ASA, 1996 Children's Book Awards

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER

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African Studies Association

1996 Children's Book Awards

AWARD FOR OLDER READERS

Middle Passage by Tom Feelings (Dial, 1995)

AWARD FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN

The New King by Doreen Rappaport, illus. E.B. Lewis (Dial, 1995)

NOTABLE BOOKS

Boundless Grace by Mary Hoffman, illus. Caroline Binch (Dial,1995)

Big Boy by Tololwa Mollel, illus. by E.B. Lewis (Clarion, 1995)

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The Outreach Council of the African Studies Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 1996 Children's Book Awards. The awards were established in 1991 to highlight the importance of the production of high-quality children's materials about Africa. These prestigious awards are presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best children's books on Africa. Nominations for the award are open to books about Africa published in the United States.

Titles published for children (preschool to grade 12) are eligible. Foreign titles published by U.S. publishers are also eligible. The Children's Book Awards are given under the auspices of the African Studies Association, a non-profit corporation founded in 1957 and open to all persons and institutions interested in African affairs. The goals of the organization are to bring together persons with scholarly and professional interest in Africa, to provide useful services to schools, businesses, media, and the community at large; and also to publish and distribute scholarly materials on Africa. With some 2800 members, the Association is the leading North American learned society promoting African Studies and the largest organization of its kind in the world.
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Previous Award Winners and Notable Books*

OLDER READERS

The Captive by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic, 1994)

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay* by Patricia and Frederick
McKissack (Henry Holt, 1994)

The African Mask* by Janet Rupert (Clarion Books, 1994)

Apartheid: Calibrations of Color* (Rosen Publishers, 1991)

YOUNGER CHILDREN

It Takes a Village by Jane Cowen-Fletcher (Scholastic, 1994)

Sundiata : Lion King of Mali by David Wisniewski (Clarion Books, 1992)

The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth by David Anderson,
illus. Kathleen Atkins (Sights Productions, 1991)

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Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar