10th Annual Competition
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
~Confucius~
 

Picture of 2007 winners

(From left to right) Alison Keller, Jennifer Platte, Kathryn Edney, Anna Timmerman, and Robin Roots.
 
The Winners were:
(To see the essay and annotated bibliography, click on highlighted name)
The first place winner is:
   Robin Roots, Picture Books for Peace and Social Justice
The second place winner is:
   Alison Keller, A Children’s Book Collection: To reach the children I will teach
 
The Finalists were:
  Kathryn Edney, Reading the Great White Way: Performance and Commercial Scripts of the American Musical Stage
  Jennifer Platte, untitled
  Anna Timmerman, The Collection of Anna Timmerman: "My True Textbooks; Learning Agriculture"
 
The Judges were:
Peter Berg, Michigan State University Libraries
Dawn Martin, MSU Press
Shirley Sliker, Friends of the MSU Libraries

2007 Book Competition Judges

(From left to right) Dawn Martin, Peter Berg, and Shirley Sliker