Books for Younger Children:
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathaiwritten and illustrated by Claire A. Nivola
Honor Books:
The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos
by Lucía González, illustrations by Lulu Delacre
Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad
written and illustrated by James Rumford
Books for Older Children:
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedomby Margarita Engle
Honor Books:
The Shepherd's Granddaughter
by Anne Laurel Carter
Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry, by Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson
The Jane Addams Childrens Book Awards are given to books that "effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all races as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence."
--Jane Addams Peace Association http://www.janeaddamspeace.org/
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