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Pick of the Day: Splendors & Glooms (Audiobook)

Pick of the Day: Splendors & Glooms (Audiobook)
SLJ,  Jan 11, 2013
Review: After the Snow

Review: After the Snow
Elizabeth Burns | Blogs,  Jan 11, 2013
After the Snow by S. D. Crockett. Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan. 2012. Review copy from publisher. Finalist for the YASLA Morris Award. The Plot: Willo is watching and listening and waiting. Willo was born after the weather changed, after the seas dried up and the snow kept coming and coming, and people got [...]
Jacqueline Woodson's 'Each Kindness' Wins 2013 Charlotte Zolotow Award

Jacqueline Woodson's 'Each Kindness' Wins 2013 Charlotte Zolotow Award
Karyn M. Peterson,  Jan 11, 2013
The Cooperative Children's Book Center has awarded Each Kindness, written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E. B. Lewis, its Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book. The 2013 Zolotow committee also named Flabbersmashed About You, Me and Momma and Big John, and Sleep Like a Tiger as Honor Books. The awards will be presented on April 6, 2013.
2013 Mock Caldecott Results

2013 Mock Caldecott Results
Travis Jonker | Blogs,  Jan 08, 2013
It started with two schools, 16 of the best picture books of the year, and around 200 eager second-grade students. And a RAV4 (for me to ship books between schools). Over the course of 5 weeks students read all of the candidates and voted on their favorites, based on a simplified version of the Caldecott [...]
Interview: Tim Rylands, Edublog Lifetime Achiever

Interview: Tim Rylands, Edublog Lifetime Achiever
Sarah Bayliss,  Jan 05, 2013
Winner of the 2012 Edublog Lifetime Achievement Award, UK-based educator Tim Rylands uses gaming and other IT to inspire learning and creative writing. Rylands, who presents internationally at conferences and schools, blogs at www.timrylands.com. He spoke with SLJ about how his teaching techniques, his favorite apps, and why he’s more than just the “Myst man.”
Dell Awards Grants Honoring Innovators in K–12 Learning

Dell Awards Grants Honoring Innovators in K–12 Learning
Sarah Bayliss,  Jan 04, 2013
Dell announced the winners of its Dell Education Challenge, an international competition recognizing projects that support learning issues among K-12 students.
Mischief Maker: National Book Award–winner William Alexander has created a world of fun, fury, and astonishing possibilities

Mischief Maker: National Book Award–winner William Alexander has created a world of fun, fury, and astonishing possibilities
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Author Gary D. Schmidt interviews 2012 National Book Award–winner William Alexander.
SLJ Exclusive Interview: Walter Dean Myers, the New National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

SLJ Exclusive Interview: Walter Dean Myers, the New National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Debra Lau Whelan,  Jan 03, 2012

Back in September, SLJ blogger Betsy Bird (A Fuse #8 Production) said that the next National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature “shouldn’t be another white guy or gal” because it’s the ambassador for all kids. Bird went on to suggest Walter Dean Myers as the perfect person for the job. Was she looking into a crystal ball? This morning, the award-winning author, who often writes about the challenges that face today’s at-risk urban youth, was named our third ambassador by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.

Has the Newbery Lost Its Way?

Has the Newbery Lost Its Way?
Anita Silvey,  May 21, 2010
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