Kara Yorio

4 days ago | slj.com | Kathy Ishizuka |Jess deCourcy Hinds |Kara Yorio |Erica S. Perl

In April, school librarians from the United States attended the Sharjah School Librarian Conference in the United Arab Emirates. The American Library Association (ALA) and the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) partnered with the Sharjah Book Authority and the Emirate Library and Information Association for the two-day conference, which focused on literacy and reading promotion.

3 weeks ago | slj.com | Kimberly Olson Fakih |Kara Yorio |Andrew Bauld

Bank Street’s Center for Children’s Literature has announced the 2025 winners of the Irma Black Award and Cook Prize. The Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature (Irma Black Award) is awarded annually to "an outstanding book for young children in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole."First and second grade jurors from around the world choose the winner.

1 month ago | slj.com | Trisha Tobias |a Rec |Amanda MacGregor |Kara Yorio

In this Q&A series, SLJ poses five questions and a request for a book recommendation to a debut YA author. Adina King shares about The House No One Sees in this latest installment. 1. Congrats on your YA debut! How would you describe your book to readers? Thank you! The House No One Sees is a contemporary YA with surrealist elements written in alternating prose and verse. It is the story of Penelope Ross, a girl who must walk through her past to save her present.

1 month ago | slj.com | Amanda MacGregor |Kara Yorio |Karen Jensen

In this Q&A series, SLJ poses five questions and a request for a book recommendation to a debut YA author. Trisha Tobias shares about Honeysuckle and Bone in this latest installment. In this Q&A series, SLJ poses five questions and a request for a book recommendation to a debut YA author. Trisha Tobias shares about Honeysuckle and Bone in this latest installment. 1. Congrats on your YA debut! How would you describe your book to readers?

2 months ago | slj.com | Kara Yorio |Andrew Bauld

We Need Diverse Books will celebrate the first We Need Diverse Books Day on April 3; senators call on acting director of IMLS to continue funding programs as directed by Congress; Suzanne Collins talks philosophy and Sunrise on the Reaping; Eric Carle Honors honorees announced; and more. We Need Diverse Books Day is April 3We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) is launching the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day on Thursday, April 3.