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12 COGNOTES 2017 MIDWINTER HIGHLIGHTS ISSUE
2017 Amelia Bloomer List Highlights Feminist Books for Young Readers
The Amelia Bloomer Project, a product of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) Feminist Taskforce, announced the 2017 Amelia Bloomer List at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits in Atlanta.
The bibliography consists of well-written and illustrated books with significant feminist content, intended for young readers from birth to 18 years old. This year’s list includes 10 titles published between July 1, 2015 and December 31, 2016.
Named for Amelia Bloomer, a pioneering 19th century newspaper editor, feminist thinker, public speaker, and suffragist, the list features books about girls and women that spur the imagination while confronting traditional female stereotypes.
The bibliography is intended to aid children and teens in selecting high-quality books released over the past 18 months and may be used for a recommended reading list for youth and those who interact with them and as a collection development or reader’s advisory tool for interested librarians. The top 10 titles of the 2017 Amelia Bloomer List include:
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer by Diane Stanley, illustrated by Jessie Hartland (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman).
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine by Ibtisam Barakat (Farrar Straus Giroux/Margaret Ferguson).
Becoming Unbecoming by Una (Arsenal Pulp).
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina (Candlewick).
Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston (Penguin/Dutton Books for Young Readers).
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers).
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge (Abrams/Amulet).
Take It as a Compliment by Maria Stoian (Jessica Kingsley/Singing Dragon).
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why by Sady Doyle (Melville House).
We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out by Annie E. Clark and Andrea L. Pino (Macmillan/Holt).
To view the complete annotated list, as well as lists from previous years, please visit the Amelia Bloomer Project blog, http://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/.
SRRT is a unit within the American Library Association. Learn more at http://libr.org/SRRT.
2016-2017 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Winners Selected
The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), an affiliate of the American Library Association, has selected the winners of the 2016 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (APAAL). The awards promote Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage and are awarded to titles published from October 2015 to September 2016 based on their literary and artistic merit. APALA was founded in 1980 by librarians of diverse Asian/Pacific ancestries committed to working together toward a common goal: to create an organization that would address the needs of Asian/Pacific American librarians and those who serve Asian/Pacific American communities.
There are five categories for the awards. Each committee selected a winning title for the category. The winners of the 2016 awards include:
Adult Fiction
Winner: Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua (Willow Publishing).
Honor: The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Adult Nonfiction
Winner: Picture Bride Stories by Barbara Kawakami (University of Hawaii Press).
Honor: Changing Season: A Father, A Daughter, A Family Farm, by David Mas Masumoto and Nikko Masumoto (Heyday).
Young Adult
Winner: Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee (G.P. Putnam).
Honor: Watched by Marina Budhos (Wendy Lamb Books).
Children
Winner: The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow Books).
Honor: Momotaro Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters by Margaret Dilloway (Disney-Hyperion).
Picture Book
Winner: Puddle by Hyewon Yum (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Each winner will receive an award plaque and seal on their book at the APALA Award Ceremony on Saturday, June 24, during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.
