Vote for Nighttime Ninja for Children's Book Week Children's Choice award!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York, NY — March 19, 2013 – The Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader have opened voting for the 6
th
annual Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards, the only national book
awards program where the winning titles are selected by young readers of
all ages, at
www.bookweekonline.com.
30 finalists have been announced in six categories, representing kids’
and teens’ favorite books, authors, and illustrators of the year. Last
year, almost 1,000,000 votes were cast, more than doubling votes from
the previous year. Young readers can vote at
www.bookweekonline.com or their votes may be tallied and entered by booksellers, librarians, and teachers into the group ballot at
www.bookweekonline.com until May 9, 2013.
For the first time this year, the CBC has partnered with DOGObooks (
www.dogobooks.com)
to create free, embeddable voting widgets, expanding online voting
opportunities for young readers everywhere. The widgets are available
for publishers, librarians, teachers, and kid lit lovers at
www.bookweekonline.com/widgets. DOGObooks will also promote the voting to millions of students and teachers through its award winning news site www.dogonews.com and through its partnerships with leading education platforms including Google Education, Edmodo and Edublogs.
The Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards winners will be announced
live at the 6th annual Children’s Choice Book Awards Gala on May 13 at
the Liberty Theater in New York City. The gala is a charity event to
benefit Every Child a Reader, and a hallmark event of Children’s Book
Week (May 13-19, 2013), the longest-running national literacy initiative
in the country. The awards presentation will be videotaped and
available for viewing by book lovers of all ages after the event at www.bookweekonline.com.
Nighttime Ninja is one of the eight finalists for the Panda Book Awards, an honor given by international schools in China.
Congratulations to Nighttime Ninja artist Ed Young, on having his book Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
make the New York Public Library's 100 Great Children’s Books of the past century. Lon Po Po received many accolades, including the Caldecott Medal, which was published by Philomel, in 1989.
Nighttime Ninja went on its first trolley ride this week on the Excelsior Trolley, in Excelsior, Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. This handsome, wood-lined streetcar was originally built 106 years ago!
The winners of the sixth annual Children’s Choice Book Awards were
announced May 13 at a ceremony in New York City hosted by the
Children’s Book Council. Book of the Year awards went to: Nighttime Ninja by Barbara DaCosta, illus. by Ed Young (kindergarten to second grade); Bad Kitty for President by Nick Bruel (third to fourth grade); Dork Diaries 4: Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess by Rachel Renée Russell (fifth to sixth grade); and The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (teen). Jeff Kinney was named author of the year for Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7: The Third Wheel, and Robin Preiss Glasser was named illustrator of the year for Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet, written by Jane O’Connor. Watch the ceremony here.
