COGNOTES 02-02-15 MONDAY Edition CHICAGO, IL USE THE TAG #alamw15 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ALA Honors Top Youth Authors and Illustrators Schneider Family Book Award John Newbery Randolph Caldecott Children’s Book Medal Medal A Boy and a Jaguar The Crossover The Adventures of Beekle: Alan Rabinowitz Kwame Alexander The Unimaginary Friend Catia Chien, illus. Houghton Mifflin Dan Santat, illus. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Harcourt Dan Santat Little, Brown and Company Schneider Family Book Award Coretta Scott Coretta Scott King Author Middle School King Award Rain Reign Illustrator Brown Girl Dreaming Ann M. Martin Award Jacqueline Woodson Macmillan Firebird Penguin Group Christopher Myers, illus. Schneider Family Book Award Misty Copeland Teen Book Penguin Group Girls Like Us Gail Giles Candlewick Press Theodor Seuss 2016 May Hill Michael L. Stonewall Arbuthnot Honor Printz Award Award Geisel Award Lecture Award I’ll Give You the Sun This Day in June You Are (Not) Small Pat Mora Jandy Nelson Gayle E. Pitman Anna Kang Christopher Weyant, Penguin Group Kristyna Litten, illus. Laura Ingalls American illus. Wilder Award Two Lions Psychological Donald Crews Association Pura Belpré Pura Belpré RUSA Announces Adult Author Award Award For Book and Reference Awards I Lived on Illustration Butterfly Hill Viva Frida The Reference and Audiobook Nar- Marjorie Agosin Yuyi Morales, illus. User Services Asso- ration; the Dart- Simon & Schuster Yuyi Morales ciation announced mouth Medal for Children’s Publishing Neal Porter Books the winners of its outstanding refer- adult reading and ence work of the reference awards at year; the Sophie the Midwinter Book and Media Brody Medal for achievement in Award Reception on Sunday, Jewish literature; the Outstand- including the Notable Books ing Reference Sources list; and Youth Media Awards information as of press time. List; the Reading List; the inau- many other noteworthy honors. For a full listing of awards, visit http://www.ala.org gural Listen List: Outstanding » see story page 10 ENTHRALLING IMAGES AND INSPIRING REFLECTIONS Featuring J. Patrick Lewis, Arne Duncan, Anita Silvey, Jane Yolen, and many others DOWNLOAD your complimentary copy at NatGeoKidsCuriosity.com FIND OUT MORE AT WWW.COLLECTIONHQ.COM/THEDIFFERENCE VISIT US AT THE BAKER & TAYLOR BOOTH #2616 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015 COGNOTES . 3 LeVar Burton Highlights Personal Heroes, Mentors By Brad Martin, LAC Group said that when he was with you, “Alex was laser-locked on you.” Haley also sensed that LeVar Burton paid homage to four great sto- it was important to have Burton’s mother be rytelling mentors in his life and talked about on location during the filming of “Roots,” one of them as being especially influential in and paid all the expenses to make it happen. the creation of his first children’s book, The “That was the man who, in the service of Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm, which was telling his family story, his personal narrative, co-written by Susan Schaefer Bernardo and changed a nation’s view of itself, changed the illustrated by Courtenay Fletcher. way America looks at slavery and its attended “The world we live in today is one where legacy of racism.” we all face tough times, from the death of a “The power of Alex’s story is part of the goldfish to school shootings. My friend Fred throughline that begins in the South, post- Rogers was the adult in the world who used Reconstruction, after the Civil War, and to address in an age-appropriate manner the moves through that migration… from the subject of living in the world that is domi- South to the North and finally to the West, nated by the actions of adults to an audience of which my family is a part.” Burton added of children. And my friend Fred is gone…. If that this throughline continued through the Fred were here, he would be addressing this. civil rights movement in the 1960s and that And, absent Fred, I thought it was necessary “Roots in the ‘70s goes right through to the for someone to address it, and that’s why I election of Barack Obama.” took it upon myself.” Burton’s experience on “Star Trek: The In The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm, little Children’s literacy advocate, actor, producer, director and educator LeVar Next Generation” brought him into contact Mica Mouse is frightened by thunder crash- Burton reads from his book The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm during his with Gene Roddenberry, who he said taught ing outside her cozy home. To comfort her, Auditorium Speaker Series presentation. everyone the value of remembering that our Papa Mouse tells a story about a rhino who heroes are human. The experience was also finds himself feeling terrible after swallowing of me, which is an incredibly important mes- of television to be “part of a larger ministry”) quite an inspiration for Burton. “When I saw a storm. The rhino is helped on his journey to sage to send,” he said. Burton also credited his and as Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge in the Nichelle Nichols [Uhura] on the bridge of the wellness by a succession of other animals. Bur- mother with preparing him to grow up in a “Star Trek: The Next Generation” TV series. Enterprise, it inspired me not to just believe, ton said that the message is clear: “If a rhino world where he would be judged because of But it was his earlier portrayal of Kunta Kinte but that I belonged.” can be brought down by the circumstances of the color of his skin. “I am the man I am, in the groundbreaking TV mini-series “Roots” A Q&A session followed, which was domi- life, then all of us are vulnerable.” because she is the woman she is,” he said. that resulted in meeting another of his great nated by many people taking the opportunity Burton’s mother, Erma Jean, was his “first Burton is well-known as the host of the storytelling mentors, Alex Haley. to thank him for the inspiration they received storytelling mentor” and much more. “My original “Reading Rainbow” PBS series (he Burton described Haley as “one of the from “Reading Rainbow” and from his other mother not only read to me; she read in front credits Fred Rogers for showing him the power most authentic people I have ever met” and projects. 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His energetic music at tobiography that takes readers from his the Wrap Up/Rev Up performance early dreams to international stardom. will be featured today from 2:00 Trombone Shorty is a celebration of – 3:00 p.m., in McCormick Place the rich cultural history of New Or- W375b. Andrews will discuss his leans and the power of music. Collier collaboration with award-winning has won three Caldecott Honor Med- illustrator Bryan Collier, on a lively als and five Coretta Scott King Awards. picture book autobiography that Prizes including a free registration shows how Andrews followed his for 2015 Annual Conference in San dream of becoming a musician and Francisco will be given away after the succeeded despite the odds. (April performance, which begins in the Ex- 2015, Abrams Books for Young hibits. Attendees must be present to win. Readers.) His appearance is sponsored by Hailing from the Tremé neigh- Abrams Books for Young Readers. borhood in New Orleans, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews got Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews Best Historical Materials Named by RUSA’s History Section The annual list of Best Historical materials in the Department of Art History and Ar- along with reviews of his works and works States and post-WWII collections focus was announced during the Reference and cheology at Columbia University, the Visual about him. With the recent completion of on the late 20th century (1990s onward) User Services Association (RUSA) Book and Resources Library at Vassar College, and the the Beagle library project (2012-14) one can pictures of Japanese Americans attending Media Awards Ceremony at the American Columbia University Libraries. It attempts see on Darwin Online what works Darwin reunions, visiting internment camp historic Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting. to depict Gothic space via an online, interac- could not do without on his voyage. A must sites or giving interviews of their experiences The list, in its 11th year, recognizes the tive 3D experience and create links between for anyone studying Darwin or evolutionary in the camps during the war. evaluation and effectiveness in coverage of the “architectural space of individual build- biology or whose imagination is captured by The Roaring Twenties: An interactive explo- historical resources in all fields of history. ings, geo-political space, and the “social space the idea of the Beagle’s voyage. ration of the historical soundscape of New York Published in Reference and User Services of the interaction (collaboration and conflict) Freedom Summer Digital Collection, which City, which provides visitors with an intrigu- Quarterly (RUSQ), these sources are selected between builders and users.” contains over 100 digitized manuscript col- ing interactive experience about the urban by a committee that seeks to improve the 1914-1918 Online: International Ency- lections on the Mississippi Freedom Summer soundscape and human responses to industrial, usefulness of bibliographies and indexes clopedia of the First World War, an “English- Project of 1964.