National Book Awards Longlist Announced: The finalists for the National Book Awards have been announced; check out the books in the Young People’s Literature category: www.nationalbook.org/index.html . Titles include Booked by Kwame Alexander, Raymie Nightingale [continue reading]
Awards
New ACL Website, Latino Mini-Conference, Ninth Children’s Choice Awards
ACL Debuts New Website and Blog: The Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California has a new website – www.bayviews.org/ . Be sure to check it out for lots of new content and ease of [continue reading]
Steve Sheinkin Wins Empire State Award, Handbook for Storytellers Review
Steve Sheinkin Wins Empire State Award: The Youth Services Section of the New York Library Association is excited to announce that the winner of the 2016 Empire State Award for Excellence in Literature for Young [continue reading]
Beatty Award Goes to Eggers, Follett Buys Baker & Taylor
2016 Beatty Award Recipient: This Bridge Will Not Be Gray written by Dave Eggers, illustrated by Tucker Nichols, and published by McSweeney’s has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the California Library Association’s John [continue reading]
James Cross Giblin Dies, Meg Rosoff Named Astrid Lindgren Laureate
Nonfiction Author James Cross Giblin Dies: James Cross Giblin, author of several notable children’s nonfiction books, died at age 82 on April 10, 2016 after a long illness. Giblin was also an editor and publisher, [continue reading]
Children’s Fairyland, Book Week Bookmarks, Carle Awards
Turn the Page! A children’s book festival at Children’s Fairyland: Presented by Kaiser Permanente with support from Chronicle Books on Saturday, April 23, 10 am – 4pm. At Children’s Fairyland, 699 Bellevue Ave., Oakland, CA. [continue reading]
Ukelele Workshop, Lambda Finalists, Children’s Choice Voting Open
Learn Ukelele: Have you been wanting to add an instrument to your storytime? Here’s your chance! This session on learning the ukulele will be led by Mary Dubbs, a totally self/internet-taught ukulele player of 18-months, [continue reading]
ALSC Survey, Carnegie and Greenaway Contenders
ALSC Survey: A message from Meredith Steiner, ACL President, to all youth services librarians: “I am excited to be a part of a group of public and school librarians from different libraries around the country working [continue reading]