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The chair of this year’s Nonfiction Award Selection Committee was Tammar Stein (now living in Singapore); committee members included Kathie Meizner, Yukari Matsuyama and Edie Ching. Abby Nolan chaired the award event at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D. C.
Don Brown loved comics as a kid. Among his favorites were Prince Valiant, Pogo, Superman --even Mary Worth. Later he copied the style of cartoonist Bill Mauldin who drew images of two GI Joes on the battlefield during World War II. It was decades before Brown, this year’s Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner, became the widely popular author/illustrator of more than forty children’s books.
Brown feels history has been pushed aside in primary and secondary schools. So, he began to create stories showing both known facts but also their broader implications in the country and the world. When reading history, he looks for the actual events, but then “stays on for the story.” Read the rest of the story here.
2023 Nonfiction Award Event
Don Brown Wins CBG 2023 Nonfiction Award
By Betsy Kraft
2023 Children’s Book Guild
Youth Literacy Awards
At this year’s Nonfiction Award celebration, the Guild presented its 9th annual Youth Literacy awards to Twinbrook Elementary School (Montgomery County, MD), Langdon Elementary and Charles Hart Middle Schools and School Without Walls (Washington, D.C.), and Summer Fun Stuff/Do Kind Works (Montgomery County, MD/Washington, D.C.). Each winning school or organization received a $500 gift certificate to First Book.
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