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[CCBC-Net] Upcoming Topics

From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:10:11 -0600

Dear Members of the CCBC-Net Community,

First, thank you for for continuing to share your thoughts on favorite books of 2007, as well as announcements relating to children's and young adult literature.

Between now and January 14, we invite you to continue to comment on books published in 2007 that you especially appreciated. We also will extend the "announcement" period this month until that day.

Our discussion topics for the second half of January and the month of February are as follows:

*Second Two Weeks of January: 2008 American Library Association Children's and Young Adult Literature Awards. *Beginning January 14 through mid-February, we will talk about the 2008 American Library Association Children's and Young Adult Literature book award winners and honor books. The awards will be announced on Monday morning, January 14, at a press conference during the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. For information on how to see the awards presentation webcast live, or to receive the results immediately after the announcement, go to ALA's
"When and Where" wiki at
**http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2008/index.php/When_and_Where

*February

First Two Weeks: 2008 American Library Association Children's and Young Adult Literature Awards, continued.* For the first half of February, we'll continue the discussion of 2008 ALA children's and young adult literature award titles. We invite your comments on any of the ALA award winner and honor books.

*Second Two Weeks: Retro Reading or Timeless Topics? *Books about being a boy, books about being a girl, books on manners and more. We've noticed a number of books that look to be straight out of the 1950s either visually or, at least at first glance, thematically. What topics or treatments that once seemed out of date are back in vogue, or at least in print, in publishing for children and teens?


You'll note that this year we are not scheduling a time to discuss each of the ALA awards. So from mid-January to mid-February when we are discussing the award winners and honor books, please make it clear in the subject line of your message which books/awards your message is about.


Megan

-- 
Megan Schliesman, Librarian
Cooperative Children's Book Center
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
600 N. Park Street, Room 4290
Madison, WI  53706
608-262-9503
608-262-4933 (fax)
schliesman at education.wisc.edu
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Wed 09 Jan 2008 03:10:11 PM CST