The Italian edition of Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol has won the “Scelte di classe” (“Class choices”) award in the category 11-13 year old readers. This prize is a school initiative in which the pupils are asked to elect their favorite books. The award was given “Because it’s a captivating, modern tale, with hip, sometimes…
Category: Awards
BOXERS & SAINTS Wins Yet Another Prize!
BOXERS & SAINTS knocks out all the opponents to win SLJ’s three-week long 2014 Battle of the Kids’ Books. Judge Jenni Holm said: “…A Sistine Chapel of comics and story and historical fiction. It is what we should all aspire to create. You know, like Neil Gaiman says: “Make good art.” My friends: This is great art.” To read…
More Kudos for BOXERS & SAINTS!
BOXERS & SAINTS by Gene Luen Yang has won the Los Angeles Times Book Awards prize for Young Adult Literature. This title has won so many prizes that we’ve lost count!
More Kudos for David Thompson!
Australian restaurateur and author (THAI FOOD, THAI STREET FOOD, Penguin Australia) David Thompson’s Nahm restaurant in Bangkok was named as Asia’s best at the San Pellegrino Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2014 awards yesterday! (Nahm was already on the list of the world’s 50 best restaurants.) David’s firrst book, THAI FOOD, won the 2003 James Beard Award…
LA Times Book Prize Finalists
Congratulations to Gene Luen Yang, whose graphic novel duo “Boxers & Saints” is a finalist for Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Young Adult Literature category! http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-announcing-the-la-times-book-prize-finalists-for-2013-20140219,0,6943176.story#ixzz2tqzybi3y
More Honors for RELISH!
RELISH: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley (First Second) wins the YALSA Alex Award and is also selected for the YALSA Great Graphic Novels List! Foreign sales: French – Editions Delcourt (publishing February 2014) German – Eden Books (publishing February 2014) Italian – Rizzoli Lizard (publishing October 2014) Spanish – Ediciones Salamandra (publishing November 2014)
The ALA’s List of Thirty Top Titles of 2013 Counts Four from Our Clients!
“Book Links magazine announces the annual annotated Lasting Connections list, considered an essential resource for children’s librarians, school library media specialists and K–8 educators. The list spotlights the editors’ selections of the 30 best 2013 picture books, novels and informational titles for the K-8 classroom, all selected for their natural connections across the curriculum and…
BOXERS & SAINTS tops PW Comics World 2013 List!
“Adding yet another honor to its already crowded awards cabinet, Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints topped the eighth annual PW Comics World Critics poll with five votes. The two-volume graphic novel was nominated for this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature (Yang’s second NBA nomination), garnering acclaim from every corner, so topping…
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