Perkins and Raschka Take Children’s Awards Lynne Rae Perkins’ CRISS CROSS, about “four 14-year-olds in a small town, each at their own crossroads,” was awarded the 2006 Newbery medal this morning, as illustrator Chris Raschka’s THE HELLO, GOODBYE WINDOW won the Caldecott medal. Award committee chair Barbara Barstow says of Perkins’ book in a release: “In 38 brief chapters, this poetic, postmodern novel experiments with a variety of styles: haiku, song lyrics, question-and-answer dialogue and split-screen scenarios. With seeming yet deliberate randomness, Perkins writes an orderly, innovative, and risk-taking book in which nothing happens and everything happens.” Alan Armstrong, Susan […]
