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Dear Diary By Staff - 04/01/2008
Author Meg Cabot is taking her love of journal writing to the streets, so to speak, working with 140 libraries nationwide and the Young Adult Library Services Association on journal writing workshops. How has journal writing been valuable to you personally? When I was about nine, my grandmother gave me my first diary—one of those little Holly Hobbie ones with the little lock. More
David Ezra Stein and Jonathan Bean nab this year's Ezra Jack Keats Awards.
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High-Wire Act: Sue Stauffacher By Rick Margolis - 05/01/2008
You’ve written a number of well-received children’s picture books and novels. Why did you create a series of high-interest, low-vocabulary comics aimed at urban kids? In the mid-’90s, I started volunteering in the Grand Rapids Public Schools [in Michigan]. And I also volunteered at our community college, doing literacy stuff with VISTA volunteers, and they all told me the same...
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SLJ Speaks with Wheel of Fortune Champ Amanda Fowler Joan Oleck - 04/30/2008
School librarian Amanda Fowler already knows books. But she's apparently a whiz at puzzles, too—as well as keeping a cool head in front of millions of TV viewers. In a Wheel of Fortune appearance on April 25, the Mooreville, MS, librarian flattened two opponents and won a trip to Rome as part of her $19,100 cash gross. She divulged more delicious details to SLJ.
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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.
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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.
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Author An Na Talks about the Fusion Stories Web Site Rocco Staino - 04/24/2008
As part of May’s Asia Pacific Heritage Month, 10 Asian authors have banded together to create Fusion Stories, a Web site that offers teens contemporary novels that move beyond traditional Asian themes.SLJ spoke to one of these authors, An Na, winner of the Printz Award.
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SLJ Talks to WiredSafety's Parry Aftab about Cyberbullying Joan Oleck - 04/16/2008
Cyberbullying is a growing trend—and many kids keep it a secret. SLJ spoke to Parry Aftab, executive director of WiredSafety.org and STOPCyberbullying.org, about her groups' efforts to stop this frightening byproduct of the digital revolution. More
A Fuse #8 Production Elizabeth Bird, Children's Librarian, Donnell Central Children's Room June 18, 2007 SBBT Update
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Brian Unbound Brian Kenney, Editor in Chief, March 8, 2007 Shooting Susan
Photographer Brian Davis actually shot Susan in his LA studio. Then he went out ... More
Podcasts are a great way to expand learning beyond the classroom or library. Here are more recommendations from Tech Chicks Anna Adam and Helen Mowers, following up their Dec. 2007 article Listen Up!
PreS-Gr 2–Ruthie yearns to be a superhero. So when her parents ask her to keep Aunt Juanita company right before her baby is due to arrive, Ruthie flies down the street of her Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Bronx.
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