{"id":2642,"date":"2012-01-24T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/24\/katie-davis-grace-lin-win-2012-slj-trailee-awards\/"},"modified":"2012-01-24T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:27:16","slug":"katie-davis-grace-lin-win-2012-slj-trailee-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2012\/01\/24\/katie-davis-grace-lin-win-2012-slj-trailee-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Davis, Grace Lin win 2012 SLJ Trailee Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many congratulations to NCLC donor Katie Davis, for her well-deserved School Library Journal Trailee Award given annually at the American Library Association&#8217;s Midwinter Conference for the video trailers that best promote books for children and teens.\u00a0 \u201cBook trailers raise awareness about the big power of little books to reach readers,\u201d said Davis after learning that she had won. Davis, who also illustrated the book that she co-authored with her husband Jerry Davis, thanked \u201call those nice little chickens (and people!) who voted\u201d for her entry. In the category of\u00a0<strong>Publisher\/Author Created for Elementary Readers <\/strong>, the trailer tells the story of<a title=\"Little Chicken's Big Day (2012 Trailee Award)\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/29734983\" target=\"_blank\"> <em>Little Chicken\u2019s Big Day,<\/em><\/a> when Little Chicken goes with his mother to do errands and gets lost.\u00a0 The <a title=\"SLJ 2012 Trailee Awards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/slj\/home\/893391-312\/trailee_award_winners_announced_at.html.csp\" target=\"_blank\">School Library Journal web site<\/a> has more information about the Trailee Awards including winners in other categories, such as Grace Lin\u2019s Award in the <strong>Student Created for Elementary Readers <\/strong>category for <a title=\"Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2012 SLJ Trailee Award\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gracelin.com\/content.php?page=wherethemountainmeetsthemoon\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Where the Mountain Meets the Moon<\/em> <\/a>(Little, Brown, 2009; Trailer by the members of the Bookie Woogie Book Blog).\u00a0 Grace Lin appeared at the 2011 <a title=\"Connecticut Children's Book Fair\" href=\"http:\/\/bookfair.uconn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Children\u2019s Book Fair <\/a>and we hope to see her again soon.\u00a0 Congratulations, Katie and Grace!<\/p>\n<p>Terri J. Goldich, Curator, NCLC<\/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>Many congratulations to NCLC donor Katie Davis, for her well-deserved School Library Journal Trailee Award given annually at the American Library Association&#8217;s Midwinter Conference for the video trailers that best promote books for children and teens.\u00a0 \u201cBook trailers raise awareness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2012\/01\/24\/katie-davis-grace-lin-win-2012-slj-trailee-awards\/\">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":7,"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":[1],"tags":[14,30,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-GC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}