Schneider Family Book Award recipients named
The Schneider Award is a new award from ALA that honors an author or illustrator for a book that “embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.”
The 2005 winner for picture book is My Pal, Victor/Mi Amigo, Victor by Diane Gonzales Bertrand, illustrated by Robert L. Sweetland.
The winnter for middle-school level is Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan.
And the teen award goes to My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir by Samantha Abeel.