The lastest scoop on books and publishing for children and teens from School Library Journal
NYC Teens Schmooze with National Book Award Finalists By Rocco Staino - 11/18/2008
Some 200 student reporters from the New York City area yesterday grilled five of this year’s National Book Award finalists at the 11th annual Teen Press Conference . More
Blue Bayou: An Interview with Kathi Appelt By Rick Margolis - 12/01/2008
The Underneath, set in East Texas’s bayou country, features two intertwined stories. One’s about a cat who befriends a mistreated dog, and the other is about a vindictive ancient shape-shifter—half serpent, half human—who longs for her daughter’s love. What most surprised you about the story? It originated from a short story I had written.
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Happy Birthday, Abe: Celebrate Abraham Lincoln's big 2-0-0 with these fun books By Kathleen Baxter - 12/01/2008
On February 12, we celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, and publishers, like the rest of the country, are rushing in to mark the big day of this bigger-than-life-size man. Lincoln probably already commands a goodly portion of your bookshelves, but take a look at some of these wonderful new titles, which make for fine booktalks.
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School Library Journal's Best Books 2008 By SLJ Book Review Editors Trevelyn Jones, Luann Toth, Marlene Charnizon, Daryl Grabarek, and Joy Fleishhacker - 12/01/2008
Of the more than 5000 books reviewed in SLJ’s pages in 2008, the 67 books listed below stood out as having distinctive voices, singular vision, and/or innovative approaches. They include books for toddlers and preschoolers, terrific picture books and easy readers, and some highly original novels.
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SLJ Presents the Best Adult Books for High School Students 2008 By Francisca Goldsmith, Chair, Adult Books for High School Students Committee - 12/01/2008
It was a banner literary year and so SLJ's Adult Books for High School Students Committee decided on 30 titles, published between September 2007 and November 2008 (with reviews published in 2008), to recognize as the best for high school readers. The list includes realistic and historical novels as well as some genre-blending titles.
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Blundell Nabs National Book Award By Rocco Staino - 11/19/2008
Judy Blundell, author of What I Saw and How I Lied (Scholastic), is the 2008 National Book Award winner in the category of children’s literature.
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Ibbitson’s ‘The Landing’ Nabs Canada’s Highest Kid Lit Award By SLJ Staff - 11/19/2008 John Ibbitson’s The Landing, a coming-of-age story that takes place in Canada’s Muskoka region in the 1930s, is this year’s winner of the Governor General’s Literacy Awards for children’s literature in English, which honors the finest in Canadian literature. More
NYT Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2008 By SLJ Staff - 11/09/2008
Every autumn since 1952, the New York Times Book Review has invited a panel of judges to survey the year’s output of children’s books and to select the top 10 best illustrated.
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PreS-K–A five-year-old (rabbit) awakes one morning to discover that there will be no school, no daddy flying home today, and no going outside–until the snow stops.
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The staff of Salinas Public Library (CA), aka The John Steinbeck Public Library, pose with Lewis Buzbee, author of Steinbeck's Ghost, a middle-grade novel that centers around the threat of the library's closing in 2004. After a difficult struggle, the library remains open and has just extended its hours to seven days a week.
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