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!
Showing posts with label newbery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newbery. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Auction Price Realized- A WRINKLE IN TIME
| A bit of old news now, but the following very hard to find Newbery was auctioned by PBA galleries in San Francisco in Aug and fetched a most respectable $10,800. "First Edition of of the 1963 Newberry Medal winner, the 1965 Sequoyah Book Award, and the 1965 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. The first in the author's series of novels for children of the Murry and O'Keefe families. Extremely rare in the first edition, According to ABPC no copies have appeared at auction in more than 15 years. | |
| Condition: | |
| Very minor wear to jacket, primarily at spine ends, light browning to jacket edges and folds, small stain at foot of rear jacket panel; light wear to cloth at spine ends, faint stain on rear board corresponding with stain on jacket; small spot of foxing on front free endpaper; overall near fine in a like jacket." Unconfirmed rumor sez that an bookseller had the winning bid....all I know is that it was not me :-( |
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Auction Watch
The PBA galleries auction on Aug 21st is auctioning some very interesting children's books, the highlight being a first edition in dust jacket of Madeleine L'Engle's A WRINKLE IN TIME.
Their auction estimate is $5,000-8,000 but I would not be surprised if it sold for quite a bit more. This is a very, very scarce title that (so far) I've only had once. About 8 years ago I handled a consigned copy in the second state dust jacket which I sold overnight to another dealer for $3,000.
Their auction estimate is $5,000-8,000 but I would not be surprised if it sold for quite a bit more. This is a very, very scarce title that (so far) I've only had once. About 8 years ago I handled a consigned copy in the second state dust jacket which I sold overnight to another dealer for $3,000.
Monday, January 14, 2008
2008 Newbery and Caldecott Awards
From the ALA website:
2008 ALSC Literary and Related Award Winners
In order to post the winning information as expeditiously as possible, we are providing a straight list of 2008 ALSC award winners, including book title, author, and publisher. Additional information, including annotations and book cover images for each award-winning title, will be posted to the individual award pages as soon as possible.
John Newbery Medal
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
Newbery Honor Books
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic/Scholastic Press)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam/GP Putnam's Sons)Randolph Caldecott Medal
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic)
Caldecott Honor Books
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine (Scholastic/Scholastic Press)
First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter)
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtin by Peter Sís (Farrar/Frances Foster)
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems (Hyperion)Phooey, with the exception of Hugo Cabret and Knuffle Bunny Too, I was not aware of any of these titles, ususally my award radar is better than that!
Sunday, July 15, 2007
even as x-libris
Another title I'm always searching for:
Madeliene L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. (This is the 1963 Newbery Award book and notoriously hard to find in the first state dust jacket, library discard or not.)
Madeliene L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. (This is the 1963 Newbery Award book and notoriously hard to find in the first state dust jacket, library discard or not.)
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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