Want to give a presentation on behalf of AASL at the 2011 Annual Conference in N’awlins?
The deadline is 5:00pm CDT on Friday, May 21, 2010.
Get your cameras ready, shake out that beautiful Farrah hair, and check out the details here.
I’m back from ALA Midwinter and taking a quick break before hustling off to lead some teacher professioanl development. More on Midwinter soon, but in honor of MLK Day, here are some announcements to help you think about future collection development purchases.
WHO WON THE CALDECOTT? NEWBERY? CORETTA SCOTT KING? AND MORE?
All of LibraryLand is abuzz today with the announcement of ALSC’s leading literary awards for children’s and young adult literature, including the Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King Awards. But you didn’t have to travel to slushy, sleety Boston to hear the news. See the list of winners here.
DEVELOPING RESPONSIVE, THOUGHTFUL MULTICULTURAL COLLECTIONS
Author Mitali Perkins gives some great tips for evaluating multicultural literature here in her outstanding April 2010 article for School Library Journal, “Straight Talk on Race: Challenging the Stereotypes in Kids’ Books.” Her ideas have helped me think with more respect and depth about the role of non-white, non-middle characters in books for kids and what it truly means to have a responsive, multicultural collection. Consider forwarding the link to your teachers, too — so many classroom collections are built on garage sale or public library Friends sales, which makes those collections particularly vulnerable to outdated views of gender, race, and culture.
