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On February 1, 1999 the American Library Association announced the 1999 Caldecott Award. The Award went to Mary Azarian the illustrator of Jacqueline Briggs Martin's Snowflake Bentley. In making the award announcement Caldecott Committee Chair Barbara Barstow said, "Snowflake Bentley has a beautiful and thoughtful
design, a poetic and informative text, distinguished illustrations, universal appeal and resonance. Mary Azarian, a Vermont artist who loves snow as much as Wilson Bentley, has created strong and skillfully carved woodcuts that portray sensible, sturdy characters and a timeless rural landscape." To learn more about the announcement go to the ALSC Caldecott page. The book was also named the 1998 Lupine Award Winner. |
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Snowflake Bentley is the story of Wilson Bentley, a farmer born in 1865 in
Jericho, Vermont, a small town between Lake Champlain and Mount
Mansfield, in the heart of Vermont's "snowbelt."
Perhaps it was no accident that Bentley always loved snow more than
anything else in the world. When he was fifteen his mother gave him a
microscope. When he looked at snowflakes under the microscope he was
stunned by their delicate beauty. He decided he had to share that beauty with others. But he did not know how. And there was no one to teach him. His father and his neighbors thought trying to save snowflakes was foolishness, Bentley was determined. And by the time he died in 1931 he was considered the world's expert on snowflakes. |
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