Anything that children read is under the term of Children Literature, whether fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama used by young people (Nodelman, 2008:9). Therefore, an author of a great literary work is presented an award which is structured with one organization as the presenter and another financial sponsor organization. I tended in this essay to discuss the importance of the awards to children literature. Criteria judges and procedures associated with winning the prize, is taken in consideration. It is important for committee members to remember that ONLY books previously nominated or qualify as late publications and are suggested by committee members be considered at the Midwinter Selection Meeting. The single 1980 committee was already working on selecting the Newbery and Caldecott award for books published in 1979, the first
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For example we can read in the novel about the Jefferson Davis School bus, which is only for white children, where Blacks do not have a bus so Cassie and her brothers have to walk to school. However, the children are always threatened by this bus, "a bus bore down on him spewing clouds of red dust like a huge yellow dragon breathing fire". And it is because of racism. The whites in the bus enjoy it “laughing with faces" to see the black children try to run their lives. Life in the 1930s for the black people was difficult as they were suppressed and treated as if they were animals. With a temper such as Cassie’s, she finds life not fair and still does not understand "the way of things" between the black and white people until T.J is going to be punished by hanging for a crime he did not commit. Even though Cassie has now fully grown, she stays strong and fight for the black
For example we can read in the novel about the Jefferson Davis School bus, which is only for white children, where Blacks do not have a bus so Cassie and her brothers have to walk to school. However, the children are always threatened by this bus, "a bus bore down on him spewing clouds of red dust like a huge yellow dragon breathing fire". And it is because of racism. The whites in the bus enjoy it “laughing with faces" to see the black children try to run their lives. Life in the 1930s for the black people was difficult as they were suppressed and treated as if they were animals. With a temper such as Cassie’s, she finds life not fair and still does not understand "the way of things" between the black and white people until T.J is going to be punished by hanging for a crime he did not commit. Even though Cassie has now fully grown, she stays strong and fight for the black