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 Summer of Owen Todd is a story about two best friends, eleven-year-old Owen and Sean. They’ve lived on Cape Cod all their lives, and now that they’re a little older, they’ll finally be free to spend some time on their own. But Sean’s mother has a different idea–she hires a babysitter to look after […]
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 […]
