Christopher Award Winners Announced

The 2005 Christopher Awards have been announced. The Christopher Awards are given to books, films and TV/cable programs that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit."

Feature Films:
Finding Neverland, Hotel Rwanda, The Incredibles, and Miracle.

Television and Cable:
ABC News Primetime Thursday -- A Survivor's Story (ABC-TV), The Brooke Ellison Story (A&E Network), Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (HBO Family), Independent Lens: The New Americans miniseries (PBS) and Something the Lord Made (HBO).

Adult Books:

  • The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness, by Jerome Groopman, M.D. (Random House)
  • Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story, by Timothy B. Tyson (Crown Publishers)
  • The Freedom Line, by Peter Eisner (William Morrow)
  • I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories, by Sam Swope (Henry Holt)
  • Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir, by Neely Tucker (Crown Publishers)
  • Mao's Last Dancer: A Memoir, by Li Cunxin (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

    Children's Books:

  • Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo, by Karma Wilson, illustrated by Doug Cushman (Little, Brown)
  • The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey, written & illustrated by Demi (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
  • Shredderman: Secret Identity, by Wendelin Van Draanen, illustrated by Brian Biggs (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts, by Richard Peck (Dial Books for Young Readers)
  • Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq, by Thura Al-Windawi (Viking Children’s Books)




    Posted on March 3, 2005






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