
Karen Newberry Great Round Table session. Excited about the prospect of pre-con! Thanks for your hard work, Laura.

PaperTigers (http://www.papertigers.org/index.html) describes itself as a website about books in English for young readers. While books discussed are multicultural from or about any part of the world, it has a particular focus on the Pacific Rim and South Asia...

The 2011 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Committee invites ALSC members to suggest authors or illustrators for consideration for the 2011 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award...

The 2010 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Committee invites your input in helping us identify eligible titles. The Award will be announced at the ALA Youth Media Awards press conference at Midwinter (Boston) and presented at the Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Terms: “The Mildred L. ...

By Sarah Polace 2009 Penguin Young Readers Group Award Winner I was very thankful to win the 2009 Penguin Young Readers Group Award which allowed me to attend the Annual Conference in Chicago...

The 2010 Odyssey Award Committee is asking you to submit your favorite audiobooks published between November 1, 2008 and October 31, 2009 for consideration...

Margarita Engle is the author of the 2006 Pura Belpré Medal Winner, The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, and The Surrender Tree, which received the 2009 Pura Belpré Medal as well as a 2009 Newbery Honor. ...

The program below is one of many featured on ALA’s online clearinghouse for school/public library cooperation managed by the AASL/ALSC/YALSA Interdivisional Committee on School/Public Library Cooperation. Visit the clearinghouse to learn more or share your own exemplary partnership! ...

Once upon a time in the fall of 2008, a Head of Children’s Services saw that there was a grant to fund a summer reading program. She looked at the requirements and the previous winner’s information. In her mind, she didn’t have a chance of getting the grant. Then...

The Brown Bookshelf is now accepting submissions for the 3rd Annual 28 DAYS LATER. During the twenty-eight days of Black History Month, The Brown Bookshelf will profile a different children’s or young adult author and children’s illustrator. On...

The 2010 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Committee is asking the ALSC membership to submit titles for consideration...

BAM! Body and Mind (http://www.bam.gov) is maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...

Greetings ALSC Members: It’s your president here, letting you know about some exciting conversations we’re beginning, and asking for your contributions. Tw...















