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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Sandra Laronde Wins The 2023 Horace Mann Upstander Award For “She Holds Up the Stars”
A highly accomplished leader, arts innovator, and multidisciplinary artist, Sandra Laronde (Misko Kizhigoo Migizii Kwe) which means “Red Sky Eagle Woman” in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) language, M.S.C., O.M.C., OOnt, B.A. (Hon), Hon. LL.D. has over three decades of experience in arts and culture. She is from the Teme-Augama-Anishinaabe (People of the Deep Water) in Temagami, northern […]
Brian Floca Wins The 2022 Horace Mann Upstander Award For “Keeping the City Going”
Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Locomotive, winner of the 2014 Caldecott Medal, Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Lightship, and The Racecar Alphabet, among other titles. His most recent book, Keeping the City Going, is a tribute to healthcare and other essential workers who stayed on the streets and on the job during the Covid-19 pandemic. Brian […]