PaperTigers (http://www.papertigers.org/index.html) describes itself as a website about books in English for young readers. While books discussed are multicultural from or about any part of the world, it has a particular focus on the Pacific Rim and South Asia. The site includes book reviews, interviews, an online gallery of art by various illustrators, and a [...]

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 Medal 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 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 [...]

By Sarah Polace
2009 Penguin Young Readers Group Award Winner 
I was very thankful to win the 2009 Penguin Young Readers Group Award which allowed me to attend the Annual Conference in Chicago. Without the award, I would never have had the opportunity to attend a professional conference so early in my career.
 My first conference experience [...]

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 [...]

Margarita Engle is the author of the 2006 Pura Belpré Medal Winner, The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, and The Surrender Tree, which received the 2009 Pura Belpré Medal as well as a 2009 Newbery Honor.
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers is a division of MacMillan which provides a wonderful [...]

The program below is one of many featured on ALA’s online clearinghouse for school/public library cooperation managed by the AASL/ALSC/YALSA Interdivisional Committee on School/Public Library Cooperation. Visit the clearinghouse to learn more or share your own exemplary partnership!
Title of Program: Great Library Card Adventure/Get Carded
Type of Program: Library Card Campaigns
Age level: Elementary & [...]

Once upon a time in the fall of 2008, a Head of Children’s Services saw that there was a grant to fund a summer reading program. She looked at the requirements and the previous winner’s information. In her mind, she didn’t have a chance of getting the grant. Then a copy of the grant application [...]

The Brown Bookshelf is now accepting submissions for the 3rd Annual 28 DAYS LATER.
During the twenty-eight days of Black History Month, The Brown Bookshelf will profile a different children’s or young adult author and children’s illustrator. On March 1st, they will announce the winner of the grand prize: a gift basket featuring every book profiled [...]