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Join now! Within the next few weeks, many sections of our website will become available to members only. |
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Educators will soon find paired books, suggestions for scaffolding, themed book lists, articles, and databases specifically directed to help you in your classroom. |
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Our funding comes from your membership dues. We must pay the staff who bring you great content and opportunities. |
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For $50 per year, or just 77 cents each week, you can support CLN's efforts. Or pay $90 per year and have a CLN web page, too. |
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CLN members have proven themselves to be generous and caring individuals. Here are possible ways in which you can "pay it forward." |
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Read tributes to those in our children's literature community who have recently passed away. |
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Where We've Been
Cambridge Science Festival
On May 3, children's book authors who write about science gathered for a full day's worth of presentations at the Cambridge Public Library in Massachusetts. L to r: CLN member Loree Griffin Burns, Leslie Bulion, Susan E. Goodman, Houghton Mifflin Associate Editor Erica Zappy, Jeannine Atkins, CLN member Melissa Stewart, John Himmelman. Not pictured: Lita Judge. Books were sold by Porter Square Books. The event was part of the Cambridge Science Festival. (First posted on May 10, 2008)
Click here for more of Where We've Been ... |
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| IT'S CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK!
And that means readers everywhere are celebrating the importance of books in their lives. The dreams, adventures, discoveries, laughter, wrinkled brows, facts, tears, thrills ... really, every emotion and facet of life can be found between the covers of the books of the world. We celebrate them!
Check out the Children's Book Week website for news about the gala event taking place to honor the Children's Choice Awards, featuring Jon Sciesczka as the host and Children's Laureate, as well as Al Roker, who is being honored with an Impact Award for his works with children's books on The Today Show on NBC with "Al's Book Club for Kids."
Children's Book Week has been celebrated since 1916, when the Boy Scouts of America, the American Library Association, and the American Booksellers Association joined together to promote higher standards in children's books. |
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KLIATT Editor's Choice List
Congratulations to CLN member William Durbin, whose book The Winter War (Wendy Lamb Books / Random House) has been made to KLIATT's Best of the Year's Hardcover YA Fiction list. Set in 1939 Finland when Russia invaded its smaller neighbor, the story of Marko, a boy who skis extremely well despite a leg that was stricken by polio, is one of bravery and determination. Finland had 30 tanks to defend itself against Russia's 3,000, but volunteers like Marko—and Karl—helped Finland show what tough guerrilla warrior its citizens are.
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AEP Nonfiction Competition
The Write Your Own series (Compass Point Books), authored by CLN members Natalie M. Rosinsky and Laura Purdie Salas, has been selected as a finalist
by the Association of Educational Publishers for a 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award (Reading and Language Instructiion category, grades 6 - 8) in its Nonfiction competition.
The Distinguished Achievement Awards "recognize the best educaional materials—such as books, periodicals, educational toys, and software within subject categories and by audience." Rosinky has authored these books in this series: Write Your Own Biography, Fairy Tale, Tall Tale, Myth, Autobiography, Folktale, and Legend. Laura Purdie Salas authored Write Your Own Poetry. My Write Your Own Graphic Novel will appear in print later this spring. Rosinsky has two more books in the series—on Fable and Nonfiction—due out soon.
Whew! Award winners in the competition will be announced in June. If you have not looked at these books for your library and classroom, please do. They're good for resources, practical advice, research, and inspiration! |
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2008 McKnight Artist Fellowship Winner
Judge Emily Easton, publisher at Walker Books for Young Readers, selected Marsha Wilson Chall as the winner of the 2008 Award. Honorable mentions went to Gwenyth Swain, Lauren Stringer, and Lindsay Lee Johnson. |
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Bullying Book Receives Further Acclaim
Congratulations to Sandra McLeod Humphrey, whose most recent book, Hot Issues, Cool Choices: Facing Bullies, Peer Pressure, Popularity, and Put-Downs is the recipient of a 2008 Mom's Choice Book Award, Juvenile Level 2 Books (Ages 9-12). A child psychologist, Sandy's books are often used by by teachers and parents, finding that stories are a good way to open discussion. Bullying is a "hot issue" in schools and homes. Sandy's book has been touted by many review sources.
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Magazine Article Merits Award
Padma Venkatraman, a new member of CLN, has won the SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for 2007 in the the nonfiction category. Her article, "The Power of Peace," published in the October 2007 issue of Faces magazine, is about the Indian independence movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. Venkatraman's young adult novel, Climbing the Stairs (Penguin-Putnam), which debuts in May, is also set during this period. Climbing the stairs is the story of fifteen-year-old Vidya, struggling to find her place in a mixed-up world: a world that is fighting a violent war and also, at the same time, witnessing the first nationwide nonviolent freedom movement. |
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