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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

  • 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
  • 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... More
  • 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. 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
  • 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. More
  • 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
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