Written more than a half century ago, many of Leo Politi’s titles are set in ethnic communities, conveying delightful details of day-to-day life in various neighborhoods and celebrating cultural diversity. Getty Publications reintroduces this author to 21st-century readers with attractive new reissues of four of his most popular, long-out-of-print offerings.
The world of children’s literature lost many wonderful people last year who enriched our collections and brought joy to countless kids. School Library Journal regrets any omissions and encourages readers to share their memories in our talkback section.
Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog Jonathan Hunt, Librarian and teacher, Modesto City Schools January 6, 2010 Three Questions
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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
Gr 8-10–10102001. That’s Jem’s mother’s number. Jem saw it whenever she looked into her mother’s eyes, but it wasn’t until four years after the woman’s fatal heroin overdose when Jem was 11 that she realized that the number was the date her mother would die.
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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WARD, Rachel. 
