Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan (S & S, 2009), a World War I steampunk novel, is winner of the 2009 Aurealis Award in the category of best young adult novel.
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Think you have what it takes to be the next Stephenie Meyer? Here’s your chance to prove it. Amazon.com, its subsidiary CreateSpace, and the Penguin Group USA are accepting submissions for the third annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition, an international contest that’s seeking the next popular novel.
Stephen Huneck, a wood carving artist, furniture maker, and children’s book author and illustrator died January 7 from a self-inflected gun wound. He was 61 years old and lived in St. Johnsbury, VT.
Patti Key, a 25-year third-grade teacher, is heading to the International Reading Association’s (IRA) 55th annual convention in April—as the grand prize winner of the SLJ IRA Sweepstakes.
Ben 10, an animated television series produced by Cartoon Network Studios, first burst onto the scene in 2006. The show centers around Ben Tennyson, a boy who finds a mysterious watchlike device (known as the Omnitrix) that attaches permanently to his wrist and allows him to transform into 10 different alien forms, each possessing unique abilities.
Good Comics for Kids Brigid Alverson, Comics Journalist, School Library Journal February 8, 2010 Links: Friends and monsters
Amanda Tarbet has a great essay at Sequential Tart looking at recent children's comic... More
PRACTICALLY PARADISE Diane Chen, Librarian, Hickman Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee February 7, 2010 Book Lovers or Library Lovers Day
I have been calling February 14th Book Lovers Day this year. Rather than wait for any... More
2009 National Book Awards On the red carpet with nominees in the Young People's Literature category.
Photos by Rocco Staino.
SLJ Covers 2009 A bigger and better view of SLJ's covers from 2009
BookExpo America 2009: SLJ's Day of Dialog School Library Journal held a Day of Dialog in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America on May 28, 2009 at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full story: bit.ly/1a0G7o
BOYCE, Frank Cottrell. Cosmic. 320p. HarperCollins/Walden Pond. 2010. Tr $16.99. ISBN 978-0-06-183683-1; PLB $17.89. ISBN 978-0-06-183686-2. LC number unavailable.
Gr 5-8–Although Liam Digby is a typical kid who loves World of Warcraft video games and theme-park rides, his physical appearance is closer to age 30 than 12.
Friends and colleagues of the late Effie Lee Morris may enjoy this photo of the children's librarian, which Nicholas Glass, founder and executive director of Teachingbooks.net, recently found on his computer. It was taken at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, and features (from left) Ashley Bryan, Christopher Myers, and Morris, also an advocate for children's literature and library service to youngsters with impaired vision, who died of cancer on November 10, 2009.
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BOYCE, Frank Cottrell. 
