The second issue of The Edge of the Forest is now available online.  It features an interview with Gail Gauthier as well as an interview with Jane Buchanan about judging for the SCBWI Golden Kite.

YALSA has a list of ways that libraries can celebrate National Library Week with the teens in their community.  It is filled with great ideas that don’t take money, just some time.  Wonderful!

Sheila Ruth, from the blog Wands and Worlds (which is a great source for science fiction and fantasy for children) let me know that the Final Ballot for the new Andre Norton Award has been announced. 

The nominees are:

The Amethyst Road by Louise Spiegler
Siberia by Ann Halam
Stormwitch by Susan Vaught
Valiant: a Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black