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Newbery – When You Reach Me  by Rebecca Stead

Caldecott – The Lion and the Mouse  by Jerry Pinkney

Printz – Going Bovine by Libba Bray

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Sibert – Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone

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AROUND THE WORLD WITH SY MONTGOMERY
Sy Montgomery
Saturday, April 17, 2010Meet Sy and meet the Kakapo >

2:00pm - 5:00pm
National Geographic Society, Grosvenor Auditorium
1600 M St. NW Washington, D.C.
Metro stop: Farragut North, Farragut West


Sy Montgomery is this year's winner of the Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. From Walking with the Great Apes to Birdology, from The Snake Scientist to Quest for the Tree Kangaroo, Sy has been "deftly undressed by an orangutan in Borneo, hunted by a tiger in India, and has swum with piranhas, electric eels and dolphins in the Amazon." The New York Times called Sy "equal parts scientist and poet,” the Boston Globe dubbed her "part Indiana Jones, part Emily Dickinson.”

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Katherine Paterson : Books will nurture our souls in spite of technology

Katherine Paterson

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."

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