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    Love of Reading: Grant Applications Now Available

    Posted by Kids Editor, 17 months ago

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Kids come home from school bursting with stories. In classrooms, teachers are reading about the holiday season, winter wonderlands and different worlds. At home, families are cozying up under warm blankets with hot cocoa reading bedtime stories.

    And, yet, that doesn’t happen everywhere. Schools across Canada continue to deal with shrinking budgets, and teachers, like my mom, have to go into their own pockets to buy books for their classrooms. Kids don’t come home with books for bedtime because the one’s in the classroom are falling apart and too delicate to take outside. Did you know that forty years ago many Canadian school districts budgeted to buy three books per child. Today it’s only about a third of a book.

    Teachers, it is time. Time to change the state of your school by applying for the Love of Reading Literacy Grant! Started in 2004, this fund was started by Indigo to address the underfunding of provincially funded high-needs elementary schools in Canada. The grant gives $1.5 million each year to 20 high-needs provincially funded elementary schools across Canada. Until the Canadian government commits funds to elementary school libraries, the Foundation is committed to putting more books in children’s hands.

    Download the application and share it with your principal. loveofreading.org/code/navigate.asp?Id=10

    Applications are due FEBRUARY 11, 2011.

    Here are some tips and sample applications to guide you in this process:
    loveofreading.org/code/navigate.asp?Id=10

    Listen to the life-changing calls from previous winners when they find out they have won a Literacy Fund grant here: www.loveofreading.org/code/navigate.asp?Id=105


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    Love of Reading: Adopt a School Program

    Posted by Kids Editor, 2 years ago

    I remember as a kid going to the school library and listening to the librarian talk about all of the books there. I remember the day when I first heard about my childhood favourite book, Anne of Green Gables. It was not only exciting to be allowed to take a book out all on my own, but also choosing which one I wanted. I couldn’t wait to go home and read it.

    It is hard to fathom, but in many elementary schools across the country, kids don’t have this. There are no trips to the school library as there aren’t any books for the librarian to talk about.

    No Peter Pan.

    No Alice in Wonderland.

    No Anne of Green Gables.

    In 2004, Indigo Books and Music started the Love of Reading Foundation to address the underfunding of provincially funded high-needs elementary schools in Canada. Until governments addresses the funding issue for elementary school libraries, the Foundation is committed to putting more books in the hands of children. Each year, the Fund gives a $1.5 million transformative grant given to 20 high needs elementary schools across the country.
    Now in its second year, until October 2nd, the Love of Reading Foundation’s “Adopt a School” program is in full swing. Indigo, Chapters and Coles stores across Canada have adopted a local high needs elementary school of their choice and for a set period of time, proceeds will go directly to those schools. In its inaugural year, over $213,000 raised for 150 schools. Over 200 stores and over 145 schools are currently registered in the program.

    Help make a difference in your community. Donations can be made in store at the cash, on kiosk, or, on our Adopt a School website.

    Website: adoptaschool.loveofreading.org

    Follow the Love of Reading Fund on Twitter: twitter.com/IndigoLOR

    Like the Love of Reading Fund on Facebook: facebook.com/loveofreading

    Watch the video: www.youtube.com/IndigoLOR

    Newbery, Caldecott and Printz Awards Announced

    Posted by Kids Editor, 2 years ago

    The Children’s book world has been all a flutter with the announcement of the Newbery, Caldecott and Printz awards last week. Kind of considered the “Oscars” of children’s books awards, the American Library Association chooses what they consider to be the best of the best and the prize is given out to the lucky author or illustrator later this year. Rebecca Stead won the prestigious Newbery Medal for WHEN YOU REACH ME, Jerry Pinkney won the Randolph Caldecott Medal for THE LION AND THE MOUSE and Libba Bray has won for the Michael L. Printz Award for one of my favourite books of last year, GOING BOVINE.

    The Newbery Medal was named after the eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery and is awarded annually to the author whose work is considered to have had the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. In Stead’s WHEN YOU REACH ME, Miranda and her best friend Sal’s friendship is tested when everything they once new and understood about New York City changes – including a series of mysterious notes that speak of things that haven’t happened yet.

    Four other books were honoured including National Book Award Winner, CLAUDETTE COLVIN: TWICE TOWARD JUSTICE by Phillip Hoose, THE EVOLUTION OF CALPURNIA TALE by Jacqueline Kelly, WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON by Grace Lin and THE MOSTLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF HOMER P. FIGG by Rodman Philbrick.

    The Caldecott Medal was named in honour of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott and is to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. In THE LION AND THE MOUSE, Pinkney uses textured watercolour illustrations to masterfully portray the relationship between a lion and a mouse.

    There were two Caldecott Honor Books this year: ALL THE WORLD, illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon and RED SINGS FROM TREETOPS: A YEAR IN COLORS, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Joyce Sidman.

    The Michael L. Printz Award is named after a school librarian and given to the book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult/teen literature. Libba Bray’s GOING BOVINE features a stoner, lazy and all-around indifferent teen Cameron who finds out that he has Mad Cow Disease and follows the advice of a candy-obsessed punk angel named Dulcie to take his death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf friend Gonzo on a road trip to Disney Land to not on ly find a cure, but save the world from fire-breathing giants.

    Other Printz Honor Books were: CHARLES AND EMMA: THE DARWINS’ LEAP OF FAITH by Deborah Heiligman, THE MONSTRUMOLOGIST, by Rick Yancey, PUNKZILLA, by Adam Rapp, and TALES OF THE MADMAN UNDERGROUND: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE, 1973, by John Barnes.

    If you want to see a full list of awards, check out this link below for a full list of awards and winners:

    www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6715153.html?nid=2286&rid=##CustomerId##&source=link

    Awards. Awards. Awards.

    Posted by Kids Editor, 2 years ago

    It’s awards week in Kids' and Teens' book world. The first: the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature was given on Wednesday November 18th to Phillip Hoose, for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice a true story about 15-year-old African-American girl who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.

    See here for the full list of nominees:
    community.indigo.ca/toptens/National-Book-Award-Nominees-Young-Kids-Editor/563484.html

    The second: Canadian Children’s Book Centre announced the winners of the Canadian Children’s Literature Awards last night at a gala held in Toronto. Four awards were given and they are as follows:

    TD CANADIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AWARD : Shin-chi’s Canoe Nicola I. Campbell. A sensitive portrayal of a young aboriginal boy’s attempt to stay connected with his people’s history while he is forced to attend a residential school.

    Check out the full list of finalists: community.indigo.ca/toptens/Finalists-Announced-TD-Canadian-Children-Kids-Editor/557222.html

    MARILYN BAILLIE PICTURE BOOK AWARD: Mattland by Hazel Hutchin and Gail Herbert . The wonders of imagination are realized in this multi-layered story about two children’s ability to create a world with a few popsicle sticks and a lot of creativity.

    For a full list of the finalists, click here: community.indigo.ca/toptens/Finalists-Announced-CCBCs-Marilyn-Baillie-Kids-Editor/557227.html

    NORMA FLECK AWARD FOR CANADIAN CHILDREN’S NON-FICTION : The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland. A powerful and engaging biography about of a young girl who survives Sierra Leone's brutal civil war.

    See here for a full list of the finalist: community.indigo.ca/toptens/Finalist-Announced-Norma-Fleck-Award-Kids-Editor/557230.html

    GEOFFREY BILSON AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: The Landing by John Ibbitson. Already the winner of the Governor General’s award last year, Ibbitson’s book continues to gain accolades with this Depression-era coming-of-age story.

    For a full list of the finalists click here: community.indigo.ca/toptens/Finalists-Announced-Geoffrey-Bilson-Award-Kids-Editor/557233.html

    Third, the Governor General’s award for Children’s text and illustration were also given out on Tuesday the 17th.

    Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat won for Children's Literature –Text: Follows the tumultuous story of the Byrne family during Ireland’s Great Famine of 1847.

    Bella’s Tree by Jane Russell won for Children's Literature – Illustration. The jury said that Russell’s illustrations were “well craft(ed) and captur(ed) the imagination and humanity of the everyday lives they portray.

    Pieces of Me by Charlotte Gingras won for best translation. The Jury said that Susan Ouriou’s translations “created a magical rendering of the exquisite original. Tenderly redrawing the portrait of a troubled teenage girl struggling to come into her own.”

    More Mélanie Watt Book News

    Posted by Kids Editor, 3 years ago

    M�lanie Watt

    We are elated to hear that this past weekend the lady who brought us Scaredy Squirrel and Chester has been awarded, not one, but TWO, awards by the Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA.) Mélanie Watt swept the CBAs winning both children’s writing awards, Children's Author of the Year and Children's Illustrator of the Year, which are voted on by booksellers across the country.

    Other nominees in the Children’s Author of the Year category were Kenneth Oppel for the third book in the Airborn Series, Starclimber, and Budge Wilson for her prequel to Anne of Green Gables, Before Green Gables.

    Other nominees in the Children’s Illustrator of the Year category were Rob Gonsalves for his work on Sarah L. Thomson’s Imagine a Day books and Charles Pachter’s critically acclaimed M is for Moose.

    Mélanie Watt and Alma Fullerton win the 2009 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards

    Posted by Kids Editor, 3 years ago

    WINNER! CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK AWARD

    The 2009 Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were announced yesterday afternoon at Market Lane Junior and Senior Public Schools. Mélanie Watt and Alma Fullerton won the prestigious book award which recognizes artistic excellence in Canadian children’s literature for picture books and young adult/middle readers. The winners were selected by two juries of kids from both schools. Seven students in grades 3 and 4 chose the author/illustrator of the children's picture book award and five students in grades 7 and 8 selected the recipient of the young adult/middle reader award.

    Here are what some of the kids had to say about Mélanie Watt's Chester's Back! :

    "It could be a funny, short play. I liked the pictures."
    "It is a very original book."
    "Very funny - I like it because of Chester's imagination."

    Here are what some of the kids had to say about Alma Fullerton's Libertad:
    "I was sad when it was over. I read it twice."
    "I loved the way it was written in poem (verse). It's not a happy book
    but realistic and believable. I really connected to the characters and wanted
    to know what happened to them."
    "It had mature themes that brought you into the book."

    Be sure to get both winners today.


    Check out the full list of nominees here:

    community.indigo.ca/toptens/Winners-Shortlist-Ruth-Sylvia-Schwartz-Kids-Editor/543129.html

    Cute picture of Ian Falconer's Olivia

    Posted by Kids Editor, 3 years ago

    People who love children's books will appreciate this poster designed by Olivia author Ian Falconer advertising Children's Book Week in the U.S., a week-long extravaganza that promotes literacy. I just think this poster is super adorable. Who doesn't love a pretty impressionable pig on top of books. Classic.

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