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Summer Lab Experiences the Best of Italy

Art History, Art, Photography and Latin students, along with teachers Liese Ricketts and Brian Wildeman, returned June 26th from Summer Lab's 11-day Best of Italy trip. Participants enjoyed visiting the cities of Rome, Florence, Venice, and Verona as well as the medieval hill towns of Assisi and Artena. In a cradle of western civilization steeped in thousands of years of history, students were able to experience sites as diverse as the ancient Roman Forum, the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, and the Byzantine-influenced Saint Marks Cathedral in Venice. From gondola rides to swimming in the Mediterranean, sipping cappuccinos to seeing a gay pride parade in Rome, participants got a taste for the fashionable and easy-going lifestyle that makes Italy a country well known for la bella cultura.

7-05-06

Students Return from France

Nous sommes de retour! French students and teachers Diane Jackson and Vicki Schneider returned June 26 after a wonderful two-week trip to France. Students discovered museums and sites in Paris, attended the play La Cantatrice Chauve (which has been playing in the same theater since 1957), and had the opportunity to attend classical music concerts in the evening. In addition to a week in Paris, each student experienced a one-week immersion with a French family in Brittany.

6-28-06

Eighth Grade Graduation

The eighth grade class of 2006 looked very spiffy as they gathered for their middle school graduation. One hundred and seventeen students received their diplomas in an afternoon ceremony held at Mandel Hall. Audrey Alexander and Clare Brody spoke for the students; French teacher Vicki Schneider-Ehsan gave the faculty address. The seventh grade band and orchestra provided processional and recessional music, while other musical presentations featured individual students as well as the eighth grade choir.

In keeping with a long-standing middle school graduation tradition, each student brought a long-stemmed flower to be included in the class bouquet. The eighth graders continued their celebration with an evening dance at the Quadrangle Club.

Over 90% of the eighth grade class will enroll at U-High next fall.

6-06-06

Alumni Return for Reunion Weekend

Alumni of the Lab Schools gathered over the weekend to reunite with old classmates, greet former teachers, and meet new Lab faces. They attended a luncheon and toured the schools on Friday; for some it was the first opportunity to see Kovler Gym since it opened in 2000. They brought their families to a Saturday picnic brunch in Scammons Garden, where the high school jazz band entertained the diners. Mr. Piane, jazz band director, invited several of his old students to play with the band, to the delight of the audience. That evening, special reunion dinners were celebrated by the classes of '46, '51, '56, '61, '66, '71, '76, '81, '86, '91, '96, and 2001.

6-04-06

Final Friday Fun

The last full week of school ended with music and dance, food and fun. High school students and faculty celebrated the end of the school year with the annual Labstock music festival in Kenwood Mall. Student bands played and sang on the school steps as Dean of Students Larry McFarlane grilled burgers and brats for a hungry audience.

The Middle School Student Council, in conjunction with the music department, presented the third annual middle school talent show. Dance exhibitions were interspersed with musical performances that ranged from classical to hip hop, using a variety of instruments including the violin, flute, drums, guitar, piano and voice. Alex Fryer, as the Mistress of Ceremonies, announced the following acts:

• Star Spangled Banner performed by Caroline Montag
• Bach Concerto for Two Violins performed by Joe Tuner and Henry Bergman
• In His Eyes performed by Marissa Guiang
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik performed by Ellyn Butler
• Irish Dance performed by Marley Reifert
• Paper Moon performed by Francesca Baio, Isabel Soble, and Nora Engel-Hall
• A Maider's Prayer performed by Danny Zhang
• Take Me or Leave Me performed by Alexa Lowis and Hope Samuelsson
• The Can-Can performed by Fachel Buikema
• A Moment like This performed by Ana Rosic
• May Song (original composition) performed by Claire Milsted
• Listen to Your Heart performed by Matthew Hanessian
• Hip Hop Dance performed by Justin Algee and Alexa Lowis
• Minuet performed by Shira Fishbach
• Travelin' Soldier performed by Simone Nelsen
• Seasons of Love performed by Jolisha Johnson, Caitlin Goldwater, Jessica Blocker, and Gaya Comaraswamy
• In Church performed by Maya Bishbach
• My Favorite Things performed by Maya Hansen, Danny Zhang, Laura Anderson, and Deborah Krull
• Drum Solo performed by Brandon McCarthy
• Romanian Dance performed by Hannah Constantin
• Mozart Sonata in C Major performed by Yaning Zhang
• Moonlight performed by Meryl Charleston
• Tarantella performed by Jackie Robertson

6-04-06

Students Enjoy Senior Prom

The class of 2006 crowned Michael Bump and Rose Waldmeier as their King and Queen at this year's prom. Seniors and their guests toured the Andy Warhol/Supernova exhibit and enjoyed a dinner provided by Wolfgang Puck, before dancing the night away at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Prom has been held at a variety of venues around the city, including the Planetarium, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, the 95th floor of the John Hancock, and the Drake Hotel. Next year's prom will be held in the historic beaux-arts building that houses the Chicago Cultural Center.

6-03-06

Evolutionary Biologist Brings Fossils to Class

Eighth grade students were treated to a visit by Dr. Neil Shubin, evolutionary biologist and Lab parent, who has discovered fossils of a 375-million-year-old fish that may be a long-sought missing link in the evolution of animals from sea creatures to a life on land. Dr. Shubin chairs the University of Chicago's Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy. His team of researchers unearthed several skeletons of the fossil fish, now called Tiktaalik, 600 miles from the north pole.

Dr. Shubin talked to the eighth graders about the arctic expedition that led to the discovery of Tiktaalik, and brought replica fossil samples of the fish for students to see and touch. His presentation tied into the students' recent reading of Inherit the Wind and their discussions of evolution, creationism, and intelligent design theory.

5-31-06

Art Exhibits in Hallways & Online

As you walk through the hallways of the Lab Schools, you will see artwork on display everywhere. From nursery school through high school, teachers proudly exhibit student projects on a rotating basis. Currently on display near Blaine Library, for example, are third grade paintings that each tell a story in code, using a technique derived from Australian Aboriginal art. You are encouraged to stop by and take a look.

Several of these art exhibits are also available online via the student projects web page:

• First grade students in Illia Mazurek's art classes worked on drawing themselves from observation while looking in mirrors. The original pencil drawings were photocopied twice to preserve the beauty of their immediacy; the copies were then painted on. The first copy, once again, engaged the students' observational skills as they experimented with mixing paint to match their own skin tones. The second copy allowed the students to be expressive and imaginative as they "transformed" themselves. Slide shows of these self-portraits are online.
• Colleen Conley's fourth grade art students were introduced to the ancient Japanese painting technique of Sumi-e painting. They learned the intriguing origins of this painting technique and the unique methods and material they needed to create their own personal masterpieces. A sampling of these works of art is online.
• Liese Ricketts and her photography students have created podcasts showcasing and describing their work. Instructions for subscribing to these podcasts are available online.

Check the student projects web page often to see more student masterpieces!

5-30-06

1916 Monilaw Medal Winner

2005 Monilaw Medal Winners

2006 Monilaw Medal Winners?

Sports Award Ceremony Next Wednesday

The annual Sports Award Ceremony will be held next Wednesday evening to honor Lab's athletes. Championship teams, students receiving post-season honors, and Varsity Coaches Award recipients will receive special recognition. In addition, the Monilaw Medal winners will be announced by Athletic Director Dave Ribbens.

The Monilaw Medal was revived last year after a three-decade hiatus. An excerpt from the 1917 Correlator, U-High's yearbook, explains the origin of this award:

Last year [Head of the Physical Education Department] Dr. Monilaw began the practice of giving a beautiful gold medal to the boy who had done most for the school. It was very hard to decide just how to ascertain who deserved it for many things had to be considered. It was finally decided to award the medal to the boy who stood highest in athletic ability, social leadership and scholarship combined. That it may be absolutely fair "Doc" decides upon the athletic ranking of the various boys before the other two things are considered. Then the boys are ranked as to social leadership by the offices they have held. And last the office records are consulted to get the scholarship side of it. The one who has the highest combined standing wins the medal. This medal is perhaps the highest honor obtainable in the school. Lucky is the boy who gets it. he may be justly proud.

The first winner, Norman Graham (pictured at left), was the quarterback and team captain for the football team (U-High included football among its interscholastic sports until the 1920s), and pole vaulted for the track team. Here is what the Correlator says about his football prowess:

Captain Graham was a shining light of not only the backfield, but of the whole team. Every game was marked by his brilliant open field running. As a tackler he had no superior. Many a time has seen a man get away from all the other men, only to be stopped short by "Red," who was ever on the alert.

The Monilaw Medal was awarded on a regular basis until 1976, after which it was phased out. Recently, Stanford Goldblatt ('54) and Ben W. Heineman Jr. ('61), both Monilaw award winners, teamed up to form a fund and revive the medal. "We think of this fund as a way of giving something back to the Schools and a way of showing our respect for the memory of Dr. Monilaw," said Goldblatt. "There is no question that we learned a great deal from competition. You learn lessons for life, like how to remain calm under pressure," said Heineman.

Last year, Lab's Athletic Department awarded the Monilaw medal for the first time in 29 years, to recognize outstanding athletes—boys and girls—who have demonstrated how sports, sportsmanship, civic leadership and scholarship are important priorities in a student's life. Ben Hanessian (basketball and baseball), Ainah Tan (cross country and track), Danielle Morse (cross country and track), and Steve Wittels (tennis) were the 1995 medal winners.

The Monilaw Medal will be awarded to this year's recipients at the Sports Award Ceremony that will take place in Kovler Gym at 6:30 on Wednesday, May 31. A light food and dessert reception will take place beforehand, from 5:45 to 6:30 in the lobby of Kovler. All middle and high school student-athletes and their families are invited to both the reception and the awards ceremony.

5-25-06

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8th Grade Visits Washington, DC

The eighth grade class recently returned from their annual trip to Washington, DC. For four activity-packed days, 117 students and 14 faculty were on the go, from the monuments on the Mall to Jefferson's home in Monticello, from old town Alexandria to Mount Vernon. They toured the Luray Caverns, saw the pandas at the National Zoo, visited the National Air and Space Museum and the American History Museum, and drove out to Hain's Point to see a five-piece sculpture called "The Awakening". The class met Senator Obama at Capitol Hill, and participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Between these activities, students dined together, slept (a little), went bowling, and enjoyed their classmates' company.

5-25-06

Impressionism Exam

Eighth grade French students took part of their final exam on Impressionism at the Art Institute, analyzing paintings by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Lautrec, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. The exam was the culminating point of a two month study of 19th century France and this important, beloved art movement.

Following the test, students celebrated at the French bistro La Sardine.

5-25-06

Setting the Stage for the Rites of May

Students, faculty and parents are preparing for Lab's annual end-of-the-year festival: the Rites of May. This long-standing Lab tradition has taken on many forms over the years, but always includes a open-air production staged in the courtyard by the high school theatre. This year's festival also features a nightly carnival, an international festival, a global café, and a family fun run.

Thursday

• Carnival, Food and Fun in Blaine Courtyard (5:00-7:00)
  
• Scholastic Book Fair in Belfield 141 (2:00-8:00)
• Fifth Grade Band Concert in Judd 126 (7:00-8:00)
• Opening night of The Madwoman of Chaillot (8:00)

Friday

• Carnival, Food and Fun in Blaine Courtyard (5:00-7:00)
• Scholastic Book Fair in Belfield 141 (9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.)
• The Madwoman of Chaillot, performed by the U-High Theatre (8:00)

Saturday

• Family Fun Run in Jackman Field (10:30)
  A one-mile family fun run/walk.
• Rites of May Parade (10:45)
  Meet in Jackman Field at 10:35 carrying favorite flags, pennants, signs or maps, dressed in traditional or ethnic dress, or come as you are.
• International Festival in Kovler Gym and Kenwood Mall (11:00-5:00)
  The International Festival features crafts and traditions from around the world, with international dances performed throughout the day. Outdoors, a carnival offers games and prizes for the whole family.
• Global Café in Kovler Gym (11:00-3:00)
  Enjoy tastes from around the world in this international food festival.
• Scholastic Book Fair in Belfield 141 (11:00-5:00)
• Madwoman of Chaillot, performed by the U-High Theatre (8:00)

5-15-06

Students Recreate Paris Peace Conference

Eighth grade humanities students recently read Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front as part of their studies on the causes and consequences of World War I. Using as their primary focus the 14 Points that Woodrow Wilson presented at Versailles, students in Ms. Miller's and Ms. Yourist's classes recreated a modified version of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

Individual students took on assigned roles of ambassador, biographer, geographer, or pre- or post-war historian representing one of nine countries. After several days of research, they presented and debated their goals and desires in establishing possible terms for the peace treaty.

5-15-06

Seniors Begin May Project

One hundred and eight seniors finished their last high school classes on Friday and are rounding out their high school experience with a four-week-long May Project. A U-High tradition that began in 1969, May Project enables seniors to research, develop, and carry out a significant project on their own with a minimum of supervision during the month of May. It is designed to be a "capstone" experience, one that calls on all the skills and maturity seniors have developed during their time at the Laboratory Schools, and permits them to apply these skills outside the classroom. It's a chance for students to take time to follow a passion, explore a field of endeavor, continue something they began in a class, or learn about something they haven't been able to while in regular classes. May Service Project, a part of May Project, enables seniors to plan and execute substantial service projects in the Chicago area or elsewhere.

5-07-06

Freakonomics Comes to Lab

U-High Students: reserve your copy of Freakonomics before it's too late!

University High students, prepare to be dazzled and see the world in new ways when school opens next fall. You, too, can think outside the box, just like best-selling author, University of Chicago economist and Lab School parent, Steven D. Levitt. Find out how by reserving your copy of Freakonomics in advisories the week of May 8. Everyone—students, teachers, staff and even Steven Levitt—will be talking about Freakonomics on the first day of school next year. Read it, and get ready to think!

5-05-06

Foreign Language Day

With singing, dancing, and lots of eating, fifth grade German, French and Spanish students spent a day participating in activities centered around their foreign language studies.

Throughout the day French students participated in a treasure hunt for French words that was woven into all their activities. These included a Matisse-centered art class where they created decoupage projects and an activity on French sounds and animal noises. They also presented folk dances from Haiti, Quebec and France to lower school students, inviting the audience to join in the dancing. Lunch was classic French bistro fare at La Sardine in the west loop, where the students used their language skills to order off the menu and to converse with the wait staff.

Spanish students were led in an art project by visitors from the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in which they created musical instruments and learned about the history of Mexican music. They traveled to La Vallita for a scavenger hunt among the stores of the Mexican neighborhood, had lunch at Los Dos Laredos, and finished the day at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum.

The entire community of German students at Lab (grades three to twelve), exchange students, teachers, and parents, gathered to sing songs and enjoy a buffet lunch. In other activities, fifth and sixth grade German students made musli with a woman who immigrated from East to West Germany in the '60s, did a graphics project in the computer lab, and learned youth slang from the foreign exchange teacher. They played jeopardy in German, were led in a geography game by an intern from the Göat;the Institute, and created spoon-puppets with the foreign exchange students.

5-05-06

Sutherland Award Winners Announced

At this year's Sutherland Awards Ceremony, students gathered to present awards to last year's winners and to discover the recipients of the 2006 Sutherland Award for Children's Literature. Last year, for the first time in the program's history, one book, Arrowhawk, swept all three categories: Best Illustration, Best Text, and Best Overall Picture Book.

Lola M. Schaefer, the author, and Gabi Swiatkowska, the illustrator of Arrowhawk, spoke to the third through sixth grades at two assemblies in Ida Noyes' Palevsky Cinema. Watch a movie of Ms. Schaefer and Ms. Swiatkowska receiving their awards and announcing this year's winners to the wildly cheering students.

• Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (Mis)Adventures in Flight, written by Pablo Bernasconi, is the 2006 winner for both Best Text and for Best Overall Children's Book.
• The Serpent Came to Glouster, written by M.T. Anderson and illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline, is the 2006 winner for Best Illustration.

More information about Zena Sutherland and the Sutherland Awards can be found on the Libraries' web site.

4-28-06

Eating for a Worthy Cause

Bake sales are a popular way for Lab Schools students to raise money for various causes. Mrs. Power's fourth grade class is funding Operation Bookshelf with a Krispy Kreme sale in the Blaine and High School lobbies this week. For Operation Bookshelf, students are painting bookshelves and purchasing books to fill them. The bookshelves will be donated to classrooms that are being rebuilt after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Ms. Mitzenmacher's fourth grade class enjoyed the book The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett so much that they decided to study the Robie House. After a tour, during which they discovered that the building is badly in need of money for restoration, the students organized a bake sale that raised $500 to help restore the Robie House so people can enjoy its beautiful architecture.

The entire fifth grade holds a popular annual bake sale to raise money for Heifer International, an organization that donates livestock to needy farmers around the world. In two days of wheeling carts of goodies from room to room, this year's class raised $2,125.

Bake sales are only one of many ways that Lab contributes to the community. More than 100 students joined the American Diabetes Association's School Walk and raised over $4,000 for diabetes research. The BSA held a canned food drive to raise supplies for Hurricane Katrina victims through the Erie Neighborhood House. This fall backpacks filled with clothing and school supplies were collected and trucked down to shelters along the Gulf Coast. A holiday-season toy drive accumulated toys for needy children. And members of our Community Learning Program contribute to the community with service at schools, churches, hospitals and other institutions.

4-25-06

Summer PE for High School Credit

As a new offering, a Physical Education unit for U-High students is available in Summer Lab 2006. Students may take all six weeks of instruction with Lab School PE instructors and earn one-half credit toward their graduation requirements. This course may be taken multiple summers for additional credit. From 3:00 to 5:30 each day, students will participate in team and individual sports, engage in fitness-enhancing activities, play games, and more. Physical Education joins Latin 1 and Geometry as "for credit" courses in summer school.

4-23-06

Students Shine at Apple School Night

Parents and students filled the second floor theatre of Apple's Michigan Avenue store for Lab's second annual School Night at the Apple Store. Students from the after-school GenYES program and from other classes demonstrated enormous poise and enthusiasm for their subjects as they presented technology-based projects created across the Schools.

• Alex Luna, Charlie Jiang, and Mia Epner gave a presentation on how kids are using technology today. They previously gave this talk at the National School Board Association Conference in Chicago earlier this month.
• Liz Pasons, Radhika Attele, and Sen Pu recounted a workshop on service learning they created for the National Service Learning Conference in Philadelphia in March.
• Jeremy Archer demonstrated a Flash GUI that models global warming. He helped design this Flash application for his father's Oceanography course at the University of Chicago.
• Alex Luna showed an iMovie he made for GenYES class.
• Catherine Yunis visited the Amazon with her family and made an iMovie of the trip.
• Jordan Einhorn showed an "all about me" eZedia project made in her computer science class, titled Passionate Pursuits of a Fifth Grader: Drama Queen, Book Worm, and Dancing Diva.
• Louis Harboe documented class happenings in his fourth grade class and produced a DVD for his classmates in Ms. Mitzenmacher's classroom.
• Marley and Taylor Reifert demonstrated how to create music in GarageBand and showed an iMovie made in Marley's fifth grade computer science class.
• Amy Solomon, Daniel Simmons-Marengo, and Randy McNally discussed the process of making an end-of-year iMovie for their grade, and showed a movie trailer for this year's 8th Grade iMovie Project.
• Hannah Greenblatt spoke on a role-playing forum she is designing.

4-20-06

Lab Welcomes German Exchange Students

Fifteen students from Königin-Katharina-Stift-Gymnasiusm in Stuttgart have joined Lab's student body for three weeks as part of a German exchange program. In addition to attending classes and participating in after-school community service, the students will enjoy a downtown architectural walking tour, a luncheon on the 76th floor of the Sears Tower, a service at the Trinity United Church of Christ, and other museum trips and sightseeing opportunities as well as family get-togethers. They will celebrate German Day with all of Lab's German students on April 28th, a celebration that features traditional German food and songs.

Twelve Lab School students will travel to Germany for four weeks at the end of the school year, staying in Stuttgart with the students that they are currently hosting. They will attend classes as well as traveling within Germany, and to Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria.

Four of Lab's students have received scholarships for this summer's exchange from the Gardner-Pretzel Scholarship Program, a program that raises money through weekly pretzel sales throughout the schools. In their recommendations, these students were praised for their academic achievements, and described as wonderful young people who will proudly represent our school community in Europe this summer.

4-17-06

Science Team Wins State Competition

Congratulations to U-High's WYSE science team for placing first in the state at the WYSE academic challenge held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Academic Challenge is a competitive series of tests created and administered by Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering and offered to high school students in Illinois and Missouri. The tests are now offered by more than 50 community colleges and universities and are designed to present a challenge to the brightest students.

Test material is drawn from senior high school and freshman level college curricula. Written by teams of college and university faculty, subjects include biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering graphics, English, mathematics, and physics. Each test production team produces three tests of increasing levels of difficulty, for the regional, sectional and state finals. Students compete as individuals and as part of a team; they have 40 minutes to complete multiple-choice tests that range in length from 30 questions (computer science) to 100 questions (English).

Individual congratulations to

• Sarah Constantin for a first place finish in biology
• Sai Li for a second place finish in chemistry and a fourth place finish in physics
• Frank Firke for a fourth place finish in mathematics and a sixth place finish in English
• Katharine Lauderdale for a 5th place finish in mathematics
• Ben Rosner for a sixth place finish in mathematics

Congratulations are also in order for the Science Olympiad Team, which took first place in regional competition on April 8th, and will be competing in the state finals, also held at UI-CU later this month.

4-13-06

Middle School Magazine Published

Spiral, Lab's middle school literary and arts magazine is in print and being distributed to all middle school students and faculty. The name is derived from the spiral notebook in which a student might scribble a drawing or write a poem. Spiral itself is always published with a spiral binding, and it does indeed contain student drawings and poetry, as well as narratives, short stories, painting, and photography. This is the third volume of a magazine that has been published every few years. Production of the magazine is overseen by sixth grade teacher Richard Krull; his goal is to make it an annual publication.

This year's Spiral has over 55 middle school contributors and is 143 pages in length. The Spiral staff for '05-'06 is as follows:

• Editor in Chief: Safiya Nygaard
• Co-editors, 8th grade: Clare Brody, Clair Milsted, Chelsey Satterlee
• Co-editors, 7th grade: Thomas Aquino, Carles Boix, Layla Ehsan,
  Peter Hogenson, Malvika Jolly
• Co-editors, 6th grade: Elizabeth Gelman, Ary Hansen, Molly Petchenik
• Technical and Production Editor: Shane Cory Selig
• Faculty Sponsor: Richard Krull

4-12-06

Annual Sutherland Award Program

Students in third through fifth grade are now engaged in the Sutherland Award program, based in the lower and middle school libraries. Growing from student dissatisfaction with books chosen by adults to win the Caldecott Award, the Sutherland Awards provide a forum for critical review and discussion of literature in picture book format, culminating in a student vote recognizing excellence in three categories: Best Illustration, Best Text, and Best Overall Picture Book. Now in its twelfth year, this program is named for Zena Sutherland, a former University of Chicago professor of Library Science and Lab Schools parent.

As part of the selection process, students discuss the role of the illustrator, the importance of interesting writing—as well as an interesting story—and how words and pictures work together; they also learn to participate in critical discussion based on text and illustration. Third graders create voting posters in the computer labs. Fourth graders fill our review forms for each book as well as creating digital posters. Fifth grade students write original book reviews and create beautiful, large, hand-painted posters that promote the books and decorate our hallways and libraries.

A committee of sixth graders, well practiced in review and discussion, pick the five candidates to be voted upon. They select the five books from a group of about fifteen chosen by the librarians based on professional reviews and recommendations as well asa their own critical appraisal. This year's nominees are:

• Captain Arsenio: Inventions and (Mis)adventures in Flight by Pablo Bernasconi
• Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott
• The Serpent Came To Gloucester by M.T. Anderson, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline
• Traction Man Is Here! by Mini Grey

Read more about these nominations on Speaking Volumes, Lab's library blog.

After the vote, a winning author or illustrator from a previous year comes to Lab to address the students and to announce this year's winners. Paul Zelinsky and Eric Kimmel are among the high-profile authors who have visited our school in connection with the Sutherland Program. This year both Lola Schaefer and Gabi Swiatkowska will speak with the third through sixth grades on April 22. They are the author and illustrator of Arrowhawk, winner of all three Sutherland Awards in 2005.

4-1-06