The Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Children’s Poetry has been awarded.
The winner is Birmingham, 1963 by Carole Boston Weatherford.
The two honor books are:
Blue Lipstick by John Grandits
This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness by Joyce Sidman
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is set to be made into a video game! Can you imagine a more likely title to be converted to a game?
According to the Reuters article, it will be a downloadable game available in 2009. It will hopefully be the first game in a series of them based on the book.
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