Recipients of the 2013 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards were announced by the Jane Addams Peace Association. Each Kindness, written by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis and published by Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin, is the winner in the Books for Younger Children Category. We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s…
Category: Young Adult Books
Are you an author who visits schools? Come to Boise!
I’m going to be helping to book authors for tours including my daughter’s schools in the Boise area; talks at Boise State University, and other engagements in the Pacific Northwest. Please email me at youngpeoplespavilion@gmail.com with press kits and suggestions. Sincerely, Michael Strickland
Young People’s Pavilion: Barack Obama “We Are One People”
Barack Obama’s meteoric rise from little-known state senator from Illinois to the first African-American president of the United States is one of the most amazing success stories in history. From his childhood in Hawaii all the way to the White House, this title includes revised and updated information through the historic inauguration of the 44th…
Authors around the net react to the death of Fred McKissack
Award-winning author Fredrick L. McKissack, who with his wife and partner Patricia created more than 100 books profiling African-American heroes and illuminating aspects of the African-American experience, died of heart failure on Sunday, April 28. He was 73. McKissack was born and grew up in Nashville, Tenn., where he earned a B.S. from Tennessee Agricultural…
Author DAVID JAMES DUNCAN featured at Idaho Writers and Readers Rendezvous
A terrific line up of authors and publishing professionals are coming to this year’s Idaho Writers and Readers Rendezvous. One of the best is James David Duncan Duncan is a father, a renowned fly fisher, a practitioner of what he calls “direct, small-scale compassion-activism,” and the author of the novels The River Why and The…
Interview with Tim Federle, Author of Better Nate Than Ever
What is your birthdate?: 3/24 Previous occupations: Broadway actor, with rest-stops at the Super Bowl (as a Christina Aguilera backup dancer) and Radio City Music Hall (as a CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR polar bear). Favorite job: This one! Revealing Questions Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words? A. Honestly? Extremely dangerous. Oh, wait….
How Classroom Libraries Work
Research shows that classroom libraries help students attain reading achievement. These key points from Scholastic’s Classroom Libraries Work: Research & Results provide concrete examples that will help you build an effective skill-building library for your students. Additional research support for the importance of classroom libraries can be found here. Children learning to read need access…
NEW: Graphic Novel Series HILO by Judd Winick, Cartoonist and former cast member of MTV’S The Real World
First Book in the Series to be Published in Spring 2015 “Winick has a sense of timing and adventure that is rare in children’s literature, and a knack for thinking like a kid that’s even rarer. I think it’s because he still is one at heart. HILO is delightful, silly, tender, and most importantly: funny.”…
Poems Throughout the School Day
Crossposted on Yahoo! Introducing Poetry throughout the School Day For millennia – even before Homer started reciting The Iliad and The Odyssey – we humans have been telling one another poems. Even today, children and adolescents often spontaneously make up poems to tell one another, in jump-rope rhymes, insults and comebacks, riddles, and other verses. What…
SQUISH #4: Captain Disaster and other great middle grade books
SQUISH #4: Captain Disaster by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm When trouble calls, there is a single cell who has the courage to do what’s right….Squish! “Even the mildest young boy will see something of himself in Squish. Super Amoeba is an energetic, good-hearted escapade, one that young readers will enjoy.”—New York Times Book…
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