Nighttime Ninja Goes for a Ride!

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 ride-and-read storytime was run by the fabulous people of Minnesota Streetcar Museum and Excelsior Bay Books. The museum sponsors several rides like this each summer, and also on the Como-Harriet line by Lake Harriet in Minneapolis (cosponsored by Wild Rumpus Books).

Nighttime Ninja Wins Children's Choice!

Thank you, everyone! What an honor! From Publishers Weekly:

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.

Nighttime Ninja Finalist for Children's Book Week Award!

 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.

Read Kiddo Read: Vote for Nighttime Ninja!

Nighttime Ninja has the honor of being selected as a finalist for James Patterson's Read Kiddo Read literacy project. You can vote for Ninja and other books at the website.

Nighttime Ninja Selected as an ALA Notable Book

Nighttime Ninja selected for prestigious American Library Association "Notable Book" 2013!

And, for a fun video review of Nighttime Ninja by three young boys, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYEdG7Z_P4s

Nighttime Ninja on PW Best Illustrated List!

Nighttime Ninja has been selected as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Illustrated Children's Picture Books of 2012! Here's what they had to say:

"DaCosta debuts with a bang—or, more accurately, a whisper—in this atmospheric account of a ninja's stealthy midnight journey. It's gratifying to see Caldecott Medalist Young flex his comedic muscles, and his collages are as masterful as ever. But what makes this story so outstanding is how seriously it takes the young ninja's mission, right up until the moment his secret is revealed."

Read Nighttime Ninja's full PW review.

Joining Ninja on the list are these other wonderful books:

I, Too, Am America
Langston Hughes, illus. by Brian Collier
Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money
Emily Jenkins, illus. by G. Brian Karas
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King Jr., illus. by Kadir Nelson
This Is Not My Hat
Jon Klassen
A Home for Bird
Philip Stead  
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
Mo Willems
The Bear in the Book 
Kate Banks, illus. by Georg Hallensleben 
Unspoken
Henry Cole
Olivia and the Fairy Princesses
Ian Falconer  
And Then It's Spring 
Julie Fogliano, illus. by Erin Stead

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