2017 Freeman Book Award Winners

Children’s Literature

The Crane Girl

By Curtis Manley, Illustrated by Lin Wang (Shen’s Books)

An’s Seed

By Zaozao Wang, illustrated by Li Huang, translated by Helen Wang (Candied Plums; Bilingual edition)

My First Book of Vietnamese Words

By Tran Thi Minh Phuoc, illustrated by Nguyen Thi Hop and Nguyen Dong (Tuttle Publishing; Bilingual edition)

Young Adult / Middle School Literature

Bronze and Sunflower

By Cao Wenxuan, illustrated by Meilo So, translated by Helen Wang (Candlewick Press)

Hotaka: Through My Eyes – Natural Disaster Zones

By John Heffernan, edited by Lyn White (Allen & Unwin)

Ten: A Soccer Story

By Shamini Flint (Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The Emperor’s Riddle

By Kat Zhang (Simon & Schuster; Aladdin)

Young Adult / High School Literature

The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball

By Dori Jones Yang (SparkPress)

Want

By Cindy Pon (Simon & Schuster; Simon Pulse)

Tanabata Wish

By Sara Fujimura (Wishes Enterprises, LLC)

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About the awards

Honoring East And Southeast Asian Titles for Children and Young Adults

National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), the Committee on Teaching about Asia (CTA) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), and Asia for Educators (AFE) at Columbia University sponsor the annual Freeman Book Awards for new young adult and children’s literature. The awards recognize quality books for children and young adults that contribute meaningfully to an understanding of East and Southeast Asia. Awards are given in two categories: Children’s and Young Adult on the several countries of East and Southeast Asia.

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