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February 2012 Calendar of Children's Books
 You'll find numerous books related to February events on my February 2012 Calendar of Chilldren's Books. There are children's books related to National African American History Month (also known as Black History Month), Valentine's Day and Library Lovers' Month. The birthdays of Langston Hughes, Wilhelm Carl Grimm and Jane Yolen are in February. There's Groundhog Day. Check out my February 2012 Calendar of Children's Books for recommended children's books for February. For books about winter weather (We haven't had much, have you?), see Children's Books About Winter and Snow.
Do you have other children's books related to February events to recommend? If so, click on "Comments" below and post a message. Thanks.
(Cover art courtesy of Simon & Schuster)
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Wonderstruck, A Remarkable Book
 Wonderstruck, by Brian Selznick, who won the 2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal for The Invention of Hugo Cabret, is another remarkable book by the talented author and illustrator. Like Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck is "A Novel in Words and Pictures" for middle grade readers. However, instead of one story, in Wonderstruck, Selznick tells two stories. One is set in 1977 and told in words only, and one is set 50 years earlier, in 1927, and told exclusively in illustrations until near the end of the book when the two stories come together. Brian Selznick won a 2012 Schneider Family Book Award in recognition of his "artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences" in his portrayal of each of the main characters in the two stories, a boy and a girl, both of whom are deaf. See my review of Wonderstruck for more about the book, which is 600+ pages long, with more than 450 of Selznick's dense pencil illustrations covering the pages. It's number 1 on my personal list of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2011. Do you have a facorite illustrated children's book that was published in 2011? If so, please click on "Comments" below and post a message about it.
(Cover art courtesy of Scholastic)
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Winner of 2012 YALSA Young Adult Nonfiction Award
 The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin is the 2012 winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, ages 12 to 18. YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association, is a division of the American Library Association (ALA). Citing the book as "an illuminating biography," Jennifer Hubert the YALSA Nonfiction Award Chair, praised the author for not only examining Benedict Arnold's life in terms of what happened but also in terms of why it happened. To learn more about the award winner, see teen librarian Jennifer Kendall's review of The Notorious Benedict Arnold.
(Cover art courtesy of Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press, An Imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)
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Chris Raschka Wins Caldecott Medal!
 The talented Chris Raschka is the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal winner for picture book illustration for A Ball for Daisy. This is Raschka's second Caldecott Medal. He won the 2006 Caldecott Medal for Norton Juster's The Hello, Goodbye Window. Raschka's illustrations for A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems and A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms are among my favorites. Two of the three 2012 Caldecott Honor Books, Me...Jane and Blackout, are also on my personal Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2011 list. Are you more apt to buy a book for your child/teen if it's an award winner? Please let me know by posting a comment at Readers Respond.
(Cover art courtesy of Random House)
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Wow! Oscars For Movie Version of Hugo Cabret?
 Wow! Hugo, the movie version of Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret, has been nominated for 11 Oscars, including Best Picture! The other nominations for Hugo announced by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design, Directing, Film Editing, Original Score, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects and Adapted Screenplay. Brian Selznick, who received the 2008 Caldecott Medal for The Invention of Hugo Cabret also wrote The Hugo Movie Companion, which provides a fascinating detailed look at the making of Hugo.
Related Resources
Hugo Movie Review for Parents (About.com: Kids' Movies & TV)
Hugo Movie Trailer, Clips and Information (About.com: Kids' Movies & TV)
Hugo Behind the Scenes Video (About.com: Hollywood Movies)
(Cover art courtesy of Scholastic Press, An Imprint of Scholastic)
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