy-to-read tables and charts suitable for classroom duplication. Although some of this information is available online this is a one stop handbook that contains lesser-known awards and offers activities for enriching the study of each award whether well-known or not. Grades K-8.