From: "Rocco Staino" (via aaslforum Mailing List) <aaslforum@lists.ala.org>
Date: January 23, 2019 at 8:04:16 AM EST
To: aaslforum@lists.ala.org
Subject: [aaslforum] Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Children's Book Week with a Literary Landmark
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I am posting this as the chair of the ALA/CBC (Children's Book Council Council.) committee

                                                                     

Celebrate Your Children’s Literature Heritage with a Literary Landmark          

 

2019 marks the 100^thAnniversary of Children’s Book Week, an event sponsored by theChildren’s Book Counciland Every Child A Reader.  Since 2015 communities around the country have celebrated Children’s Book Week by dedicating a Literary Landmark plaque a site that has a connection to a children’s author or a particular children book.  The Literary Landmark Register is a project of United for Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.   

 

Children’s Book Week will be April 29 – May 5, 2019. There are already two landmarks planned in New York State being coordinating by the Empire State Center for the Book.  The 100^thAnniversary of Children’s Book Week will be celebrated throughout 2019 so Literary Landmarks can be dedication throughout the year.  Robert McCloskey(Ohio), Walter Dean Myers(New York), Barbara Cooney(Massachuetts) and Margaret Wise Brown(Rhode Island) have all been recognized in past years.

 

Information about Children’s Book Week may be found at:

http://everychildareader.net/cbw/

 

 

Information regarding Literary Landmarks may be found at 

http://www.ala.org/united/products_services/literarylandmarks

 

or 

 

You can contact Rocco Staino, Chair of the ALA/CBC Committee and United for Libraries Board Member at rocco.staino@gmail.com. Please put “Literary Landmark” in the subject.

 

 

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