by SCBWI Western Washington
Winner! Winner! Winner! CONGRATULATIONS to the fabulous, talented, and dedicated LAURIE ANN THOMPSON, WINNER OF THE American Library Association's 2016 SCHNEIDER FAMILY BOOK AWARD (awarded for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience) for her amazing book, EMMANUEL'S DREAM (illustrated by Sean Qualls) Laurie's book was honored at this Monday's live... Continue Reading →
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!
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 →
Fresh from the ALA awards, here are a few great videos about a few winning author/illustrators and their processes: Brian FlocaOn process and book dummy creation His ALA speech about LocomotiveDavid Wiesner Two different videos on his process Molly IdleFlora & the Flamingo VideoInterview by Kathy Temean Aaron Becker The book trailer for Journey The... Continue Reading →
Have you got award fever yet? We can all tune in to the ALA live podcast on Monday, January 27, starting at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time, to hear the youth media award announcements for the Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and many others of our community's most prestigious awards. — Contributed by member Katherine Kirkpatrick, whose January... Continue Reading →
If you happen to find yourself with not a lot going on this weekend, hoof it on down to the Convention Center's Exhibition Hall, where the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting (January 25-29) is going to fill the place to the rafters with librarians, authors, agents, publishers, bloggers, and general groupies and fans of all... Continue Reading →
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 →
From the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) blog: After a full year of intense reading, evaluation, and re-reading by committee members, the final 2011 Notable Children’s Books Midwinter discussion list and ballot is now available. Final selections will be made at the ALA Midwinter conference. Congratulations to our upcoming 20th Annual Children's Writing & Illustrating Conference keynoters... Continue Reading →
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