Our winter vacation was lovely but resulted in me completely losing track of the announcement for the Children's Books Awards which will be TOMORROW!! Jan 11th at 8:00am EST.
Do I have any of the potential medal and honor books in stock? Of course not, I was too busy judging the merits of different rum punch recipes in the Caribbean to do my usual pre award hunt and gather.
Showing posts with label award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label award. Show all posts
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Friday, June 15, 2012
2012 Edgar Juvenile and Young Adult Winners
BEST JUVENILE
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Random House Children’s Books – Knopf BFYR)
heavy sigh.....late again, these were announced in April
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
It's that time again...
The 2010 Newbery and Caldecott Awards (among others) will be announced on Monday January 18th at 7:45am EST. The live web cast can be viewed at http://alawebcast.unikron.com and the results will be on twitter at: www.twitter.com/ALAyma
and then the hunt will be on!
and then the hunt will be on!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
2009 Edgar Award-Juvenile and Young Adult
The 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best juvenile went to THE POSTCARD by Tony Abbott published by Little, Brown.
In the young adult category the award went to PAPER TOWNS by John Green, published by Dutton.
In the young adult category the award went to PAPER TOWNS by John Green, published by Dutton.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
catalog update
Jeez, it's been such a long time since I've compiled a hard copy catalog that I've seriously underestimated the time it takes. It doesn't help that I've got a new (COLOR!) printer/copier that I'm learning to use so it's going to be an illustrated catalog.
So, the January 2009 catalog is currently over 500 items and is going to cover award winners, (Newbury, Caldecott, King, Edgar etc) and whatever other book that I think is cool. Hopefully it will be completed by mid February at the latest.
Compiling is the easy part, it's the editing that's going to take the time.
So, the January 2009 catalog is currently over 500 items and is going to cover award winners, (Newbury, Caldecott, King, Edgar etc) and whatever other book that I think is cool. Hopefully it will be completed by mid February at the latest.
Compiling is the easy part, it's the editing that's going to take the time.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Award Announcement
The 2009 award announcement for the Newbery and Caledecott medals will be on January 26th this year. The announcements will be webcast at 7:45am from Denver during the ALA mid-winter meeting.
A whole slew of other literary awards for childrens and young adult books will also be announced. I also follow the Printz award for young adult and the Coretta Scott King for African American titles.
A whole slew of other literary awards for childrens and young adult books will also be announced. I also follow the Printz award for young adult and the Coretta Scott King for African American titles.
Friday, November 21, 2008
2008 National Book Award - Young Adult
The ABA awards were announced on November 20th and the juvenile award went to What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
2008 Edgar Award Winners- Juvenile and Young Adult
In the category of better late than never, (the awards were announced on May 1st) these are the books which won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best Juvenile and Young Adult Mystery Novel for 2008.
The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh published by Hyperion.
Ratt Life by Tedd Arnold, published by Dial Books.
The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh published by Hyperion.
Ratt Life by Tedd Arnold, published by Dial Books.
Monday, January 21, 2008
2008 Coretta Scott King Award
Again from the ALA website:
The 2008 Coretta Scott King Award for juvenile title went to Christopher Paul Curtis's Elijah of Buxton which also was a Newbery Honor book.
And the award for picture book went to Ashley Bryan's Let it Shine.
And the award for picture book went to Ashley Bryan's Let it Shine.
I'm going to upload better images for these titles shortly....
Monday, January 14, 2008
2008 Printz Award for Young Adult
also from the ALA site:
2008 Award Winner
The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean, published by HarperTempest, an imprint of HarperCollins has won the 2008 Michael L. Printz Award. The award announcement was made during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, January 11-16.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
2007 Edgar Mystery Award -Juvenile and Young Adult
The winner of the 2007 best juvenile mystery went to Room One by Andrew Clements. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Illus by Chris Blair.
and the winner of the 2007 Edgar award for best young adult mystery went to:
Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready. NY: Dutton, 2006.
(I need to catch up on my reading, I did not know of either of these titles before the award announcement.)
and the winner of the 2007 Edgar award for best young adult mystery went to:
Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready. NY: Dutton, 2006.
(I need to catch up on my reading, I did not know of either of these titles before the award announcement.)
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Favorite themes- Juvenile Fairy Tales Retold
Fairy Tales, whether they are familiar or obscure, have always been a staple of children's picture books, but more rarely are addressed by writers of children's juvenile or young adult titles. Three of my favorite juvenile "rewrites" all collectible as fine first editions and worth reading and rereading in any edition are:
Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted. (A Cinderella variation which finally has a logical explanation for why Cinderella was such a wimp. DO NOT watch the movie, read the book!)*
Robin McKinley, Robin. Beauty. (Absolutely the best retelling of this fairy tale, and pretty darn impressive for an author's first book.)
Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard. (Based on Tam Lin, a folksong I was only vaguely aware of before reading the book, even though I've always love stories of fairy folk under the hill.)
Ella Enchanted and Perilous Gard were both Newbery Honor titles and all three books were written in first person, a writing style I'm not usually fond of but one that really works for these stories.
(*as always I'm at my most opinionated when I'm in italics.)
Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted. (A Cinderella variation which finally has a logical explanation for why Cinderella was such a wimp. DO NOT watch the movie, read the book!)*
Robin McKinley, Robin. Beauty. (Absolutely the best retelling of this fairy tale, and pretty darn impressive for an author's first book.)
Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard. (Based on Tam Lin, a folksong I was only vaguely aware of before reading the book, even though I've always love stories of fairy folk under the hill.)
Ella Enchanted and Perilous Gard were both Newbery Honor titles and all three books were written in first person, a writing style I'm not usually fond of but one that really works for these stories.
(*as always I'm at my most opinionated when I'm in italics.)
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Children's Book Awards
As a bookseller it is important to become familiar with the winners of the various children's book awards; today's winner can be tomorrow's most looked for book, especially in the case of the Newbery and Caldecott Awards winners.
Tracking the award winning authors and illustrators also helps keep you aware of which new authors and illustrators may have a collectible value in the future. This can be especially true if an author's first book wins recognition. An immediate example that comes to mind: Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman was the author's first book and was a Newbery Honor book in 1995, she then won the Newbery Award in 1996 for her second book, The Midwife's Apprentice.
Some of the children's book awards that I have found handy to track:
(Although I also try to keep track of the British, Canadian and Australian award winners the flat truth is no matter how wide the internet or how global the market, books, especially children's books, are still regional, or as the old saying goes they "follow the flag".)
Tracking the award winning authors and illustrators also helps keep you aware of which new authors and illustrators may have a collectible value in the future. This can be especially true if an author's first book wins recognition. An immediate example that comes to mind: Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman was the author's first book and was a Newbery Honor book in 1995, she then won the Newbery Award in 1996 for her second book, The Midwife's Apprentice.
Some of the children's book awards that I have found handy to track:
(Although I also try to keep track of the British, Canadian and Australian award winners the flat truth is no matter how wide the internet or how global the market, books, especially children's books, are still regional, or as the old saying goes they "follow the flag".)
Monday, June 4, 2007
Boston Globe- Horn Book Awards
The Boston Globe Horn Book Awards were announced today. Although I have read The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing which won for Fiction-Poetry, the other picks are totally new to me.
Oh well, too much time spent in the out-of-print end of the business, not enough time reading reviews and scouting the new books.
Oh well, too much time spent in the out-of-print end of the business, not enough time reading reviews and scouting the new books.
Monday, January 29, 2007
A dinosaur rambles....
The three books that I remember the most: Charlotte's Web 
by E.B. White, My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg were all read to me in different grades in elementary school.
It's been 40 years since I've been in elementary school and over 10 years since my own kids would let me read to them. Even though that's a lot of literature under the bridge, I hope these books are still being read to, and read by children today.
by E.B. White, My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg were all read to me in different grades in elementary school.It's been 40 years since I've been in elementary school and over 10 years since my own kids would let me read to them. Even though that's a lot of literature under the bridge, I hope these books are still being read to, and read by children today.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Pahhgg! Murphy strikes again...
Yesterday the American Library Association announced the 2006 winners of the major children's books awards in their meeting in Seattle. They did a web cast of the awards ceremony itself insuring that the news was equally disseminated. (The broadcast was at 12:00 eastern.)
For a dealer specializing in modern children's books this is always a busy day. After the awards are announced we check to see which of the titles we have and scramble to pick up the ones we don't have. Then we start fielding calls both from other dealers and our collectors on what they have and what they are looking for. If the winner of the Newbery, Caldecott or Printz is already in later printing in the stores or sold primarily to libraries and is not in the stores at all, the price of the book can climb just like a hot stock does on the stock exchange.
Award day is usually hectic, lucrative and most of all it's fun. You get to deal, horse trade and talk books with people who are extremely passionate about their collections.
So where does Murphy come in you ask? At about 10:25am eastern on Monday a Verizon Fiber Optic Tech working on service in the area misread a port and literally pulled the plug on me. I not only lost my internet access but also both my phone lines. (The analogy of eggs and a basket comes to mind.) It took Verizon 29 hours to get a tech back out and about 5 minutes for him to fix the problem once he got here. Excuse me, I have to go sulk some more....
For a dealer specializing in modern children's books this is always a busy day. After the awards are announced we check to see which of the titles we have and scramble to pick up the ones we don't have. Then we start fielding calls both from other dealers and our collectors on what they have and what they are looking for. If the winner of the Newbery, Caldecott or Printz is already in later printing in the stores or sold primarily to libraries and is not in the stores at all, the price of the book can climb just like a hot stock does on the stock exchange.
Award day is usually hectic, lucrative and most of all it's fun. You get to deal, horse trade and talk books with people who are extremely passionate about their collections.
So where does Murphy come in you ask? At about 10:25am eastern on Monday a Verizon Fiber Optic Tech working on service in the area misread a port and literally pulled the plug on me. I not only lost my internet access but also both my phone lines. (The analogy of eggs and a basket comes to mind.) It took Verizon 29 hours to get a tech back out and about 5 minutes for him to fix the problem once he got here. Excuse me, I have to go sulk some more....
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Newbery, King, Caldecott & Printz
The Newbery, King, Caldecott and Printz Awards are going to be announced at noon Eastern on Monday. ALA is going to do a webcast of the award ceremony at: http://www.unikron.com/ala-webcast .
I've got my favorites and my finger's crossed, but I've given up trying to predict. It's so much more fun to sit on the sidelines and throw peanuts!
I've got my favorites and my finger's crossed, but I've given up trying to predict. It's so much more fun to sit on the sidelines and throw peanuts!
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