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January 16, 2014

Get on board with BOB!
Rebecca T. Miller, Editor-in-Chief
Rebecca Miller

The contenders for SLJ's annual Battle of the Kids' Books—a book version of basketball's March Madness we lovingly refer to as BOB—have been announced. Now you can start engaging your kids in these books while "Battle Commanders” Monica Edinger, Roxanne Feldman, and Jonathan Hunt map the brackets in preparation for the upcoming contest.

Watch the commentary, and add your own—and have fun!

And don’t miss tuning into our first ever pre-game show for the Youth Media Awards on January 27!

Top Stories

California School Librarians Look to Higher Ed during Advocacy Overhaul
By Karyn M. Peterson

New data confirming the dramatically low ratio of media specialists to students (about 1:7,000) in the state has the California School Library Association rallying for big advocacy in 2014. Key to those efforts will be the state’s universities, which can help broadcast the message that students’ college readiness is suffering without information literacy experts on site at every school.

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Court Strikes Down FCC’s Net Neutrality Mandate
By Ian Chant

In a ruling that could have serious implications for the way Internet access is regulated in the United States, the Washington, DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this morning that the FCC does not have the authority to impose so-called net neutrality rules on Internet service providers.

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Engaging with Ebooks Can Aid Children’s Literacy, Study Finds
By Karyn M. Peterson

As increasingly younger children recognize and use electronic devices as sources of information and entertainment, what is the impact on their literacy skills? Largely a positive one, according to a study in the January edition of SAGE Open.

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Goal: 1,000 Books before Kindergarten | First Steps
By Lisa G. Kropp

Children need to enter school ready to learn to read, which means they must be introduced early to a host of varied vocabulary. Sharing 1,000 books with them before kindergarten—via programs for parents and caregivers that model best reading practices—is the ideal way to do this.

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God’s Double Agent tells the incredible true story of Chinese dissident Bob Fu. Heralded by New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas as “Impossible to put down,” this edge-of-your-seat book describes Fu's conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, and his harrowing escape to the United States.
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SLJ’s Battle of the Books’ Contenders Revealed
By Shelley Diaz

At last! The Command Team of School Library Journal’s sixth annual Battle of the Kids’ Books (BOB) has revealed the 16 contenders! Though the first round of the virtual book elimination tournament doesn’t start until March 10, let the speculating begin! Which title will end up on top?

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SLJ’s Youth Media Awards Pre-Game Show and Post-Game Wrap
By Kathy Ishizuka
Betsy Bird and Lori Ess

You’ve been preparing all year for this moment: the announcement of the American Library Association Youth Media Awards. Grab some coffee and join the fun by tuning into SLJ’s first ever pre-game show (#sljpregame), streamed live via Google Hangout at 7:30 EST on January 27, followed by a post-game wrap.

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Focus On: Spotlighting Musicians and Fine Artists
By Wendy Lukehart
picture books

Here’s a collection of picture book biographies that introduces musicians and fine artists to children. The authors and illustrators have created engaging, child friendly profiles that will ideally lead young readers to explore and seek out other materials about these amazingly talented individuals.

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Job of the Week

The New Trier Township High School District 203 is looking for a High School Library Department Chair.

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Touch and Go

Lessons from Aesop
By Daryl Grabarek

The Boy Who Forgot to Charge his Phone? The Girl Who Lost her House Key? It's not a generation that draws our lessons from animals or the natural world. The Aesop for Children for iOS provides a window into a past where the way a crow manages to drink from a bottle and the consequences of goats facing off on a narrow bridge prove instructive for real life.

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Center for Children's Literature

Bank Street CCL Names 2014 Irma Black Award, Cook Prize Finalists
By Mahnaz Dar
Are the Dinosaurs Dead, Dad? cover

New York’s Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature has named the finalists for its annual Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature and its Cook Prize for the best STEM-themed picture book.

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Jewish Book Council

National Jewish Book Award Winners Named
By Karyn M. Peterson
Cover of Hanukkah Bear

The Jewish Book Council has named the winners of its 63rd Annual National Jewish Book Awards, including winners in the Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Illustrated Children’s Book categories.

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People

EBSCO’s Brooke to Retire; Collins Named CEO
By Ian Chant

One of the biggest names in information services for libraries is seeing a change at the top. After more than four decades with the company, EBSCO CEO F. Dixon Brooke announced his retirement. Tim Collins, president of EBSCO Information Services, will succeed Brooke.

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Industry News

Simon & Schuster, OverDrive Expand Public Library EBooks Pilot
By Gary Price

Simon & Schuster and OverDrive have announced a pilot launch of the Simon & Schuster eBook catalog for 31 select OverDrive partner public libraries in the United States. In this expansion of an existing pilot, the publisher's full catalog of frontlist and backlist ebook titles will be available.

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Collection Development

Setting Life to a Soundtrack | New YA Novels
By Amanda Mastrull
This Song Will Save Your Life cover

Three young adult authors examine the importance of music as a means for self-expression in novels that tackle challenges of the teenage years.

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Blog Spotlight: Heavy Medal (A Mock Newbery Blog)

2013 Best Book Outliers
By Jonathan Hunt

Booklist, the Bulletin, Horn Book, Kirkus, SLJ, and Publishers Weekly have already come to a kind of consensus on the best books of 2013. Our own blog picked a shortlist of eight. While these books are showered with attention, other worthy ones have gotten hardly a mention. Here’s an effort to rectify that.

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