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Client News: We're pleased to announce Knuffle Bunny Free, written and illustrated by our client Mo Willems, has been selected for the Autumn 2010 Kids' Indie Next List--"Inspired Recommendations for Kids from Indie Booksellers." Congratulations to our clients Mo Willems and Kathryn Erskine for their selection in the Summer '10 Indie Next List! Willems' City Dog, Country Frog is #2 and Erskine's Mockingbird is #9. The complete list of awards is available on the Indie Bound website. We're thrilled that The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney is a 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. The complete list of awards is available on the "Read Roger" blog. Congratulations, Jerry! The Night Before Mother's Day written by our client Natasha Wing and illustrated by Amy Wummer was #1 on the Poetry Foundation's Childrens' Poetry Bestseller List! The complete list can be found at The Poetry Foundation's website. Congratulations, Natasha! Congratulations to our clients who have books selected by The Bank Street College of Education's Children's Book Committee as the Best Children's Books of the Year:
The Bank Street Children's Book Committee reviews over 6000 titles each year for accuracy and literary quality and considers their emotional impact on children. It chooses the best 600 books, both fiction and nonfiction, which it lists according to age and category. More information and the complete list can be found on Bank Street's website. Congratulations, everyone! We are thrilled that The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney won the American Booksellers Association's Indies Choice Book Award for Best Picture Book of the Year! This year's winners were chose by the owners and staff at ABA member stores nationwide in more than four weeks of voting. A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck was given a Middle Reader Honor Award. The complete list of winners is available on ABA's website. Congratulations, Jerry and Richard! Bedtime For Mommy written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by our client LeUyen Pham was #5 on the Spring '10 Indie Next List! IndieBound, a movement of the American Booksellers Association, also recommends I Am Going!, Mo Willems' latest Elephant and Piggie title. For more information and more recommendations, visit indiebound.org. The Book That Eats People written by John Perry and illustrated by Mark Fearing is a finalist for the third annual Children's Choice Book Awards! The favorite book finalists were determined by close to 15,000 children and teens. Thousands more will be able to cast their votes for their favorite book, author, and illustrator at bookstores, schools, libraries, and at BookWeekOnline from March 15 to May 3. The Children's Choice Book Awards winners will be announced live at the Children's Choice Book Awards gala on May 11 in New York City as part of Children's Book Week (May 10-16, 2010), the oldest national literacy event in the United States. The complete list of finalists is up at The Children's Book Council's website. Congratulations, Mark! Sweethearts of Rhythm written by Marilyn Nelson and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney has been selected as a 2010 Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts. The list of thirty books, selected by a committee of the Children's Literature Assembly (CLA) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), will be presented at the 2010 NCTE conference and the IRA World Congress in New Zealand as well as featured in the Fall 2010 Journal of Children's Literature. Books considered for this annual list are works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written for children, grades K-8, which deal explicitly with language or demonstrate its uniqueness. For more information, visit the Children's Literature Assembly's website. Congratulations, Jerry! We have just learned that T.A. Barron is the 43rd recipient of the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion for lifelong contribution to the field of children's literature! The USM Medallion is a prestigious award with a long history rooted in the deGrummond Children's Literature Collection at USM. T.A. Barron will accept the award and deliver a presentation at the Kay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival in April 2011. More information about the award is available here, and more information about the festival is available here. Congratulations to T.A. Barron! The Pittsburgh City Paper ran a great piece about Sharon Flake and her forthcoming book You Don't Even Know Me, which publishes on February 16th. Sharon will be on tour in Atlanta, Chicago, Washington D.C, New York and Detroit. The entire article is available online at Pittsburgh City Paper's website. USA Today published a wonderful profile of Jerry Pinkney and his talented family. The article discusses Jerry's beginnings as an artist; books by his wife, sons, and daughter-in-law; and Jerry's recent Caldecott Medal for The Lion and the Mouse. The entire profile is available online at USA Today's website. Bonnie Christensen and Frane Lessac were interviewed on author Cynthia Leitich Smith's blog Cynsations. Frane's interview, with advice for new illustrators and a discussion of her travels, can be found here. Bonnie talked about her creative process and her newest book, Django, World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist, and her interview can be found here. We were thrilled to see the following titles on the American Library Association's 2010 Notable Children's Book list:
The complete list of Notable Books is available on ALA's website. Congratulations, everyone! Congratulations to our clients nominated as finalists for 2009 Cybils, Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards:
The complete list of finalists is available here. Congratulations, everyone! |
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