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  • Spotlight on Kate DiCamillo
    By Staff - 10/01/2007
    If anyone knows about underserved communities, it’s Kate DiCamillo. That’s why her publisher, Candlewick Press, has chosen to honor the award-winning author with its new “Light the Way” grant for libraries with exemplary outreach programs. The choice really fits because your characters are often underdogs. More

  • Boston Public Wins Highsmith Award
    SLJ Staff - 05/12/2008
    The Boston Public Library's Homework Assistance Mentoring Program (HAP), is winner of the 2008 Urban Libraries Council Highsmith Award of Excellence. More
  • Ezra Jack Keats Award Winners Unveiled
    By Joan Oleck - 05/08/2008

    David Ezra Stein and Jonathan Bean nab this year's Ezra Jack Keats Awards. More
  • Innocenti, Schubiger Win Hans Christian Andersen Awards
    SLJ Staff - 04/29/2008
    Roberto Innocenti, the Italian illustrator known for his delicate, painterly style, is the winner of this year's Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration.  And Jürg Schubiger of Switzerland, the author of When the World Was New (Annick, 1996), is the winner of the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award. The awards—which were announced on March 31 at the Bologna Children’s Book—are the highest international distinction for creators of children's books. More
  • Darkling Plain, Oney Judge, Bayard Rustin Win Literary Awards
    SLJ Staff - 04/28/2008
    A Darkling Plain ("The Hungry City Chronicles," HarperCollins), Philip Reeve's dark, post-apocalyptic tale of return to a London ravaged by war and radiation, has won the Los Angeles Times' 2007 Book Prize for young adult fiction, announced late last week. More
  • Rowling Lands Another British Book Award
    SLJ Staff - 04/16/2008
    Even though J. K. Rowling has finished her final "Harry Potter" (Scholastic) book, the awards keep coming in. The famed author this week took home a Book People Outstanding Achievement Award at the Galaxy British Book Awards. More
  • National Green Book Awards Unveiled
    SLJ Staff - 04/07/2008
    A brave little bear who tries to fight global warming and a girl’s fantasy-filled journey that includes environmental protection and world peace are winners of this year’s National Green Earth Book Awards highlighting the best children’s and young adult books that inspire environmental stewardship. More
  • A Tall Tale: Laura Amy Schlitz
    By Mary Grace Gallagher - 04/01/2008
    The kids in Sharen Pula’s fifth-grade class are getting ready to go on a journey. One boy kicks off his shoes to get comfy. Another lies on his side, head on hand. A girl loosens her ponytail before leaning against the library wall. Like a force of nature, Laura Amy Schlitz bustles into the room and promptly sits on the floor in front of them, tucking her long black skirt under her. More
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