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SLJ attends this year's BookExpo America (May 28-30) at the Javits Convention Center in New York City and took the opportunity to catch up with award-winning authors, like A Plague of Unicorns (Zonderkids, 2014) Jane Yolen, and even famous actors like "How I Met Your Mother's" Jason Segel whose children's book Nightmares!M/em> comes out in September through Delacorte.
For many, the true highlight of BookExpo America occurred at 1 PM on Saturday at the SLJ Librarian's Lounge, when Horn Book editor in chief Roger Sutton announced the 2014 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. See SLJ's reviews of the winners here.
On May 13, First Book, a nonprofit committed to providing books to children in need, called for U.S. publishers to publish diverse picture books and then pledged to buy 10,000 copies of each title selected by First Book. The nonprofit will also fund affordable paperback editions of diverse titles that are only publicly available in expensive hardcover formats.
Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson described the path to her new book, brown girl dreaming, in the opening keynote of School Library Journal's Day of Dialog.
In this 10-minute clip from his keynote address, award-winning author Garth Nix considers the question "Where do novels come from?"
Hot off the presses! The 2014 Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards have been announced.
Authors address the topic of the day in this 12-minute clip from the "Diversity in Middle Grade Fiction" panel at School Library Journal's Day of Dialog, held in New York on May 28, 2014.
Wordless picture books allow children to project their own imaginations upon a story and “own it,” as author/illustrator Bob Staake, along with Aaron Becker, Raul Colón, and Molly Idle discussed during a lively panel at School Library Journal’s 2014 Day of Dialog.
"There's something about characters who lie. That charisma can carry you through [a story].” At SLJ's Day of Dialog, on May 28, authors Meg Wolitzer, Jodi Lynn Anderson, Alaya Dawn Johnson, E. Lockhart, and Barry Lyga engaged in a panel "Unreliable YA Narrators."
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