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ALA Midwinter 2011 Meeting Coverage

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SAN DIEGO – The 2011 Stonewall Book Awards were announced today by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association (ALA, during the ALA...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 18:48  |  Read More
SAN DIEGO – Eric Velásquez,  ilustrador de “Grandma’s Gift” y Pam Muñoz Ryan, autora de “The Dreamer”, son los ganadores del Premio de Ilustración Pura Belpré 2011 y el Premio al Autor Pura...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 17:30  |  Read More
SAN DIEGO – Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith, professor emerita at the University of South Florida, Tampa, School of Library and Information Science, is the winner of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 15:15  |  Read More
SAN DIEGO – “Ship Breaker,” written by Paolo Bacigalupi, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., has won the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in...
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SAN DIEGO - Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop, author and photographer/illustrator of “Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot,” were named the winners of the 2011 Robert F. Sibert Medal...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 15:00  |  Read More
SAN DIEGO – “Almost Perfect” by Brian Katcher, published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, is the 2011 recipient of the...
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SAN DIEGO –Author/Illustrator Tomie dePaolais the winner of the 2011 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honoring an author or illustrator, published in the United States, whose books have made a substantial...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 14:53  |  Read More
SAN DIEGO – Listening Library, an imprint of Random House Audio Publishing Group, producer of the audiobook, “The True Meaning of Smekday,” has won the 2011 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 14:15  |  Read More
SAN DIEGO – ”Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing” written by Ann Angel, Published by Amulet/Abrams, has been named the 2011 winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 14:09  |  Read More
SAN DIEGO – “The Freak Observer” written by Blythe Woolston and published by Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, has been named the 2011 winner of...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 14:07  |  Read More
Today’s issue of Cognotes features the winners of the 2011 Youth Media Awards, the RUSA “Outstanding Books and Media” awards, the John Cotton Dana Award, along with recaps of our great speakers...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 14:05  |  Read More
SAN DIEGO - The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has selected 10 adult books with special appeal to teen readers to receive the...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 14:04  |  Read More
SAN DIEGO – The American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Schneider Family Book Awards, which honor an author or illustrator for the artistic expression of the...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 13:59  |  Read More
SAN DIEGO- Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., is the winner of the 2011 Mildred L. Batchelder Award for “A Time of Miracles.” The Mildred...
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SAN DIEGO– Peter Sís will deliver the 2012 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. The announcement was made today by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American...
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 13:43  |  Read More