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We’re guessing that if you are reading this post, you indeed are a book lover! How many young book lovers do you know? We hope you’ll share these recent and forthcoming books to love. Show your tween and teen book … Continue reading
Category Archives: awards
We’re sure you value literacy. What do you know about the connections between listening and literacy? June is a great time to explore them through audiobooks, and we have lots of new suggestions to set you on that adventure. The … Continue reading
Worldwide we are having a tough season: cancelled events range from children’s regular school days to international publishing conventions. We want to share some good news that has arrived in the midst of general upset. Congratulations are in order for … Continue reading
In our last post, we sang the praises and delights of longlists and shortlists of finalists for major awards. Now we’ll celebrate some recent winners of awards that have been announced across the past few weeks. The Cybils Awards, which … Continue reading
We love those finalists lists as much as we love the ultimate winners. Why? Shortlists give us nuance and hit a lot of possibilities. We think winning is great! We also think recognition for being in the run-up to the … Continue reading
January 31 is Multicultural Book Day and that arrives this year on the heels of the American Library Association’s 2020 announcements of youth media awards. Among the rich array of picture books, novels, youth audience nonfiction, audiobooks, and apps, authors and … Continue reading
Books for kids in middle grades and into their tweens and early teens engage audiences by invoking curiosity. This occurs in both informational and imaginative narratives. And we’ve got some excellent suggestions to help independently reading kids celebrate this year’s … Continue reading
October has brought a wonderfully rich harvest of awards to our publishers. The Northern Dawn‘s book awards, Northern Lights, were announced in a range of categories “honoring children’s literature of extraordinary merit.” We are so pleased to see so many … Continue reading
This is the third in a series of four posts with which we ask you to join us in celebrating World Kid Lit Month (#WorldKidLit on social media). As we continue our month-long celebration of international kids’ publishers and some … Continue reading
Congratulations to Child’s Play International and author and illustrator Gillian Hibbs! The Junior Master Gardener Program of the American Horticultural Society has honored Errol’s Garden with the 2019 Growing Good Kids Book Award for excellence in children’s literature. Take a … Continue reading