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BOOKLIST
The Horn Book has a brand new website. Click here to check it out.
From the September/October 2011 Issue of The Horn Book
Editorial: What Books Can Do by Roger Sutton
It’s My Party: An Interview with Maurice Sendak about His New Book by Leonard Marcus
Back to School by Martha B. Parravano
Project Child’s Play by Elizabeth Thomas
Mildred Batchelder: The Power of Thinking Big by Barbara Bader
What makes a Good Book about Sharing by Susan Dove Lempke
Starred Books—September/October 2011
Also at the Horn Book Website:
Five Questions for Leo Landry
Notes from the Horn Book—September 2011
Horn Book Blogs
School Library Journal
SLJ's 2011 Leadership Summit a Huge Hit by Debra Lau Whelan
More than 200,000 Book Lovers Attend DC National Book Festival by Rocco Staino
Publishers Weekly
Children’s Books at the Brooklyn Book Festival compiled by John A. Sellers
Information about the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival
Introducing the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival (A Fuse #8 Production)
The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival (James Kennedy)
Book Trailers
You Will Be My Friend by Peter Brown
Swirl by Swirl—written by Joyce Sidman & illustrated by Beth Krommes
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THE HORN BOOK
Secrecy and the Newbery Medal by Kathleen T. Horning
Profile of Erin E. Stead by Philip C. Stead
Who in the World Is Clare Vanderpool? by Annmarie Algya
Profile of Rita Williams-Garcia by Rosemary Brosnan
Profile of Bryan Collier by Marcia Wernick
Profile of Tomie dePaola by Barbara Elleman
2011 Mind the Gap Awards
The Ones That Got Away (Veteran medal watchers weigh in on books they think deserved to win a Newbery or Caldecott and didn’t even get an Honor Award.
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
Comic Relief: Thirty-nine graphic novels that kids can’t resist by Brigid Alverson, Robin Brenner, Kate Dacey, Esther Keller, Scott Robins, Eva Volin, and Snow Wildsmith
Across the Universe: Intergalactic Travel by John Peters
Betsy Goes to Bologna: Why attend the world’s largest children’s book fair? by Betsy Bird
Librarian Preview: Lerner Books (Fall 2011) from A Fuse #8 Production
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
ALA 2011: Photos from the Show
BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Trash Talkin’: A Dirty Dozen
Note: I was so happy to see that Salley Mavor’s book
Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes won the Picture Book Award. Mavor’s illustrations in the book are truly a “feast for the eye.”
Pocketful of Posies is one of the many children’s books that I gave to my daughter for her baby shower. (Check out my
A Baby Shower & Everywhere Books! post.)
P.S. Joyce Sidman’s Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night received a Picture Book Honor Award.
Click
here to read my review of
Dark Emperor.
Congratulations to Salley and Joyce—and to all the other Boston Globe/Horn Book Award winners and honorees!
From the Horn Book Website:The winners will receive their awards at the 2011 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony on Friday evening, September 30, 2011, at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. The following day, several of the recipients will also be participating in the Horn Book at Simmons colloquium, which examines the winners and honor books in the context of library and educational work with children and teens. The colloquium will be led by Horn Book Editor in Chief, Roger Sutton, and Cathryn M. Mercier, Associate Dean and Director of the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College. For more information visit www.hbook.com/hbas.
About the Boston Globe–Horn Book AwardsAll children’s and young adult books published in the United States between June 2010 and May 2011 were eligible for the award. The winning authors and illustrators may be citizens of any country. Winners in each category receive a cash prize and an engraved silver bowl. Honor recipients receive an engraved silver plate. The acceptance speeches of the award winners will be published in the January/February 2012 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. www.hbook.com/bghb
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From School Library Journal
Back at Home with Newbery, Caldecott Winners
'Today Show' Snubs 2011 Caldecott, Newbery Winners
Facebook Users Demand Caldecott, Newbery Winners Appear On Today Show
(Click here for the link to the Campaign to bring 2011 Newbery and Caldecott winners to the Today Show Facebook page.
2011 Alex Awards (A Chair, A Fireplace, & A Tea Cozy)
http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/teacozy/2011/01/20/2011-alex-awards/
Immigration: Coming to America by Kristin Anderson
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The Horn Book: Starred Books (January/February 2011)
NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Announced
http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus
Cronin, Bliss 'Diary' Series Heading to Stage and Screen (Publishers Weekly)
Excerpt: Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss’s bestselling series of diary-style picture books—Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Fly, and Diary of a Spider—is jumping from the page to the small screen and the stage. HIT Entertainment has acquired rights to develop the series into an animated TV program, in a deal brokered by Holly McGhee of Pippin Properties and Jason Dravis of Monteiro Rose Dravis Agency.
CYBILS 2010
School Library Journal
For Banned Books Week
Check out my most recent Poetry Friday post at Blue Rose Girls: Poems for Banned Books Week (September 25-October 2, 2010). The post includes a video of Laurie Halse Anderson reading her poem Listen, Manifesto, a poem that author Ellen Hopkins wrote for Banned Books Week in 2009, and two poems I wrote some time ago. You’ll also find links to other articles and information about Banned Books Week from the American Library Association.
From School Library Journal—Anderson's Speak Under Attack, Again
By Rocco Staino September 23, 2010
Alvina Ling has an excellent book-related post at Blue Rose Girls titled Speak Loudly, which was mentioned in an article at Huffington Post last week.
Here’s a link to the Huffington Post article that mentioned Alvina's post—Young Adult Novels Called 'Soft Porn': Attack Ignites Storm Of Responses From Publishing Community (POLL)
Also from Huffington Post--Banned Books Week 2010: 15 Iconic Movies Based On Banned Books (PHOTOS)
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Here & There
From Publishers Weekly (9/22/2010)
Selling Color in a White Town
Elizabeth Bluemle
Excerpt:
When we moved to Vermont from Manhattan, the biggest shock wasn’t the change from city to country; it was the shift from color to (not black-and-) white. We couldn’t get used to the lack of diversity. It felt unnatural, limited, and wrong. When tourists of color happened into the store, we embarrassed ourselves with our enthusiasm. For the first year, I even had a hard time telling some of my customers apart; in addition to the uniform Caucasian-ness, there was a sameness of dress—cotton turtlenecks, fleece vests, jeans*—and hair, lots of straight, shoulder-length hair. (Josie’s Mediterranean Jewish ringlets are quite exotic here.) Up until 14 years ago, Josie and I spent our individual lives in areas of the country that were richly multicultural.
Last I checked, Vermont had the United States’ least diverse population. I think we’re at 97+% white. In Vermont’s defense, its record for equal treatment is excellent; we may not have a big nonwhite population, but folks that do live here have equivalent opportunities and salaries as their white counterparts. But the point I’m making is, Dorothy, we’re not in New York City anymore.
All that by way of saying, we understand the challenge of making ‘books of color’ mainstream purchases for white audiences.
At the New England Independent Booksellers Association trade show next week, the Children’s Bookselling Advisory Council is holding a panel discussion on this topic.
Back to School
From Reading Rockets: Bright Ideas for Back-to-School Night … and Beyond (2010)
From Scholastic: Back-to-School Planning Guide
From Modern Family: Back to School Books
From The PlanetEsme Plan: MESSING AROUND ON THE MONKEY BARS (POETRY) and NEW BACK-TO-SCHOOL BOOKS (September 2009)
Other Issues
From NCTE
NCTE Executive Committee Cancels 2012 Phoenix Convention
The 2012 NCTE Annual Convention will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 14-19
On August 9, 2010, NCTE cancelled its Annual Convention that had been scheduled to be held November 14-19, 2012, in Phoenix, Arizona. The NCTE Executive Committee determined that Arizona law S.B. 1070 made it inadvisable to hold the meeting. Through the law, conditions have been created which would undercut NCTE’s core value commitment to diversity and
present a risk for many members who might be detained for an immigration check should they be stopped by police, with or without a warrant, during their stay in the city.
From Publishers Weekly
By John A. Sellers (8/18/2010)
Authors Withdraw from Teen Lit Festival
Excerpt:
Blogs, Twitter, and Facebook have been abuzz in the last 24 hours with news that four YA authors have pulled out of the annual Teen Lit Fest in Humble, Tex., a Houston suburb. The authors withdrew in support of writer Ellen Hopkins, who announced in a blog post last week that she had been disinvited from the festival, which is organized by the Humble Independent School District, and is scheduled for January 2011. In the post, entitled “Censorship Bites,” Hopkins announced that her invitation had been revoked after a middle-school librarian and parents approached a superintendent and the school board about her participation. Hopkins’s novels in verse deal with gritty subject matter: her Crank series, which concludes next month with Fallout, centers on meth addiction, while her 2009 novel, Tricks, was about teen prostitution. “We all feel badly that we’re making this stand,” Hopkins told School Library Journal. “We don’t want our readers to feel like we’re punishing them. But this is about having the right to read our books, and these people don’t have the right to say you can’t.”
From School Library Journal
Scales on Censorship: What’s New Pussycat? Should Edward Lear’s classic poem be banned from the classroom?
By Pat Scales (August 1, 2010)
Razzmatazz: Books that engage and delight the very youngest listeners
by Barbara Joosse (August 1, 2010)
Utterly Unrefined: There’s nothing more compelling than books on gunk and muck
By Kathleen Baxter (August 1, 2010)
From Booklist
Reid-Aloud Alert: Chapter Books for a Primary-Grade Audience
By Rob Reid
Story behind the Story: Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s They Called Themselves the K.K.K.
By Gillian Engberg (August 2010)
New Reference Sources for Students
By Mary Ellen Quinn (August 2010)
From The Bulletin for the Center for Children’s Books
Tasty S'mores and Other People's Snores: A Camping Dozen
Selected by Kate Quealy-Gainer, Assistant Editor
Even in the digital age, camping remains a summertime rite of passage. Check out these tales filled with burnt marshmallows, cabin infighting, infectious bug bites, and other such fun.
Betsy Hearne Wins the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award
From The Horn Book
Five Questions for Grace Lin
2010 Mind the Gap Awards
The Horn Book at Simmons: A One-Day Colloquium on October 2, 2010
A Unique Event
Join the Horn Book and Simmons College for a unique event for librarians and children’s literature professionals. "The Horn Book at Simmons" is a one-day event discussing and celebrating the 2010 class of Boston Globe–Horn Book Award recipients.
FROM NSTA (National Science Teachers Association)
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12: 2010 (Books published in 2009)
From Booklights (PBS Parents)
Thursday Three: Travel by Pam Coughlan
Thursday THIRTY: Summer Books, Tot to Tween by Pam Coughlan
From Wild Rose Reader
Children's Books for Summer Reading 2010
Liz B’s blog A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy has moved. It is now a School Library Journal blog. Here is its new URL—http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/teacozy/
Liz said: “For the most part, it's same blog, still me, just at a new location. I will be concentrating more on young adult books, ages twelve and up, and less on picture books and books for younger readers.”
You can read her announcement here.
From MotherReader (7/20/2010):
By now, many of you have heard of the blog Ripple, where illustrators donate their art for donations to causes to help the wildlife in the Gulf Coast disaster. I’ve been following the project since the beginning, and am excited to report that it has raised over $8,500 in funds — most of it one $10 card at a time. I have five myself.
Read the rest of MotherReader’s Making Ripples post here.
More on the blog Ripple from School Library Journal: Children's Illustrators Help Save Gulf Oil Spill Wildlife Victims
By Debra Lau Whelan July 20, 2010
From Publishers Weekly: Fall 2010 Children's Announcements
From Publishers Weekly: Children's Books: Spring 2011 Sneak Previews
From School Library Journal: Booksellers Oppose MA Law That Extends Censorship On the Web
By SLJ Staff July 22, 2010
Excerpt:
A coalition of booksellers and first amendment supporters is trying to block a new Massachusetts law that aims to protect kids from online predators, but also bans constitutionally protected speech, including topics like contraception and pregnancy, sexual health, literature, and art.
The lawsuit--filed by the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Association of American Publishers, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and others--says the new law, signed in April by Governor Patrick and which went into effect last week, imposes severe restrictions on the distribution of constitutionally protected speech on the Internet.
The goal? To have the law declared unconstitutional and void--and to enjoin the state from enforcing it on the basis of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and the Constitution's Commerce Clause.
Under the law, anyone who operates a website or communicates through a listserv can be held criminally liable for nudity or sexually related material if it's considered "harmful to minors." In short, it bans from the Internet anything that may be "harmful to minors," including materials that adults have a First Amendment right to view.
Those who break the law can be fined $10,000 or sentenced to up to five years in prison, or both. "[This] will certainly have a chilling effect on booksellers with websites that describe their books available online or in a store," says Chris Finan, President of the
Children's Books at ALA: A PW Photo-Essay (Publishers Weekly, July 2010)
NOTE: The photo-essay includes pictures of my fellow Blue Rose Girls Grace Lin and Alvina Ling.
Story behind the Story: Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan’s Ballet for Martha
The Art of Making Art
by Ilene Cooper (Booklist, July 2010).
Books and Authors: Talking with Cathryn and John Sill by Terrell A. Young and Barbara A. Ward (Book Links, June 2010)
The husband-and-wife creators of painterly picture books about wildlife and nature discuss their collaborative process.
The Summer Reading Network: To keep kids reading during the summer, librarians connect online to share resources (School Library Journal, July 2010)
RIF Reading Planet
Summer Reading Fun (RIF Reading Planet)
Pile them high; it's summer time by Sheila Wayman (Irish Times, 7/13/2010)
Excerpt:
School may be over for the summer, but that’s no reason for the reading to stop.
WITH NO school or homework to interrupt them, summer is invariably a time of great discovery for avid young book readers.
It is a chance to try different kinds of books or wallow in a whole series from a favourite author. Some holidays will forever be associated with who or what you found between those pages.
The only downside is likely to be a nagging parent: “What are you doing indoors on a lovely day like this? Put that book down and go out.”
But, according to the director of Children’s Books Ireland, Mags Walsh, “If they are happy reading, let them read. Don’t put any walls or barriers around it.”
Q & A with Grace Lin by Julie Yates Walton (Publishers Weekly, July 2010)
Over the years, author-illustrator Grace Lin has mined her own childhood for funny, upbeat stories that shed light on the unique experience of growing up Asian-American. The past year has been a good one for Lin, with her novel, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, winning a 2010 Newbery Honor and earning a selection on Al Roker's Book Club for Kids. Known for her novels and her vibrantly illustrated picture books, Lin is now reaching out to the audience in between. Her first early reader, Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same, features twin Asian-American girls, and is due out this month from Little, Brown.
NOTE: Grace has garnered another award for her fantasy novel Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Read about it here.
2010 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature
Kid Authors, Illustrators Send Off the Class of 2010
by Rocco Staino (School Library Journal, 6/9/2010)
BookExpo America 2010: A Children's Books Photo-Essay (Publishers Weekly, 6/4/2010)
Writers Against Racism: Summer Reading Lists For Parents (Bowllan’s Blog at Publishers Weekly, 6/11/2010)
The Elephant in the Room by Elizabeth Bluemle (Publishers Weekly, 6/10/2010)
Excerpt:
Publishers, how ivory are thy towers? According to statistics—not to mention a quick glance around any trade show floor—pretty shockingly ivory, maybe along the lines of 98%. The number of publishing, editorial, art direction, sales and marketing professionals of color in our field is tiny, and that’s not good for anybody. This discrepancy between the real world and the publishing world limits the range of books published, the intellectual scope of discussion, and—for the bottom-liners among us—greatly stunts the potential market.
The truth: we in the book trade have fallen shamefully behind our own culture, and our own times. We can remedy that with open dialogue, new paradigms, and concerted effort. And—we have to remedy it. When adults shout racial epithets at our country’s elected leaders, when bullied children are hanging themselves out of despair and shame, when children’s faces in art murals on the sides of schools are criticized for being “too dark,” when racism is still alive and vicious in this country, we can’t politely avert our eyes.
It is our responsibility—as people who create, produce, and distribute the lion’s share of books that reach and teach and entertain children—it is our highest calling to provide written, illustrated worlds that embrace and prioritize all children, books that resemble the playgrounds and classrooms and homes of this country and the rest of the world. And in order to do that, we must open the gates of our publishing houses to a greater variety of voices and cast aside outdated assumptions of what people will or won’t want to read, will or won’t want to edit or publish or sell.
Poetry—The Forgotten Cousin of Story (From the Banbury Cross Children’s Book Shop)
Top Ten Biographies for Youth: 2010 by Ilene Cooper (Booklist, 6/1/2010)
Classics to Read Aloud by Rob Reid (Book Links, June 2010)
The Storyteller’s Voice—A Six Traits Mini-Lesson by Anastasia Suen (Book Links, June 2010)
Preserving the Environment—Books That Encourage Stewardship by Barbara Ward, Deanna Day, and Terrell A. Young (Book Links, June 2010)
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2010 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Winners Announced!
Thanks to Sylvia Vardell at Poetry for Children for information about the 2010 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award winner and honor books:
Winner
Button Up! is a delightful collection of mask poems in which articles of clothing and footwear speak from their points of view.
Click
here to read my review of
Button Up!.
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Honor Books
This is a cleverly illustrated book of visual poems about cats for children.
Click
here to see Michael Wertz’s colorful illustrations (and Franco’s poems) from this book on flickr.
Crossing Stones
Written by
Helen Frost(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009)
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