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2010 American Indian Youth Literature Awards

The 2010 American Indian Youth Literature Award winners were announced at the American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference in January 2010. Author Thomas King and illustrator Gary Clement were the recipients of the Picture Book Award for their book A Coyote Solstice Tale. The Middle School winner is Meet Christopher: An Osage Indian Boy from Oklahoma by Genevieve Simermeyer. Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me by Lurline Wailana McGregor took the Young Adult prize. The winners will be honored at the American Indian Library Association award ceremony at American Library Association annual conference in Washington, DC, on June 28.

 

The American Indian Youth Literature Awards recognize excellence in books by and about American Indians.  By identifying and honoring outstanding writing and illustrations in the field of youth literature, the American Indian Library Association encourages authors, illustrators, editors, publishers and tribal entities to create materials that “present Native Americans in the fullness of their humanity in the present and past contexts.”  The first awards were presented at the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color in Dallas, Texas, in October 2006. 

 

The American Indian Library Association (AILA), part of the American Library Association, is a membership action group that addresses the library-related needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives. AILA was founded in 1979 in conjunction with the White House Pre-Conference on Indian Library and Information Services on or near Reservations.  AILA members are individuals and institutions interested in the development of programs to improve library and information services in all types of libraries that serve Indian communities.

 



The 2010 Award Winners:

Picture Book:

A Coyote Solstice Tale by Thomas King, illustrated by Gary Clement. Groundwood Books, 2009

           
The universal lesson that sharing and being together are more important than things comes from a human child and Coyote in this humorous book.


Middle School Book:

Meet Christopher: An Osage Indian Boy from Oklahoma by Genevieve Simermeyer. National Museum of the American Indian/Smithsonian Institution in association with Council Oak Books, 2008

Meet Christopher and spend some time with him as he combines his family’s Native traditions with popular 21st century activities.

 


Young Adult Book:

Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me by Lurline Wailana McGregor. Kamehameha Publishing, 2008

           
Torn between her career as a museum curator in California and her family in Hawai’i, Maona Kawelo must make some difficult choices.


Past Award Winners:

Picture Book

2006    Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe; told by Johnny Arlee and illustrated by Sam Sandoval. University of Nebraska Press, 2005

2008    Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom by Tim Tingle, illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges. Cinco Puntos Press, 2006

 

 

Middle School

2006    The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich. Hyperion Books, 1999

2008    Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond by Joseph Medicine Crow. National Geographic, 2006

 

 Young Adult

            2006    Hidden Roots by Joseph Bruchac. Scholastic, 2004

2008    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Little, Brown, 2007