IBBY Books Awards Announced May 1!
The 2012 Independent Publisher Book awards have been announced. There are 72 categories, mostly for adults, still there are several for children and teen titles: Children’s Picture Books (7 & under), Children’s Picture Books (all ages), Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Juvenile-Teen-Y/A Non-Fiction, Multicultural N-F Juv-Teen-YA, Multicultural Fiction – Children’s. Take a look at the variety of categories and titles that won a gold, silver or bronze award
here. You may find some titles to add to your collection. I need to borrow some copies from the library, since there are titles here I haven’t seen.
I recently read
Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska’s WWII Invasion by Samantha Seiple. This was something I did not know happened until I read this book. With more than 12 pages of source notes, this is a well-researched account of the well-kept secret of Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands during WWII. Illustrated with maps and photos from the time, teen readers will learn about the suffering of the Aleuts, both from the Japanese and from the American forces. The American efforts to force the Japanese out were heroic, in light of the fact that the almost constant bombing of the Japanese was made through continuous fog and bad weather. Adult readers interested in titles about WWII may also want to take a look at this book.
(The Nebraska Library Commission receives free copies of children’s and young adult books for review from a number of publishers. After review, the books are distributed free, via the Regional Library Systems, to Nebraska school and public libraries.)
