2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Winners Announced
Traverse City, MI - Oct. 16, 2012—Can a book change a child’s life? The 145 winners of this year's Moonbeam Children's Book Awards think so, and the medal-winning books prove their authors’, illustrators’ and publishers’ dedication to inspiring young minds and imaginations.
The 2012 Moonbeam Awards medalists represent a wide range of style and content, and the judges were affected by the many encouraging and sometimes challenging messages for children: Author Susan B. Katz' inspiration for her lullaby about our bond with nature and between a mother and child, My Mama Earth, came while working in a Costa Rican rainforest. Jeanne Walker Harvey wrote My Hands Sing the Blues after serving as a docent at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where Romare Bearden’s collages were on display. Operation Marriage is about the evolving community reaction to Cynthia Chin-Lee’s friends’ wedding and gay marriage.