Dr Susan La MarcaDr Susan La MarcaVATE ConferenceVATE Conference

July 2007July 2007

Award Winners and the Award Winners and the PossibilitiesPossibilities

(Chambers, 1991, p. 87)

Readers are made by readers.

AWARDS

Criteria•Aims•Eligibility

Judging panel

The Michael L Printz Award (USA)Costa Children’s Book Award (GB)Caldecott Medal (USA)Greenaway Medal (USA)Carnegie Medal (GB)The National Book Award (USA)Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (GB)Newbery Medal (USA)Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA)Book of the Year Awards (Australia)

Augustine Birrell

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

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Children learn about literature Children learn about literature from what the adultsfrom what the adults around around

them do about it.them do about it.

(Zahnleiter, 1985, p. 187)