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From: John Peters <cf071>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:25:45 -0400 (EDT)
Friends:
This announcement is being posted hither and yon; please excuse the duplicates in your Inboxes. As a member of this year's Mildred L. Batchelder Award committee, I have been deputed to solicit your suggestions for qualifying books to consider. Any member of the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association can send in recommendations, so if you are not a member, this is a chance to join, or to make a new friend.
For those who may be unfamiliar with this award, or a bit vague about its criteria, here are extracts from the committee's manual:
"The Batchelder Award was established in 1966 by the Children's Services Division (now the Association for Library Service to Children) of the American Library Association [to] honor a U.S. publisher for the best translated children's book...originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country and subsequently published in English in the United States during the preceding year."
and for a list of general criteria, see http://www.ala.org/alsc/batchelder_terms.html.
Folklore is not eligible, and though picture books do qualify for consideration, the Batchelder is an award for text, not art. If you have a question about a particular book's eligibility, contact ALSC's Executive Director, Malore I. Brown, email: mbrown at ala.org, fax: 312/944v71.
The winning book and its publisher, as well as runners-up, should we opt to have some, will be selected (behind closed doors, sorry) at the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference, announced at the ALSC awards press conference on Monday, January 21, 2002, and posted at www.ala.org/alsc shortly thereafter.
In order to give the committee time to get and to read the books that you think we should see, please send title, author, publisher and publication date information NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 2001 to the committee's Chair: Judith Rovenger, Westchester Library System, 410 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley, NY 10502, FAX: (914) 674A85, email: rovenger at wlsmail.org.
Thank you for your interest.
John Peters Central Children's Room New York Public Library cf071 at bfn.org
** My esteemed institution asserts its right to disavow
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Received on Tue 04 Sep 2001 02:25:45 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:25:45 -0400 (EDT)
Friends:
This announcement is being posted hither and yon; please excuse the duplicates in your Inboxes. As a member of this year's Mildred L. Batchelder Award committee, I have been deputed to solicit your suggestions for qualifying books to consider. Any member of the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association can send in recommendations, so if you are not a member, this is a chance to join, or to make a new friend.
For those who may be unfamiliar with this award, or a bit vague about its criteria, here are extracts from the committee's manual:
"The Batchelder Award was established in 1966 by the Children's Services Division (now the Association for Library Service to Children) of the American Library Association [to] honor a U.S. publisher for the best translated children's book...originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country and subsequently published in English in the United States during the preceding year."
and for a list of general criteria, see http://www.ala.org/alsc/batchelder_terms.html.
Folklore is not eligible, and though picture books do qualify for consideration, the Batchelder is an award for text, not art. If you have a question about a particular book's eligibility, contact ALSC's Executive Director, Malore I. Brown, email: mbrown at ala.org, fax: 312/944v71.
The winning book and its publisher, as well as runners-up, should we opt to have some, will be selected (behind closed doors, sorry) at the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference, announced at the ALSC awards press conference on Monday, January 21, 2002, and posted at www.ala.org/alsc shortly thereafter.
In order to give the committee time to get and to read the books that you think we should see, please send title, author, publisher and publication date information NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 2001 to the committee's Chair: Judith Rovenger, Westchester Library System, 410 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley, NY 10502, FAX: (914) 674A85, email: rovenger at wlsmail.org.
Thank you for your interest.
John Peters Central Children's Room New York Public Library cf071 at bfn.org
** My esteemed institution asserts its right to disavow
any of the preceding comments or opinions **
Received on Tue 04 Sep 2001 02:25:45 PM CDT
