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2005 Golden Kite Awards
Fiction Winner
- Pearson, Mary E. A Room on Lorelei Street. New York: Henry Holt, 2005.
To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother, seventeen-year-old Zoe rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her earnings as a waitress after school are minimal and she must go to extremes to cover expenses.
Nonfiction Winner
- Freedman, Russell. Children of the Great Depression. New York: Clarion Books, 2005.
Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.
Picture Book Text Winner
- Mora, Pat. Doña Flor. Illustrated by Raul Colón. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Doña Flor, a giant lady with a big heart, sets off to protect her neighbors from what they think is a dangerous animal, but soon discovers the tiny secret behind the huge noise.
Picture Book Illustration Winner
- Yolen, Jane. Baby Bear's Chairs. Illustrated by Melissa Sweet. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc., 2005.
Baby Bear's favorite "chair" is his father's chest or lap, just before his father puts him to bed.
Fiction Honor
- Wiles, Deborah. Each Little Bird that Sings. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Inc., 2005.
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
Nonfiction Honor
- Jurmain, Suzanne. The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Jurmain tells the story of Prudence Crandall who faced opposition, hatred and violence when she opened a school for African-American girls in Canterbury Connecticut in the 1830's.
Picture Book Text Honor
- Birtha, Becky. Grandmama's Pride. Illustrated by Colin Bootman. Morton Grove, Ill: A. Whitman, 2005.
While on a trip in 1956 to visit her grandmother in the South, six-year-old Sarah Marie experiences segregation for the first time, but discovers that things have changed by the time she returns the following year.
Picture Book Illustration Honor
- McClintock, Barbara. Cinderella. New York: Scholastic Press, 2005.
Although mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella meets her prince with the help of her fairy godmother.
*Book descriptions come from OhioLINK summaries.
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An award book and honor book are picked annually in the area of non-fiction, fiction, picture book text, and picture book illustration. The award is presented by the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators to other members whose work “exhibits excellence and appeals to the interests and concerns of children.”