OMG!It's Laini Taylor and Jim DiBartolo, proud parents AND National Book Award finalists for their collaboration LIPS TOUCH (published by Arthur A. Levine Books, a Scholastic imprint).Check it out.Laini and Jim live in Portland, but Laini has spoken at a conference and regional meeting, and both are honorary members of our chapter.
Get ready for the Cybils!
It's that time of year again, time for the CYBILS, Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards 2009!An impressive crop of kidlit bloggers has come together to make this event happen, including many of the terrific folks we met at last year's kidlit blogger conference (click here for info on this year's conference, November in... Continue Reading →
More honors for our colleagues
I posted last week that Angelina Corallo Hansen walked away with this year's SCBWI Contemporary Novel Grant for her novel WHY I TOLD. But I failed to mention another honor for our people--a Letter of Merit for Nonfiction Research that went to Sharlene P. Nelson and Ted W. Nelson, who live in Federal Way.Great work,... Continue Reading →
National awards: a big, fat list
Not all the categories are up to date, but this Horn Book list of national awards for authors and illustrators is a quick way to keep tabs on the best stuff in our field. Next time you can't think of what to read next, go there.
Be a Cybils ’09 judge
The Cybils are a literary award given by bloggers across all categories of children's literature. They're looking for judges: The Cybils '09 season is launching soon and we need judges in every genre of children's and YA literature. If you:blog about some aspect of children's or teen books on at least a somewhat consistent basis;or... Continue Reading →
Get This: thought-provoking articles and posts
Nikki Grimes thinks artists of African descent are getting robbed in the Caldecott Awards.Replacing Best Books for Young Adults with a Reader's Choice Award: pros and cons.Seven things every author's website oughtta have: a guest post on Nathan Bransford's blog.How to read out loud: advice from Neil Gaiman.