The 2009 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards have been announced. The awards are given each year to children’s books that “effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence.”
The winners are:
For Younger Children:
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. Nivola (an amazing picture book!)
For Older Children:
The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle (loved this book!)
Younger Children Honor Books:
The Storyteller’s Candle by Lucia Gonzalez, illustrated by Lulu Delacre
Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad by James Rumford
Older Children Honor Books:
The Shepherd’s Granddaughter by Anne Laurel Carter
Ain’t Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson
Waking Brain Cells 
The UK television news presenter Jon Snow has blogged about his favourite children’s books. You can read his piece – and submit your own comments – by going to: http://www.channel4.com/snowblog.
Jon’s blog coincides with yesterday’s announcement in the UK by the last five Children’s Laureates (Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson, Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Rosen) of their best children’s books of all time. You can read their lists by going to: http://bit.ly/wyisa.
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