Keller wins children’s book award

Holly Keller, author of “Farfallina & Marcel,” is the sixth annual winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book, given by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a library of the School of Education. The book is published by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books, and edited by Virginia Duncan. The award, which is given for outstanding writing in a picture book for children from birth through age 7, will be presented on Monday, April 28, in Madison.

The award committee also named one Honor Book, “The First Thing My Mama Told Me,” written by Susan Marie Swanson and illustrated by Christine Davenier, edited by Jeannette Larson and published by Harcourt.

Established in 1998, the award honors the work of Charlotte Zolotow, a children’s book editor and author who attended UW–Madison on a writing scholarship from 1933-36. CCBC is a noncirculating library for adults with a professional, career or academic interest in children’s and young adult literature.