Archive for Children's and Young Adult Literature
June 12, 2008 at 5:26 am
· Filed under Children's and Young Adult Literature, School Library 2.0, School librarians, School libraries, Social Networking, Web2.0 ·Tagged ning
Basically, a Ning is an online social networking platform. Anyone can build a Ning using the tools at the Ning website. A Ning can connect you with like-minded people on any topic and provides a variety of communication, connection, collaboration and information tools such as forums, blogs, groups, videos, photos.
Here are a few that may be of interest - Young Adult Literature established by Marita Thomson, Australia, Great School Libraries established by Pam Berger, USA, ASLA Online (Australian School Library Library Association) established by Karen Bonanno, Australia, and School Library Action Research established by David Loertscher, USA.
If you have come across, or established, a Ning that would be of interest to those involved with school libraries then please send in your comment.
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March 14, 2008 at 4:40 am
· Filed under Children's and Young Adult Literature, Conferences
The Kaleidoscope Children’s Literature Conference - Story: Bridging Worlds. November 6 - 8, 2008 is the next time for this highly successful conference and it will be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This conference provides you with an opportunity to “rub shoulders with some of the most talented authors and illustrators known in the children’s literature world”.
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March 13, 2008 at 1:00 am
· Filed under Children's and Young Adult Literature ·Tagged awards
Australia’s Sonya Hartnett has been awarded the 2008 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. This award, created by the Swedish government in honor of the much-loved children’s author, is the world’s richest children’s and youth literature literature prize. Previous winners of the award have included Philip Pullman and Maurice Sendak.
Sonya Hartnett’s first novel, Trouble All the Way, was published in 1984, when she was 15. Since then she has written a body of work that defies easy categorization and which appeals to adult readers as much as to adolescents. Her writing has won many awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for Thursday’s Child (2002). Her latest novel, The Ghost’s Child (2007), has been shortlisted for Best Book in the South East Asia & South Pacific region of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. The regional winners of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes will be announced later today.
Sonya Hartnett will receive the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in Stockholm from Crown Princess Victoria on 28 May.
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February 9, 2008 at 7:04 am
· Filed under Children's and Young Adult Literature
Very early in 2008, Jon Scieszka, author of The Stinky Cheese Man and numerous other offbeat titles, was named National Ambassador for Children’s Literature in the United States. This week he took the opportunity to explain just what the experience has been like in an open letter on the Children’s Bookshelf section of Publisher’s Weekly. It seems that children across the US are already benefiting from this newly created post - Jon has taken on the mantle very diligently, but is maintaining his trademark wacky approach.
Jon maintains a terrific website, Guys Read, which reflects his passion for getting boys hooked into books.
Children’s Bookshelf has a free weekly email newsletter. Subscribers can join the list here.
It would be great if IASL members could share information about posts similar to Scieszka’s role and the UK’s Children’s Laureate, a post currently held by Michael Rosen.
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February 7, 2008 at 3:48 am
· Filed under Children's and Young Adult Literature ·Tagged newsletters
From March, Horn Book magazine will be offering a free electronic newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book, to subscribers.
Published monthly by the editors of this highly regarded journal, each issue will have interviews with writers and illustrators, noteworthy titles, and news from the world of children’s books.
The subscription list is now open and you can register here.
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February 5, 2008 at 3:50 am
· Filed under Children's and Young Adult Literature, IFLA
The IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section December 2007 newsletter is now available from the IFLA website. A range of articles are included. Also, the sections web page has some useful information, links and documents that would be of interest to school libraries.
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February 3, 2008 at 11:00 pm
· Filed under Children's and Young Adult Literature ·Tagged awards
A new annual children’s literature award has been announced in the United States. The Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award is sponsored by Antioch University in Los Angeles, and will be awarded to the best fiction book published in North America in 2007/8 for children in years K-6 that ‘best exemplifies the ideals of social action and in turn encourages young readers to become agents of change themselves’. Deadline for submission is 15 March. The award will be presented in June.
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January 29, 2008 at 2:55 am
· Filed under Children's and Young Adult Literature
The Children’s and Young Adult Literature SIG now has a tag cloud on del.icio.us. If you are already a convert of this social bookmarking website, this first sentence will make perfect sense. If you are yet to experience the convenience of del.icio.us (bookmarks accessible from any computer, the ability to share etc.) take a look at our list here.
Almost 100 sites have been tagged so far, under a variety of tag headings and we are keen to make this as relevant as possible for IASL members with an interest in this SIG. Suggestions for suitable sites are most welcome and we would particularly like to hear about events and awards related to children’s literature from all regions. You will see that the tag list already includes some 2008 events by month but there are certainly many more happening around the globe that we can add.
If you are already using del.icio.us, please add IASL_ChildLit to your network. If you haven’t used it before, have fun playing with it.
Please contact Ruth Cady or Judi Jagger with any sites you would like to see added to the tag cloud. Our contact information is on the Children’s and Young Adult Literature SIG page.
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