Announcing the 2006 Skipping Stones Honor Award Winners!
The 2006 Skipping Stones Honor Awards committee announces the winners of our 13th Annual Book Awards.
Twenty-five honored books, in the following four categories, encourage understanding of world’s diverse cultures, nature
and ecological richness. They promote cooperation, nonviolence, respect for differing viewpoints, international
understanding and close relationships in human societies. Together, these honored titles offer a great variety of
learning experiences for all ages.
These exceptional, educational and entertaining books and teaching resources for K–12 students and educators will also
make a great summer reading fun. Reviews of the 2006 award winners appear in the summer issue (Volume 18, no. 3) of
Skipping Stones magazine. Skipping Stones website, www.SkippingStones.org, offers hyperlinks to winning publishers.
Multicultural and International Awareness Books:
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
by Jeanette Winter
Picture book
Harcourt; www.harcourtbooks.com
Circles of Hope
by Karen Lynn Williams, illustr. Linda Saport
Picture book
Eerdmans Books; www.eerdmans.com/youngreaders
Of Corn Silk and Black Braids
by Vincent L. Johnson, M.D., illustr. Linda Crockett
Picture book
Marzetta Books; www.marzettabooks.com
Let Them Play
by Margot Theis Raven, illustr. Chris Ellison
Picture book
Sleeping Bear Press; www.sleepingbearpress.com
The Wishing Tree
by Roseanne Thong, illustr. Connie McLennan
Picture book
Shen's Books; www.shens.com
Playing War
by Kathy Beckwith, illustr. Lea Lyon
Picture book
Tilbury House; www.tilburyhouse.com
Going to School in India
by Lisa Heydlauff, photos by Nitin Upadhye
Elem. and middle grades
Shakti for Children/Charlesbridge; www.charlesbridge.com
Double Crossing
by Eve Tal
Middle grades. Novel.
Cinco Puntos Press; www.cincopuntos.com
Under the Persimmon Tree
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Middle and High School. Novel
Frances Foster Books; www.fsgkidsbooks.com
Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge
by Vic Glover
Upper grades and adults
Native Voices; www.bookpubco.com
Mother Teresa
by Demi
Elem. grades. biography
Simon & Schuster; www.SimonSaysKids.com
Powerful Words: More than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by African Americans
Presented by Wade Hudson, illustr. Sean Qualls
Middle and high school grades
Scholastic; www.scholastic.com
Bilingual Spanish/English Books:
Quinito's Neighborhood / El Vecindario de Quinito
by José Ramírez, illustr. Ina Cumpiano
Bilingual picture book
Children's Book Press; www.childrensbookpress.org
Trisba & Sula: A Miskitu Folktale from Nicaragua / Una leyenda de los Miskitos de Nicaragua
by Joan MacCracken, M.D., illustr. Augusto Silva
Bilingual picture book.
Tiffin Press; tiffinpress@aol.com
The Frog and His Friends Save Humanity / La rana y sus amigos salvan a la humanidad
by victor Villaseñor, illustr. José Ramírez
Bilingual picture book.
Piñata Books; www.artepublicopress.com
Nature and Ecology Books:
Near One Cattail: Turtles, Logs and Leaping Frogs
by Anthony D. Fredericks, illustr. Jennifer DiRubbio
Picture book.
Dawn Publications; www.dawnpub.com
Hotel Deep
by Kurt Cyrus
Picture book
Harcourt; www.harcourtbooks.com
Little Yellow Pear Tomatoes
by Damian E Yumei, illustr. Nicole Tamarin
Picture Book
Illumination Arts; www.illumin.com
Awesome Ospreys: Fishing Birds of the World
by Donna Love, illustr. Joyce M Turley
Elem. and middle grades
Mountain Press; www.mountain-press.com
Un día más y otras historias: Cuentos sobre animales en peligro de extinción
por Edna Iturralde, illustr. Pablo Lara
In Spanish. Middle grades.
Alfaguara Infantil; www.ednaiturralde.com
only the sea keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami
Edited by Judith R. Robinson, Joan E. Bauer, and Sankar Roy
High school to adult
Bayeux; www.bayeux.com
Teaching Resources
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
Edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin
For parents, teachers and librarians.
Altamira Press and Oyate, www.oyate.org
Evolution of the Insects
by David Grimaldi and Michael Engel
For nature lovers and educators
Cambridge University Press; www.cambridge.com
Strong At The Heart: How it feels to heal from sexual abuse
by Carolyn Lehman
High school grades and adults
Melanie Kroupa Books; www.strongattheheart.com
A Generation at Risk: The Global Impact of HIV/AIDS on Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Edited by Geoff Foster, Carol Levine and John Williamson
For educators and policy makers
Cambridge University Press; www.cambridge.com
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