January 2009 Events

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

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Golden Feather Literature Festival~ ongoing until Jan 31, Mongolia

5th Tales in the Park Festival~ ongoing until Feb 7, Bangkok, Thailand

Discovering Ethnic Minorities – Storytelling Workshops for Children~ ongoing until May 31, Hong Kong

2008 Cybils (the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards) Finalists Announced~ Jan 1

Costa Book Awards Winners Announced~ Jan 6, London, United Kingdom

7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities~ Jan 9 – 12, Honolulu, HI, USA

Mitali Perkin’s Secret Keeper Book Launch Party and Writing Workshop~ Jan 15, Palo Alto, CA, USA

CISA World Symposium and Storytelling Festival: Indigenous Voices, Ancient Trade Routes~ Jan 15 – 17, San Leandro, CA, USA

Storytelling by Winners of the First Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative 2008~ Jan 17, Singapore

Newberry Library Lecture – Babes in the Wood: The Death of Childhood and the Birth of Modern Children’s Literature~ Jan 17, Chicago, IL, USA

Presentation Ceremony for the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation~ Jan 20, London, United Kingdom

20th Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities~ Jan 20 – 25, Eatonville, FL, USA

Presentation by Award Winning Author and Literacy Advocate David Bouchard~ Jan 21, Port Moody, BC, Canada

Jaipur Literature Festival~ Jan 21 – 25, Jaipur, India

SCBWI Tokyo Presents Alison Lester: From Arnhem Land to Antarctica as a Children’s Author and Illustrator~ Jan 23, Tokyo, Japan

Deb Ellis and Groundwood Books Partnership with USBBY in a Fundraiser for IBBY’s Fund for Children in Crisis~ Jan 23, Denver, CO, USA

2nd Children’s & Young Adults’ Book Fair~ Jan 23 – 26, Marousi, Greece

American Library Association (ALA) 2009 Midwinter Meeting~ Jan 23 – 29, Denver, CO, USA

ALA Youth Media Awards Announcement~ Jan 26, Denver, CO, USA

Yabun 2009: Celebrating Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Cultures~ Jan 26, Sydney, Australia

No Name-Calling Week~ Jan 26 – 30, USA

Family Literacy Week~ Jan 26 – 31, Province of British Columbia, Canada

Family Literacy Day~ Jan 27, Canada

SCBWI South Africa – Cape Town Presents What’s Happening in the SA Educational Book World~ Jan 28 , Cape Town, South Africa

3rd International Galle Literary Festival~ Jan 28 – Feb 1, Galle, Sri Lanka

Kolkata Book Fair~ Jan 28 – Feb 8, Kolkata, India

Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award Entry Deadline~ Jan 30, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

SCBWI Annual Winter Meeting~ Jan 30 – Feb 1, New York, NY, USA

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Newberry Library Exhibition "Artifacts of Childhood:700 Years of Children's Books"

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Located in Chicago, IL, the Newberry Library is an independent research library dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge, especially in the humanities. Public education has been part of the institution’s mission from its beginning, and the library presents exhibits, musical and dramatic performances, lectures, symposia, tours, and other programs in order to open the collections to the widest possible audience. All programs present and interpret the culture of manuscript and print to adults and families in an era increasingly dominated by electronic media.

The Newberry Library has an extraordinary, wide-ranging children’s book collection dating from the Middle Ages to the present day. The collection includes fiction, folklore, classical literature, music, poetry, children’s textbooks, primers and geographies, as well as secondary literature such as literary criticism, bibliographies, and biographical resources. Until January 17, 2009, selected items from the Newberry’s children’s literature holdings will be showcased in an exhibit entitled Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Children’s Books:

“The exhibition showcases aspects of the interaction between children and books and includes approximately 65 works, drawn from the Library’s collection of thousands of children’s books in more than 100 languages, from the fifteenth century to the present. Artifacts of Childhood features such treasures as: the first illustrated edition of Aesop’s Fables (1485); the first edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865); a nineteenth-century collectible story, La Fille de L’Exile, that is similar in format to Pokemon cards; and ABCs from 1544 to 1992.

These and other materials allow exhibit visitors to traverse time, space, and cultures to trace continuity and change within the history of children’s books, to examine changing attitudes towards children and childhood, and to understand the importance of the study of the history of childhood through children’s books.”

Exhibit admission is free with no reservations required. To read press coverage of the exhibit click here.

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