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AWARDS PAST and PRESENT http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/awards.htm Internet School Library Media Center: a well indexed, meta site for librarians, teachers and students. Major book and media awards for children and young adults are linked from this page. Provided by Inez Ramsey, a Professor of Library Science at James Madison University. This award winning site truely is the Media Center for librarians and teachers. http://www.ala.org/ The American Library Association home: from there you can reach their Best books, Notable Books for Children, Newbery and Caldecott medal winners, Notable Children's Films and Videos, Recordings, Computer Software, Websites, Best Books for Young Adults, and more bests. http://www.ala.org/news/majorawards.html the ALA press release on the Newbery and Caldecott medals. http://www.ala.org/alsc/ Association for Library Services to Children website provides an assortment of children's literature resources along with their Awards & Notables page. Quicker reference to award winners list. http://www.amazon.com Amazon Books browse: Children's Books and hit the Bestsellers or New in Paperback or Classics by Age or Award Winners on the Children's Books Essential Bookself and you will have the best graphics and reviews in one place. Not just a list of winners. Look at the cover enlarged, get an idea of what the book is about from the reviews. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/bestbooks.html Children's Literature Web Guide: the source for information on award winners past and present, almost every award winner is listed here and if not, suggest it for their listings. The only thing missing from this site's award listings is a link from the award site to the author / illustrator's own site. http://www.dawcl.com Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature Lisa R. Bartle, reference/user education librarian at the Lima Regional Campus of Ohio State University, compiled and indexed this database of award-winning children's literature. Basically, this is a very powerful search engine searchable by age of reader, geographical setting, historical period, format, genre and more. The search may be limited by awards. http://collectbooks.about.com/msubchild.htm About.com links to award winners, Abby winners, Best of the net, and other lists sites. http://www.slj.com/articles/awards/awardsindex.asp School Library Journal's Best Books of the year, from there you should be able to reach the previous years lists. SLJ home page, http://www.slj.com |
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