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American Library Association 50 E. Huron St. Chicago, IL 60611 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Palatine, IL 60095 Permit No. 27 BOSTON — 2010 MIDWINTER MEETING ALA Cognotes Highlights Issue LA announced the top books, audiobooks and video for children and young adults, including the Caldecott, King, Newbery and Printz awards, at its Midwinter Meeting in Boston. John Newbery Medal for most outstanding contribution to children’s literature: When You Reach Me, written by Rebecca Stead, is the 2010 Newbery Medal winner. The book is published by Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books. Four Newbery Honor Books also were named: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose and published by Melanie Kroupa Books/ Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group; The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly and published by Henry Holt and Company; Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin and published by Little, Brown Youth Media Awards Announced at Midwinter Meeting and Company Books for Young Readers; and The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick and published by The Blue Sky Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc. Randolph Caldecott Medal for most distinguished American picture book for children: The Lion & the Mouse, illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney, is the 2010 Caldecott Medal winner. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers. Two Caldecott Honor Books also were named: All the World, illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon and published by Beach Lane Books; and Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Joyce Sidman and published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. » see page 10 REFORMA President Loida Garcia-Febo, left to right, YALSA President Linda Braun, ALSC President Thom Barthelmess, Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee Chair Deborah Taylor, and ALA President Camila A. Alire display some of the ALA Youth Media Awards winners at the conclusion of the Youth Media Awards presentation. Gebregeorgis Provides Insight, Inspiration at ALA President’s Program By Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. The Library of Congress LA President Camila Alire, whose signature initiative for Family Literacy Projects dovetailed with the topic of the speaker at the President’s Program on Sunday, January 17, introduced the CNN Video detailing Yohannes Gebregeorgis as one of the ten individuals honored as that station’s heroes and the librarian himself who was responsible for a program promoting literacy and libraries among Ethiopia’s children. Alire indicated that while the literacy rate in the world at large is 82 percent, in Ethiopia literacy is only 42.7 percent. Librarian Gebregeorgis, who earned his MLS degree at the University of Texas in Austin under the mentorship of past ALA President Loriene Roy, is combating illiteracy among the young in his native country with innovations such as donkey mobile libraries to get reading material out in particular to the rural poor. Gebregeorgis reflected that “with literate children there is no limit to how much we can do.” He reminisced about how books guided his life. Ethiopian schools tend to contain only textbooks to the exclusion of fiction and historical fiction and, consequently, do not ordinarily inspire young readers. But he recounted how the story “Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot” in the compilation The March of Times set his hopes soaring, especially when student movements against Emperor Haile Selassie ensued. His involvement in anti-government ac- Yohannes Gebregeorgis tions necessitated his flight to Sudan, and the Emperor was subsequently overthrown. The replacement military government eventually led to Gebregeorgis moving to the United States, becoming a naturalized American citi- zen, studying English literature, and becoming a children’s librarian after earning his MLS. His intensive self course in children’s literature while employed in San Francisco unintentionally prepared him for his return visit to Ethiopia where he found the near absence of libraries with children’s collections deplorable. In 2001, Gebregeorgis published Silly Mammo, a retelling of an Ethiopian folktale, the first Amharic-English book in the U.S. In August 2002, he quit his job, returned to Ethiopia, and the following year opened the first children’s library there —in his own home. Noting that Ethiopia has the second highest number of donkeys in the world (a close second to China), » see page 8 NEW www.TLCdelivers.com • 800.325.7759 • Visit Booth #2346 LS2 Kids NEW LS2 Circ LS2 Pac Solutions that Deliver http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/midwinter/2010/index.cfm http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/midwinter/2010/cognotes.cfm http://www.ethiopiareads.org http://www.TLCdelivers.com http://www.TLCdelivers.com

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