Another Award For Christopher Paul Curtis
January 12, 2008
Christopher Paul Curtis has won the 2008 Scott O’Dell Award for Elijah of Buxton, a novel set in 1860 and narrated by an 11-year-old who is a first-generation free-born child, living in a Canadian town just north of Detroit, Michigan. The award honors a work of historical fiction and includes a $5,000 prize for the author. It was established in 1982 by Scott O’Dell, author of The Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Curtis, no stranger to awards or to historical fiction, won the 2000 Newbery Medal for Bud, Not Buddy, set in Depression-era Michigan, and was awarded a 1996 Newbery Honor for The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963.
