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In 1975, Jeremiah Ludington, owner of Ludington News Company in Detroit, Michigan, founded the Educational Paperback Association. To honor his dedication and commitment to the educational paperback Ludington Awardmarket, the EPA in 1979 established the Jeremiah Ludington Memorial Award. The Ludington award is presented annually to an individual who has Anita Silvey, Ludington Award Winnermade a significant contribution to the educational paperback business. Recipients receive a framed certificate and EPA presents a $2,500 check to the charity of their choice.

Congratulations to the 29th Annual (2007) Ludington Award winner, Anita Silvey. Anita Silvey is a professor in the Master of Arts in Children's Literature program at Simmons College. She is the former editor-in-chief of the Horn Book Magazine and the publisher of children's books at Houghton Mifflin. more

Download a pdf about the Ludington winners.

The past recipients of the Ludington Award are:


Marc Brown
Author

Mary Pope Osborne
Author

Richard Peck
Author

Jean Craighead George
Author

Seymour Simon
Author

Charlotte Zolotow
Author/Editor

Tomie dePaola
Illustrator
Author

Paula Danziger
Author

Lois Lowry
Author

Doris Bass
Librarian,
Publisher

Barbara Elleman
Critic/Author

Katherine Paterson
Author

Gary Paulsen
Author

Walter Dean Myers
Author

Bernice Cullinan, Ph.D.
Educator/Author

Norman Bridwell
Educator/Author

Patricia Reilly Giff
Author

Stan and Jan Berenstain
Illustrators
Authors

Jim Trelease
Author

Beverly Cleary
Author

1986
Edward Packard
& R.A. Montgomery (pictured)
Authors


1985
M. Jerry Weiss

Educator/Author

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Marilyn Abel
EPA executive secretary

Judy Blume
Author

Ruth Graves
R.I.F. founder

Dr. Mary K. Chelton
Educator/Author


1980
Charles Reasoner

Educator/Author

No Photo Available


1979
Gene Alfonsi

Past EPA President

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