Local Book Awards

Re: Local Book Awards

2008-04-25T12:07:24Z

Maine has the Lupine and Katahdin Awards each year.
A flyer of winners is posted here. The Lupine Award is designed to honor a living author or illustrator who is a resident of Maine, or who has created a work whose focus is Maine, as shown through the work's characterization, plot or setting. The Katahdin Award is a lifetime achievement award recognizing an outstanding body of work of childrens literature in Maine. The Katahdin Award is designed to honor a living Maine author or illustrator.

Re: Local Book Awards

2007-01-08T19:50:11Z

Hi Terri! Sorry for the delayed response --holiday and all that. :>

I knew I heard something about a kid's choice award for the Multnomah County Library in Oregon. It's called the [url http://pnla.org/yrca/index.htm ]Young Readers Choice Awards[/url]. It seems to administered by the PNLA and it covers the northwestern states. You might find some good answers to your questions in the [url http://pnla.org/yrca/FAQ05.htm ]FAQ[/url].

I also noticed that Multnomah collects [url http://www.multcolib.org/kids/reading-writing/reviews.html ]book reviews by kids[/url]. There are many other libraries doing that as well. Anyone want to tell us how it's working?

Good luck!

Local Book Awards

2006-12-19T04:26:20Z

Does your state have a local book award that the children choose? How do you decide what books the children will vote on? What time frame / How long do the kids have to vote? Is your award solely a library award or do you work with the schools as well? How do you promote your award?

As you can tell I'm asking a lot of questions. Answer as many as you can. Trying to compare Delaware's award "Delaware Blue Hen Book Award" with other awards around the country.

Thanks,
Terri