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Written by Amanda Sharpe
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Thursday, 17 November 2011 07:41 |
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To better serve the growing population of libraries offering events for El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), also known as Día, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) released a new Día website, http://dia.ala.org.
The completely redesigned site includes a Día resource guide. The Día resource guide is designed for public and school librarians, giving them everything they need to produce a Día event at their library. Included in the resource guide is a program model, a planning timeline, best practices, outreach, partnerships and marketing and publicity, as well as funding ideas.
In 2012, ALSC is focusing on serving the needs of parents, caregivers and children. To that end, the site has created a new section devoted to ideas and resources for parents, caregivers and children.
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Written by La Bibliotecaria
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Monday, 10 January 2011 18:05 |
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This morning I had the pleasure of attending the ALA book awards press conference, and being one of the first to find out about the newly chosen award winners. I especially focused on the Pura Belpré Award winners for illustrations and text, as well as to the honor books in each category. If you are looking to add excellent books on the Latino/Latina experience that will appeal to your Latino and Spanish speaking patrons, then you can't miss these 2011 Belpré honorees and winners. Although I have not read any of them personally yet, I will be reading them soon, and you can expect to see my reviews here on CHILES. Enjoy!
Pura Belpré (Author) Award honoring a Latino writer whose children’s books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience:
 “The
Dreamer,” written by Pam Muñoz Ryan, is the 2011 Belpré Author Award
winner. The book is illustrated by Peter Sís and published by Scholastic
Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 17 November 2011 07:45 |
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Written by Amanda Sharpe
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Monday, 04 April 2011 10:01 |
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Once
again, our friends in the publishing field are offering special
discounts ( from 40 to 50% discount) for bilingual books that your
library or organization can purchase for use during El día de los niños/El día de los libros library community celebrations. Please see the links below.
Children’s Book Press is offering 40% for libraries who will be conducting Día celebrations across the
country See below for discount available from Children’s Book Press
http://www.childrensbookpress.
org/our-books/special-offers
Additionally, Arte Publico Press. Is offering 50% discount for bilingual books for children. See their web site below for additional information.
http://www.latinoteca.com/
arte-publico-press/app-
information/app-content/
celebrate-book-joy-with-
pinata-books
Cinco Puntos is also discounting select books as well: http://www.cincopuntos.com/
news_detail.sstg?id=106.
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Written by Amanda Sharpe
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Monday, 24 May 2010 15:02 |
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The Wooden Bowl - El bol de madera Wins Book Awards!
“It’s wonderful that you have written a book that encourages respect that elderly people deserve. Amazing things can happen when people extend a helping hand to those in need. Children, as well as adults, can benefit from your message and hopefully will pass it along to others.” - Maria Shriver
A Bilingual Book has been chosen for two honors: It is an International Book Awards Finalist, and an Honor Book National Parenting Publication Awards. To see more about these two honors, see the attached Press Releases.
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