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CBC Reveals ‘Children’s Choice’ Finalists

-- Publishers Weekly, 2/26/2009
They’re back: the Children’s Book Council has unveiled the finalists for the second-annual Children’s Choice Book Awards. Nearly 15,000 children cast their votes in six categories—four based on age group, as well as author and illustrator of the year.

As last year, the winners will be announced at the Children’s Choice Book Awards Gala on May 12, during Children’s Book Week. Jon Scieszka, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, will reprise his role as host of the gala, during which the second annual Impact Award will be given—this year to Whoopi Goldberg. From March 16 through May 3, kids can vote for their favorite books and authors at their schools, libraries and bookstores, as well as at BookWeekOnline.com.

And the finalists are:

Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year

The Donut Chef by Bob Staake (Random/Golden)

Katie Loves the Kittens by John Himmelman (Holt)

The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! by Mo Willems (Hyperion)

Sort It Out! by Barbara Mariconda, illus. by Sherry Rogers (Sylvan Dell)

Those Darn Squirrels! by Adam Rubin, illus. by Daniel Salmieri (Clarion)

Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year

Babymouse: Puppy Love by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (Random House)

One Million Things: A Visual Encyclopedia by Peter Chrisp (DK)

Underwear: What We Wear Under There by Ruth Freeman Swain, illus. by John O’Brien (Holiday House)

Willow by Denise Brennan-Nelson and Rosemarie Brennan, illus. by Cyd Moore (Sleeping Bear)

Spooky Cemeteries by Dinah Williams (Bearport)

 

Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year

100 Most Dangerous Things On the Planet by Anna Claybourne (Scholastic Reference)

Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi (Scholastic/Graphix)

The Big Field by Mike Lupica (Philomel)

Swords: An Artist's Devotion by Ben Boos (Candlewick)

Thirteen by Lauren Myracle (Dutton)

 

Teen Choice Book Award

Airhead by Meg Cabot (Scholastic/Point)

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)

Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen (Viking)

Paper Towns by John Green (Dutton)

 

Author of the Year

Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn (Little, Brown)

Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Abrams/Amulet)

Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (Knopf)

James Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Final Warning (Little, Brown)

Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth (Disney-Hyperion)

 

Illustrator of the Year

Laura Cornell, Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis (HarperCollins/Cotler)

Robin Preiss Glasser, Fancy Nancy: Bonjour Butterfly! by Jane O’Connor (HarperCollins)

Mo Willems, The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! (Hyperion)

David Shannon, Loren Long and David Gordon, Smash! Crash! by Jon Scieszka (Simon & Schuster)

Jon J Muth, Zen Ties (Scholastic Press)

Golden Kite Awards

[Via Children's Bookshelf]

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators has announced the winners of the 2009 Golden Kite Awards, which recognize excellence in children’s literature. Winning authors and illustrators receive $2,500 and a trip to the award ceremony in Los Angeles on August 9. This year’s winners are Steve Watkins for Down Sand Mountain(Candlewick) in Fiction; Pamela S. Turner for A Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts (FSG) in Nonfiction; Bonny Becker for A Visitor for Bear, illus. by Kady MacDonald Denton (Candlewick) for Picture Book Text; and Hyewon Yum for Last Night (FSG) for Picture Book Illustration. For a list of honor titles and additional information, visit the SCBWI Web site.

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BEA announces children’s breakfast speakers

 
 

The speakers for the annual Children’s Book and Author Breakfast at BookExpo America have been announced. The breakfast will feature Meg Cabot, author of the Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls series (Scholastic); Tomie dePaola, author of Strega Nona’s Harvest (Putnam); and Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of Duck! Rabbit! and Little Oink (both Chronicle). Julie Andrews Edwards, author of Julie Andrews’ Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies (Little, Brown) will be the master of ceremonies. The breakfast is presented in cooperation with the Children’s Booksellers and Publishers Committee, a joint committee of the American Booksellers Association, Association of Booksellers for Children and the Children’s Book Council. It will be held on Friday, May 29, in New York City. read more
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Book – The 39 Clues: (The Maze of Bones, Book 1)


by Rick Riordan

Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue."

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Book – Payback

 

(The Secret Life Samantha McGregor, Book 4)

by Melody Carlson

 From the reviews

If your vision asked you to risk your life to save others, would you have the courage?

This is the dramatic fourth and final book in Melody Carlson's The Secret Life of Samantha McGregor series. Samantha is the girl who can see the future in dreams and visions. In Payback, she faces her toughest challenges yet.

Read more ... or buy the book from Amazon

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Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize

Michelle Harrison has been awarded the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize in the U.K. for The Thirteen Treasures (Simon & Schuster), the story of a girl who can see fairies, and who tries to solve a mystery that has haunted her family for generations. Harrison will receive a £5,000 prize and the bookstore chain will support the title throughout the year. Little, Brown will publish the book in the U.S. in spring 2010. For more information, click here.

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40th NAACP Image Awards

The 40th NAACP Image Awards were given out last Thursday night. Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Simon & Schuster) won for Outstanding Literary Work—Children, Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny by Hill Harper (Gotham Books) won for Outstanding Literary Work—Youth/Teens, and Hip Hop Speaks to Children, edited by Nikki Giovanni (Sourcebooks/
Jabberwocky) won for Outstanding Literary Work—Poetry, the first time that a book for children has won in this category.

March Children’s Literary Cafe: New York Times Reviewers Panel

Elizabeth Bird

The Children’s Literary Café at the new Children’s Center at 42nd Street is pleased to announce our event on Saturday, March 7th at 2:00 p.m.:

What makes a book so good that it gets reviewed by The New York Times?   How are the reviewers selected? What goes into writing a review for “the old gray lady”?   Join Julie Just, the Children’s Books Editor of the New York Times Book Review, and her panel of remarkable reviewers as they discuss with us the state of newspaper reviews, particularly newspaper reviews of children’s literature.   Special guest panelists will include young adult author Ned Vizzini (It’s Kind of a Funny Story), author and scholar Leonard Marcus (Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature), and former public school teacher Rebecca Zerkin who is currently experimenting with paper-engineered books.

Book – The Runaway Dolls (The Doll People)

  

by Ann M Martin and Laura Godwin Illustrated by Brian Selznick

 

Best friends Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft are back, and this time they've got an unexpected visitor, a new doll named Tilly May. In this masterfully plotted third book in the Doll People series, Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, with the help of Brian Selznick's captivating black-and-white illustrations, take the reader on another exhilarating adventure from a doll's-eye view.

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Cotsen Children’s Library: Virtual Children’s Books Exhibits

[From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2009. http://scout.wisc.edu/]
 

http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/cotsen/exhibitions/index.html

Princeton University's virtual exhibit of past exhibits of children's book illustrations offers visuals and brief explanations geared towards children and adults. The easy-to-use website is divided into four virtual exhibits, that contain a portion of what the physical exhibits at the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University displayed. The four exhibits can be accessed by clicking on their links on the homepage. The "Water Babies" exhibit contains illustrations of swimming, and was meant as a respite for kids who couldn't escape the city's heat. Each illustration in the virtual exhibit is accompanied by a short synopsis of the book or publication it came from, and often a web link or reading suggestion for more information on the author, illustrator, or subject matter of the book.
The "Magic Lantern" virtual exhibit contains illustrations of magic lanterns, a type of projector widely available for home use, that were the precursors to film and television, and which enthralled children and adults alike. The "Creepy-Crawlies" exhibit highlighted the many illustrations of insects in children's books and natural history. The insects in children's books were most often portrayed as evil or villainous. But, if visitors can put those feelings aside, they will find many beautifully rendered drawings. The physical "Beatrix Potter" exhibit coincided with the publication of the Beatrix Potter Collection of Lloyd Cotsen in 2004, and the virtual exhibit contains illustrations by Potter, and others, with whom the visitor can use for comparison, to see Potter's unique style.