Jonah Winter has been chosen as the 2024 Horace Mann Upstander Award recipient for his book Banned Book (2023), published by Creative Editions with illustrations by Gary Kelley. The Horace Mann Upstanders Award honors children’s literature that best exemplifies the ideals of social action and encourages young readers to become agents of change themselves by standing up to injustice. […]
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2018 Horace Mann Upstanders Winners Announced
Antioch University Los Angeles’ Education Department has announced its 2018 Horace Mann Upstanders Winners: Tony Abbott has won the Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award for “The Summer of Owen Todd” and Mordicai Gerstein, author of “The Boy and the Whale” has won the Horace Mann Upstanders Lifetime Achievement Award. The Upstanders Awards will be formally presented to […]
The 2018 Upstander’s Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to Mordicai Gerstein
The 2018 Upstander’s Life Time Achievement Award will be going to Caldecott Medal–winner Mordicai Gerstein Mordicai Gerstein for his long career with special thanks for his book The Boy and the Whale, which he was inspired to write when he saw a real-life video of a whale’s rescue, and the creature’s joyful dance through the […]