Hello IASL,
I am very excited to announce that IASL has been selected again as a nominating
body for the 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award! This is a great honour for us
as we are one of just a few 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 lifetime achievements of
authors, illustrators and storytellers as well as organisations or individuals
who have completed long-term, sustainable work to promote 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 include Maurice Sendak from the US, Shaun Tan from
Australia, Banco del Libro in Venezuela, the Tamer Institute in Palestine among
others.
Last year, we nominated Tim Tingle (storyteller- USA), Stephen Krashen
(promoter of reading- USA), and Bronwyn Bancroft (illustrator- Australia). It
would be great to have more global representation in our nominations this year.
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.) As we did last year, we will first collect your nomination ideas
via a Google form followed by an open discussion of the nominees with a survey
to vote.
To make your nomination, please go to this Google Form
<https://forms.gle/edv5t4sN6hJqQo5G9> 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. Read more about the nomination
process at this link <http://alma.se/en/Nominations/Invitation-to-nominate/>
Please contribute your candidate by 5 April so we have time for some open
discussion on the list serv and voting from everyone before the final
nominations are due from us to the Award committee in May.
Thank you and looking forward to seeing who we come up with this year! (:
Cheers,
Kasey
Kasey L. Garrison
IASL: Children's and Young Adult Literature SIG Chair
The GiggleIT Project for Children's Writing:
http://www.iasl-online.org/advocac/giggleIT<http://www.iasl-online.org/advocacy/giggleIT>
Senior Lecturer & Children's Librarianship Coordinator
Teacher Librarianship
School of Information Studies
Faculty of Arts and Education
Charles Sturt University
Locked Bag 588
Wagga Wagga NSW 2678
p. +61 2 6933 2548
kgarrison@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:kgarrison@xxxxxxxxxx>
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