Fans of children’s author Maurice Sendak will want to check out the special exhibit, “Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons,” that is running May 23 – July 7, 2013 at the Disney Family [continue reading]
News
LEGO Summer Reading Lists Available from ALSC
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has teamed up with LEGO® DUPLO® to expand the Read! Build! Play initiative by creating the LEGO® DUPLO® Read! [continue reading]
Monterey Library Wins Award for “Reading Rockets”
Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library, CA, has been awarded the Public Library Association’s (PLA) Innovations in Literacy Award for its “Reading Rockets” youth literacy program. The library is one of only eight public libraries in the [continue reading]
Edgar Awards, “Briefings,” and ACL Pinterest Page
The Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of its 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television, in celebration of the 204th anniversary of Poe’s birth: BEST [continue reading]
Obituaries and Awards
Author Fred McKissack Dies at age 73: Award-winning author Fred McKissack died of heart failure on April 28, 2013; he was 73 years of age. Co-writing with wife and partner Patricia, the McKissacks created more [continue reading]
Konigsburg, Feller Bauer Die, ALSC Workshop and Summer Reading Lists
Caroline Feller Bauer Dies at age 77: Caroline Feller Bauer died April 15, 2013, at the age of 77, in Miami, Florida, where she lived for many years. She wrote several books used by children’s [continue reading]
2013 Beatty Award Goes to The Camping Trip That Changed America
The 2013 Beatty Award will be given to Barb Rosenstock for The Camping Trip That Changed America (Dial, 2012), illustrated by Mordecai Gerstein. This nonfiction picture book details the camping trip of naturalist John Muir and President [continue reading]
Review of the Week and Children’s Lit Festival at UC Berkeley
Review of the Week: Blackwood, Sage. Jinx. Fic. HarperCollins, 2013. 360p. $16.99. 978-0-06-212990-1. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-8. Young orphan Jinx is abandoned by his stepfather in the mysterious and dangerous Urwald forest where “you grow up [continue reading]