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American Booksellers for Children Announces Winners of the E. B. White Read Aloud Awards This year, in recognition of the fact that reading aloud is a pleasure to be enjoyed by readers of all ages, the E. B. White Read Aloud Award was expanded to include two categories. Members of ABC have chosen the following books for distinction: the E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Picture Books has been awarded to If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen, and the E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers has been awarded to Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles. The winners were announced on April 3, 2006. |
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 IBBY Announces the Winners of the 2006 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award The IBBY-Asahi 2006 Award has been given to Mongolian Children's Mobile Library Project and Foundation ABCXXI-Emotional Health Program: All of Poland Reads to Kids. The prizes will be presented at the 30th IBBY Congress in Beijing, China, at a special festive event on Friday, 22 September 2006. |
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IBBY Announces the Winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 2006 The Hans Christian Andersen Jury of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) has announced that Margaret Mahy (New Zealand) as the winner of the 2006 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award and Wolf Erlbruch (Germany) as the winner of the 2006 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration. Margaret Mahy is widely published in the US. Wolf Erlbruch, as well, has had several books published in the US, including Oh, No! Where Are My Pants? and Other Disasters by Lee Bennett Hopkins. The Awards will be presented to the winners at the opening ceremony of IBBY's Congress in Beijing, China, in September 2006. |
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About IBBY-Asahi’s Reading Promotion Awards The IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award, initiated by the International Board on Books for Young People and sponsored by the Japanese newspaper company the Asahi Shimbun, is presented to projects run by groups or institutions that are judged to be making a lasting contribution to reading promotion for children and young people. Previously the Award was given annually, however, as of 2006 the Award will be presented every two years to two projects and presented to the winners at the biennial IBBY Congress. It was a difficult task for the current jury to choose two winners from the eleven nominees as all the projects were of great merit and complemented IBBY’s Mission Statement. Each nominated project targeted children who live in disadvantageous circumstances with no or little access to books. They were really Reading Promotion Projects! The Mongolian Children’s Mobile Library Project The well-known Mongolian writer Jambyn Dashdondog established the Mongolian Children’s Mobile Library Project in 2002 with the help of many volunteers including students, writers and artists, as well as his own family. The project focuses on the promotion of book reading among children in rural areas throughout Mongolia, and is specifically aimed at the young people of the nomadic groups of herders who live in the remote areas of Mongolia. The mobile libraries are transported not only by bus across the vast steppes, but also by camel! The first books used in the libraries were picture books, selected from the best children’s stories by local and international authors. After this initial selection, a campaign in Japan collected 10,000 picture books donated by Japanese children. Mongolian students of Japanese translated the books and the translated texts were glued into the books over the Japanese text. The project is a new initiative for this huge country and is becoming well known throughout the country. The Foundation ABCXXI-Emotional Health Program: All of Poland Reads to Kids The Polish campaign All of Poland Reads to Kids began in 2001 and is now well known all over Poland. The project is run by the Foundation “ABCXXI – Emotional Health Program” and has strong media participation. The campaign aims at revitalizing the custom of reading to children at home, in kindergartens and at school, thus encouraging the healthy emotional development of children. The direct target groups are parents, teachers, caregivers and other people working with children, as well as the media. Well-known Polish personalities participate in the campaign, inspiring adults to read to children. Although the project has its own staff members, many volunteers support them and the campaign is having beneficial results all over Poland. IBBY congratulates these two winnings projects for their creative and effective approaches to helping children enter the world of books and reading. |
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Winners of 2005 Newbery and Caldecott Announced This year's Newbery Medal winner is Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata, Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Also announced on Monday, January 17 was the 2005 Caldecott Medal winner, Kitten's First Full Moon, illustrated and written by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books). The 2005 Caldecott Honor Books are: The Red Book, written and illustrated by Barbara Lehman (Houghton Mifflin); Coming on Home Soon, illustrated by E. B. Lewis, written by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons); and Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, written and illustrated by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children). The 2005 Newbery Honor Books are: Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (G.P. Putnam's Sons); The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books); and Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books). |
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Tenth Annual Audie Award Finalists Announced The Audio Publishers Association has announced the finalists for its 10th annual Audie Awards, which will be presented during a gala at Tavern on the Green in New York City's Central Park on June 3, 2005. The Audies recognize excellence in audiobook publishing in 31 different categories, including Audiobook of the Year. Finalists for Children's Titles for Ages 8+ are A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (HarperAudio); Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke, narrated by Brendan Fraser (Listening Library); Keesha's House by Helen Frost (Recorded Books, LLC); Peter and the Starcatchers by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry, narrated by Jim Dale (Brilliance Audio); The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (HarperAudio). Nominees for Solo Narration/Male include Peter and the Starcatchers, by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry, narrated by Jim Dale (Brilliance Audio). |
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