{"id":7322,"date":"2013-09-19T00:11:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T04:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2013-09-18T21:25:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T01:25:52","slug":"the-book-award-season-has-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-book-award-season-has-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Award Season has launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Book Foundation announced their 2013 Young People’s Literature Longlist<\/a> for the National Book Awards on Monday, September 16, giving us a lovely list of ten titles<\/a> rather than the usual five (that shortlist will be announced on October 16). \u00a0Apparently the Foundation wanted to create a bit more buzz, a la the Man Booker Prize<\/a>. \u00a0Having read five of the ten so far, I’d say the judges have done a great job.<\/p>\n

And no wonder. \u00a0The panel consists not only of four stellar children’s and YA authors (Peter Glassman, E Lockhart, Cecil Castellucci and Deb Caletti) but also a real live children’s librarian and literature expert – Lisa Von Drasek. \u00a0You go, girl!<\/p>\n

If you prefer a more interactive approach to children’s and YA book awards, you’re in luck – the Cybils <\/a>are right around the corner. \u00a0Nominations open October 1, giving you a bit more than two weeks to make one nomination in each of eleven different genres. \u00a0All eligible nominated books are then read and judged by panels from the children’s and YA book blogging world. \u00a0The genre shortlists announced by these panels on January 1 should be the basis of every book lover’s must-read list.<\/p>\n

With autumn arrives a whole gaggle of Best Books of 2013 lists, ratcheting up the tension until we’re all bouncing in our seats during the announcement of the ALA Youth Media Awards<\/a> in January. \u00a0Then, just to allow us hang on to that glow a bit longer, there is the Battle of the Kids’ Books<\/a> in March – funny, irreverent and not to be missed.<\/p>\n

What – you’ve gotten behind on your children’s and YA book reading? \u00a0Push yourself back from that computer, put up your feet and pull up a good book! \u00a0What’s in your must-read stack? \u00a0Kevin Henkes’ The Year of Billy Miller<\/em> is next up on mine – not to mention those NBA nominated titles.<\/p>\n

Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Book Foundation announced their 2013 Young People’s Literature Longlist for the National Book Awards on Monday, September 16, giving us a lovely list of ten titles rather than the usual five (that shortlist will be announced on October 16). \u00a0Apparently the Foundation wanted to create a bit more buzz, a la the Man Booker Prize. \u00a0Having read five of the ten so far, I’d say the judges have done a great job. And no wonder. \u00a0The panel consists not only of four stellar children’s and YA authors (Peter Glassman, E Lockhart, Cecil Castellucci and Deb Caletti) but also a real live children’s librarian and literature expert – Lisa Von Drasek. \u00a0You go, girl! If you prefer a more interactive approach to children’s and YA book awards, you’re in luck – the Cybils are right around the corner. \u00a0Nominations open October 1, giving you a bit more than two…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}