{"id":1333,"date":"2015-02-04T15:54:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/nclc\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2015-02-04T15:54:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:54:52","slug":"2015-youth-media-awards-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/02\/04\/2015-youth-media-awards-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Youth Media Awards Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all of the American Library Association award winners!\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/press-releases\/2015\/02\/american-library-association-announces-2015-youth-media-award-winners\">2015 Youth Media Awards<\/a> were announced on Monday, Feb. 2 during ALA\u2019s Midwinter Meeting in Chicago.\u00a0 Several of our friends won major awards.\u00a0 A donor to the Northeast Children\u2019s Literature Collection, Weston Woods Studio, Inc., received the Andrew Carnegie Medal honoring the most outstanding video productions for children released in the previous year.\u00a0 The winners are Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly Ellard, producers of <em>Me\u2026Jane<\/em>, the adaption of Patrick McDonnell\u2019s Caldecott Honor book for 2012 about Jane Goodall.<\/p>\n<p>University of Connecticut\u2019s Professor Emerita Marilyn Nelson received the Coretta Scott King (Author) Honor Book Award for <em>How I Discovered Poetry<\/em>, illustrated by Hadley Hooper and published by Dial Books.\u00a0 Donald Crews, who participated in the CT Children\u2019s Book Fair in 1997, is the winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, which honors an author or illustrator who had made \u201ca substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.\u201d (ALA.org).<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Lloyd\u2019s first novel, <em>A Snicker of Magic<\/em>, was a hit at the 2014 CT Children\u2019s Book Fair as was Natalie herself.\u00a0 The audiobook produced by Scholastic Audiobooks was awarded the Odyssey Award, for being one of the best audiobooks produced in English in the U.S.\u00a0 Another Book Fair participant from 2003, Ann M. Martin, was awarded the Schneider Family Book Award for <em>Rain Reign<\/em>.\u00a0 The Schneider Family honors books embodying \u201can artistic expression of the disability experience.\u201d (ALA.org).<\/p>\n<p>Mo Willems, another member of the NCLC and Book Fair family, won a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award for his <em>Waiting is not Easy!<\/em> published by Hyperion Books for Children.\u00a0 Len Vlahos presented at the Book Fair in 2014 and was a finalist for the 2015 William C. Morris Award, given to a first-time author writing for teens.\u00a0 NCLC donor and Book Fair participant Emily Arnold McCully was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults for her work <em>Ida M. Tarbell: the Woman who Challenged Big Business-and Won!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a complete listing of the 2015 Youth Media Awards, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/press-releases\/2015\/02\/american-library-association-announces-2015-youth-media-award-winners\" target=\"_blank\">American Library Association\u2019s site.\u00a0<\/a> Congratulations, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all of the American Library Association award winners!\u00a0 The 2015 Youth Media Awards were announced on Monday, Feb. 2 during ALA\u2019s Midwinter Meeting in Chicago.\u00a0 Several of our friends won major awards.\u00a0 A donor to the Northeast Children\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/02\/04\/2015-youth-media-awards-announced\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,367,6,1],"tags":[73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-lv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}