Our group conducted research into the Schneider Family Book Award. This award is sponsored by the American Library Association and is given out each year in three different categories, birth through grade school, middle school, and teens. The award honors an author or illustrator that has written about the experience of living with disabilities, either physical, mental, or emotional, for teens and children. The work must portray the person with disabilities living life to the fullest. The award was started in 1994 by Dr. Katherine Schneider and it was modeled after the Coretta Scott King award. As Dr. Schneider says, “The disability experience in these wonderful children’s books is a part of a character’s full life, not the focus of the life. . . . The bonus is that children get to experience someone else’s world which involves having a disability or having a family member with a disability.”
The award is given by a committee of 7 members selected by the ALA.
This years award winners are as follows:
Young Children- Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum by Robert Andrew Parker
Middle School- Waiting for Normal by Leslie Conner
Teen- Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen
Another award winner was Becoming Naomi Leon which is one the books for our TE 448 class.
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