Awards
SLJ ’s own version of March Madness, our sixth annual Battle of the Kids' Books (BoB) elimination contest, kicked off on March 11 and has been going strong for 10 matches and counting. A recap of the Battle's surprise victories, student-led celebrations, and quips from the Peanut Gallery.
The two winners were announced at a March 24 press conference at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy. And the envelope please...
"Two books. Both darn near perfect. I highly recommend either one. And yet, I must choose," writes judge Rae Carson.
Given annually since 2000, the Baker & Taylor Awards have recognized more than 40 groups for outstanding efforts to support their library. Applications for the $1000 awards for outstanding programming or projects are due May 1.
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced that the 2014 Peggy Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children has been awarded to Luis Herrera, San Francisco Public Library’s city librarian.
The International Board on Books for Young People has announced the six authors and six illustrators eligible for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
In celebration of the National Jewish Book Awards, the creators of the acclaimed The War Within These Walls, author historian Aline Sax and Flemish illustrator Caryl Strzelecki, presented readings, shared songs, and discussed their unique partnership at the Flanders House in New York City on March 4.
Cindy found this one, The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer, a Newbery Honor Book in 1952–and originally published in the Horn Book Magazine in 1949. This would seem to break the award’s rule about “original work,” that the “text is presented here for the first time and has not been previously published elsewhere […]
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