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Ashley Bryan’s 2009 Wilder Medal Acceptance
By Ashley Bryan You are my people! I grew up in New York City, in the Bronx. My home was in four- and five-story tenement apartment buildings. We knew everyone in these apartments, and everyone looked...
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#ALAAC15 + HB Mag
What a thrilling ALA Annual conference this year in San Francisco (so we hear…). We hope you were able to pick up a copy of the July/August Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Awards. If not, it’ll be...
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Profile of 2015 Wilder Medal winner Donald Crews
Nina, Donald, and Ann Crews, 2009. Photo: Amy Crews. Looking back on my childhood, it is clear that my parents, Donald Crews and Ann Jonas Crews, gave my sister and me a visual education. They taught...
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By Caitlyn Dlouhy In a recent interview, Ashley Bryan was asked to name a favorite time in his life. Without a pause, he smiled his dazzling smile and exclaimed, “Right now!” At that particular Right...
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Drawing My Dream: 2016 Wilder Medal Acceptance by Jerry Pinkney
Jerry with his sisters Claudia and Hellen. Photo courtesy of Jerry Pinkney. When I was notified about the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, I was struck once again with the revelation that drawing changed...
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Jerry Pinkney and the Power of Story: Profile of 2016 Wilder & CSK–Virginia...
Jerry Pinkney, winner of the 2016 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and the 2016 Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. Photo: Robyn Pforr Ryan. The power of story takes on new...
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Alex Awards for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences • The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst (Harper Voyager) • The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales...
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A Lifeline Called Hope: 2017 Wilder Medal Acceptance by Nikki Grimes
Photo: Aaron Lemen “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” That is one of my favorite verses of scripture, largely because of the word hoped. I’ve long had a...
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To Know Nikki Grimes Is to Know an Artist: Profile of 2017 Wilder Award...
Nikki Grimes and Junko Yokota. Photo courtesy of Nikki Grimes With the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, ALA’s Association of Library Services to Children celebrates Nikki Grimes for her lifetime...
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Lots of ALA 2017 love
All week we’ve been celebrating the 2017 ALA Youth Media Award–winning authors and illustrators. Here’s a cheat sheet to the winners’ acceptance speeches, profiles of them by their loved ones, and...
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Alex Awards for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Tor.com) The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson (Doubleday) Down Among the Sticks and Bones by...
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Extras on the 2018 Youth Media Award winners
To accompany our 2018 ALA-themed Horn Book Herald e-newsletter (sign up!), here are some extra goodies about this year’s Youth Media Award winners. Horn Book reviews of the Newbery, Caldecott, Belpré,...
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Lots of ALA 2016 love
All week we’ve been celebrating the 2016 ALA Youth Media Award–winning authors and illustrators. Here are the winners’ acceptance speeches and profiles; stay tuned for more next week! Newbery Medal:...
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Alex Awards for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences • The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst (Harper Voyager) • The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales...
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A Lifeline Called Hope: 2017 Wilder Medal Acceptance by Nikki Grimes
Photo: Aaron Lemen “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” That is one of my favorite verses of scripture, largely because of the word hoped. I’ve long had a...
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To Know Nikki Grimes Is to Know an Artist: Profile of 2017 Wilder Award...
Nikki Grimes and Junko Yokota. Photo courtesy of Nikki Grimes With the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, ALA’s Association of Library Services to Children celebrates Nikki Grimes for her lifetime...
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Lots of ALA 2017 love
All week we’ve been celebrating the 2017 ALA Youth Media Award–winning authors and illustrators. Here’s a cheat sheet to the winners’ acceptance speeches, profiles of them by their loved ones, and...
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Alex Awards for the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Tor.com) The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson (Doubleday) Down Among the Sticks and Bones by...
View ArticleEditorial: The Right to Read by Yourself
In choosing to rename the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award the Children’s Literature Legacy Award, the Association for Library Service to Children did the right thing. The new name is bland but accurate,...
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A Profile of Children’s Literature Legacy Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson
I’ve known Jacqueline Woodson for years, but even before we met, when I read Last Summer with Maizon (1990), Jackie’s first book, I knew a special writer had arrived on the children’s literature scene....
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