What a month it’s been. What started out as a simple exercise in shelf awareness has grown into a full-fledged mission to bring authors and readers of all backgrounds, ethnicities and races together to celebrate books, the authors who write them and the illustrators who make them beautiful. The support from visitors to our site, [ Read the full article… ]
Category: Accolades and Recognition
It’s No Mystery: The 2008 Edgar Awards
It’s still the season to recognize authors, books, and darn good writing. Named after Edgar Allan Poe, the Edgar Awards are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America to honor the best mystery writing in fiction, non-fiction, and film. Nominated for Best Young Adult is Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin who was [ Read the full article… ]
Literary “Oscars” Delivers
The Golden Globes were a bust. And the Oscars may not even take place. But the after-glow of the ALA Mid-winter is blinding. Check out the winners and see if your prediction was dead on or just dead in the water. Let’s hear your reflections in the comments. Coretta Scott King Winner Elijah of Buxton [ Read the full article… ]
Carla’s CSK Choices
As Paula mentioned in her Betting on the CSK blog this week, the industry is abuzz this week wondering who will take home the coveted prize this year – the Coretta Scott King Award. While researching for the 28 Days Later campaign, several books caught my eye because of the uniqueness of the plot, the [ Read the full article… ]
CSK: My illustration award predictions
I won’t pretend to have an inside line to the Coretta Scott King committee. I have no idea who they are considering for the illustration award. But if I could wave a magic wand to determine the outcome, the winner would be…well, my book, of course. Ha! Shoot, I’m not ashamed to admit that. For [ Read the full article… ]
Betting on the CSK
Who cares about the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and Grammy’s? It’s literary award time. And the mother of all literary awards for children’s authors of color, the Coretta Scott King Award will be given during the annual ALA Mid-Winter in just about a week. We here at the Brown Bookshelf have a vested interest in [ Read the full article… ]
And the Nominees Are . . .
A few weeks ago, Essence magazine announced their Essence Literary Awards and Save Our Libraries campaign. Recently, they posted the nominees for each category on their website. The nominees for Children’s Books are: Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine illustrated by Kadir Nelson/Scholastic (picture book) Henry Box Brown is well known and remembered as a [ Read the full article… ]