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Guild Member Awards and Honors
Phyllis Naylor received the Anne V. Zarrow Award in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The award is presented to an author who has made a “significant contribution to the field of literature for children and young adults.” It is sponsored by the Tulsa Library Trust and the Tulsa City-County Library.
 Fred Bowen’s picture book No Easy Way: The Story of Ted Williams and the Last 400 Season (Dutton) has been named to the list of Top Ten Sports books for kids by Booklist. The list is in the September issue. Fred’s most recent book, Throwing Heat (Peachtree), has been named a Junior Library Guild selection for Fall 2010. The next book in Fred’s SportStory series will be Real Hoops, coming in 2011. Also check out Fred Bowen every Friday in the KidsPost section of the Washington Post. |
 Brenda Seabrooke’s Wolf Pie was named to the Tacoma (WA) News Tribune’s summer reading list for 2010. |
 Debbie Levy’s The Year of Goodbyes (Disney-Hyperion 2010) is a 2010 Parents’ Choice Award winner. |
 Mary Downing Hahn’s Closed for the Season won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. |
ALA: Federal Support for Libraries in 2010
The ALA is the oldest and largest library association in the world, counting almost 62,000 members in more than 115 countries. The ALA has identified several key legislative priorities in 2010.
Fund Library Programs
The Library Services and Technology Act (LSAT) should ensure the best possible library resources for our children and all Americans.
- The overall purposes of the Library Services and Technology Act are to:
* promote improvement in library services in all types of libraries in order to better serve the people of the United States,
* facilitate access to resources in all types of libraries for the purpose of cultivating an educated and informed citizenry, and
* encourage resource sharing among all types of libraries for the purpose of achieving economical and efficient delivery of library services to the public.
Katherine Paterson : Books will nurture our souls in spite of technology
Former Guild President and highly acclaimed children’s author Katherine Paterson is the new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Writing in the New York Daily News about the threat of technology, she writes of Plato's concern that poetry would be lost if people learned to read and write.
"It is as futile for us to fight technological advances as it was for Plato to battle literacy. Yet I have hope. I have seven grandchildren, all of whom are well-equipped with electronic gadgets. Yet all of them are readers - because their parents are readers who have read to them, because they have teachers who care about literature and librarians who introduce them to books they will enjoy and be enriched by."
