TAG: awards
Vote for your favorite kids & teens books
Posted in News on February 15, 2018 at 6:00 am
It’s award season again, and not just for movies and music. Here in Washington state, kids and teens have the opportunity to vote in five different readers’ choice book awards, starting in March through May 1. At Spokane County Library District, we think that letting kids have a voice in selecting the best books written […]
Tags: awards, book awards, booklists, books, Evergreen Teen Book Award, family, kids, OTTER Award, parents, Read, read and vote, reading, Sasquatch Book Award, teachers, teens, Towner Award, tweens, vote, Washington Book Awards, Washington Children’s Choice Picture Book Award, WCCPBA, YA, young learners, your voice matters
Let’s Hear It For #WeNeedDiverseBooks
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, kids, Parents and Teachers on February 18, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Sheri Boggs Just after 6am on the morning of February 2nd, I settled on the couch with my laptop, a fresh cup of coffee, and an uncontrollable mane of bedhead. While my bleary eyes slowly focused on the live webcast of the Youth Media Awards being held right that moment in Chicago, I opened […]
Tags: awards, books, diversity, Youth Media Awards
Behind the Scenes at the Youth Media Awards
Posted in Explore and Discover, For You, kids, Parents and Teachers on February 5, 2015 at 6:00 am
By Sheri Boggs Mondays are not normally my thing. But there’s one Monday that occurs around this time every year that I anticipate with the kind of nerdy fervor that other people reserve for, say, the World Series. I’m talking about the Youth Media Awards (or YMAs, as we librarians like to call them), during […]
Tags: awards, books, Geisel, Youth Media Awards
