Look at the stellar list of current nominees for the Astrid Lindgren
Memorial Award: http://www.alma.se/en/Nominations/Candidates/20171/
Many names I recognize, but many I do not - time for me to explore
children's literature beyond my own experience!
The 2017 ALMA laureate will be announced on 4 April 2017.
In 2018, 4 ALMA-nominated authors, illustrators, storytellers, and
promoters of children's literature will be those nominated by IASL members,
so please share your ideas on the Google Form <https://docs.google.com/
forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYTb3JQ3xy4-1P7w440oy_qtK9S6Dz7m86eebbEGuwYYmTww/viewform>
by 15 April. All nominees must be living persons or currently operational
reading promotions.
**Katy Manck, MLS
President, International Association of School Librarianship
http://www.iasl-online.org
Librarian-at-Large, Gilmer, Texas, USA
IASL: The GiggleIT Project for children's writing http://www.iasl-online
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On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Garrison, Kasey <kgarrison@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello IASL,
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.
Thank you and looking forward to see who we come up with! (:
Cheers,
Kasey
Kasey L. Garrison, PhD
IASL: The GiggleIT Project for children's writing
http://www.iasl-online.org/advocacy/giggleIT
Lecturer & Children's Specialisation Coordinator
Teacher Librarianship
School of Information Studies
Faculty of Arts & Education
Charles Sturt University
Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678
Australia
Tel: +61 2 6933 2548
Fax: +61 2 6933 2733
Email: kgarrison@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:kgarrison@xxxxxxxxxx>
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