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Trunk-Kated: An Interview with Kate DiCamillo By Rocco Staino - 12/09/2009
We caught up with Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, who’s busy promoting her latest novel, The Magician’s Elephant (2009), which takes place in a mythical city and involves an orphan boy who is led by an elephant in search of a sister who was thought to be dead. The last time we spoke with DiCamillo was in 2006, when she read from her book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006, both Candlewick). More
A Date with Destiny: First-time author Rachel Ward talks about 'Numbers,' her new thriller By Rick Margolis - 01/01/2010
Jem has a disturbing secret: whenever she looks into people’s eyes, she sees the exact date of their death. Moments before a terrorist attack, she realizes that many of the bystanders are about to die. But when she and her classmate Spider flee the scene, they’re suspected of being part of the plot.
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The Greatest Story Never Told: An interview with National Book Award winner Phillip Hoose By Marc Aronson - 01/01/2010
Talk about chutzpah. It took Phillip Hoose four years to track down Claudette Colvin, but it was worth the wait. Last November, Hoose’s Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, the true story of a teen who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL, in 1955, won the National Book Award for young people’s literature.
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YALSA Names First 2010 Nonfiction Award Finalists By Rocco Staino - 12/14/2009
Deborah Heiligman and Phillip Hoose are competing head-to-head again—this time for the first Young Adult Library Services Association’s (YALSA) Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults.
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Born to Be Wild: Sick of boring science books? Try Pamela S. Turner's 'The Frog Scientist.' By Rick Margolis - 12/01/2009
Your latest book opens with Tyrone Hayes, a biologist at UC Berkeley, and some of his grad students trying to catch frogs in Wyoming. What was it like hanging out with those guys? It was pretty funny. I was in Southern California at a conference, and they were up in Montana. They were going to these really remote lakes and trying to take some water samples and find some frogs.
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A Conversation with Mo Willems By SLJ Staff - 11/18/2009
Award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems talks about his third and final Knuffle Bunny book, a musical based on the lovable stuffed animal, and what to expect in 2010. Here's the corrected version of the interview, with even more details.
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Neil Gaiman and ‘Odd and the Frost Giants’ By Lauren Barack - 11/11/2009
Neil Gaiman's latest story, Odd and the Frost Giants (HarperCollins, 2009), weaves a tale about a young boy and his quest to save his village in Norway from a possible everlasting winter. We asked Gaiman what drew him to Odd and why we may be hearing more about this unlikely hero in the future.
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Running Wild with Michael Morpurgo By Debra Lau Whelan - 11/04/2009
Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo talks about his latest book Running Wild, his passion about the world’s natural habitats, and why he’s throwing his weight behind MySchoolBook.com.
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Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog Jonathan Hunt, Librarian and teacher, Modesto City Schools December 31, 2009 Newbery Hodgepodge
I've had sporadic internet access this past week while traveling during the holidays,... More
2009 National Book Awards On the red carpet with nominees in the Young People's Literature category.
Photos by Rocco Staino.
SLJ Covers 2009 A bigger and better view of SLJ's covers from 2009
BookExpo America 2009: SLJ's Day of Dialog School Library Journal held a Day of Dialog in conjunction with the annual BookExpo America on May 28, 2009 at the Brooklyn Public Library. Full story: bit.ly/1a0G7o
MCCARTY, Peter. Henry in Love. illus. by author. unpaged. HarperCollins/Balzer & Bray. Jan. 2010. Tr $16.99. ISBN 978-0-06-114288-8; PLB $17.89. ISBN 978-0-06-114289-5. LC number unavailable.
PreS-Gr 1–Henry the cat is in love with Chloe, the cute little bunny in the back row.
Anita Silvey recently visited the Macmillan Publishing offices in New York City to present a check for $10,400 to Every Child a Reader, the Children's Book Council foundation that supports Children's Book Week and the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan and publisher of Silvey's Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book (2009), offered the donation on behalf of the contributors to the book.
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