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2020 Florida Book Awards winners announced
April 19, 2021 | 4:02 pm | SHARE:
With its 14th annual competition now complete, the Florida Book Awards has announced winners for books published in 2020. More than 100 eligible publications were submitted across the 11 categories of competition.
Coordinated by Florida State University Libraries, the Florida Book Awards is the nation’s most comprehensive state book awards program. It was established in 2006 to celebrate the best Florida literature. Authors must be full-time Florida residents, except in the Florida nonfiction and visual arts categories, where the subject matter must focus on Florida.
Setting the standard for future cash prizes, the “Gwen P. Reichert Gold Medal for Children’s Literature,” now in its seventh year, was awarded to Miami resident Silvia Lopez for “Queen of Tejano Music: Selena” (Little Bee Books). This $1,000 cash award is in memory of Gwen P. Reichert and serves
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But Caldecott s name still lives on children s bookshelves and libraries across the nation.
Fifty-two years after his death, the American Library Association established the Randolph Caldecott Medal in his honor to recognize the previous year s most distinguished American picture book for children. They thought that he was the most logical person to name the medal after. Even though he wasn t an American, and the award only goes to Americans, said Art Boccieri, president of St. Augustine-based Randolph Caldecott Society of America and retired art and reading teacher. He was revered enough that people felt that he was the right person, so they ve been awarding the medal every single year since, Boccieri said. I think Caldecott and the medal are important for our children today because they need to be exposed to good literature and good illustrations.