Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library, CA, has been awarded the Public Library Association’s (PLA) Innovations in Literacy Award for its “Reading Rockets” youth literacy program. The library is one of only eight public libraries in the [continue reading]
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Edgar Awards, “Briefings,” and ACL Pinterest Page
The Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of its 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television, in celebration of the 204th anniversary of Poe’s birth: BEST [continue reading]
Obituaries and Awards
Author Fred McKissack Dies at age 73: Award-winning author Fred McKissack died of heart failure on April 28, 2013; he was 73 years of age. Co-writing with wife and partner Patricia, the McKissacks created more [continue reading]
Konigsburg, Feller Bauer Die, ALSC Workshop and Summer Reading Lists
Caroline Feller Bauer Dies at age 77: Caroline Feller Bauer died April 15, 2013, at the age of 77, in Miami, Florida, where she lived for many years. She wrote several books used by children’s [continue reading]
2013 Beatty Award Goes to The Camping Trip That Changed America
The 2013 Beatty Award will be given to Barb Rosenstock for The Camping Trip That Changed America (Dial, 2012), illustrated by Mordecai Gerstein. This nonfiction picture book details the camping trip of naturalist John Muir and President [continue reading]
Review of the Week and Children’s Lit Festival at UC Berkeley
Review of the Week: Blackwood, Sage. Jinx. Fic. HarperCollins, 2013. 360p. $16.99. 978-0-06-212990-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-8. Young orphan Jinx is abandoned by his stepfather in the mysterious and dangerous Urwald forest where “you grow up [continue reading]
SRP Film Showing, ACL’s Food Bibliography
Is your library using the “Reading Is So Delicious!” summer reading program theme? If so, be sure to check out the “Eat the Library” Bibliography from ACL’s 2012 Institute: http://www.bayviews.org/institute/2012bibliography.pdf Also, the California Library Association [continue reading]
Eve Bunting to Speak at SFPL, Misenta Wins Lindgren Award
Eve Bunting to Speak at San Francisco Public Library, April 30th, 6pm: Multi-award-winning author Eve Bunting, who has written more than 200 books for preschoolers, school-age children, and young adults, will be the San Francisco [continue reading]