Industry News
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The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation To Triple the Prize For Winners of the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
First $3,000 Prizes to be Presented at 32nd Annual EJK Book Award Ceremony on April 12, 2018, During Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival NEW YORK—November 8, 2017—The Ezra Jack …
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Neukom Institute to Honor the World’s Most Spectacular Speculative Fiction
HANOVER, N.H. – October 25, 2017 – The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College announced today the establishment of the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards, a global award …
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2017 Tomás Rivera Children’s Book Award to be honored on campus
SAN MARCOS – F. Isabel Campoy, Theresa Howell, Rafael López and Francisco X. Stork have been named the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award recipients for works published in …
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Recap: The Snowy Day Forever Stamps Ceremony
On October 4th, 2017, a beautiful ceremony was held to to honor the first day of issue for the brand new Snowy Day forever stamps, based on the classic children’s …
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Holocaust Survivor Eva Mozes Kor Becomes BuzzFeed Video Phenom
130 Million Views Rocket Kor’s Surviving the Angel of Death to #1 on Amazon! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Surviving the Angel of Death, the story of Holocaust Survivor Eva Mozes …
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See the Winners of the 2017 Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MORE THAN 890,000 STUDENTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD RETURN TO SCHOOL “READING-READY” AFTER LOGGING 138,399,392 MINUTES IN THE SCHOLASTIC SUMMER READING CHALLENGE One School in Every …
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Six Debuts on The New York Times Children’s Bestseller Lists
Congratulations to all the books below that made the list for the week of September 24, 2017! Picture Book: Sam, the Most Scaredy-Cat Kid in the Whole World by Mo …
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Winners of the 2017 Children’s Africana Book Awards Announced
The Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) program is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. CABA awards are presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best children’s and young adult books on …
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Teenreads Celebrates 20 Years!
We’ve had a great time looking back over the last two decades, asking ourselves: What’s changed and what’s the same? As we reflected, we knew we had to do something …
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Six Debuts on The New York Times Children’s Bestseller Lists
Congratulations to all the books below that made the list for the week of September 17, 2017! Picture Book: Uni the Unicorn and the Dream Come True by Amy Krouse …
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Staff Picks: What We’re Reading
Here at the Children’s Book Council, we are always reading from the piles of wonderful books our member publishers send us! Check out some books we love below: Laura’s Pick: …
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Literary Greats Headline Children’s Literature Festival at Bank Street College of Education
New York, NY, September 13, 2017—On October 28th, Bank Street College of Education will host BookFest @ Bank Street, an annual event devoted to the celebration, discovery, and discussion of …
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The Young People’s Literature NBA Long List Has Been Announced
The Long List for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature has been announced. Check out the Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Bookshelf article to see the list of titles and …
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The Growing Good Kids Book Awards Committee Looking for Publisher Nominations for 2018!
The Junior Master Gardener Program & American Horticultural Society (AHS) have partnered to develop the “Growing Good Kids – Excellence in Children’s Literature” Book Awards Program. The mission of the book …
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Global Need for Increased Access to Children’s Books in the Home
International Literacy Day: Research from 5 Countries Reveals the Global Need for Increased Access to Children’s Books in the Home Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report™ U.S., U.K., Australia, India, …
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The author of the recently released WILD THINGS answers three questions for the CBC!
1. Wild Things hit shelves just as you were doing the college rounds. What’s it been like seeing that family narrative kind of come full circle? And how are you handling …
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The Snowy Day Forever Stamps to be Issued by USPS This Fall!
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is thrilled to announce that the USPS will be issuing The Snowy Day Forever stamps early this Fall! Based on the classic children’s book by Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy …
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Call for Entries: The 2017 Animals, Animals, Animals Book Festival
CHICAGO _ The 2017 Animals, Animals, Animals Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best stories from the world of dogs, cats, horses, wild beasts, …
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Winners of the 2017 Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Books Awards Announced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: For the thirteenth year, children have chosen the best read aloud picture books in the Minnesota State University Moorhead’s (MSUM) Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards program. The …
