New US book award
A new annual children’s literature award has been announced in the United States. The Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award is sponsored by Antioch University in Los Angeles, and will be awarded to the best fiction book published in North America in 2007/8 for children in years K-6 that ‘best exemplifies the ideals of social action and in turn encourages young readers to become agents of change themselves’. The award will be presented in June.
In Australia, the Psychologists for Peace Children’s Peace Literature Award has a similar remit but with a scope that includes books for teenagers. This biennial award went to Michael Gerard Bauer in 2007 for Don’t Call Me Ishmael.
