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Date: September 9, 2014 at 3:02:43 PM EDT
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Subject: Gene Luen Yang?s Battle Cry; Henrietta Smith to Receive Carle Honor; Time Saving Tips

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September 9, 2014

Rousing the troops Rebecca T. Miller, Editor-in-Chief This year, SLJ was at the DC National Book Festival on August 31, where Gene Luen Yang delivered a rousing speech and asked his fellow writers to allow themselves “the freedom to make mistakes—including cultural mistakes.” We profile another leader in diversity, 92-year-old librarian Henrietta Smith, friend to the late Walter Dean Myers and inaugural member of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Task Force. She will be recognized with a 2014 Carle Honor, through the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, for her advocacy and mentorship. With the school year underway, take a moment to respond to our brief Out-of-Pocket Spending Survey. And don’t forget to nominate your school library program—deadline September 15—for the inaugural SLJ Buzz Award, sponsored by Brain Hive, recognizing innovation in student reading. Check out the guidelines.

Top Stories

Gene Luen Yang Rouses the Crowd at DC National Book Festival By Rocco Staino SLJ went to this year’s National Book Festival in Washington, DC, and several changes were afoot. But one thing was clear—Gene Luen Yang’s stirring speech about diversity left an indelible mark. Read More›››

Henrietta Smith: Diversity Advocate to Receive Carle Honor By Mark Flowers Henrietta Mays Smith, 92, an inaugural member of the Coretta Scott King Awards Task Force, will be the first librarian to receive a Carle Mentor Honor on September 18. Read More››› 'Text Sets' to Help School Librarians Advance College Readiness By Carolyn Sun With reading skills being tested as criteria of college readiness, school librarians are primed to support these skills by building text sets—or units of instruction—according to the nonprofit Student Achievement Partners. Read More››› Streamline Your Workflow: Five Time-Saving Tips By Richard Byrne Cool Tools columnist Richard Byrne shares tips for streamlining tasks, from managing email via spreadsheets to harnessing IFTTT (If This Then That). Read More››› Penguin Random House Extends Deadline for Teacher Awards for Literacy By SLJ Staff Penguin Random House has extended its deadline for the Teacher Awards for Literacy, recognizing educators who inspire a love of reading among students, to September 15. Read More›››

Job of the Week The Boone County Public Library is looking for a Library Director. Read More›››

Memorial Service to Honor Frances Foster By SLJ Staff The late Frances Foster, a celebrated children’s editor and publisher at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, will be honored at a public memorial service this month in New York City. Read More›››   Classic Tales for the iPad | Best of Apps & Enhanced Books By SLJ Staff These adaptations of timeless stories by authors ranging from Aesop to Sergeï Prokofiev will be appreciated by a range of readers and listeners at home and in the classroom. Read More›››

SLJ Out-of-Pocket Spending Survey By SLJ Staff With the school year underway, take a moment to respond to our brief SLJ Out-of-Pocket Spending Survey. Read More›››   Blog Spotlight: NeverEnding Search Yale University's Photogrammar By Joyce Valenza Joyce Valenza writes about Photogrammar, a digital humanities project from Yale University that stores 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945. Read More›››   Mind the Gaps 2014 Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium On October 10–11, 2014, join an esteemed group of award-winning authors, illustrators, librarians, and other children’s book experts and aficionados in Boston, MA, for the 2014 Horn Book at Simmons Colloquium, MIND THE GAPS, a memorable two-day event celebrating the best in children’s and young adult literature. The program will take a hard look at the current state of publishing and what’s missing in children’s literature, and will feature recent Boston-Globe Horn Book award recipients including Steve Sheinkin, Patricia Hruby Powell, Christian Robinson, and Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. MORE INFORMATION | REGISTER TODAY

Blog Spotlight: Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog Deborah Wiles's Revolution By Nina Lindsay Rachel Stein offers a nice synopsis of Revolution on the Mock Newbery blog “For Those About to Mock,” though she hesitates to comment on its Newbery chances after listening to the audio version. Read More›››   Blog Spotlight: Someday My Printz Will Come The (Very Long) List By Karyn Silverman Each year, we take all the YA books we’re hearing about, the books we want to read, the ones with three or more stars, and the ones by previously recognized authors to make the (very long) list, writes Karyn Silverman. Read More››› JLG Booktalks to Go Early Literacy Picture Books for Fostering Lifelong Learners By Deborah B. Ford In anticipation of The Horn Book and SLJ’s “Fostering Lifelong Learners” event, check out the following early literacy selections from the editors at Junior Library Guild. Read More›››   Blog Spotlight: A Fuse #8 Production Invented Dialogue and the Conundrum of the Picture Book Biography By Elizabeth Bird SLJ blogger Elizabeth Bird talks shop about children's nonfiction picture books. Read More›››

infoDOCKET Free Access to the Berg Fashion Library Database By Gary Price In honor of New York Fashion Week, Oxford University Press is offering free access to the Berg Fashion Library database through September 18. Read More›››

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