I’m very sorry to convey the tragic news that I know many of you know already: yesterday, on their way to the Denver airport following ALA Midwinter, ALSC Vice President Kate McClelland and Notable Children’s Videos Chair Kathy Krasniewicz were killed in a hit-and-run automobile accident.
While the subject line refers to ALSC, we know this [...]

Newbery Medal
“The Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman, HarperCollins Children’s Books
Newbery Honor Books
“The Underneath” by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
“The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom” by Margarita Engle, Henry Holt and Company, LLC
“Savvy” by Ingrid Law, Dial Books for [...]

2009 CSK Illustrator Book winner: “The Blacker the Berry,” illustrated by Floyd Cooper, written by Joyce Carol Thomas. The book is published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Three 2009 CSK Illustrator Honors:
“We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball” written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, published by Jump at the Sun/Hyperion [...]

2009 Caldecott Medal: Beth Krommes, illustrator of “The House in the Night,” written by Susan Marie Swanson, published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Three 2009 Caldecott Honor Books were named:
Caldecott Honor Book: “A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever,” written and illustrated by Marla Frazee and published by Harcourt, Inc.
Caldecott Honor Book: “How [...]

2009 Newbery Medal: Neil Gaiman, author of “The Graveyard Book,” illustrated by Dave McKean
The book is published by HarperCollins Children’s Books.
Four Newbery Honor Books were named:
2009 Newbery Honor Book: “The Underneath” by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small
The book is published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Newbery [...]

by Teresa Walls
Last week I attended the Allen County (IN) Public Library’s Mock Sibert Event. It is one of five mock award programs held at the Allen County Public Library . The others are a Mock Caldecott, a Mock Geisel, a Mock Newbery and a Mock Printz. While I’m excited to hear what the real [...]

     Save the dates March 28 – 29, 2009 for a trip to San Francisco. The University of San Francisco will host a conference celebrating multicultural literature for  children and young adults. Keynote speakers include Rosemary Wells, Marilyn Nelson, Francisco Jimenez, and Junko Yokota. More details and registration information is online at http://www.soe.usfca.edu/institutes/reading_world/conference.html. It sounds [...]

Just one week until the Youth Media Awards press conference! I can’t wait to hear all the winning & honor titles, especially the audiobooks that receive the second-annual Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production distinction. I’ve been running a Mock Odyssey poll on my blog and here are the eligible titles mentioned so far:
Tied [...]

Recently, children’s librarians nationwide received a Curious George Earth Science banner, which offered easy-to-use activities on its reverse side. Now PBS needs to hear from those of you who have used the activities. A number of librarians who answer a brief online survey at zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB2283Y6S64YW will win 25-book sets of Curious George Flies a Kite [...]

We all know it’s going to be a Hard Year.  Even as more folks rediscover the library – “what, you mean I can read books and watch DVDs for free??” – our budgets are being cut.  Libraries will have less money to buy books and other materials, to provide programming, and even to hire and [...]