TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Coming Up This Month
2. SLP Update
2a. 2008 PSAs
2b. State Park Passes
2c. U.S. Postage Insect and Spider Stamp Images Made into Stickers and Clings
2d. LibraryPalooza Resources
2e. Page 212 Is Missing from the 2008 Children's Manual
3. Teen Services
3a. Adolescent Literacy Initiative Leadership Conference
3b. Teen Tech Week, March 2-8, 2008
3c. Teenagers are Abandoning their Yahoo and Hotmail Accounts. Do the Rest of Us Have To?
3d. Develop Proficient Adolescent Readers
4. Children and Teen Book and Media Awards Announced
5. 2007 WisKids Report is Available
6. Free Publications from the National Institute for Literacy
7. Teaching Book Resources
8. Rhinelander Children's Book Fest, March 11-12, 2008
9. First Lady Doyle's Recommended Children's Titles for this February
10. Upcoming Events in 2008
1. Coming Up This Month
February is National Children's Dental Health Month, American Dental Association www.ada.org Library Lovers Month, American Library Association www.librarysupport.net/librarylovers/
2. SLP Update
2a. 2008 PSAs
The CSLP children's video PSA is almost completed. I have seen the rough draft. It's cute. The bug characters from the poster are animated to the tune of the Beach Boys' song, "Fun, Fun, Fun." A girl bug drives her shiny red Voltswagan beetle to the library, gets all kinds of library materials, and takes them to the beach to share with her friends. The chorus urges kids to "Catch the reading bug at your local library today."
The teen PSA features a teen boy drawing an alien type figure. The alien figure in our Metamorphosis poster watches and tosses out something magical--it looks like little flying books. The boy's crumpled drawing creeps across the table to join a mound of discarded papers. A book emerges from this cocoon of papers and takes flight. The boy races to follow it. He looks down over a stair case to multiple floors below where teens are jumping to try to catch one of the numerous flying books filling the library. The closing lines of the PSA are "Check out the teen summer reading program at your local public library. Where imagination takes flight." These are the only spoken lines. The closing image is of the poster with the alien turning to look at the viewer. When these PSAs are available to download from the CSLP web page I will let everyone know.
2b. State Park Passes
The print order for the State Park passes will be sent to the printer as soon as the final design is approved. That means these passes should be ready for distribution perhaps in early April.
2c. U.S. Postage Insect and Spider Stamp Images Made into Stickers and Clings
Several years ago the U.S. Post Office featured a series of stamps with 20 different images of insects and spiders. A company called Postal Products Unlimited, located in Wisconsin, has an exclusive contract with the U.S. postal services to use stamp images to create educational and commercial products. Postal Products Unlimited has used the insect and spider artwork from that stamp series to create stickers and clings. The art work on these products is wonderful. I have enclosed a sample of the products to each System, along with a brochure on the products for every library. Several Systems are hosting upcoming SLP Workshops and I thought liaisons might like to distribute this information as part of the packets or have them on display.
2d. LibraryPalooza Resources
Stephanie Stokes, California, has a link to a web site that focuses on lady bugs on her LibraryPalooza site at www.librarypalooza.net/summerreading.html. She also has created a new puppetry newsletter for Mister Anderson's Company. Librarians can sign up to receive an email when each new edition of this free publication is available, at www.misterandersons.com/puppettales/index.html.
2e. Page 212 Is Missing from the 2008 Children's Manual
Shawn Brommer, SCLS, informed me that the 2008 Children's Manual is missing page 212. She was looking for the answer key to the "Mighty Mites/Puny People" activity on page 167. Patti Sinclair, the manual editor, sent me a copy of the Answer Key for that activity. I sent one to each System, so they can make copies for their libraries.
3. Teen Services
3a. Adolescent Literacy Initiative Leadership Conference
The date of the Adolescent Literacy Leadership Conference for public librarians will be on May 15, 2008. The conference will kick off a five-year emphasis by the Division on teen services. The Division will send out invitations for the conference to teen services librarians, system and library directors, and other leaders in Wisconsin who are in a position to help others in the library understand the issues involved in the national discussion of teen literacy and information needs of teens. The System Youth Services Liaisons will be asked to identify the people in their Systems who they feel should attend this conference.
I am excited to announce that the key note speaker will be Jim Burke, a high school English teacher and author of the numerous books on adolescent literacy issues. His recent titles include "Letters to a New Teacher" and "ACCESSing School: Teaching Struggling Readers to Succeed in School and in Life." Burke has received numerous awards including several from the National Council of Teachers of English. He comes highly recommended to us as a dynamic speaker, from the Superintendent's Taskforce on Adolescent Literacy.
Other topics that will be covered at the conference will be adolescent brain development research and the value of electronic gaming for teens. We also hope to have a teen panel discuss a dynamic teen program at a Wisconsin library, which they helped to develop and continue to refine.
The conference will be followed by regional training sessions on adolescent literacy issues and teen brain development. These sessions will be hosted by interested systems. It is anticipated that systems will also use the funding from this project to offer a wide range of programs focusing on various aspects of teen needs and services. More information about the conference, follow up training, and other aspects of the initiative will be available soon.
3b. Teen Tech Week, March 2-8, 2008
The second annual Teen Tech Week will be celebrated March 2-8, 2008. The general theme of Teen Tech Week is Get Connected @ Your Library. This year's focus theme is Tune In @ Your Library. Register to participate (it's free!) beginning Sept. 1, 2007 at www.ala.org/teentechweek. Teen Tech Week is a national initiative aimed at teens, their parents, educators, and other concerned adults. The purpose of the initiative is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of technologies, especially those that are offered through libraries. Teen Tech Week encourages teens to use libraries' nonprint resources for education and recreation, and to recognize that librarians are qualified, trusted professionals in the field of information technology.
3c. Teenagers are Abandoning their Yahoo and Hotmail Accounts. Do the Rest of Us Have To?
An article posted by Chad Lorenz on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 on "Slate," a daily magazine on the Web, comments on the way teens communicate with each other. Lorenz claims e-mail is looking obsolete. He cites a 2005 Pew study that found almost half of Web-using teenagers prefer to chat with friends via instant messaging rather than e-mail. Last year, comScore reported that teen e-mail use was down 8 percent, compared with a 6 percent increase in e-mailing for users of all ages. As mobile phones and sites like Twitter and Facebook have become more popular, those old Yahoo and Hotmail accounts increasingly lie dormant.
3d. Develop Proficient Adolescent Readers
AdLit.org, a Web site that targets educators and parents of adolescent readers, was launched in November by fWETA Learning Media. Building on the success of sister sites ReadingRockets.org, ColorinColorado.org and LDOnLine.org, the new service focuses on helping students from grades 4-12 to become better readers and writers. Click on http://www.adlit.org/ to learn more. --from Rhonda Puntney's CEO posting for youth librarians in Lakeshores and Mid-Wisconsin, November 28, 2007
4. Children and Teen Book and Media Awards Announced
The American Library Association announced the award winning books and media for youth at the recent Mid-Winter meeting. I have attached a list of the various award winners to this posting. Wisconsin librarians were well represented on the award committees this year. Rhonda Puntney, Lakeshores, was on the Caldecott Award Committee. Roxane Bartelt, Kenosha, and Ellen Jepson, Appleton, served on the Andrew Carnegie Medal Committee. The Carneigie Medal is awarded for excellence in children's videos. Sharon Grover, Janesville, and Merri Lindgren, CCBC, were members of the new Odyssey Award for excellence in audio book productions for youth. And Ginny Moore Kruse, former director of the CCBC, was on the Batchelder Award Committee. The Batcheler Award is given for the best children's book originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country and subsequently translated into English and published in the U.S. Many thanks to all of these Wisconsin librarians for their hours and hours of service on these committees. If I missed anyone, please let me know.
5. 2007 WisKids Report is Available
The 2007 WisKids Report "Safer, Happier, Healthier" is available. This year it highlights the long term consequences of child maltreatment. The full report is available on the Wisconsin Council for Children and Families at www.wccf.org/kidcount_wiskid2007.php. A summary of the data is at www.wccf.org/kidcount_data.php.
6. Free Publications from the National Institute for Literacy
I ordered copies of two publications on early learning from the National Institute for Literacy. I sent one of each for all of the system libraries. Public libraries can order additional copies of these free publications if they want to distribute them. The titles are "Shining Stars Toddlers Get Ready to Read" and "Shining Stars Preschoolers Get Ready to Read." Both publications include tips on things parents can do to encourage early literacy. The National Institute for Literacy has numerous other free brochures and resources available from their web page at www.nifl.gov
7. Teaching Book Resources
TeachingBooks has original content for many of the 2008 award winning books, so this is a great time of the year for Wisconsin librarians to use BadgerLink to meet winners of this year's book awards.
Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz
Schlitz tells why she wrote these medieval dramatic monologues (wonderful for school!) and reads from her winning book, "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village."
Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick
Selznick reads the first chapter of "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" as he walls viewers through his award-winning pictures.
Coretta Scott King Author Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis
Curtis shares in this original movie and the how and why of his prize-winning book "Elijah of Buxton." (Also, enjoy the in-depth written interview and other movies with Curtis on this webpage.)
Sibert Medalist & Caldecott Honoree Peter Sís
Sis reveals the historical context of his award-winning book "The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain." In this brief movie he and his brother made combining book illustrations with powerful footage from Communist Czechoslovakia.
American Indian Youth Literature Awards:
Middle School Winner . "Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond." Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow filmed this movie on the Crow Reservation. He discusses his award-winning book.
Young Adult Winner " The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian." Sherman Alexie reads and briefly introduce his award-winning book.
TeachingBooks.net offers dozens of online, multimedia resources about the 2008 winning books and authors, including audio book readings, book discussion guides, and links to author's websites. Nick Glass, who manages TeachingBooks, is available for webinair training. To arrange a training session contact him at nick@teachingbooks.net --TeachingBooks.net; info@TeachingBooks.net; 800-596-0710
8. Rhinelander Children's Book Fest, March 11-12, 2008
The Children's Book Fest 2008 is a two day conference that will be held at the Rhinelander Holiday Inn (Rhinelander, Wisconsin) on March 11 and 12, 2008. The staff of the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC), will discuss books for children and young adults at an evening presentation on Tuesday, March 11, as well as at a day presentation on Wednesday, March 12. Both sessions will include a CCBC exhibit of the best 2007 books for young readers.
Registration information for Children's Book Fest can be found on the RDL website home page at http://wvls.lib.wi.us/RhinelanderDistrictLibrary/ Scroll down under Library Catalog to Upcoming Library Programs. It will be necessary to mail the form and check. All registrations must be received no later than March 7. Payment of $6.00 per person must accompany each registration form. No purchase orders, please.
Telephone inquiries regarding the Wednesday presentation may be made to Kris Adams Wendt at the Rhinelander District Library at kwendt@wvls.lib.wi.us or 715-365-1070. More information about the Tuesday presentation is available from Headwaters Reading Council member, Joan Belongia at brnstbks@newnorth.net; 715/362-5111 (day) or 715/362-3844 (evening).
9. First Lady Doyle's Recommended Children's Titles for this January and February
First Lady Jessica Doyle has initiated an online book discussion club for children and adults. Each month her Web page for the book club, called "Read On Wisconsin," lists the titles for discussion. All books were carefully selected by a Literacy Advisory Board and reflect a commitment to diversity in their content and message. Mrs. Doyle hopes you find them as interesting and appealing as she does.
The titles recommended for January were:
Preschool: "Not A Box" by Antoinette Portis
Primary: "The Deaf Musicians" by Pete Seeger and Paul Dubois Jacobs
Intermediate: "Tents, Tigers, and The Ringling Brothers" by Jerry Apps
Middle School: "If You Come Softly" by Jacqueline Woodson
High School: "American Born Chinese" by Gene Luen Yang
The titles recommended for February are:
Preschool: "I'm Dirty!" by Kate and Jim McMullan
Primary: "Today I Will Fly" by Mo Willems
Intermediate: "Sienna's Scrapbook" by Toni Trent Parker
Middle School: "Harlem Summer" by Walter Dean Myers
High School: "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
For more information or to join the "Read On Wisconsin" book club, go to http://readon.wisconsin.gov
10. Upcoming Events in 2008
The listing of Upcoming Events is posted on the archive page at www.dpi.wi.gov/pld/yspost-events.html
The list of upcoming events will be updated each month. This change is intended to reduce the length of this monthly posting.
An attempt has been made to verify each of these dates and URLs. If errors are noticed, assistance in making corrections is very much appreciated. The dates are updated on a monthly basis.
2008 Award Winning Books, Media, and Other Awards
2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.htm
The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Caldecott Winner
"The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick (Scholastic)
Hugo is a young orphan secretly living in the walls of a train station where he labors to complete a mysterious invention left by his father. In a work of more than 500 pages, the suspenseful text and wordless double-page spreads narrate the tale in turns. Neither words nor pictures alone tell this story, which is filled with cinematic intrigue.
Caldecott Honor Books
"Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad" illustrated by Kadir Nelson written by Ellen Levine (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic)
Kadir Nelson has created dramatically luminous illustrations that portray Henry "Box" Brown's ingenious design to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom.
"First the Egg" by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter)
Seeger's innovative concept book on transformations uses strategically placed die-cuts to provide an astonishing visual explication of the word "then." Her richly textured brushstrokes creatively reveal the process of metamorphosis for young readers.
"The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtin" by Peter Sís (Farrar/Frances Foster)
Sís's graphic memoir of his youth in Prague brilliantly weds artistic and design choices to content. He uses tight little panels with officious lines and red punctuation, and full-bleed line-and-watercolor spreads of nightmares and dreams.
"Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity" by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
Masterful photo collages take Trixie and her daddy through their now-familiar Brooklyn neighborhood to the Pre-K class where Trixie discovers that her beloved Knuffle Bunny is not "so one-of-a-kind anymore." This is one of the most dramatic double-paged spreads in picture-book history.
2008 John Newbery Medal
www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberymedal.htm
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Newbery Winner
"Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
Thirteenth-century England springs to life in Schlitz's book in which she uses 21 dramatic individual narratives that introduce young inhabitants of village and manor; from Hugo, the lord's nephew, to Nelly, the sniggler.
Newbery Honor Books
"Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic/Scholastic Press)
With masterful storytelling, vibrant humor, and poignant insight into the realities of slavery and the meaning of freedom, Curtis takes readers on a journey that transforms a fragile 11-year-old boy into a courageous hero.
"The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
Seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood is convinced his teacher hates him. Through their Wednesday afternoon Shakespeare sessions she helps him cope with events both wildly funny and deadly serious.
"Feathers" by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam/GP Putnam's Sons)
The story of how a new boy's arrival in a sixth-grade classroom helps Frannie recognize the barriers that separate people, and the importance of hope as a bridge.
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/geiselaward/GeiselAward.htm
The Geisel Award is given to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.
Geisel Winner
"There Is a Bird on Your Head!" by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
In this humorous account of Elephant Gerald and Piggie's ongoing friendship. Gerald learns that there is something worse than having a bird on your head. While trying to help her friend, Piggie ends up with a problem of her own.
Geisel Honor Books
"First the Egg" by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter)
Simple words and paintings create a jewel-like package in a stylish yet unpretentious book.
"Hello, Bumblebee Bat" written by Darrin Lunde, illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne (Charlesbridge)
Nine questions and answers introduce the world's smallest bat, in this informational book for emerging readers.
"Jazz Baby" by Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Harcourt)
Bebop rhyme and repeated stanzas are just the right rhythm for young readers in this nostalgic celebration of dancing, singing, and playing music.
"Vulture View" by April Pulley Sayre, illustrated by Steve Jenkins (Holt)
Rhyming lyrical text, juxtaposed with dramatic textured collage come together in an innovative combination of science and poetry for new readers.
2008 Pura Belpré Award Winners www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/belpremedal/belprecurrent/belprmedalcurrent.cfm
The Pura Belpre Award is given to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Pura Belpré Winner
"The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano" by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Sean Qualls (Holt).
Engle's collection of haunting poems, uses multiple voices to illuminate the daily terror and hypocrisy of the slave system. The book is based on Manzano's autobiographical notes and poems.
Pura BelpréHonor Books
For illustration:
"Los Gatos Black on Halloween," illustrated by Yuyi Morales, written by Marisa Montes (Holt).
A rhyming text describes spooky monsters of many types gathering for a ball. However, the rollicking fun is interrupted by the scariest creatures of all in a surprise ending that will delight readers of all ages.
For narrative:
"Frida: ¡Viva la vida! Long Live Life!" written and illustrated Carmen T. Bernier-Grand (Marshall Cavendish).
Grand's book uses lyrical free-verse poems which comprise the heart of a well rounded biographical work for older children. The poems, written in impassioned first-person voice, follow the art of Frida Kahlo's life from birth to death
"Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale" retold by Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Michael Austin (Peachtree).
Deedy's lively and humorous retelling of this classic Latino folktale sparkles with wit as well as aspects of the Cuban culture. Martina is 21 days old and ready to give her leg in marriage. With the help of her Abuela's shocking advice, she interviews a cast of unlikely suitors to find her true love.
"Los Gatos Black on Halloween" by Marisa Montes, illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Holt)
From brujas on broomsticks to clattering esqueletos the rhyming text captures a spooky mix of English and Spanish in this humorous tale. The story integrates the traditions of two cultures into a lively tale with a surprise twist
For illustration:
"My Name is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez/Me llamo Gabito: la vida de Gabriel García Márque" illustrated by Raúl Colón, written by Monica Brown (Luna Rising)
Colón's evocative, tropical illustrations pull the eye into Márquez's imaginative world, introducing children to the early life of this celebrated Colombian author.
"My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo" written and illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez (Children's Book Press)
This book invites children to a visual feast of vibrant colors and magical realism as they follow young Maya on her journey from sand-covered surroundings to a world overflowing with rich violet and pink hues.
ALSC Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/sibertmedal/Sibert_Medal.htm
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year.
Winner
"The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain" by Peter Sís (Farrar/Frances Foster)
Sís contrasts the constrictive walls of the communist state with his personal quest for artistic freedom as he takes the reader from his childhood, when fear, suspicion and lies permeated everyday life, to the "Prague Spring" of 1968 and beyond, a time when "everything seemed possible."
2008 Honor Books
"Lightship" written and illustrated by Brian Floca (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
In simple, stately prose Floca introduces the lightship "Ambrose," its crew, and cat. Masterful use of the historical present tense, deft, humorous touches engage young children while acknowledgments and notes in the book, fore and aft, provide context.
"Nic Bishop Spiders"written and illustrated by Nic Bishop (Scholastic Nonfiction, an imprint of Scholastic)
Even the squeamish will be awed by Bishop's oversized, dramatic and vibrant up-close color photographs of more than a dozen types of spiders. His compelling, conversational and knowledgeable text provides basic information and startling facts which all ages will relish.
2008 Andrew Carnegie Medal Winner
www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/carnegiemedal/carnegieterms/carnegiemedal.htm
The Carnegie Medal is presented annually to an American producer for the outstanding video production for children (up to age 14) released in the United States in the previous calendar year.
Winner
Producer Kevin Lafferty along with executive producer John Davis, and co-producers, Amy Palmer Robertson and Danielle Sterling, are the 2008 Andrew Carnegie Medal Winners for the production of "Jump In!: Freestyle Edition."
The video, originally aired on the Disney Channel, features Corbin Bleu of "High School Musical" fame. Pulled in two directions, Izzy Daniels must find a balance between his passion for boxing and his promise to help his friends with an intense Double Dutch competition. The story combines themes of friendship, hard work and individuality with energizing hip-hop and impeccable choreography.
20008 Odyssey Award
www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/odysseyaward/Odysseyaward.htm
The Odyssey Award was given for the first time in 2008 to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.
Odyssey Winner
"Jazz" produced by Live Oak Media
Original music enhances each poem performed by James "D-Train" Williams and Vaneese Thomas in Walter Dean Myers' rhythmic tribute to jazz.
Odyssey Honor Audiobooks
"Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary 'Jacky' Faber, Ship's Boy," produced by Listen & Live Audio
Katherine Kellgren's vocal athleticism takes listeners from the filthy streets of eighteenth century London to the high seas in Meyer's fast-paced novel about a girl who stows away as a cabin boy.
"Dooby Dooby Moo," produced by Scholastic/Weston Woods
Music and barnyard chatter enhance Randy Travis' performance of Cronin's comic tale of talented farm animals gone wild.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," produced by Listening Library
Jim Dale masters and maintains voices for all genders, ages, species, and emotions created by author J.K. Rowling in this final Harry Potter adventure.
"Skulduggery Pleasant," produced by HarperChildren's Audio
Rupert Degas fleshes out a cast of characters including a "tweenage" girl, nefarious villains, and a skeleton detective. Music and sound effects mirror the mood of this bone-rattling mystery.
"Treasure Island," produced by Listening Library
Stevenson's pirate classic elegantly unfolds as Alfred Molina's panoply of accents and the soundscape of the sea place listeners aboard the Hispaniola.
2008 Mildred L. Batchelder Winner
www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/batchelderaward/batcheldercurr/batchelderaward.htm
This is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
Batchelder Winner
VIZ Media for "Brave Story" by Miyuki Miyabe and translated from the Japanese by Alexander O. Smith
"Brave Story" tells the story of a boy named Wataru whose chaotic life leads him to enter the videogame-infused world of Vision to alter his fate. This complicated quest, with a real-world rival, and fierce and friendly creatures, unleashes a future Wataru could not have anticipated. The wisdom and power Wataru gains on his journey enables him to embrace the transformed reality to which he returns.
Batchelder Honor books
Milkweed Editions for "The Cat: Or, How I Lost Eternity" by Jutta Richter, with illustrations by Rotraut Susanne Berner, and translated from the German by Anna Brailovsky."
"The Cat" is a timeless fable featuring willful young Christine's attempts to understand the nature of true learning and friendship.
Phaidon Press for "Nicholas and the Gang" by René Goscinny, illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé, and translated from the French by Anthea Bell
Goscinny's book is a collaboration with artist Jean-Jacques Sempé. Together they are one of the most famous teams in French children's literature. It was translated into English by Anthea Bell. This companion volume to "Nicholas," a 2006 Batchelder Honor Book, presents the further hilarious escapades of a schoolboy and his classmates in an all-boys school.
2009 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer
www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/arbuthnothonor/arbuthnothonor.htm
The lecturer may be an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children's literature, of any country, who shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children's literature.
2009 Lecturer
Walter Dean Myers
ALSC's Notable Children's Books, Recordings, and Videos
Lists of the Notable titles are online at http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/childrensnotable/childrensnotable.htm
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2008 CCBC Zolotow Award www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/zolotow.asp
The Charlotte Zolotow Award is given by the Cooperative Children's Book Center, (CCBC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for outstanding writing in a picture book written in the previous year.
ZolotowWinner
"Thank You, Bear" by Greg Foley (Viking)
Zolotow Honor Books:
"At Night" written and illustrated by Jonathan Bean, edited by Wes Adams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
"Dragon Dancing" by Carole Lexa Schaefer, illustrated by Pierr Morgan, edited by Tracy Gates (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group)
"Pictures from Our Vacation," written and illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins, edited by Virginia Duncan (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Zolotow Highly Commended:
"The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll" by Patricia C. McKissack and illustrated by Jerry Pinkey (Schwartz & Wade / Random House)
"The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County" by Janice N. Harrington and illustrated by Shelley Jackson (Melanie Kroupa Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
"A Good Day" written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins)
"Granddad's Fishing Buddy" by Mary Quigley and illustrated by St?phane Jorisch (Dial)
"Jazz Baby" by Lisa Wheeler and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Harcourt)
"Only You" by Robin Cruise and illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (Harcourt); /Pierre in Love, /written by Sara Pennypacker and illustrated by Petra Mathers (Orchard / Scholastic)
"Those Shoes" by Maribeth Boelts and illustrated by Noah Z. Jones (Candlewick Press)
"The Trouble with Dogs Said Dad" written and illustrated by Bob Graham (U.S. edition: Candlewick Press)
"What Happens on Wednesdays" by Emily Jenkins and illustrated by Lauren Castillo (Frances Foster Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
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