ALA Award Day - January 18!

Each year the American Library Association (ALA) honors books and media for children and teens. Recognized worldwide for the high quality they represent, the ALA Youth Media Awards, including but not limited to the prestigious Caldecott, Coretta Scott King Book Awards, Newbery and Printz awards, guide parents, educators, librarians and others in selecting the best materials for youth.

Selected by committees composed of librarians and other literature and media experts, the awards also encourage original and creative work in the field of children's and young adult literature and media. The Caldecott and Newbery Awards are just two of the many awards given each year.

The awards will be announced in Boston on January 18 beginning at 7:30 a.m.  Stay tuned for all the winners, and then put them on your reading list!

Meanwhile, I found this on LIS News:

"A Very Newbery New Year"--Librarian Counts Days to Newbery Announcement with YouTube Booktalks

January 6, 2010 - 6:34pm  Hennepin County Public Librarian Nina Shimmin is currently posting a series of video booktalks, "A Very Newbery New Year," to YouTube, with a new video booktalk of a past Newbery winner appearing daily until the announcement of the 2010 Newbery Award winners at ALA Midwinter on January 18, 2010. You can view the first seven videos here.

Of course, there are more than 7 now...Great idea?  What do you think?  Is this something you could use?  Is this something you could do?  Could your students help?