Awards
Could you use $2000 to help fund an innovative classroom project? How about $25,000? For more than 15 years, the ING Unsung Heroes award program has inspired success in the classroom and impacted countless numbers of students.
The Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature puts students in charge of who will win the Irma Black Award and the Cook Prize for best picture books.
The "Build Something Bold" Library Design Award seeks innovators in the field of space use, resources, and programming in both libraries and classrooms around the United States.
Sage advice for college students could net participants a free copy of Zest Books's 77 Things You Absolutely Have to Do Before You Finish College. I'm not sure "learn how to cook spaghetti" is one of them.
In SLJ's cover story, we visited Brian Floca at his Brooklyn studio, where the author illustrator shared the backstory of his award-winning picture book Locomotive and what he might wear to the June banquet.
Avast! Tis me sister, me hearties! Finding yet ANOTHER fun and crafty way to work children’s literature into your lives. Children of the 80s and 90s (and perhaps the 70s for that matter) may remember the old board game Guess Who with fondness. So what about finding an old run-down copy at a garage sale [...]
The winners of the 2014 Coretta Scott King Medals and four honor books were announced at the 2014 Youth Media Awards. Incorporate the following booktalks and tools when sharing these powerful books with young readers.
While it was more often a question of “why did that book LOSE?” (Martha, above, is expressing her incredulity at the ALA shutout of The Thing About Luck) the discussion at last night’s Children’s Books Boston panel about awards was lively. Cindy Ritter has a full recap over at Out of the Box. And: I […]
The post “Why did THAT book win?” appeared first on The Horn Book.
The Morris Award Winner was announced at the Youth Media Awards at ALA Midwinter 2014. The Winner: Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn. St. Martin’s Griffin, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press, a division of Macmillan. From my review: “Charm & Strange is a brilliant look at a damaged child, and the teenager he becomes. It’s [...]
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