PURPOSE OF THE AWARD
The purpose of the AGHE Book Award for Best Children’s Literature on Aging is to recognize positive portrayals of older adults in children’s literature.
ELIGIBILITY
There will be two categories:(a) Primary Reader (pre K- 2) and (b) Elementary Reader (3rd -5th grade). There will be one “Honoree” and one “Honorable Mention” in each category.
NOMINATION PROCEDURE
The Co-Chairs of the AGHE K-12 Task Force shall appoint a chair and 2-3 members to a Children’s Book Award Subcommittee. The chair of this Subcommittee will be a member of the AGHE Awards Committee.
The Children’s Book Award Subcommittee will identify books in the Primary Reader and the Elementary Reader categories that address aging from the lists of the previous year’s honorees selected by the American Library Association (published in January) and the Illinois University School of Library Science Center for Children’s Books (published in February). The Subcommittee will further solicit nominations of books in both categories from AGHE members through the AGHE Exchange and other communication avenues. It will inform publishers of the nominated books about the awards-selection process and request a review copy for each member of the Children’s Book Award Subcommittee. This letter must be approved by the AGHE Awards Committee and AGHE President prior to it being sent.
The Children’s Book Award Subcommittee will review the nominations. Each member of the Subcommittee will read each book and rate it on a scale of 3 (1= Poor, 2= Acceptable, and 3=Outstanding) on these five criteria:
a. Portrayal of meaningful aging
b. Portrayal of positive intergenerational relations
c. Diversity e.g, gender, race, ethnicity, disability
d. Appeal
e. Realism of story line
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Children’s Book Award Subcommittee members will be expected to excuse themselves from the judging if they have a conflict of interest related to any of the nominated books, and a replacement will be identified from the K-12 Task Force.
The chair of the Children’s Book Award Subcommittee shall tabulate the ratings to determine the rankings. The Honoree and Honorable Mention awards will be given respectively to the books with the highest and second highest ratings in each category. The results will be shared with the Task force on K-12 Education and the AGHE Awards Committee before being forwarded to the AGHE Executive Committee for approval.
BENEFITS
Following the selection of the winners, the Task Force on K-12 Education shall send announcement letters to both the American Library Association and the Illinois University School of Library Science Center for Children’s Books. Announcement letters will be sent to the publisher of the Honoree and Honorable Mention books and the Task Force will work with the publishers to inform the authors and to affix the AGHE Book Award seal to the books.
Information on the Honoree and Honorable Mention books will be provided to the AGHE Exchange, with appropriate links to www.amazon.com and to the bibliography of the Task Force on K-12 Education. Information about the Honoree and Honorable Mention books will be published on the AGHE website with a hyperlinks to those same sites.
Press releases about the award will be issued to the regional and local media of the AGHE Annual Conference location.
Authors of the Honoree and Honorable Mention books in each category will receive certificates from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE). The certificates will be presented during the Business Meeting at the AGHE Annual Meeting. The award recipients also will be announced at the reception for the annual essay contest sponsored at the Annual Meeting by the K-12 Task Force.
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