Awards

SLJ talks to Rick Riordan about his latest bestseller 'The Red Pyramid,' book one of the Kane Chronicles. More...

The winners of this year's Letters About Literaturecontest include Lara Bagdasarian, a fifth grader from the UCLA Lab School in Los Angeles, CA, who wrote to Francisco Jiménez; Reagan Nelson, a sixth grader from Hutton More...

Are you a totally wired teacher? Prove it by entering the Totally Wired Teacher Award contest, sponsored by Ypulse.com, a marketing firm that studies tweens and teens.The contest is inspired by Ypulse.com founder Anastasia Goodstein's More...

New Canaan High School in New Canaan, CT, and Perry Meridian Middle School in Indianapolis, IN, are this year's winners of the National School Library Program of the Year (NSLPY) Award, given by the American More...

This week librarians, publishers, booksellers, and students from across the country commemorate Children's Book Week with a range of events designed to celebrate the love of books and reading.The May 10-16 festivities will be marked More...

Small towns in Virginia and Vermont are the settings for two novels that captured this year's Edgar Awards, given by the Mystery Writers of America for the best mystery published in a calendar yearClosed for More...

A picture book about the changes in Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power and a nonfiction book about the role of African-American children during the civil rights movement are winners of this year's Jane More...

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book was shortlisted for the UK's prestigious Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, marking the first time in 30 years that a title has appeared on both lists.The Newbery-winning Graveyard Book, about More...

Salem Press doesn't just like library blogs-they love 'em. In an effort 'to expose the little-known and excellent in an ongoing way,'; the publisher has created the Library Blog Awards. The first wave of awards More...

The Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation (MEAF) is all about inclusion: 'an attitude and approach that seeks to ensure that every person, regardless of ability or background, can meaningfully participate in all aspects of life.'; Now More...

A British author and German illustrator took home the prized Hans Christian Andersen Award for 2010, granted by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).David Almond The Andersen jury selected writer David Almond More...

A gay teen coping with his father's death, a debut novel that retells Cinderella, and a collection of 12 authors who write about learning to love yourself are among some of the five books nominated More...

The author of a young girl's tale of riding the Underground Railroad and the illustrator of a story about a young witch learning to fly are winners of this year's celebrated Ezra Jack Keats award More...

Who do kids think are the best authors and illustrators and what are some their favorite books? Find outinthis year's Children Choice Awards, sponsored by the Children's Book Council.Between now and May 3, your students More...

Jim Murphy chose Deborah Heiligman's Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith (Holt) over Phillip Hoose's award-winning Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Melanie Kroupa Bks.) in yesterday's round one, match one of SLJ's Battle More...

Are you ready to rumble again? Then get involved in SLJ's second annual Battle of the Kids' Books, and let your students have fun with 15 star-studded judges as they cast their votes for last More...

Arkansas's Fayetteville Public Library is winner of this year's 2010 'Light the Way: Library Outreach to the Underserved'; grant, which comes with $3,000 to help the library further continue its exceptional work.Sponsored by the Association More...

Two children's librarians from Texas and two from Ohio are winners of the 2010 Penguin Young Readers Group Award, which comes with a $600 grant so they can attend their first American Library Association Conference.Thanks More...

Lucy Nolan's Down Girl and Sit: Bad to the Bone (Marshall Cavendish, 2008), a hilarious dog's eye view of the world, is winner of this year's Children's and YA Bloggers' Literary award (Cybils) for best More...

Books about microbes, photosynthesis, and pesticides are this year's winners of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/Subaru Excellence in Science Books Awards.To have the AAAS choose Living Sunlight (Blue Sky, 2009) as More...

Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan (S & S, 2009), a World War I steampunk novel, is winner of the 2009 Aurealis Award in the category of best young adult novel.The awards are given to works of speculative More...

Think you have what it takes to be the next Stephenie Meyer? Here's your chance to prove it. Amazon.com, its subsidiary CreateSpace, and the Penguin Group USA are accepting submissions for the third annual Amazon More...

Illustrations by Edward Koren. Talk about confidentiality. It's probably easier to uncover the identity of a new pope than to find out the name of the next Caldecott winner. That's because the tight-lipped group that More...

I hate to admit it, but deep in my heart I'm a bit skeptical about the Youth Media Awards, which include the Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and many other honors.It's not that I don't love all More...

It might be more interesting to note what didn't get nominated for this year's Edgar Awards than what did. Among themissing from last week's list are When You Reach Me (Random, 2009) by Rebecca Stead, More...

Stories about the Jewish New Year, Staten Island in the 1980s, and the sale of Cuban visas to Jewish refugees during World War II were named winners in this year's Sydney Taylor Book Awards, which More...

An overly eager person at Random House tweeted this year's winner of the Newbery Award about 17 minutes before the official announcement was made this morning during the American Library Association's (ALA) midwinter meeting in More...

Carmen Tafolla's What Can You Do with a Paleta? ( Tricycle Press), about a young Mexican-American girl's delight with a popsicle on a hot summer day, is this year's winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award More...

Matt Phelan's The Storm in the Barn (Candlewick) is winner of the 2010 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, marking the first time the honor has gone to a graphic novel.Following last week's announcement, some More...

Photograph by Kevin Brusie Talk about chutzpah. It took Phillip Hoose four years to track down Claudette Colvin, but it was worth the wait. Last November, Hoose's Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, the true story More...

The West Bend Community Memorial Library, located just outside of Milwaukee, WI, is makingnews again-but this time it's being honored for defending intellectual freedom in the face of a library challenge that gained national attention More...

If you have an exemplary afterschool, out-of-school, and summer arts and humanities programs for underserved children and youth, then apply for the Coming Up Taller Awards-and possibly win $10,000.Libraries and schools are encouraged to apply More...

Deborah Heiligman and Phillip Hoose are competing head-to-head again-this time for the first Young Adult Library Services Association's (YALSA) Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. Heiligman's Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of More...

Steve Kluger's My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins & Fenway Park (Dial, 2008), a Steve Kluger accepting his prize. novel written in multiple voices and uses nontraditional formats such as letters, More...

Three media specialists and one YA librarian are among 10 winners of the 2009 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award, which gives the public a chance to nominate a More...

Amodern tale of star-crossed lovers, a story about a dead teen, and Cinderella with a twist are among the five books selected as finalists for the 2010 William C. Morris Award, which honors a book More...

Author and historian Phillip Hoose's true story about a brave African-American teen who defied Jim Crow lawsin March 1955 by refusing to give up her seaton a bus to a white woman in Montgomery, AL,is More...

Students from New York City area schools were treated to a surprise guest at this year's National Book Award's Teen Press conference with award finalists-Claudette Colvin, the little known civil rights activist and subject of More...

Books that chronicle a day of scientific mishaps, the 1991 discovery of the oldest mummy in the Italian Alps, and a meticulously illustrated depiction of the Apollo 11 moon flight are among the finalists for More...

The Society of Illustrators last week honored two-time Caldecott Medalist Chris Van Allsburg with its Lifetime Achievement Award during the association's annual Original Art exhibit, which showcases a cross section of the best-illustrated books of More...

Teens around the country voted John Green's page-turning mystery Paper Towns (Dutton, 2008) as their favorite book this year in the annual Teens' Top Ten vote, sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).This More...

Public libraries that offer stellar programs for Pre-K-12 students, provide quality programming to its blind and physically handicapped patrons, and tell the story of the citizen soldier in American history are among five winners of More...

Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park is this year's winner of the Empire State Author Award, given to a New York State children's or YA author for a body of work.Linda Sue Park (left) with More...

Caldecott Medalist David Small's graphic novel-style memoir, Stitches, last week became a 2009 National Book Award finalist in the Young People's Literature category -which has led to some discussion and debate,along with the usual congratulations.Publishers, More...

A graphic novel memoir, a love story about the man who developed the theory of evolution, and a gritty narrative about three teenage girls are among this year's finalists for the National Book Award in More...

The San Antonio Commission on Literacy has awarded Scholastic with the 2009 Literacy Organization of the Year Award for its partnership with the San Antonio Public Library, the San Antonio Public Library Foundation, and other More...

The editors of Library Journal need your help in identifying the emerging leaders in the library world. The ninth annual round of Movers & Shakers will profile 50 or more up-and-coming individuals from across the More...

Want to a new set of hardcover American history books for your public or school library? Then apply for the We the People Bookshelf grant, which encourages kids to read and understand great literature while More...

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art threw a star-studded event in New York on September 24 to honor artist Alice Provensen, celebrated editor Walter Lorraine, Cricket magazine founders Marianne and Blouke Carus, and More...

Author and naturalist Sy Montgomery is winner of the 2010 Children's Book Guild's Nonfiction Award, which honors an author or illustrator whose body of work has contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for kids.Montgomery, More...

Know a librarian whose work has improved the lives of people in their communities? The New York Times, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the American Library Association (ALA) are encouraging the nominations of More...

Gail Gibbons, an author and illustrator of more than 140 books for young children, is winner of the 2010 Regina Medal, given annually by the Catholic Library Association to a someone whose work has made More...

Jacqueline Woodson's After Tupac and D Foster (Putnam), Kristin Cashore's Graceling (Harcourt), and Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, by (HarperCollins) are among finalists for the inaugural Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award, created to recognize an More...

Susan Erickson, a librarian and 2009 Caldecott committee member, pulled a few strings at last month's Newbery/Caldecott/Wilder Banquet in Chicago to sit next to one of her favorite people: Francisco Jiménez.And it turned out to More...

If your library has outstanding family programming and you'd like to do more of it, here's your chance to win $10,000.Better World Books (BWB) and the nonprofit National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) has created More...

Neil Gaiman has nabbed yet another Eisner Award, this time for Coraline: The Graphic Novel (HarperCollins, 2008).The author already has more than 10 Eisner's under his belt, and this one comes just weeks after receiving More...

A fifth grade assignment focused on the 2008 presidential election, a middle school project that highlights the use of digital storytelling, and a high school program on people who changed the world have earned their More...

Some 33 institutions in 21 states have been awarded grants totaling $20.4 million from the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program to assist literacy efforts, increase the number of media specialists, and create more diversity More...

School Library Journal is a 2009 winner of the Association of Educational Publishers' (AEP) Distinguished Achievement Award for its controversial cover story 'Has the Newbery Lost Its Way?';The award, which honors outstanding resources for teaching More...

Anthony Browne has been appointed the sixth Children's Laureate in the U.K. Browne, who won the 2000 Anthony Browne is the sixth Children's Laureate. Photo: Asimina Giagoudaki. Hans Christian Andersen Medal, is only the second More...

Bill Konigsberg's Out of Pocket won the Lambda in the children/YA category. Besides books, authors, and parties,a few literary awards were doled out during this year's Book Expo America (BEA). The Lambda Literary Foundation recognized More...

An award-winning British novelist, an American biographer, and a New Zealand storyteller are winners of the 2009 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for excellence in children's and young adult literature.The awards, announced in June 2, were More...

A district in western New York and schools in the suburbs of Kansas City and Chicago are this year's winners of the National School Library Media Program of the Year (NSLMPY)award, which recognizes library programs More...

The Gale/Library Media Connection TEAMS Award recognizes and encourages the critical collaboration between the teacher and media specialist to promote learning, increase student achievement, and develop 21st-century skills. Maximum award: $2,500. Eligibility: All K–12 public More...

An online community for teenage girls, a best-selling author Web site that promotes books for kids, a program that allows inmates to read to their children, and a teacher are four winners for the first More...

Walter Dean Myers and Eric Carle are the United States nominees for the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize of children's literature. The awards are presented every two years More...

It was vampire love over the trials and tribulations of a wimpy kid when it came to kids choosing their favorite author of the year at the Second Annual Children Choice Book Awards. Stephenie Meyer, More...

Two books, one about the first woman from Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and the other, which deals with slavery and occupation in Cuba during the late 1800s, are winners of the 2009 More...

Terry Pratchett's Nation (HarperCollins, 2008), about characters on a desert island who recreate civilization, is winner of the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the category of young adult literature.Pratchett, whose book Nation was More...

An examination of contemporary war, a third-grader who adores her teacher, and the influence of Kentucky's pack-horse librarians are among the winners of this year's Christopher Awards, which salute media that 'reminds audiences of their More...

Barbara Immroth, a professor at the University of Texas School of Information and a former president of the Association of Library Services to Children, has received the first lifetime achievement award from the Texas Library More...

K. T. Horning is having quite a year. First, the director of the Cooperative Children's Book Centerwas selected as the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC).And now More...

Amale nanny, a gay quarterback, and an 18-year-old girl who falls in love with an older woman are some of the characters found in the six finalists for the Lambda Literary Award in the area More...

Mabel R. McKissick, cofounder of the American Library Association's Coretta Scott King Book Awards, died March 20 at the Bridebrook Rehabilitation Center in Niantic, CT. She was 87.Mabel McKissick, cofounder of the Coretta Scott King More...

Neil Gaiman may have turned down his Hugo Award nomination for Anansi Boys (2005) in 2006, buthe's game this time with his recent recognition for The Graveyard Book (2008, both HarperCollins).The Hugos are awards for More...

The 2009 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award has been awarded to the Tamer Institute for Community Education,a nonprofit organization that promotes reading in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Founded in 1989, the Ramallah-based Tamer More...

Sure, all the buzz may be about Laurie Halse Anderson's new title Wintergirls, which is being released tomorrow, March 19. Could it be her best book since Speak? Through an interesting twist of fate, 2009 More...

The National Book Critics Circle Awards (NBCC) has recognized the often overlooked area of children's literature, giving its 2009 award in the field of criticism to Seth Lerer's Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop More...

What do you wish everyone knew about librarians? Lisbeth Boutang, a children's librarian at Cloquet Public Library in Minnesota, says she wishes that people knew about their courage to imagine.Lisbeth Boutang won grand prize. 'Between More...

A biography of explorer-naturalist George Schaller, the tale of a curmudgeonly bear, and a wordless dream voyage picture book are among the winners of the 2009 Golden Kite Awards for excellence in children's literature.Sponsored by More...

Award season continues with the recent announcement of the Los Angles Times 2008 Book Prize finalists.Established in 1980, the awards come with a $1,000 cash prize and are given in nine categories: young adult literature, More...

Photograph by Kimberly Butler Neil Gaiman has been a busy boy. I caught up with him by phone at his Wisconsin home, to which he had returned the night before from the film premiere of More...

Ad the award goes to…The Children's Book Council has unveiled the finalists for its second-annual Children's Choice Book Awards based on votes from kids from around the country who nominated their favorite book, author, and More...

This year's list of finalists for the New York Public Library's ninth Young Lions Fiction Award includes a doctor-turned-writer, a PhD in artificial intelligence, and a journalist.Jon Fasman Photo: Alissa Fasman The award is given More...

If your library is in need of some great feminist titles, you'll be interested in the 2009 Amelia Bloomer List of the best books that highlight strong female characters who overcome obstacles and defy social More...

Nothing warms a librarian's heart more than another book award list, and on Valentine's Day kid lit bloggers announced the winners of the Cybils (Children's and YA Bloggers' Literary Awards), which started three years ago More...

Shadra Strickland was recently named the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator of 2009, just weeks after receiving the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award on January 26, 2008 for her illustrations in the picture More...

Kathleen T. Horning, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC), joins the list of distinguished names who have delivered the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture.K. T. Horning 'It was a big More...

For the last 87 years, the Newbery Medal has always created a stir among librarians, adults, and children. And it wasn't any different at this year's American Library Association (ALA) midwinter meeting in Denver. SLJ More...

The Newbery Medal ended its slump. The committee that awards the nation's top prize for children's literature chose Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins), marking the first time in four years that the award went More...

The Children's Book Council (CBC)is expanding its Children Choice Award-starting this year, teens will now be eligible to vote for their favorite books, authors, and illustrators. .The Teen Choice Book Award will launch as part More...

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A story about a rabbi and an African-American reverend, a Jewish immigrant family in New York in the early 1900s, and a relationship between an Israeli girl and a Palestinian girl are winners f this More...

Judith Krug, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), has been given the William J. Brennan, Jr. Award for her 'remarkable commitment to the marriage of open books and open minds.';Given More...

Bob Graham's How to Heal a Broken Wing (Candlewick, 2008), a story of hope and healing, is the twelfth annual winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award, for outstanding writing in a picture book. It is More...

Jessica Fenster-Sparber, CEO of Literacy for Incarcerated Teens and a library coordinator who works with New York City's incarcerated youth, is among 10 winners of the Maybelline New York Beauty of Educationaward, given to those More...

Caldecott-medal winner Kevin Henkes is this year's recipient of the Jeremiah Ludington Award, presented annually to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the paperback book business.Previous winners of the annual award, named More...

If you haven't heard of Judy Blundell until recently, join the club. For nearly 20 years, Blundell has toiled in anonymity, turning out more than 100 mysteries, romances, and media tie-ins under various pen names, More...

A media specialist in Harlem who mA media specialist in Harlem who makes his small library feels like the center of the school; a librarian from Michigan who knows the true meaning of collaboration; and More...

A retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, the story of a teenage warrior, and a teen coming to terms with his father's disappearance are among five finalists for the inaugural William C. Morris Award, which honors a book More...

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.Judy Blundell is this year's National Book Award winner in the More...

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 More...

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 .NBA finalists, from left, Lockhart, Anderson, Blundell, Appelt, More...

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. This year's trio More...

Suzy Lee, whose simplistic illustrations in the wordless book Wave (Chronicle) tell the story of a little girl's day at the beach, is this year's Society of Illustrators' gold medal winner.Silver medals were awarded to More...

REFORMA, the National Association To Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, has selected two winners of the 2008 Estela and Raúl Mora Award for promoting this year's April 30 El More...

Oney Judge and Bayard Rustin were two obscure historical footnotes until the Jane Addams Children's Book Award committee singled ou the books they were featured inas the winners ofyear'stop award.At an awards ceremony at the More...

A historical fiction set during the American Revolution, a touching story about a cat and dog in the Bayou, and a coming-of-age story are amongfive finalists for the 2008 National Book Award in the category More...

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