For a list of all the winners and honorees of this year's ALA Midwinter conference, please click here! You're welcome. Looks like we all have quite a wonderful must-read list for the rest of the winter. Congratulations to all!
Live streaming of Newbery/Caldecott ceremony
On Monday, February 2, there will be quite a lot of news coming out of the annual ALA mid-winter convention in Chicago. The announcement of the 2015 Youth Media Awards will take place at 8am Central time/6am Pacific. This is the day the world finds out what books and authors and illustrators have won the... Continue Reading →
More award-O-rama goodness onscreen
Last week we brought you links of interest for this year’s Caldecott winning and honored illustrators. This week? Check out these great links of interest for this year’s Newbery winner and honored authors — we'll bet there's plenty here you've never seen! Kate DiCamillo Lemony Snicket talks with Kate about winning the Newbery A video... Continue Reading →
Today Show skips Newbery and Caldecott winners for Snooki
From Alice Pope's SCBWI Children's Market Blog: "With the national television news outlets providing wall-to-wall media coverage since Saturday of the tragedy in Tucson, it’s not surprising that two children’s book award winners would be overlooked during a week of breaking news. But, to some who tuned into the Today Show on Tuesday morning expecting... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Stead on the SPL Shelftalk blog
Linda Johns let me know that Rebecca Stead, author of the Newbery Award-winning WHEN YOU REACH ME is the library's featured blogger today--just in time for her visit tonight.This month’s guest blogger is Rebecca Stead, author of When You Reach Me, a middle-grade novel that just won the Newbery Medal (the most distinguished honor in... Continue Reading →