Semicolon has the Third Carnival of Children’s Literature with a poetry theme. I didn’t manage to get a post together for the carnival this time, but hope to for the next one. Also, Happy National Library Week! We have lots of programs happening at our library for adults and kids. I am even lucky enough to be doing a book discussion group with a huge crowd of third graders on Thursday. I love this stuff!
Day: April 3, 2006
2006 Book Sense Awards
The Book Sense Book of the Year Award gives out children’s book awards as well as adult. The 2006 Award winners are:
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke – Children’s Literature Winner
Zen Shorts by Jon J Muth – Children’s Illustrated Winner
The site offers the lists of honor books as well.
Harris Is So Amazing
Scripps Howard News Service has a story on Robie H. Harris, the author of two of the most challenged books of 2005, It’s So Amazing and It’s Perfectly Normal. Harris is a former elementary teacher and offers the following quote:
“I have no problem with anyone objecting to these books,” Harris said during a telephone interview from her Cambridge, Mass., home. “What I do have a problem with is keeping these books away from kids whose parents want them to have this information.”
Waking Brain Cells 