The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published by an American publisher in the United States in English during the preceding year. There are no limitations as to the character of the picture book except that the illustrations must be original work. The award [...]

The 2010 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Committee invites your input in helping us identify eligible titles. The Award will be announced at the ALA Youth Media Awards press conference at Midwinter (Boston) and presented at the Annual Conference in Washington, DC.
Terms: “The Mildred L. Batchelder Award shall be made to an American publisher for [...]

The 2010 Odyssey Award Committee is asking you to submit your favorite audiobooks published between November 1, 2008 and October 31, 2009 for consideration. The Odyssey Award, in its third year, is given to the producer of the best audiobook for children and/or young adults available in English in the United States. Along with [...]

by Kiera Parrott

(For those non-Yiddish-speaking folks, nosh means to eat- or more precisely, to have a snack, a munch, a little tidbit of something yummy….)
Having just finished up the ALSC Online Course The Newbery: Past, Present, and Future (taught by K.T. Horning a.k.a. “K.T. the Magnificent”) I’ve been awash in a veritable [...]

The ALSC Great Web Sites Committee has added more recommended Web sites to Great Web Sites for Kids (www.ala.org/greatsites), an online resource containing hundreds of links to commendable Web sites for children.
Great Web Sites for Kids (GWS) features links to Web sites of interest to children 14 years of age and younger, organized into diverse [...]

Applications are now being accepted for ALSC’s 2010 Bill Morris Seminar: Book Evaluation Training taking place on Friday, January 15, 2010 from 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., during the 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston, MA. 
The seminar will bring new ALSC members and members with limited evaluation experience together with those who have served on [...]

The 2011 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Committee invites ALSC members to suggest authors or illustrators for consideration for the 2011 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award.
The Wilder Award is given every two years to an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
Contact 2011 [...]

The 2010 Notable Children’s Recordings Committee has selected 38 recordings to discuss at ALA in Chicago. To see a full list of these titles, please visit
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/childrensnotable/index.cfm Scroll down to the 2009 Conference Discussion Lists and click on the discussion list link, which will open up into an excel file.
Anyone who is registered to attend [...]

The Great Web Sites for Kids committee has selected 19 sites as a 2009 Great Web Site for Kids. These sites have been added to the Great Web Sites for Kids page. See the annotated list below, or go to the website: http://www.ala.org/greatsites.
Great Web Sites for Kids are those considered the best web sites for [...]

by Teresa Walls
While registering for this year’s ALA Annual Conference, I was thrilled to learn of the American Library Association’s Ethnic Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT)’s special event, “Lift Every Voice and Read: Everything you wanted to know about the Coretta Scott King Book Award titles, and more“, which will be held Monday afternoon, [...]