Winners of this year’s Beehive awards are always a good
place to start when you are looking for something to read no matter how old you
are. The Children’s Literature
Association of Utah CLAU conducts the Beehive Award contest every year. Adults put in extensive hours of reading and
discussion to winnow a list of nominees from the thousands of books published
for young readers each year. The five
nominee lists are then opened to young people state wide to vote for their
favorites.
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| See this list at http://www.clau.org/ |
The winners are announced in April. Go to clau.org for a list of past year’s
winners and this year’s nominees.
You
will find something for everyone.
There have been quite a few Candy Bomber books written and
Tunnell’s is my favorite. The photos are
from Gail Halvorsen’s personal collection.
The story is well written. You
don’t have to be a history buff to be completely drawn into this compassionate
Utah connection to post WWII recovery.
Shark vs. Train illustrator Tom Lichtenheld will be in Utah
in July as a guest at the Books For Young Readers Symposium – for details see http://ce.byu.edu/cw/bfyr/index.cfm
Do you agree with me that no one outgrows “kids” books? If you do let us know what your favorites
are.
You’ll see a few of mine in a
future post.
-Anita
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