November 2008

Calendar / News / Awards

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

Upcoming Events for Children's Librarians

Fri, December 12, 2008 ACL Meeting 9 am Berkeley PL

Fri, January 9, 2009 ACL Meeting 9 am Location to be announced

Jan 23-28, 2009 ALA Midwinter Denver, CO

Sat, February 7, 2009 Performers Showcase 9 am Fremont PL

Fri, February 13, 2009 ACL Meeting 9 am Location to be announced

March 28-29, 2009 Reading the World Univ of San Francisco

NEWS AND NOTES

Performers' Showcase:
Mark your calendars for the next ACL Performers' Showcase. It is scheduled for Sat., Feb. 7, 2009 at the Fremont Main Library: www.bayviews.org/showcase.html

Reading the World XI -a conference celebrating multicultural literature for children and young adults, March 28, 29, 2009 - University of San Francisco, School of Education.
Keynote speakers are :

Theresa Breslin

Michael Cart

Sarah Ellis

Francisco Jimenez

Marilyn Nelson

Rosemary Wells

Junko Yokota

Numerous break out sessions with presenters such as Alma Flor Ada, Isabel F. Compoy, Patty Campbell, Malathi Michelle Iyeger, Deborah Taylor and more. Saturday celebration dinner at the Kabuki Hotel with Angelica Carpenter of the Arne Nixon Center at CSU Fresno.
For more information: www.soe.usfca.edu/institutes/reading_world/index.html . Registrar Barbara Hood rtwconf@socrates.usfca.edu (415) 422-5110; Director, Beverly Vaughn Hock bevvhock@earthlink.net (650) 342-2817

The Nye Memorial Children's Literature Tour of the Ukraine.
June 23-July 5, 2009 with add on to Odessa June 23-July 10, 2009. Travel with a group of children's literature enthusiasts to study the culture, the literature, and meet with local authors and illustrators.
This tour has been successfully traveling the globe for over twenty years. For more information: Susan Fox susan.fox@csueastbay.edu or Beverly Vaughn Hock bevvhock@earthlink.net

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

National Book Awards: The nominees for the National Book Award, category for young people's literature are:
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson;
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt;
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell;
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart;
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Nov. 19 in New York: www.nationalbook.org

AESOP AWARDS

The Aesop Award Committee of the Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 Aesop Award for excellence in children's folklore. One book has been selected as Aesop Award winner this year, and two other titles have been chosen to receive Aesop Accolades:

2008 Aesop Prize:
Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry. Scott Reynolds Nelson, with Marc Aronson. National Geographic, 2008.

2008 Aesop Accolades:
Dance in a Buffalo Skull. Told by Zitkala-Ša. Illustrated by S. D. Nelson. Prairie Tales Series, no. 2. South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2007.
The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales. Anne Shelby. Illustrated by Paula McArdle. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

BayNews needs you! BayNews welcomes any articles, news, ideas on storytime or programs, etc. Just send any articles as a Word attachment via email, to Penny Peck at baynews@bayviews.org. Thanks!

Submitted by : Penny Peck, San Leandro Public Library

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