Malka Penn Award Goes To "The White Rose"

The White Rose by Kip Wilson has won the 2019 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature.  This is the third year for the award, which was  established in part by writer Michele Palmer who has written children's books under the name Malka Penn. The award also is connected with the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut.

The White Rose is a novel-in-verse dealing with the White Rose resistance movement in Germany during World War II. Kip Wilson has published an extensive amount of short fiction and nonfiction. The White Rose is her first book.

Honor Books 

 

Four Malka Penn honor books were named this year:

• The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
• The Girl of the Southern Sea by Michelle Kadarusman
• The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown
• We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson

The awards ceremony is scheduled for April 23 at the Thomas Dodd Research Center on the Storrs campus of the University of Connecticut.

On April 11, 2018: Author of "My Beautiful Birds" Wins First Malka Penn Award