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Friday, June 12, 2009

REMINDER: Register for the Coretta Scott King Book Awards by tomorrow and save $10!
For more EMIERT and Coretta Scott King Book Awards related programs and events, visit http://wikis.ala.org/annual2009/index.php/Round_Table_Programs
NEW! RSVP for the Bloomsbury Children's Books - Our Children Can Soar Original Art Exhibit

Bloomsbury Children’s Books and the Coretta Scott King Book Awards 40th Anniversary Committee invite you to an original art show and cocktail reception celebrating Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change.
Monday: July 13, 2009
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Center 22
Download the flyer
Artists include Cozbi A. Cabrera, R. Gregory Christie, Pat Cummings, Bryan Collier, Leo and Diane Dillion, AG Ford, E. B. Lewis, Frank Morrison, James Ransome, this year’s John Steptoe winner, Shadra Strickland and Eric Velasquez.
RSVP: Katie.fee@bloomsburyusa.com

School Library Journal Ad (pdf) - May 2009 (5.125" x 5.5")
ALA Mourns Mabel R. McKissick
Coretta Scott King Book Awards on ccbc.net
The ccbc.net@ccbc.education.wisc.edu discussion board is focusing on the Coretta Scott King Book Awards recipients for this year. Now is a great time to help spread the word about the Coretta Scott King Book Awards titles and the 40th Anniversary. Please take advantage of this opporturnity to call attention to these award winners.
WBAI - Off The Page, Friday, March 20, 2009 11:00 am broadcast
Host Esther Armah explores with studio guests the legacy of racism with Black British author, Bernadine Evaristo and her book 'Blonde Roots,' with its twist on the transatlantic slave trade; also in the show a debate on how healthy is the Young Teen and Adult market in this troubled economic times, and how does the Coretta Scott King Book Awards feed the market as it celebrates its 40th year this year.
Visit the WBAI archive at http://archive.wbai.org to listen or download the program.

New London - Mabel R. McKissick, 87, of 201 Hempstead St., a prominent member of New London community and retired librarian of New London High School, passed away peacefully Friday, March 20, 2009, at the Bridebrook Rehabilitation in Niantic.

Mrs. McKissick was co-founder of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards and an OLOS tribute page is in progress. For more information about the history of the awards, visit our About page. If you would like to share stories and memories, please send them to cskbookawards@ala.org.
Mabel R. McKissick Obituary

We have a new feature! Thank you to Crowders Creek Elementary School, Clover, SC for sharing the Coretta Scott King Book Awards with your students! This is a great example of how the books and materials are being used in schools. Special thanks to Dorothy Guthrie and the support of Principal Millicent Dickey.
Coretta Scott King Book Awards Open Doors to Learning at Crowders Creek Elementary School
March 3, 2009

Do you have a program or event based on the Coretta Scott King Book Awards? Please send your stories and photos to cskbookawards@ala.org if you would like to be featured!

Photo: Motivating young readers
"First Lady Michelle Obama talks to second grade students as she and her husband, President Barack Obama, get ready to read to a class at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington." Can you see the book she is sharing? (hint: it's one of the 2009 Coretta Scott King Book Awards recipients!)
ALA Youth Media Awards Webcast
I Never Knew... Fall 2008
A Newsletter Highlighting African American Children's Literature
Featuring Coretta Scott King Book Award recipient Ashley Bryan

Coretta Scott King Book Awards Store updated!
Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee announces 2009 Book Donation Grant Winners. Congratulations!
- East Iberville School, St. Gabriel, Louisiana
- Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, Huntsville, Alabama
- The Legal Aid Society Juvenile Rights Practice, New York City, New York
Press and Media Center launched!
We have relocated press releases here, and will be posting videos and other promotional materials.

STICKERS template now available for download!

The template for the stickers we debuted at Midwinter Meetings in Denver, "I Read a Coretta Scott King Book Awards Title," and displaying the winner seal, is available as a free pdf so you can print to share them with your readers. Designed for Avery 5294 Round Laser Labels.

Kadir Nelson
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
published by Disney-Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Disney Book Group

Hope Anita Smith
Keeping the Night Watch
published by Henry Holt and Company

Joyce Carol Thomas
The Blacker the Berry
published by Joanna Cotler Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Carole Boston Weatherford
Becoming Billie Holiday
published by Wordsong, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press, Inc

Floyd Cooper
The Blacker the Berry
published by Joanna Cotler Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Kadir Nelson
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
published by Disney-Jump at the Sun, an imprint of Disney Book Group

Jerry Pinkney
The Moon Over Star
published by Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group

Sean Qualls
Before John Was a Jazz Giant
published by Henry Holt and Company

Shadra Strickland
Bird
published by Lee & Low Books