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Wisconsin Children's Author Becomes Golden Kiter

The first of each month is when members of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’s Wisconsin’s Chapter post their good news of the month on the SCBWI-WI listserv, which I then post on this blog.

Pat Zietlow Miller’s news is just too great to be lumped with other good news, wonderful as all of that news is, so here is Pat’s news:

She has won the 2014 SCBWI Golden Kite Award for picture-book text for her book, Sophie’s Squash.  Pat, earlier this year, joined the ranks of other recent Wisconsin writers, including Ann Angel and Pat Schmatz, who have won SCBWI regional Crystal Kite Awards.  http://www.scbwi.org/2014-golden-kite-winners/

Pat will add her Golden Kite to other honors her debut picture book has won, which include:

  • The Ezra Jack Keats Honor Book Award for new writers whose work celebrates the diversity in our culture.
  • The Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book Award for picture book writing, presented by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) and honoring author of more than  70 picture books.
  • The Juvenile Literature Award,sponsored by the Friends of American Authors, a group that recognizes emerging writers.
  • 2014 Cybils Award Finalist.

Sophie’s Squash also has received starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal.

Congratulations to Pat!

 

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Registration Deadline is Tomorrow

Yikes! This bit of news just about got past me. Sorry for the short notice:

Registration deadline is Oct. 10 for next week’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner. The event is scheduled for Thursday October 17, 5-7 p.m., at Monona Terrace, Madison.  The banquet is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the CCBC and will be followed by the Sixteenth Annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture featuring Leonard Marcus. And if the banquet and lecture weren’t enticing enough, there will be a silent auction as part of the evening’s festivities, featuring donated items (including original art) from some very well known authors, artists and illustrators. It’s an evening not to be missed.    

Event Details and registration materials can be found here:  http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/50thbanquet.asp 

Please visit the Council for Wisconsin Writers at www.wiswriters.org for more information for and about Wisconsin writers.

 

 

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Golden Celebration of Children's Publishing Includes Free Lecture

Here’s news from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC):

Celebrate 50 years of the CCBC and 50 years of children’s publishing on the same night!

Join us on the evening of October 17, 2013 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, WI for the CCBC 50th Anniversary banquet and/or the 16th Charlotte Zolotow lecture featuring Leonard Marcus. Please open the attached invitation and mark your calendar for this special evening.

For information about the gala dinner, including registration, visit http://education.wisc.edu/ccbc/50thbanquet.asp

The 2013 Charlotte Zolotow lecture featuring Leonard Marcus will be held in the Monona Terrace Lecture Hall following the anniversary banquet. The lecture is free and open to the public. Leonard Marcus, noted children’s literature historian, will reflect on 50 years of children’s publishing in celebration of the CCBC’s 50th anniversary.