The Weekly 411 (1/29/21)

 

Tegan Thomas


Jan. 29, 2021 vol. 5

The Weekly 411 gathers all the links added to Kidlit411 each week. To receive this post by email, sign up for our email updates. Are you on Facebook? Join our Kidlit411 group for conversations & camaraderie. This week's illustration is by Tegan Thomas.

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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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHTS


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!

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!

© Pascal Campion

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!



For Writers

Worksheets for Writers: Jami Gold

Writing Tip: Inactive Protagonists

Character Time and Reader Time


Contests & Awards

Feb. 11 #PBPitch
  • 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

Revisions


Kate Messner's Revisions Charts


Submissions: Agents & Editors

Literary Agents of Color


Inspirational Things

It's Not Too Late


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Comments

  1. CONGRATS to Tae Keller (Penguin Random House, 2020) and Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade (Roaring Brook Press, 2020)!

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  2. Beautiful books! Congrats to Tae, Carole and Michaela!

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  3. We love Asian folklore, so "When You Trap a Tiger" sounds especially intriguing!

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  4. The Weekly 411 is always the start of a GREAT FRIDAY! Thanks so much for boosting my craft work with the amazing links!

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  5. Congratulations to the winners! So well deserved!

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  6. How 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!

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  7. I 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.

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  8. Beautiful books! Congrats to all the winners. :)

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  9. Such exciting winning books--congrats! The art in We Are Water Protectors is spectacular; I'm looking forward to savoring When You Trap a Tiger.

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  10. I'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.

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  11. I love both the book! Such treasures

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  12. When 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!

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  13. Also, 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!

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  14. I 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.

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  15. So exciting to see 👀 more about these great books 📚!!!

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  16. What a wonderful giveaway! Thanks for offering these amazing books.

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  17. Congratulations 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!

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  18. Can't wait to add "Alone" to my middle school library collection!

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  19. I always read and want keeper copies of the award winning books and both of these sound amazing.

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  20. Yay! Congratulations to all the winners!

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  21. I'm reading Everything Sad is untrue now. It's gorgeous, but emotionally draining. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  22. I'm especially happy to see an Alaskan artist win the Caldecott. Those illustrations are stunning!

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  23. Love sharing out these beautiful, deserving books.

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  24. Oooo, I can't wait to read these winning books!

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  25. Congratulations to both of these beautiful books! I would love to share them with my students!

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  26. These are fantastic books. I love the diversity.

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  27. Such great books, hope I win!

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  28. Award winners?! I'd love the chance to read these!

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  29. I love that ALONE, is an adventure novel (in verse, no less) that features a female lead! Fabulous.
    I'd also love to win copy. :)

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  30. I love We are Water Protectors! The writing and the bold color of illustration.

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  31. Congratulations on the award winners! Both are amazing books and beautiful covers!

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