Johnson County Librarian Debbie McLeod returns from this year's American Library Association midwinter meeting to tell us about the winners of this year's Association for Library Service to Children 2011 media awards, and read excerpts from the winners of this year's Randolph Caldecott Medal, The Newbery, and others.
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2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Bink and Gollie By DiCamillo, Kate
Two roller-skating best friends - one small and one tall - share three comical adventures
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2011 Pura Belpre (Author) Award The Dreamer By Ryan, Pam Muñoz
Fictionized biography of Nobel-prize winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
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2011 William C. Morris Award The Freak Observer By Woolston, Blythe
Suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder, sixteen-year-old Loa tries to use her problem-solving skills, sharpened in physics and computer programming, to cure herself.
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2011 Pura Belpre (Illustrator) Award Grandma's Gift By Velasquez, Eric
Young Eric describes the Christmas he spent with his Grandmother in Spanish Harlem and how their visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art had a lasting effect on him.
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2011 Robert F. Sibert Award Kakapo Rescue Saving the World's Strangest Parrot By Montgomery, Sy
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the millions before humans brought predators to the islands. Now on the isolated island refuge, a team of scientists is trying to restore the kakapo population.
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2011 John Newbery Award Moon over Manifest By Vanderpool, Clare
12-year-old Abilene Tucker is sent by her drifter father to Manifest, Kansas during the summer of 1936. While there, she tries to find out some things about her father's past, and along the way, finds some amazing things about herself and others.
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2011 Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award One Crazy Summer By Williams-Garcia, Rita
In the summer of 1968, 11-year-old Delphine travels with her two younger sisters from Brooklyn NY to Oakland CA to stay with the mother they barely know.
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2011 Michael L. Printz Award Ship Breaker By Bacigalupi, Paolo
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl. Also available as an audio book.
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2011 Randolph Caldecott Award A Sick Day for Amos McGee By Stead, Philip Christian
When zookeeper Amos McGee is sick at home, his animal friends come visit and keep him company.
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2011 Mildred L. Batchelder Award A Time of Miracles By Bondoux, Anne-Laure
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a boy with a mysterious past and the woman who cares for him endure a five-year journey across the Caucasus and Europe, weathering hardships and welcoming unforgettable encounters with other refugees searching for a better life.
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