Lee & Low, publishers committed to diverse voices, is accepting submissions for their New Voices Award through September 30. The winner will be announced in December 2014. For more information and submission guidelines, please click here.
Submit now for New Visions Award
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee& Low Books, a publisher well known for nurturing and supporting diverse books and authors, originated the New Visions Award in 2012. The award is given to a middle- grade or young adult fantasy, science fiction, or mystery novel by a writer of color. It's a fantastic chance for new authors of color... Continue Reading →
Congrats to a Children’s Choice winner!
Member Emily Krieger's first book, National Geographic Kids: Myths Busted!, won this year's Children's Choice Fifth/Sixth Grade Book of the Year award. She says, "I'm thrilled! During my speech I gave a shout-out to my beloved city, Seattle, for being such a supportive place for creative endeavors (and I also locked eyes with Rush Limbaugh---definitely... Continue Reading →
Call for MG nominations
The Washington Library Media Association's annual Sasquatch Award committee is looking for books. Nominate good solid middle grade fiction AND stellar non-fiction for grades 4-6 (not too teen!), variety of genres and boy/girl type books, copyright 2012 OR 2013. If folks have books to nominate, send them via email to Erin Ostrander at elostrander@kcls.org. This year's... 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 →
Award-o-rama onscreen
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 →
Catch the ALA awards by podcast
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 →
In case you haven’t heard….
The National Book Awards were handed out earlier this week. For all categories, from fiction to poetry to nonfiction to––hooray!––young people's literature. The winner of the 2013 NBA for Young People's Literature is: Cynthia Kadohata, for her middle-grade novel The Thing About Luck. Cynthia is also the author of the 2005 Newbery Award-winner, Kira-Kira.
Amazon Bestie!
Member Suzanne Selfors' THE SASQUATCH ESCAPE has been named an Amazon Best Children's Book of 2013! It's also one of the "Top 20 Children's Books of 2013" in the "Ages 6-8: Chapter Books" section. CONGRATS, CONGRATS, CONGRATS! The sasquatch would approve, we're sure. Congrats, Suzanne!
Pickled tink for Kim Baker
Here's a nice piece of good news to share! Our very own former Regional Advisor and Crystal Kite Award winner, Kimberly Baker, just received word that her book, Pickle, has been included on a list of nominees for the Texas Library Association's Texas Bluebonnet Award. Check out their website for a full list of other... Continue Reading →