December 2010 Events
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010(Click on event name for more information)
2011 PBBY-Salanga Prize Winner Announced~ Philippines
Dromkeen National Centre for Picture Book Art Exhibits~ Riddells Creek, Australia
December Kids Book Events~ Cairo, Egypt
Making Books Sing Presents a One-Woman Play Based on The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos by Lucía Gonzalez~ New York, NY, USA
Doha International Children’s Book Festival~ ongoing until Dec 2, Doha, Qatar
2010 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition~ ongoing until Dec 5, Nanao, Japan
Off the Page: Original Illustrations from NZ Picture Books~ ongoing until Dec 5, Ashburton, New Zealand
Guadalajara Book Fair~ ongoing until Dec 5, Guadalajara, Mexico
2011 Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards~ submissions accepted until Dec 17, Canada
Scholastic Asian Book Award~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, Singapore
Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2011~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, Singapore
An Exquisite Vision: The Art of Lisbeth Zwerger~ ongoing until Jan 9, Hannover, Germany
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books~ ongoing until Jan 23, Amherst, MA, USA
Drawn in Brooklyn Exhibit of Original Picture Book Art by Brooklyn Illustrators~ ongoing until Jan 23, Brooklyn, NY, USA
National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature Presents From Houdini to Hugo: The Art of Brian Selznick~ ongoing until Jan 29, Abilene, TX, USA
Fins and Feathers: Original Children’s Book Illustrations from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art~ ongoing until Jan 30, Raleigh, NC, USA
Summer Reading Club: Scare Up a Good Story~ ongoing until Jan 31, Australia
2011 Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award~ submissions accepted until Feb 25, United Kingdom
International Youth Library Exhibit: The Fabulous World of John Kilaka, Pictures and Drawings by a Tanzanian Artist~ ongoing until Feb 28, Munich, Germany
Mr Gumpy and Other Outings; Celebrating 50 years of John Burningham’s at Seven Stories~ ongoing until Mar, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney~ ongoing until May 30, Stockbridge, MA, USA
International Youth Library Exhibit: The World in Miniature. The Family in Historic Picture Books and Children’s Literature~ ongoing until Aug 31, Munich, Germany
Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse~ Dec 1 – 6, Montreuil, France
IBBY France Conference: 2nd European Encounter on Children’s Literature~ Dec 3, Paris, France
SCBWI France International Conference for Writers and Illustrators~ Dec 3 – 4, Paris, France
Family Trees: A Celebration of Children’s Literature~ Dec 3 – Jan 2, Concord, MA, USA
Look! The Art of Australian Picture Books Today~ Dec 3 – May 29, Melbourne, Australia
The Children’s Literature Centre at Frostburg State University Presents Storybook Holiday~ Dec 4, Frostburg, MD, USA
Read Out Loud! Family Literacy & Book Festival~ Dec 4, New York, NY, USA
SCBWI Tokyo Illustrators Exhibition: Every Picture Tells a Story~ Dec 7 – 12, Tokyo, Japan
Exhibition of Finalists of the 3rd CJ Picture Book Award~ Dec 8 – 28, Seoul, Korea
Carle Museum Professional Development Workshop: Picturing Stories~ Dec 10, Amherst, MA, USA
BookFest@Singapore~ Dec 10 – 19, Singapore
The Best of the Best in 2010 with Susan Bloom~ Dec 11, Amherst, MA, USA
Chapter & Verse’s (A Book Club for Adults Discussing Children’s Lit) Mock Newbery and Caldecott Discussions~ Dec 11, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago Exhibit: Real and Imaginary: Three Latin American Artists – Raúl Colón, David Diaz and Yuyi Morales~ Dec 11 – May 29, Chicago, IL, USA
Talking About Words and Pictures with Tony DiTerlizzi~ Dec 12, Amherst, MA, USA
Partners in Wonder: Selections from the Collection of Jane Yolen~ Dec 14 – May 1, Amherst, MA, USA
Coming of Age Around the World Book Discussion Group: Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins~ Dec 16, Watertown, MA, USA
Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books Exhibit: Winter Fun!~ Dec 18 – Mar 5, Toronto, ON, Canada
Kuala Lumpur Children’s Book Fair~ Dec 22 – 26, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
I’m a bit behind on posting the updates of our Reading the World Challenge but we are getting there…
John Kilaka originally collected the story from the Fipa tribe of southwest Tanzania and translated it into Kiswahili; his son Kilaka Kenny then translated it into English, ready to be adapted by North-South books. The story is narrated with verve and a freshness about the dialogue that make it a great readaloud. However, what really had us riveted were the illustrations. John Kilaka has developed his own style that combines bright colors and traditional patterns. The animals were intriguing not just because they were dressed in clothes, but because the shapes under the clothes were distinctly anthropomorphic, so that the illustrations make you do a double-take. We enjoyed John Kilaka’s thought-provoking afterword too, where he talks about “Collecting African Stories”.
When Will’s father dies, his grandmother thinks he and his mother need a holiday so they go to Indonesia for Christmas, where his mother’s family comes from. But it’s 2004, and on Boxing Day the Tsunami struck. Oona, an elephant, stampeded up the beach into the jungle away from the tsunami’s dangers into the jungle’s with Will on her back. With only Oona to help him, Will must survive in the jungle, where he saves some orangutans from hunters who also capture him, and meets other jungle animals: not all of them ones you’d like to encounter. Will Will survive?
Antarctica’s Frozen Chosen is about a man called Kyle who goes to Antarctica to research eles (elephant seals) on an Australian base. Actually, the ship gets stuck in ice so they never get there. They see some poachers who are after rare fish to sell and then some other bad things start happening – but that’s for you to find out…
The presentation of the 
