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From: Pamela S. Turner <pstrst>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:36:27 -0800
As a nonfiction writer, I would be very curious to know how teachers and librarians decide what books to purchase. Do you skim the review magazines for starred reviews? I assume after ALA announces the awards and the Notables list, people would buy many of the honored books. What about other awards, like Bank Street, Orbis Pictus, ASPCA's Henry Bergh, Jane Addams, and Golden Kite? I'm especially interested in how the AAAS-SB&F Prize winners are received. This award has categories by age group, so a picture book is not forced to compete with a YA. Also, the backgrounds of the judges lean more toward science than the humanities, which seems appropriate for a science book award.
Pamela S. Turner www.pamelasturner.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "ERLENE KILLEEN" <KILLEER at stoughton.k12.wi.us> To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:09 AM Subject: [CCBC-Net] award winners
> This year's Caldecott has already sold 200,000 copies so somebody must
> think it is a "book with more general appeal that at
> least someone is really enthusiastic about."
>
> Can there be too many awards. I doubt it. Pick and choose the ones
> you want to promote. We see them all in the long list so it seems like
> hundreds, but if you are working in a certain age range ? many are
> eliminated. If you have a high population that one of the awards
> targets, you need those things to promote OR, if you are in a low
> diversity population, you need to know what the best for those areas are
> to make your patrons truly "global." Lots of reasons to use the
> different types of awards.
>
> I tend to use the lists to focus purchases. I can't buy a large
> portion of any year's publications so I have to get things narrowed down
> somehow. Being the only librarian in my building, I am always looking
> to recommendations from these award lists as well as people's comments
> on this type of list.
>
> Award away!!!!
> Erlene
>
>
>
> Erlene Bishop Killeen
> Library Media Specialist/District Coordinator
> Fox Prairie Elementary
> Stoughton Area School District
> 1601 West South Street
> Stoughton, WI 53589
> 608-877-5181
> FAX 608-877-5184
> killeer at stoughton.k12.wi.us
> "Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm."
> Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
>
>
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Received on Tue 22 Jan 2008 01:36:27 PM CST
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:36:27 -0800
As a nonfiction writer, I would be very curious to know how teachers and librarians decide what books to purchase. Do you skim the review magazines for starred reviews? I assume after ALA announces the awards and the Notables list, people would buy many of the honored books. What about other awards, like Bank Street, Orbis Pictus, ASPCA's Henry Bergh, Jane Addams, and Golden Kite? I'm especially interested in how the AAAS-SB&F Prize winners are received. This award has categories by age group, so a picture book is not forced to compete with a YA. Also, the backgrounds of the judges lean more toward science than the humanities, which seems appropriate for a science book award.
Pamela S. Turner www.pamelasturner.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "ERLENE KILLEEN" <KILLEER at stoughton.k12.wi.us> To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:09 AM Subject: [CCBC-Net] award winners
> This year's Caldecott has already sold 200,000 copies so somebody must
> think it is a "book with more general appeal that at
> least someone is really enthusiastic about."
>
> Can there be too many awards. I doubt it. Pick and choose the ones
> you want to promote. We see them all in the long list so it seems like
> hundreds, but if you are working in a certain age range ? many are
> eliminated. If you have a high population that one of the awards
> targets, you need those things to promote OR, if you are in a low
> diversity population, you need to know what the best for those areas are
> to make your patrons truly "global." Lots of reasons to use the
> different types of awards.
>
> I tend to use the lists to focus purchases. I can't buy a large
> portion of any year's publications so I have to get things narrowed down
> somehow. Being the only librarian in my building, I am always looking
> to recommendations from these award lists as well as people's comments
> on this type of list.
>
> Award away!!!!
> Erlene
>
>
>
> Erlene Bishop Killeen
> Library Media Specialist/District Coordinator
> Fox Prairie Elementary
> Stoughton Area School District
> 1601 West South Street
> Stoughton, WI 53589
> 608-877-5181
> FAX 608-877-5184
> killeer at stoughton.k12.wi.us
> "Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm."
> Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
>
>
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