Hi Everyone,
Many organisations around the world will be nominating for the Astrid
Lindgren Award. The Australian chapter of IBBY has just distributed a
press release announcing their choices. They have chosen David Metzenthen
and Jeannie Baker. Their role is obviously to promote Australian creators.
I'm attaching the IBBY Australia press release here as I thought this might
help with what IASL collects and submits.
Regards
Susan La Marca
Dr Susan La Marca
Editor - *Synergy*
School Library Association of Victoria
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Garrison, Kasey <kgarrison@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Kerry,
Jackie French would be a great nomination! Please go to the google form
linked below and fill in the information you note here. We are collecting
all of the nominations in this way so we can share them with the whole
group and discuss them.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYTb3JQ3xy4-1P7w440oy_
qtK9S6Dz7m86eebbEGuwYYmTww/viewform
Thanks!
Cheers,
Kasey Garrison
Sent from my iPhone
On 21 Mar 2017, at 6:49 pm, Gittins Kerry <KGittins@xxxxxx<mailto:KGitti
ns@xxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi Patricia,
I would like to nominate Jackie French from Australia.
Not only is she a truly wonderful writer across all age groups and genres,
she is also a champion of children's literacy, a champion of the
environment, a previous Australian Children's Laureate and someone who has
overcome early adversity in her childhood to be able to share her amazing
talent for storytelling. Her picture book 'Diary of a Wombat' has been
translated into 23 languages.
And to top all of that she is a really lovely person who willing gives her
time to schools and conferences to help promote reading and literacy in
education.
I hope you will consider her as a nominee for this award.
Kind regards
Kerry
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From: iasl-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:iasl-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:
iasl-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patricia Carmichael
Sent: 21 March 2017 8:01 AM
To: IASL Communications Group
Subject: [IASL] Re: Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nominations
Hi IASL members,
We all have a favourite author, illustrator, storyteller and promoter of
children's literature, who we feel would be worthy of nominationg for the
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nominations.
IASL has been given a great honour, so let's nominate!
Thanks Kasey for the invitation:
I am very excited to announce that IASL has been selected as a nominating
body for the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award! This is a great honour
for us as we are one of just three international organisations selected to
nominate. The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award<http://www.alma.se/en/> is
the world's largest children's literature award and honours the life time
achievements of authors, illustrators and storytellers as well as
organisations or individuals who have completed long-term, sustainable work
to promoting reading. The website also notes the award's "focus on respect
for democratic values and human rights" citing the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child as a foundation for their work. Past laureates <
http://www.alma.se/en/award-winners/> include Maurice Sendak from the US,
Shaun Tan from Australia, Banco del Libro in Venezuela, and the Tamer
Institute in Palestine.
We are allowed four nominations and would try to choose one in each of the
four areas: author, illustrator, storyteller, and reading promoter
(organisation or individual.) After consulting with Jill Hancock and IASL
President Katy Manck, we decided the best way to collect ideas from IASL
would be via a Google form followed by an open discussion of the nominees.
Please go to this Google Form<https://docs.google.com/
forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYTb3JQ3xy4-1P7w440oy_qtK9S6Dz7m86eebbEGuwYYmTww/
viewform> and fill out the information regarding your nominated author,
illustrator, storyteller, and/or reading promoting organisation or
individual. For each of our nominees, we must include a variety of
information available on the Google form and at this link<
http://www.alma.se/Documents/2016/Januari-mars/
Nomineringsprocess/Nomination%20form%202017.pdf>.
Please contribute your candidate by 15 April so we have time for the open
discussion from everyone before the final nominations are due from us to
the Award committee in mid May.
Patricia
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Dr Alan Druery OAM Excellence in Teaching Award
Vice President, Advocacy & Promotion
International Association School Librarianship
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