Brochure for the Jo Osborne Award for Humor in Children's Literature

This is the 2004 brochure for the Jo Osborne Award for Humor in Children's Literature. The award was established in 1996 in honor of Jo Osborne, who was a children’s librarian at Worthington Libraries from 1979 until her death at age 59 in 1995. It sought to honor her commitment to bringing children, books and humor together, and recognized the art of humor in either a single children's book or in the body of work of a children's literature author. As described in the brochure, Jo "sought out the silly, the funny, the poignant, the witty for storytelling and puppet shows to impart a love of books to all the children who were lucky enough to cross her path" during her years as a librarian.

Winners of the award were chosen by a committee of librarians, teachers and other specialists in children's literature. As listed in the brochure, winners from 1998 through 2004 were Patricia Polacco (1996), Sid Fleischman (1997), Steven Kellogg (1998), Jon Scieszka (1999), William Steig (2000), Rosemary Wells (2001), Kevin Henkes (2002), Tomie dePaola (2003) and Paula Danzinger (2004). The award had two additional winners: Daniel Pinkwater (2010), and Betsy Lewin (2011).