Ypulse Book Essentials: The Beacon Street Girls, Book Clubbing In Harmony, The Odyssey Award
Posted by alli on 12-11-2007
The Beacon Street Girls find a distribution partner (The Beacon Street Girls signed on with Simon & Schuster to become a larger presence internationally. I really liked reading about the importance of independent publishers here.) (Boston.com)
- Book clubbing in harmony (Dealing with teens and tweens in the same book group: This piece seems relevant to today's post too.) (ALSC)
- The Oyssey Award (Find out about the new award being given for best audio-book — only one month to go. My only concern…birth to 18? That's a pretty wide age range.) (ALA)
- Can children's specialty bookstores survive? (Wasn't there a cute-sy romantic comedy about this very issue called You've Got Mail?) (Publishers Weekly)
- Library opens a temporary branch at a mall (This may just be a temporary civic solution, but I think they could be on to something. Really. From a teen and youth library services point of view…I say, "Hey, why not?") (EnidNews.com)
December 11th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Hate to be nit-picky, but the Library in a Mall link doesn't link to the correct place.
All these are great things to know and read about! Thanks for finding it all!
January 4th, 2008 at 7:25 am
For the past year, I've had the honor of being the chair of the first-ever Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production. The award is the American Library Association's newest literary award - on the same level as the Newbery, Caldecott & Printz Awards. Yes, that's right: LITERARY award. Audiobooks are taking their place beside plays, poetry, and novels as a genre of literature - one that reaches back to the earliest form, the oral tradition. The maiden voyage of the Odyssey has been guided by a crackerjack group of experts of all types of children's and young adult literature - you can recognize us by the now-permanent impression of noise-cancelling headphones 'round our ears. After nearly 400 submissions totaling 2000 hours of listening, we are near our destination: the announcement of the first winner & honor Odyssey titles at the Youth Media Awards press conference on Monday, January 14th. This effort began in 2005 with a task group of librarians, audiobook producers, and representatives from award-sponsor Booklist Magazine.To see what the official award seal looks like, visit my blog!
Mary Burkey
Chair, 2008 Odyssey Award
mburkey@columbus.rr.com
Audiobooker Blog