The Schneider Family Book Award
The Schneider Family Book Award is awarded annually by the ALA to honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability for child and adolescent audiences. Each year winners are honored in three separate categories, Teen, Middle School, and Young Children’s. The 2017 winners are listed below.
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2017 Teen Winner When We Collided Can seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivi from herself? Ages 14 and up |
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2017 Middle School Winner As Brave As You When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires–literally. Ages 10 and up |
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Young Children’s Winner Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. So he invented his own alphabet—a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today. Ages 4-8 |
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