{"id":318,"date":"2012-01-24T15:14:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uconnnclc.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/24\/katie-davis-grace-lin-win-2012-slj-trailee-awards\/"},"modified":"2012-01-24T15:14:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:14:04","slug":"katie-davis-grace-lin-win-2012-slj-trailee-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2012\/01\/24\/katie-davis-grace-lin-win-2012-slj-trailee-awards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Davis, Grace Lin win 2012 SLJ Trailee Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many congratulations to NCLC donor and Connecticut Children&#8217;s Book Fair favorite, Katie Davis, for her well-deserved School Library Journal Trailee Award given annually at ALA for the video trailers that best promote books for children and teens.\u00a0 &#8220;Book trailers raise awareness about the big power of little books to reach readers,&#8221; said Davis after learning that she had won. Davis, who also illustrated the book that she co-authored with her husband Jerry Davis, thanked &#8220;all those nice little chickens (and people!) who voted&#8221; 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&#8217;s 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&#8217;s 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&#8217;s Book Fair <\/a>and we hope to see her again soon.\u00a0 Congratulations, Katie and Grace!<\/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 and Connecticut Children&#8217;s Book Fair favorite, Katie Davis, for her well-deserved School Library Journal Trailee Award given annually at ALA for the video trailers that best promote books for children and teens.\u00a0 &#8220;Book trailers raise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2012\/01\/24\/katie-davis-grace-lin-win-2012-slj-trailee-awards-2\/\">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":[351,353,367,360,1],"tags":[24,30,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-58","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"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=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}