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Aesop Prize  
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Overview

Criteria
The award is for an English language, fiction or nonfiction book that is based on folklore. The folklore must be accurately presented in word and drawing and add to the reader's understanding of folklore. The sources for the folklore must also be cited.

History
Since 1992, the Aesop Prize and Aesop Accolades have been awarded annually by the Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society. The winning books are announced at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society.

 

2006 Aesop Prize and Aesop Accolades

Currently the American Folklore Society is calling for nominations for the 2006 Aesop Prize. Winners will be announced at the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in Milwaukee, WI, in October 2006.
 

2005 Aesop Prize and Aesop Accolades


Aesop Prize

  • From the Winds of Manguito: Cuban Folktales in English and Spanish. Retold by Elvia Pérez. Edited by Margaret Read MacDonald. Translated by Paula Martin. Illustrated by Víctor Francisco Hernández Mora. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.

    Elvia Pérez, a practicing Cuban storyteller, brings you 21 tales of delight and wonder -- from engaging animal stories and tales of the fantastic to Afro-Cuban "patakies" and side-splitting tall tales from the Cuban countryside.


  • Roy Makes a Car by Mary E. Lyons. Illustrated by Terry Widenar. New York: Atheneum, 2005.

    Roy Tyle, the best mechanic in the state of Florida, can clean spark plugs by just looking at them, and he takes a two-dollar bet that he can make an accident-proof car.

Aesop Accolades

  • The Flying Canoe. Retold by Roch Carrier. Translated by Sheila Fischman. Illustrated by Sheldon Cohen. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2004.

    On New Year’s eve, 1847, eleven-year-old Baptiste finds himself far from his friends and family and his home in La Beauce. He has come to the woods of the Ottawa Valley to live and work among “the finest lumberjacks in Canada.” As the New Year approaches, Baptiste and the lumberjacks grow more and more homesick. Resolved to see their families again before the stroke of midnight, the crew board a magical canoe that lifts them into the air, across villages, and closer to home.


  • Grandma Lena's Big Ol' Turnip by Denia Lewis Hester. Illustrated by Jackie Urbanovic. Morton Grove, Illinois: Albert Whitman and Company, 2005.

    Grandma Lena grows a turnip so big that it takes her entire family pull it up and half of the town to eat it. Includes a note about cooking "soul food."


  • The Minister's Daughter by Julie Hearn. New York and London: Atheneum, 2005.

    In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions.



*Book descriptions come from OhioLINK summary and Amazon.com Book Descriptions.

 

American Folklore Society
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