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Page 8 • San Diego Midwinter Highlights Cognotes Youth Awards » from page 1 written by Philip C. Stead, and is a Neal Porter Book, published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing. Two Caldecott Honor Books also were named: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.; and Interrupting Chicken, written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein and published by Candlewick Press. Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults Ship Breaker, written by Paolo Bacigalupi, is the 2011 Printz Award winner. The book is published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Four Printz Honor Books also were named: Stolen by Lucy Christopher and published by Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.; Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King and published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.; Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick and published by Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group; and Nothing by Janne Teller and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division. Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults. One Crazy Summer, written by Rita Williams-Garcia is the 2011 King Author Book winner. The book is published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Three King Author Honor Books were selected: Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers and published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.; and Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, written by G. Neri, illustrated by Randy DuBurke and published by Lee & Low Books Inc. Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier, is the 2011 King Illustrator Book winner. The book was written by Laban Carrick Hill and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. One King Illustrator Honor Book was selected: Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe, written by Gary Golio and published by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award Zora and Me, written by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon, is the 2011 Steptoe author winner. The book is published by Candlewick Press. Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Illustrator) Award Seeds of Change, illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler, is the 2011 Steptoe illustrator winner. The book is written by Jen Cullerton Johnson and published by Lee & Low Books Inc. Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith is the winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime achievement. The award pays tribute to the quality and magnitude of beloved children’s author Virginia Hamilton’s contributions through her literature and advocacy for children and youth. Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience. The Pirate of Kindergarten, written by George Ella Lyon, illustrated by Lynne Avril and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, wins the award for children ages 0 to 10. After Ever After, written by Jordan Sonnenblick and published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., is the winner of the middle-school (ages 11-13) The teen (ages 13-18) award winner is Five Flavors of Dumb, written by Antony John and published by Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences The Reapers Are the Angels: A Novel, by Alden Bell, published by Holt Paperbacks, a division of Henry Holt and Company, LLC; The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel, by Aimee Bender, published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.; The House of Tomorrow, by Peter Bognanni, published by Amy Einhorn Books, an imprint of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of the Penguin Group; Room: A Novel, by Emma Donoghue, published by Little, Brown and Company a division of Hatchette Book Group, Inc.; The Vanishing of Katharina Linden: 2011 Midwin YALSA President Kimberly Patton, from left to right, ALSC President Julie Corsaro, ALA President Roberta Stevens, Coretta Scott King Committee Chair Crystal Carr Jeter, and REFORMA President Lucia Gonzalez at the ALA Youth Media Awards. A Novel, by Helen Grant, published by Delacorte, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.; The Radleys, by Matt Haig, published by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Also, The Lock Artist, by Steve Hamilton, published by Thomas Dunne Books for Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press; Girl in Translation, by Jean Kwok, published by Riverhead Books, an imprint of the Penguin Group; Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, by Liz Murray, published by Hyperion; and The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To, by DC Pierson, published by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children’s video. Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly Ellard of Weston Woods, producers of The Curious Garden, are the Carnegie Medal winners. The video is based on the book of the same name, written and illustrated by Peter Brown, and is narrated by Katherine Kellgren, with music by David Mansfield. Laura Ingalls Wilder Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. The 2011 winner is Tomie dePaola, author and illustrator of over 200 books, including: 26 Fairmont Avenue (Putnam, 1999), The Legend of the Poinsettia (Putnam, 1994), Oliver Button Is a Sissy (Harcourt, 1979) and Strega Nona (PrenticeHall, 1975). Margaret A. Edwards Award honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. Sir Terry Pratchett is the 2011 Edwards Award winner. His books include: Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The Wee Free Men, and A Hat Full of Sky published by HarperCollins Children’s Books; and The Color of Magic, Guards! Guards!, Equal Rites, Going Postal, Small Gods, and Mort all published by HarperCollins Publishers. May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children’s literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site Peter Sís will deliver the 2012 lecture. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1949, Sís attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. He has lived in the United States since 1982. Sís was awarded the 2008 Robert F. Sibert Medal and has illustrated three Caldecott Honor books. Peter’s work is admired throughout the world, and in 2003 he was named MacArthur Fellow, an honor bestowed by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children’s book translated from a foreign language and subsequently published in the United States A Time of Miracles is the 2011 Batchelder Award winner. Originally published in French in 2009 as Le Temps des Miracles, the book was written by Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated by Y. Maudet, and published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Two Batchelder Honor Books also were selected: Departure Time published by Namelos, written by Truus Matti and translated by Nancy ForestFlier; and Nothing published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, written by Janne Teller and translated by Martin Aitken. Odyssey Award for best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States The True Meaning of Smekday, produced by Listening Library, an imprint of Random House Audio Publishing Group, is the 2011 Odyssey Award winner. The book is written by Adam Rex and narrated by Bahni Turpin. Four Odyssey Honor Recordings also were selected: Alchemy and Meggy Swann, produced by Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio » see page 12 PLA’s First-ever Virtual Spring Symposium PLA will host a Virtual Spring Symposium on March 30, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. CST. This new online event will offer the premier professional education that PLA’s Spring Symposium is known for, but will be more affordable and convenient for attendees. PLA will present a full day of rich programming with multiple program tracks, a lunchtime author interview, and keynote speakers. Program tracks will include: Technology, Administration/Leadership, Youth Services, and Adult Services. Registration for individuals and groups will open in mid-January. Click here for more information. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/pla/index.cfm

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