Minnesota Book Award nominees announced
“Literary heavy-hitters — including Newbery Medal winner Kate DiCamillo, Louise Erdrich, Charles Baxter and Wang Ping — and dozens of new voices are among the 2004 Minnesota Book Award nominees, announced Monday by the state Humanities Commission.”
The winners will be announced on April 25th. A list of nominees is available with the article. Subscription required.

YAPP
Collection of online resources for librarians who work with teens. The resources cover all aspects of the job from administration to materials to programming. Very complete resource.

Colossal Directory of Children’s Publishers
Lists of children’s book and magazine publishers, as well as information on copyrights, contracts, critique groups, recommended sites, workshops, and marketing.

Author Illustrator Source
A list of authors and illustrators who do school visits and presentations. The list can be browsed as a whole or is also broken down by the region that the authors live.

Welcome to Mo Willems Home Page
Offiical site for the Caldecott Honor winning illustrator Mo Willems. His honored book is Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, one of the most popular books with the kids that I have ever read aloud. The kindergarten class I read to weekly just had to keep it for several more weeks and read it often.

Reading for the Future
This is a fascinating site that offers resources for teachers and librarians to promote the reading of speculative fiction. The site contains book lists, online resources, news, and more.

Robert Kimmel Smith – Home
Official site for the author of Chocolate Fever.

Matt Novak author/illustrator
Homepage for one of my favorite picture book illustrators! Elmer Blunt’s Open House and Mouse TV are beloved by children in my library, because of all of the clever touches that Novak includes in his illustrations.

Carolyn Meyer’s Website
Homepage for Carolyn Meyer, author of historical fiction for children including several of the Royal Diaries series.