The Weekly 411 (1/29/21)
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| Tegan Thomas |
Jan. 29, 2021 vol. 5
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NEWBERY & CALDECOTT GIVEAWAYS
Each year, we are so excited about the ALA Youth Media Awards that we give away the Newbery and Caldecott winners! Enter to win your copy of When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (Penguin Random House, 2020) and We Are the Water Protectors, by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Michaela Goade (Roaring Brook Press, 2020)! Use this Rafflecopter widget to enter:
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We are excited to feature author Sam Taylor and her debut YA novel, WE ARE THE FIRE (Swoon Reads), out Feb. 16! Enter to win a copy!
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| design by Mike Burroughs; illustration © Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme. |
We are pleased to feature author Megan E. Freeman and her debut MG verse novel, ALONE (Aladdin, Jan. 12, 2021). Enter to win a copy!
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We are excited to feature author Theresa Trinder and her debut picture book, THERE IS A RAINBOW, illustrated by Grant Snider (Chronicle Books, Jan. 26, 2021). Enter to win a copy!
Worksheets for Writers: Jami Gold
Writing Tip: Inactive Protagonists
Character Time and Reader Time
- What: Twitter pitch party for picture book creators (illustrators and authors)
- Prize: attention from agents & editors with invitations to query
- What: submit Valentine's story for kids no more than 214 words about someone being brave
- Prizes: signed picture books, picture book critiques from authors and agents
Marketing & Creating a Platform
Kate Messner's Revisions Charts
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CONGRATS to Tae Keller (Penguin Random House, 2020) and Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade (Roaring Brook Press, 2020)!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful books! Congrats to Tae, Carole and Michaela!
ReplyDeleteWe love Asian folklore, so "When You Trap a Tiger" sounds especially intriguing!
ReplyDeleteThe Weekly 411 is always the start of a GREAT FRIDAY! Thanks so much for boosting my craft work with the amazing links!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the winners! So well deserved!
ReplyDeleteHow exciting! If I win We Are Water Protectors, I would love to gift it to my son's school. We adore our copy! And When You Trap a Tiger is perfect for my boy born in the year of the tiger! Thanks for the opportunity!
ReplyDeleteI am half way through When You Trap a Tiger and have been telling all my middle-school students about it during library time this week. Today I wrote a haiku about it for #StoryStorm.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful books! Congrats to all the winners. :)
ReplyDeleteSuch exciting winning books--congrats! The art in We Are Water Protectors is spectacular; I'm looking forward to savoring When You Trap a Tiger.
ReplyDeleteWhat an exciting week!
ReplyDeleteI'm so inspired by the article "It's Not Too Late." As long as you're alive, you owe it to yourself to pursue your dreams, engage your passions, and shout down your fears.
ReplyDeleteI love both the book! Such treasures
ReplyDeleteWhen You Trap a Tiger is backordered. I tried to get one from my local bookstore. Must be printing a zillion more copies! yay! Congrats to all of the ALA award winners!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I have a copy of Alone, so you don't need to enter my name in the giveaway for that book, thanks! It's a page-turner!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the article titled "Never Too Late". I'm way past my "sell date" but love every minute I'm spending on this writer's journey I've undertaken.
ReplyDeleteSo exciting to see 👀 more about these great books 📚!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful giveaway! Thanks for offering these amazing books.
ReplyDeleteAmazing books!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to all of the ALA award winners! Thank you for the opportunity to enter for those and the other books. My classroom or school library would love to add any of these titles!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to add "Alone" to my middle school library collection!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful books!
ReplyDeleteI always read and want keeper copies of the award winning books and both of these sound amazing.
ReplyDeleteSuch awesome news! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteYay! Congratulations to all the winners!
ReplyDeleteI'm reading Everything Sad is untrue now. It's gorgeous, but emotionally draining. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI'm especially happy to see an Alaskan artist win the Caldecott. Those illustrations are stunning!
ReplyDeleteLove sharing out these beautiful, deserving books.
ReplyDeleteOooo, I can't wait to read these winning books!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to both of these beautiful books! I would love to share them with my students!
ReplyDeleteThese are fantastic books. I love the diversity.
ReplyDeleteSuch great books, hope I win!
ReplyDeleteAward winners?! I'd love the chance to read these!
ReplyDeleteI love that ALONE, is an adventure novel (in verse, no less) that features a female lead! Fabulous.
ReplyDeleteI'd also love to win copy. :)
I love We are Water Protectors! The writing and the bold color of illustration.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the award winners! Both are amazing books and beautiful covers!
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