Rain Reign Named Charlotte Huck Award Winner: Rain Reign by Ann M Martin, (Feiwel, 2014) was named the NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Fiction recipient. For more information, see: www.ncte.org/awards/charlotte-huck . Illustrator Margaret Bloy Graham [continue reading]
Awards
Bonnie Christiansen Dies, Sydney Taylor Awards Announced
Author/Illustrator Bonnie Christiansen Dies Author/Illustrator Bonnie Christiansen died on January 12, 2015 at age 63 due to ovarian cancer. Many of her books were picture book biographies or other factual picture books for elementary school-age [continue reading]
ACL Meeting Friday, Jan. 9th, Cybil Nominees, Bay Area Book Festival
ACL Meeting Friday, January 9, 2015: Just a quick reminder for our Bay Area members! Please join us for our ACL Meeting on Friday, January 9, 2015, from 9am-1pm at the Oakland Main Library. We [continue reading]
Booklist’s Best List and other End-of-the-Year Best Children’s Books
Looking for more end-of-the-year lists of Best Children’s Books? Linda Perkins recommends the Chicken Spaghetti website for a handy list of all the “bests” and awards: http://chickenspaghetti.typepad.com/chicken_spaghetti/ . Also check out Booklist’s Editors’ Choice: www.booklistonline.com/. [continue reading]
Performers’ Showcase, Morris Award Finalists, Programming Course
ACL Performers’ Showcase in the Bay Area: Come see over thirty children’s performers, all in one day, all in one place! Presented annually for more than 20 years, by the Association of Children’s Librarians of [continue reading]
Woodson Wins Nat’l Book Award, 2015 Summer Reading, SLJ’s Best List
Jacqueline Woodson Wins National Book Award: Jacqueline Woodson’s memoir in verse, Brown Girl Dreaming, won in the Young People’s Literature category at the 65th National Book Awards on November 19, 2014. Ursula Le Guin received [continue reading]
R.A. Mongomery Dies, Kirkus Prize Announced
Author R.A. Montgomery of “Choose Your Own Adventure” Books Dies: R.A. Montgomery, publisher and sometime author of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series of novels for grades 3-5 has died at age 78, at his [continue reading]