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Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
by Robert Byrd - Fiction, Picture
The White Bicycle
by Beverley Brenna - Fiction, Youth Fiction

Taylor Jane travels to the south of France where she spends a summer babysitting for the Phoenix family. Including flashbacks into Taylor's earliest memories, along with immediate scenes in Lourmarin, a picturesque village in the Luberon Valley, THE WHITE BICYCLE results in a journey for independence both personal and universal, told in Taylor's honest first-person prose.

Green
Written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger - Fiction, Picture
This Is Not My Hat
Written and illustrated by Jon Klassen - Fiction, Picture
A Dog Called Homeless
by Sarah Lean - Fiction

Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award 2013

The Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award is given annually to English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered experience.

-The winner of the Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Award is ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE by Benjamin Alire Saenz.

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Saenz - Fiction, Young Adult 12+
January 28, 2013

20 Questions: A Day in the Life of Alexandra Bracken

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Alexandra Bracken, author of THE DARKEST MINDS, a sci-fi trilogy about a young girl who escapes a mysterious illness that kills most of the kids in America, recently took some time to answer our "20 Questions" survey sharing what a typical day is like for her. From her great aunt sharing the book at her nursing home, to watercooler chats with her co-workers, Alexandra sheds some light on what it's like to be an author and work in children's publishing.

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2013

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.

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The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award 2013

The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is presented annually to both the author(s) and illustrator(s) of an outstanding book for beginning readers published in the past calendar year. The winning author(s) and illustrator(s) must demonstrate great creativity to engage children in reading. The first Theodor Seuss Geisel Award was presented in 2006 to author Cynthia Rylant and illustrator Suçie Stevenson for HENRY AND MUDGE AND THE GREAT GRANDPAS.

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