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Chapin, Joyce, and Taylor Nab Awards

Artists honored for contributions to children, retailer supports libraries

Walter Minkel -- School Library Journal, 4/1/2003

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•Children's performer Tom Chapin in February won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for his narration of Simms Taback's book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Viking, 1997). Chapin is known for his award-winning children's recordings, including This Pretty Planet (Sony, 2000).

•Author and illustrator William Joyce received two Annie awards—the animation industry's highest award for excellence—for his Rolie Polie Olie series for preschoolers on the Disney Channel. Joyce is best known for his books Dinosaur Bob (1995) and George Shrinks (2000, both HarperCollins).

•Mildred Taylor, author of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) and Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981, both Dial), is the first winner of the $25,000 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature presented by the University of Oklahoma and its international journal World Literature Today. Taylor will receive the award in October.

•Target stores gave 20 school libraries nationwide a chance to select $10,000 in books and supplies from Amazon.com. Customers who made in-store purchases with their Target Visa cards last fall were automatically entered in the company's "Library of Books" contest. Twenty winners received a $20 Target gift certificate and chose the winning schools and their libraries. Another Library of Books contest will take place this fall.

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