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Updated to include the 2012 award and honour books, this new edition of the annual guide to the Newbery and Caldecott awards gathers together the books deemed most distinguished in American children’s literature and illustration since the inception of the renowned prizes. Librarians and teachers everywhere rely on this guidebook for quick reference and collection development and also as a resource for curriculum links and readers’ advisory. With an easy-to-use streamlined look and format, the 2012 guide also includes
A new essay by Deborah Stevenson, Director of the Centre for Children’s Books, on how the awards are consistently a big moment for children’s books to be noticed and celebrated outside the library world Explanations of criteria used to select the winners Updated bibliographic citations and indexes for the award winners This perennial guide for locating information about the best in children’s books is valuable for every collection.Author Biography
For more than eight decades, librarians from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) have intensely scrutinised the children’s books published each year, selecting the winning and honour books for the Newbery and Caldecott Awards. In addition, the ALSC division of the ALA is committed to creating a nation of readers, starting with the youngest. ALSC supports all those providing library services to children, including youth librarians, teachers, families, literature experts, publishers, and child advocates.
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