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Thursday, May 29, 2003

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards
From CCBC-net, posted on May 1 (I've gotten rather behind in reading all my email from lists): Winners of the 2003 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards were announced on April 28 by the Jane Addams Peace Association. The Jane Addams Children's Book Awards annually acknowledge books published during the previous year in the U.S. effectively addressing themes or topics promoting peace, social justice, world community, and/or equality of the sexes and all races. The books must also meet conventional standards for literary and artistic excellence.
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Gillian Chan wins provincial White Pine Award
Ontario School Library Association Press Release

The Ontario School Library Association is pleased to announce that the winner of the White Pine Reading Program is A Foreign Field, written by Gillian Chan and published by Kids Can Press.

[LRC Blog]
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Canada puts yearbook online
The Canada e-Book uses sound, photographs, tables, graphs and both analytical and descriptive text to look at Canada through four broad perspectives: the Land, the People, the Economy, and the Nation [Peter Scott's Library Blog]
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