School Library Journal» Eric Carle Museum http://www.slj.com The world's largest reviewer of books, multimedia, and technology for children and teens Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:23:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Pictures of the Week: The 2012 Eric Carle Honors Gala http://www.slj.com/2012/09/awards/pictures-of-the-week-the-2012-eric-carle-honors-gala/ http://www.slj.com/2012/09/awards/pictures-of-the-week-the-2012-eric-carle-honors-gala/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:54:18 +0000 SLJ http://www.slj.com/?p=16029 Please send your pictures of the week to sdiaz@mediasourceinc.com

CarleStaino Pictures of the Week: The 2012 Eric Carle Honors Gala

SLJ contributing editor Rocco Staino and children’s book expert Anita Silvey at the Eric Carle Honors Gala in New York City on September 20. Photo by Johnny Wolf, courtesy of the Eric Carle Museum.

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Eric Carle, renowned author and illustrator of 70 books, including the 1969 classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, co-founded the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art with his wife in 2002. The museum honors several authors and illustrators every year. Photo by Debra Lau Whelan

]]> http://www.slj.com/2012/09/awards/pictures-of-the-week-the-2012-eric-carle-honors-gala/feed/ 0 Eric Carle Museum Hands Out 2012 Honors http://www.slj.com/2012/09/awards/eric-carle-museum-hands-out-2012-honors/ http://www.slj.com/2012/09/awards/eric-carle-museum-hands-out-2012-honors/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:09:11 +0000 Rocco Staino http://www.slj.com/?p=15586 The Eric Carle Museum last Thursday handed out its 2012 honors to illustrator Lane Smith, Kent Brown, co-founder of Boyds Mills Press, Frances Foster, a longtime editor with an imprint at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and Christopher Cerf, co-creator of the PBS program Between the Lions.

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From Left: Mo Willems, Eric Carle, and Joey Mazzarino

Now in its seventh year, the event supports the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, and celebrates individuals whose creative vision and dedication inspire those who value picture books and their role in arts education and literacy.

About 250 attendees, including the literati of children’s literature turned out for the event at New York City’s Guastavino’s restaurant, including Mo Willems, Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer, David Ezra Stein, and Paul Zelinsky. Singer Natalie Merchant and Barbara McClintock were also on hand to introduce Foster, who edited the November 2012 picture book adaptation of Merchant’s 2010 album, Leave Your Sleep.

Chrissie Devinney, an elementary school librarian at Algonkian Elementary School in Sterling, VA, was one of the six librarians and teachers selected to attend the event for free.

This year’s auction, a fundraising event for the museum, included 16 pieces of art from illustrators such as Willems, Carle, Kadir Nelson and Chris Van Allsburg and raised $40,000 Judy Freeman, a children literature consultant, won her bid for a watercolor by Peter Sis.

Check out photos of the gala by Johnny Wolf, courtesy of the Eric Carle Museum.

 

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