2008 Coretta Scott King Award

Again from the ALA website:

The 2008 Coretta Scott King Award for juvenile title went to Christopher Paul Curtis's Elijah of Buxton which also was a Newbery Honor book.
And the award for picture book went to Ashley Bryan's Let it Shine.

I'm going to upload better images for these titles shortly....

even as x-libris

Another good book to scout is Tony Hillerman's only children's book, The Boy Who Made Dragonfly: A Zuni Myth. Harper & Row, 1972. Illustrated By Laszlo Kubinyi.

(This one has an ISBN # so you will have to grab fast or fight the Scoutpal users for it.)

January 15, 2007

One of my favorite children's poetry books is by Arnold Adoff called ALL THE COLORS OF THE RACE. (Illustrated by John Steptoe and first published in 1982 and unfortunately out of print now.) The main character is a young bi-racial girl and instead of trying to give you my long winded opinions of the writing, below is the title poem:

"All the colors of the race
are
in my face, and just behind my face:
behind my eyes:
inside my head.

And inside my head, I give myself a place
at the end of a long
line forming
itself into a
circle.

And I am holding out my hands."