Be in It to Win It
Sweepstakes and digital download: Barnes & Noble announced that Alloy Entertainment, the producer of Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries, is making two digital titles for teens available on the Nook. The End of the World As We Know It by Iva-Marie Palmer is about a group of misfit teens facing an alien invasion. Elena Perez’s The Art of Disappearing is about a girl who learns that she might be psychic. The titles can be purchased for $3.99 for a limited time. To celebrate the release of these titles, students can also enter Alloy’s Nook Sweepstakes through August 8 for a chance to win a Nook Tablet. Students must be at least 13 years old to participate and can enter as many times as they wish. The winner will be selected in a random drawing on or about August 17.
Granted
AASL Awards: The American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is offering its members a chance to apply for more than $50,000 of awards and grants in 2013. There are 10 awards that “recognize excellence and showcase best practices in the school library field in categories that include research, collaboration, leadership, and innovation.” Applications can be filled out using AASL’s online awards database. The deadline for applying for most of the awards is February 1, 2013. Among the awards and grants are the Collaborative School Library Award, sponsored by Highsmith; the AASL Research Grant, sponsored by Capstone; the ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant; The Distinguished Service Award, sponsored by Baker & Taylor; The Distinguished School Administrator Award, sponsored by ProQuest; The Frances Henne Award, sponsored by ABC-CLIO; the Information Technology Pathfinder Award, sponsored by Follett Software; the Innovative Reading Grant, sponsored by Capstone; the Intellectual Freedom Award, sponsored by ProQuest; and the National School Library Program of the Year Award, sponsored by Follett Library Resources (January 1, 2013 deadline).
Awarded
Picture Book Art: The 2012 Eric Carle Honor honorees have been announced by The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, a non-profit organization in Amherst, MA. The awards celebrate “individuals and organizations that bring creative vision and long-term dedication to picture books and the many ways they open children’s minds to art and literacy. There are four awards: Artist (lifelong innovation in the field), Angel (generous financial support), Mentor (editors, designers, and educators who champion the art form), and Bridge (individuals who have brought the art of the picture book to larger audiences through work in other fields). The awards are selected by a committee chaired by children’s literature historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus. This year’s winners include Caldecott Honor winner Lane Smith (Artist); Kent L. Brown, Jr., executive director of the Highlights Foundation and editor-in-chief emeritus of Highlights for Children (Angel); Frances Foster, editor of Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus & Giroux (Mentor), and Christopher Cerf, Sesame Street contributor and co-creator of the PBS series Between the Lions (Bridge). The winners will be honored at Guastavino’s, an event space in New York City, on September 20.
Juvenile Lit: Emily Arnold McCully has won the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature, established by the New York Library Association (NYLA)/Section of School Libraries (SSL). The award “recognizes a New York State author who has demonstrated, through a body of work, a consistently superior quality which supports the curriculum and the education goals of New York State schools.” McCully received the award at the NYLA/SSL Spring Conference in Binghamton, NY, in May. She has illustrated more than 100 books for children and won the Caldecott Medal for her book, Mirette on the High Wire (Putnam, 1998).
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