Jennifer Maruno has been honored with the 2025 Horace Mann Upstander Award for her inspiring children’s book, Momma’s Going to March, published by House of Anansi Press. This award celebrates literature that encourages young readers to become activists and stand up against injustice. Momma’s Going to March follows several children as they join their mothers […]
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Jonah Winter Wins The 2024 Horace Mann Upstander Award For “Banned Book”
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. […]
Tony Abbott Wins The 2018 Horace Mann Upstander Award For “The Summer Of Owen Todd”
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 […]