The California Library Association Announces Beatty Award Winner Danial Aleman: Join us in congratulating our 2024 Beatty Award-Winning Young Adult author, Daniel Aleman, for his book Brighter Than The Sun! Brighter Than The Sun is [continue reading]
Beatty Award
California Library Association Awards Announced
CLA’S BEATTY AWARD ANNOUNCED: The California Library Association announced its annual Beatty Award, given to a children’s or teen book that promotes awareness of California and its people. This year’s winner is Wake, Sleepy One: [continue reading]
The Way You Make Me Feel Named Beatty Award Winner
The Way You Make Me Feel Named 2019 Beatty Award Recipient: Maurene Goo’s YA novel The Way You Make Me Feel (FSG, 2018) has been chosen to receive the 2019 John and Patricia Beatty Award [continue reading]
2018 Beatty Award Goes to “57 Bus” by Dashka Slater
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the [continue reading]
2017 Beatty Award Recipient: Firoozeh Dumas for It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel
2017 Beatty Award Recipient: Firoozeh Dumas for It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel California Library Association: It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas and published by Clarion Books has been selected as the 2017 recipient [continue reading]
Beatty Award Goes to Eggers, Follett Buys Baker & Taylor
2016 Beatty Award Recipient: This Bridge Will Not Be Gray written by Dave Eggers, illustrated by Tucker Nichols, and published by McSweeney’s has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the California Library Association’s John [continue reading]
“Tree Lady” Wins Beatty, Sue Townsend Dies, New BayNews Posted
The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins selected for 2014 CLA Beatty Award: The Tree Lady, written by H. Joseph Hopkins and illustrated by Jill McElmurry, has been selected by the California Library Association (CLA) [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]