Laurie!!

Winner! Winner! Winner!

CONGRATULATIONS 

to the fabulous, talented, and dedicated

LAURIE ANN THOMPSON,

WINNER OF THE American Library Association's
 

2016 SCHNEIDER FAMILY BOOK AWARD

(awarded for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience)

for her amazing book,

EMMANUEL'S DREAM

(illustrated by Sean Qualls) 

Laurie's book was honored at this Monday's live ALA broadcast, along with winners
in other categories of children's books. To see all the honorees, CLICK HERE.

And the winners are....

For a list of all the winners and honorees of this year's ALA Midwinter conference, please click here!


You're welcome. Looks like we all have quite a wonderful must-read list for the rest of the winter.


Congratulations to all!

Live streaming of Newbery/Caldecott ceremony

On Monday, February 2, there will be quite a lot of news coming out of the annual ALA mid-winter convention in Chicago. The announcement of the 2015 Youth Media Awards will take place at 8am Central time/6am Pacific.

This is the day the world finds out what books and authors and illustrators have won the highest awards for children's literature: the Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and Coretta Scott King Awards.


To follow along with the live streaming of the ALA Youth Media Awards, please click here.

Award-o-rama onscreen

Fresh from the ALA awards, here are a few great videos about a few winning author/illustrators and their processes:

Brian Floca
On process and book dummy creation
His ALA speech about Locomotive

David Wiesner
Two different videos on his process

Molly Idle
Flora & the Flamingo Video
Interview by Kathy Temean

Aaron Becker
The book trailer for Journey
The making of Journey


—Contributed by Street Team member Suzanne Kaufman

Catch the ALA awards by podcast

Have you got award fever yet? We can all tune in to the ALA live podcast on Monday, January 27, starting at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time, to hear the youth media award announcements for the Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and many others of our community's most prestigious awards.

— Contributed by member Katherine Kirkpatrick, whose January blog post provides useful preparatory information

ALA ! Kid Lit Drinks! What a weekend!

If you happen to find yourself with not a lot going on this weekend, hoof it on down to the Convention Center's Exhibition Hall, where the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting (January 25-29) is going to fill the place to the rafters with librarians, authors, agents, publishers, bloggers, and general groupies and fans of all of the above.

For more information, click here.

To celebrate this momentous confluence of people, we're hosting a Kid Lit Drink Night at Rumba, on Capitol Hill tomorrow (Friday), from 6-9. It's within walking distance of the Convention Center, so there's no excuse not to take a load off and join us!



It's going to be quite a weekend, people. Be part of it!

Today Show skips Newbery and Caldecott winners for Snooki

From Alice Pope's SCBWI Children's Market Blog:

"With the national television news outlets providing wall-to-wall media coverage since Saturday of the tragedy in Tucson, it’s not surprising that two children’s book award winners would be overlooked during a week of breaking news. But, to some who tuned into the Today Show on Tuesday morning expecting to see the Newbery and Caldecott Medalists, insult seemed added to injury. The program did indeed take a break from its coverage of the shootings during the second hour to interview an author. But it was an author who's not likely to win a prestigious literary award any time soon: Nicole Polizzi, better known to the world as Snooki, the Jersey Shore star more famous for her trash talk and wild partying rather than her literary chops..."

Click here to read more, including the letter SCBWI's Lin Oliver and Stephen Mooser sent to the Today Show.

Want to add your opinion? 

• Email the show at: TODAY@nbcuni.com
• Post a comment on their website  
• Spread the word! 

ALA Notable Children’s Books – Nominated Titles

From the Association  for Library Services to Children (ALSC) blog:

After a full year of intense reading, evaluation, and re-reading by committee members, the final 2011 Notable Children’s Books Midwinter discussion list and ballot is now available.  Final selections will be made at the ALA Midwinter conference. 

Congratulations to our upcoming 20th Annual Children's Writing & Illustrating Conference keynoters who made the list! 

• Deborah Wiles' COUNTDOWN was nominated for Fiction, and 
• Dan Santat's THE ADVENTURES OF NANNY PIGGINS was nominated in Fiction and his OH NO! (OR HOW MY SCIENCE PROJECT DESTROYED THE WORLD) was nominated in Picture Books.

We're also proud of our local talent who made the list! Congratulations to: 

• Karen Cushman for ALCHEMY AND MEGGY SWANN,
• Sundee Frazier for THE OTHER HALF OF MY HEART,
• Brenda Guiberson for MOON BEAR, and
• Julie Paschkis for SUMMER BIRDS: THE BUTTERFLIES OF MARIA MERIAN.

(If I missed anyone, please let me know!)