Winners of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature named
Contact: Satia Orange
Director, OLOS
For Immediate Release
May 30, 2006
Winners of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature named
CHICAGO - The Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Committee of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association is pleased to announce the winner and honor books of 2006.
These awards honor and recognize individual works published in 2004 and 2005 about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritages based on literary and artistic merit. There are three categories of awards: adult titles, young adult titles, and young readers illustration only.
Adult title winner:
"Aloft" by Chang-rae Lee (New York: Penguin, 2004)
Young adult title winner:
"Kira Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata (New York: Antheneum, 2004)
Young readers illustration only:
"Firekeeper's Son" by Linda Sue Park and Julie Downing (Illustrator) (New York:
Clarion, 2004.)
Honor Books:
Adult titles:
"Saving Fish From Drowning" by Amy Tan (New York: Putnam, 2005)
"Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See (New York: Random House, 2005)
Young adult titles:
"Project Mulberry" by Linda Sue Park (New York: Clarion Books, 2005)
"Shanghai Messenger" by Andrea Cheng (New York: Lee & Low Books, 2005)
Young readers illustration only:
"Bread Song" by Frederick Lipp and Jason Gaillard (Illustrator) (New York: Mondo Publishing, 2004)
"Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds" by Paula Yoo and Dom Lee (Illustrator) (New York: Lee & Low Books, 2005)
The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association is an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA). For more information, please visit the APALA website:
www.apalaweb.org.
