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Direct linkMacKay, Kathryn Lake; Ricks, Paul H.; Young, Terrell A. – Reading Teacher, 2017
This article presents a way to use award-winning books as mentor texts for very young writers. Books were selected as mentor texts from the winners of the Australian Early Childhood Children's Book of the Year Award and the American Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. The authors explain the value of using award-winning texts in the classroom and describe…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Mentors, Young Children
Young, Terrell A.; Ward, Barbara A. – Journal of Children's Literature, 2011
If an entire village is needed to raise a child, and the successful launch of the Apollo XI required 400,000 men and women, then surely it stands to reason that a book that wins the 2009 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction also must have required a team of talented individuals, each contributing some direction and adding some…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Publishing Industry, Authors, Illustrations
Young, Terrell A.; Ward, Barbara A. – Journal of Children's Literature, 2007
The National Council of Teachers of English awarded the coveted nonfiction prize to "Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea." Written by Sy Montgomery, with photographs by Nic Bishop, the book was further honored as a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor recipient by the Association for…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Anthropology, Editing, Foreign Countries
Young, Terrell A.; Vardell, Sylvia M. – Language Arts, 2005
Writer of children's books, Janet Wong is concerned about the number of children being unable to get the education and being left behind. Her books, which reflect her Asian heritage, have appeared on notables list and she was also honored with the IRA Celebrate Literacy Award, the Claremont Stone Center Recognition of Merit, the Penn State/Lee…
Descriptors: Awards, Childrens Literature, Authors, Profiles
