[IASL] Nominations for the 2019 ALMA Award

From: "Garrison, Kasey" <kgarrison@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "iasl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <iasl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 20:05:32 +0000

Hello IASL,

I am very excited to announce that IASL has been selected for the second time
as a nominating body for the 2019 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 lifetime 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 include Maurice
Sendak from the US, Shaun Tan from Australia, Banco del Libro in Venezuela, and
the Tamer Institute in Palestine.

Last year, we nominated Mem Fox (author- Australia), Stephen Krashen (promoter
of reading- USA), and Robert Ingpen (illustrator- Australia). It would be great
to have more global representation in our nominations this year coming from
Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

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://goo.gl/forms/v6qoXTmOxb7xn6x12> 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://www.alma.se/en/Nominations/Nomination-Rules/<http://www.alma.se/Documents/2016/Januari-mars/Nomineringsprocess/Nomination%20form%202017.pdf>>.

Please contribute your candidate by 10 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 see who we come up with this year!  (:

Cheers,
Kasey

Kasey L. Garrison, PhD
IASL: Children's and Young Adult Literature SIG Chair
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 and 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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