Transcript Children’s Books Considered for the 2000 Dolly Gray Award

The Dolly Gray Children’s
Literature Award
Dolly Gray and Caregiver
Sketch by Martha Perske
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Award Procedures and
Analysis of the Books
• Eligibility criteria
– Written for children, youth, or young adults
– Includes a human character with DD
– Fictional or biographical
– Copyright/Initial Publication
2008-2009
– Not vanity press
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Award Procedures and
Analysis of the Books
• 2010 Review Committee (13 members)
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Dolly Gray Awards Chair
Children’s Literature Experts
Children’s books librarians
Supervised panel of children/adolescents
Authors
Special Educators
Parents
Young adult with DD
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Award Procedures and
Analysis of the Books
• Evaluation criteria
– Portrayal of the character with DD
– Literary quality
– Illustrations
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2010 Dolly Gray Award
Winners
• Understanding Sam and
Asperger Syndrome
– Clarabelle van Niekerk
& Liezl Venter
• The London Eye Mystery
– Siobhan Dowd
Understanding Sam
By Clarabelle van Niekerk & Liezl Venter
• We extend our deepest gratitude for being
recognized with such a prestigious award.
We are so pleased that Sam has made an
impact for increased awareness of
Asperger’s. The children we work with have
tremendous strengths. We wanted to
highlight the positives alongside the daily
difficulties. Most of all, we wanted to improve
awareness/understanding of differences with
increased empathy amongst classmates.
• Clarabelle is a resident artist for the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts, the founder of the London
Puppet Theatre, and winner of many international
awards, including the Perry Cumberland Excellence
in Puppetry Award and the Educator of the Year
Award for Children with Special Needs. She lives in
Meadville, Pennsylvania with her son, Zee.
• Liezl has worked in various clinical settings in the
United States and abroad, specializing in children
diagnosed with ASD. She is a certified member of
the American Hearing Association and Speech
Language Pathology Australia. Liezl and her
husband, Alistair, live by the seaside.
The London Eye Mystery
Siobhan Dowd
• Siobhan Dowd recently died of cancer
at the age of 47, having turned to
writing in 2003. In four short years she
penned four children’s books, winning
the prestigious Carnegie medal for
children's literature and made Dowd
its first posthumous winner. She
believed that "if a child can read,
they can think, and if a child can
think they are free," and in the few
days before she died she set up the
Siobhan Dowd Trust, which helps to
bring books to disadvantaged children
and to which her book royalties and
prize-winnings go.
Special Thanks
• CEC-DADD Board of
Directors
• Special Needs Project
• Research Assistants:
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Melissa Leininger
Jenna Murray
• Authors, Illustrators,
Publishers
• Review Panel:
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Tina Taylor Dyches
Jackie Hauge
Mary Anne Prater
Patricia K. Castelli
Rachel L. Wadham
Rama Cousik
Reed Hahne
Tracy Koretsky
Tamara Jo Rhomberg
Karena Cooper-Duffy
Peggy Kaney
Clayton Copeland
Joan Blaska
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Books Considered for the
Award Will be Donated
• Various libraries, universities, and
schools
• Siobhan Dowd Trust
• Linda Lucas Walling Collection
• King Kamehameha III Elementary