ZOOM
PBS launched a new version of the Zoom website for the debut of the newest season of the long-running but still-popular kids’ show. Zoom is a show that does book reviews, jokes, science and math projects, and much more. It even has the line in its theme song, “If you like what you see, turn off your TV, and do it!” Definitely a show for kids that librarians can appreciate.

HoustonChronicle.com – `Resurrection Men’ wins Edgar for best novel of ’03
Took awhile searching to find the Edgar Allen Poe Award winners in the young adult and juvenile categories. Seems like everyone is interested in only the adult book winners. But here are the juvenile winners!
· Best young adult: Acceleration by Graham McNamee (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Children’s Books).
· Best juvenile: Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum).

The Jane Addams Awards were announced on April 28th. The awards are given to books published in the previous year in the U.S. that “effectively address themes or topics that promote peace, social justice, world community, and/or equality of the sexes and all races.”
The winner in the picture book category is Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, written by Kathleen Krull.
The winnter in the category for older children is Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope by Beverley Naidoo.