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(Children’s) BookNotes March 16, 2016

Ezra Jack Keats’ centennial, the CBC Children’s Choice Awards,
the Carnegie medal and Kate Greenaway shortlist nominations, and the departure of “To Kill a Mockingbird” from paperback are part of this week’s rundown of noteworthy news in the world of children’s books. (Click on each subhead to read the stories.)

Ezra Jack Keats Centennial Celebration Includes Bookmaking and Readalouds

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(Reproduced with permission from the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation)

Voting Is Now Open for the 9th Annual Children’s Choice Book Awards.

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Young readers across the country will determine the winners by voting online at ccbookawards.com from March 8 through April 25, 2016. Last year, over 1.3 million kids and teens made their voices heard!

Carnegie medal and Kate Greenaway shortlists 2016 announced

Anthony Browne, Helen Oxenbury and Chris Riddell are in the running for their third Greenaways – how many have you read? (We reviewed five of the long-listed titles here at Literary Kids!)

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Mass Market Edition of “To Kill a Mockingbird” Discontinued

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Ezra Jack Keats’ Centennial Birthday Celebration, on the Fine Books Blog. https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine_books_blog/

(Image: Keats and cat Samantha. Reproduced with permission from the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation.)

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Winter Sparks

©2015 Deirdre Gill

Outside, by Deirdre Gill; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99, 40 pages, ages 2-5.

What’s a boy to do when his older brother won’t join him in wintery fun outdoors? In author-illustrator Deirdre Gill’s charming picture book debut, the child ventures out alone, and builds a grand, icy fantasy world. After constructing a castle, a gentle snowman and a fire-breathing dragon, he embarks on wondrous imaginary adventures. Gill’s large oils on paper are inviting and, despite large swaths of snow covering most pages, warm. The text is minimal, but sonorous and spare enough for young readers to follow along with ease, and adult readers may notice the subtle homage to Ezra Jack Keats 1962 Caldecott winner The Snowy Day. The plucky protagonist’s imagination will likely provide inspiration to readers who find themselves staring out their own windows this winter, wondering what happens when they take that first step.