News From WINC
WINC members always have something cooking, whether it's new
books or new honors, new workshops or upcoming appearances. Check
here often.
WINC If You Love Books Events
WINC proudly announces the first WINC If You Love Books Day, set for Saturday, November 17 to coincide with Children’s Book Week 2007. Since one day isn’t enough to celebrate our love of books, here are a month’s worth of activities to remind you just how fabulous books and reading are.
WINC If You Love Books Photo Gallery
New Members
WINC has two new members: Frances
O'Roark Dowell and Pansie
Hart Flood. These links go to their personal websites.
Their WINC pages will be coming soon. Welcome Frances and Panise!
New Honors
We are so proud of Carole Boston
Weatherford! Her book, Moses: When Harriet Tubman
Led Her People to Freedom, is a Caldcott Honor book.
The honors keep on coming. The book earned starred reviews
in Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, Horn Book, and
Kirkus Reviews. It's also a Booksense winter "Top Ten"
title, Best Book of the Year School Library Journal, Horn Book
Fanfare, and a Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue
Ribbon.
Downloads, bookmarks, brochures, oh my! New goodies to download
about WINC members and their books. Click
here for free stuff.
Both of Carole Boston Weatherford's
latest books have earned starred reviews--Moses: When Harriet
Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, in Kirkus Reviews, and
Dear Mr. Rosenwald, in Publisher's Weekly.
Two more of Carole's books has earned new honors: A Negro
League Scrapbook made the International Reading Association's
list of Best Books for a Global Society. Freedom on the Menu:
The Greensboro Sit-Ins won the 2005 North Carolina Juvenile
Literature Award from American Association of University Women-North
Carolina Branch, made the Bank Street College Best Children's
Books of the Year list for 2005 and was a finalist for the North
Carolina Children's Book Award.
Leave Only Ripples: A Canoe Country Sketchbook by Consie
Powell is a John Burroughs Award winner. The John Burroughs
List of Nature Books for Young Readers recognizes outstanding
natural history books for children that contain perceptive and
artistic accounts of direct experiences in the world of nature.
Eileen Heyes is a United Artist
Showcase presenter.
New Books
Spring-Summer 2008
Black Pearls, a Faerie Strand by Louise Hawes
Fall 2007
Wolf Song written by Mary Bevis, illustrated by Consie Powell
Spring-Summer 2006
Anteaters Don't Dream by Louise Hawes
A Day in the Salt Marsh written by Kevin Kurtz, illustrated by Consie Powell
Fall 2006
Moses by Carole Boston Weatherford
Dear Mr. Rosenwald by Carole
Boston Weatherford
A Girl Called Boy by Belinda
Hermance is out in a new paperback editon.
Spring-Summer 2006
Muti's Necklace by Louise
Hawes
Peril at King's Creek: A Felicity Mystery by Elizabeth
McDavid Jones
Baby Bear Isn't Hungry written by Michael Elsohn Ross, illustrated by Consie Powell
On the Web
Three WINC members have new personal websites:
Eileen Heyes has
information about workshops, programs, and rants at www.eileenheyes.com.
Author-artist Consie
Powell has a portfolio of work at www.consiepowell.com.
Carole Boston Weatherford website
isn't new, but the look is. She's redesigned it and added
lots of new featues.
