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ALSC Personal Members are invited to suggest titles for the 2015 Batchelder Award given to an American publisher for a children’s book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country and subsequently published in English in the United States during 2014. Please remember that only books from this publishing year are under consideration for the 2015 award. Publishers, authors and illustrators may not suggest their own books.
You may send recommendations with full bibliographic information to committee chair, Diane Janoff, at [email protected]. The deadline to submit suggestions is December 31st, 2014.
The award will be announced at the press conference during the ALA Midwinter Meeting in February 2015.
For more information about the award, visit the ALSC website at http://www.ala.org/alsc/. Click on “Awards and Grants” in the left-hand navigation bar; then click on “ALSC Book & Media Awards.” Scroll down to the “Batchelder Award Page”
By: David Elzey,
on 3/14/2012
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by Bibi Dumon Tak
spot illustrations by Philip Hopman
translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson
Eerdmans Books edition 2011
A cgarette-eating, beer-drinking, ammunition-carrying bear? Only warfare could create a story so improbable.
During World War II as Russia and Germany fight to claim Poland for their own the citizens caught in the middle are taken as prisoners in their own
This was a bit odd-- I'm still debating buying a copy. I'm not sure if my warmongering boy readers will pick it up, and am not sure what other readers would.
i hear you, and i think that if this had been "americanized" and told in a very-visual way - as with <i>the secret of the yellow death</i> - i think the book would have more appeal. <br /><br />but it also bothers me to say that, because it suggests that our boy readers need to be spoon-fed stories in a particular way. my comment about <i>soldier bear</i> not reading so "foreign&