Are you a children\u2019s librarian and have never attended an ALA Annual Conference? Would you like your favorite author or illustrator to visit a school or public library in your community? Apply for the Penguin Young Readers Group Award or the Maureen Hayes Author\/Illustrator Visit Award today! <\/p>\n
The Penguin Young Readers Group Award<\/a> provides a $600 stipend to attend the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago! Applicants must have fewer than 10 years of experience as a children\u2019s librarian and work directly with children. The Maureen Hayes Award<\/a> brings together children and nationally recognized authors\/illustrators by funding $4,000 to an author\/illustrator visit to a library or school. For more information about each award and to submit an online application by December 21, visit http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/profawards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you a children\u2019s librarian and have never attended an ALA Annual Conference? Would you like your favorite author or illustrator to visit a school or public library in your community? Apply for the Penguin Young Readers Group Award or the Maureen Hayes Author\/Illustrator Visit Award today! The Penguin Young Readers Group Award provides a $600 stipend to attend the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago! Applicants must have fewer than 10 years of experience as a children\u2019s librarian and work directly with children. The Maureen Hayes Award brings together children and nationally recognized authors\/illustrators by funding $4,000 to an author\/illustrator visit to a library or school. For more information about each award and to submit an online application by December 21, visit http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/profawards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[12,186,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-scholarships","category-blogger-dan-rude","category-professional-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}