icWales - Stories of war suffering must be read to the children of today
TODAY, as we commemorate the Holocaust, the Children's Laureate underlines the need to read children stories - lest we forget.Last night Michael Morpurgo, acclaimed children's author, gave a talk at a Welsh school and told children, parents and teachers, why the legacy of war has dominated his writing... ...
Author Michael Morpurgo has landed the Salford Children's Book Award ?1000 prize for his novel Private Peaceful.
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A TEACHER and a school librarian have pioneered a Sussex-based children's book award where literature is assessed by young readers themselves, not a panel of adult judges.
The presentation took place about 10 days ago, but this is the first online mention I've come across.
SDSUniverse | Peter Neumeyer Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Donald Has a Difficulty - one of several 'Donald' book written in collaboration with the illustrator Edward Gorey.
The children's and YA winners in Australia's AUREALIS Awards are as follows:
YA novel: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters (Harper Eos)
YA short: Margo Lanagan, Singing My Sister Down (Black Juice, Allen & Unwin)
Childrens long: Colin Thompson, How To Live Forever (Random)
Childrens short: Gary Crew & Stephen Woolman, Beneath the Surface (Hodder Headline)
Margo Lanagan is also a winner of the inaugural GOLDEN AUREALIS Award for short fiction, a 'best of the best award', taken from the winners of the five divisions within the Aurealis Awards for excellence in Australian science fiction.
Full details on the AUREALIS website...
The biannual Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation (administered by the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Roehampton, sponsored by the Marsh Christian Trust and subsidised by the Arts Council) was presented last night to Sarah Adams for her translation of Eye Of The Wolf by Daniel Pennac.
The award was presented by Aidan Chambers, who chose as his focus for his presentation speech the work of William Tyndale, translator of the Bible. Although the number of books submitted for the award is increasing every two years, Chambers argued the process of bringing interntational literature to young UK readers was too piecemeal, and he urged a major publisher to seize the initiative and publish a minimum of five books in translation per year, each produced in a distinctive and consisstent jacket design. Such a publishing programme would take five years to embed itself, he predicted.
Aidan Chambers, ACHUKA learnt last night, has recently delivered his first novel in five years to Random House.
ALA | Margaret A. Edwards Award
An author still under-appreciated in the UK was amongst those honoured alongside the Newbery and Caldecott medal winners:
Lanky Lizards! Francesca Lia Block is the slinkster-cool recipient of the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring her outstanding contributions to young adult readers. The award was announced Monday, January 17, during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Boston. The Edwards Award recognizes Block's ground-breaking Weetzie Bat books, which enable teens to understand the world in which they live and their relationships with others and society.
ALA | 2005 Media Award Winners
The winners:
Newbery Medal
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Author website - www.kira-kira.us
Newbery Honor Books
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
Caldecott Medal
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Caldecott Honor Books
The Red Book by Barbara Lehman
Coming on Home Soon illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Jacqueline Woodson
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff has been awarded the Michael L. Printz Award.
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ALA | Literary & Related Awards
It's Oscars day, for children's books in America (although UK titles are eligible for the Michael Printz YA Award).
The 2005 ALSC Media Awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, will be announced on Monday, January 17, 2005, at a press conference from 8:15-9:15 a.m. (Eastern Time) during the ALA Midwinter Meeting. The winners will be posted on the ALSC Web site as soon as possible after the press conference (approximately 10:30 a.m. Eastern time). Visit the ALSC home page at www.ala.org/alsc to locate the link to the winners list under "Breaking News." A press release with all the information will also be available on the ALA Web site at www.ala.org.
New York City - AP Entertainment
A division of the American Library Association has created a new award for children's books, to be named after the late Dr. Seuss. The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for outstanding children's literature will begin next year, the Association for Library Service to Children announced Friday...
Guardian Unlimited Books | News | First-time author wins Ottakar's inaugural Children's Book Prize
Stuart Hill, a former car upholsterer turned bookseller turned writer, ... said he was "thrilled" to be the first ever winner of the Ottakar's Children's Book Prize for his novel, The Cry of the Icemark... ...Ironically, Hill works for Waterstones.
Geraldine McCaughrean scooped a record-breaking third children's book award with Not the End of the World...McCaughrean, who has written nearly 140 books, said it was good to prove she had not been a flash in the pan with her first Whitbread win in 1987. This book, for teenagers, was one of her most serious and had a "horrible topicality" in its story of Noah and vast floods.
But she was confident she would not prove the overall victor. "Two children's books have won in the last three years [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon last year and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman in 2001] and there won't be a third."
