The American Library Association issued a press release stating a live webcast will be available of the “national announcement of top books, video and audiobooks for children and young adults” beginning at 7:45 a.m., EST, on Monday, January 14.
For you lucky ducks who will be at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in person, the doors of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Ballroom B open at 7:30 a.m. The rest of us are encouraged to bookmark this not-yet-live page at Unikron, a streaming content provider. There are a limited number of connections to the webcast, so I’ll be checking with some friends who will be there (lucky ducks) to see if they will call me long-distance to share the titles added to the ranks of Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Odyssey, Carnegie, Pura Belpré, Sibert, Schneider, and Geisel, so I may be sure to post them here in a timely manner.
If you are attending in person and would like to share your experience with the readers of the ALSC Blog, please contact Teresa Walls, blog manager, at alscblog@gmail.com. Thanks!