This past week, the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter 2019 Conference took place in Seattle, WA. We rounded up some highlights on social media from the conference, featuring our Scholastic titles, authors, and librarians. (Plus, multiple Scholastic titles and authors were honored at the ALA Youth Media Awards!)
Check it all out below:
Sending love and a big round of cheers for our ALA award and honor winners! We’re so proud of these books and our authors. Thank you to the committee members and everyone who celebrate and supports literacy. #ALAYMA #alamw19 pic.twitter.com/L5htGNXqyU
— Lizette Serrano (@Miss_Lizette1) January 28, 2019
@Scholastic Reader’s Theater boomerang thread of folks grooving to Motown. First up... @ArthurALevine1 @AALBooks pic.twitter.com/qd8Wj6GeVH
— Aida Salazar (@MimaWrites) January 27, 2019
I’ve never seen anything like this but this is what HEY, KIDDO looks like now at the Scholastic booth. #alamw19 pic.twitter.com/ET1z2R3zFY
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka (@StudioJJK) January 28, 2019
Congratulations @varianjohnson and @kellyyanghk for your awards today from @ALALibrary. We are so proud of the Odyssey Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor for THE PARKER INHERITANCE and the Asian/Pacific American Honor for THE FRONT DESK. #ProudPublisher #ALAYMA #CSK50 pic.twitter.com/iNp4ZYdnqp
— Arthur A. Levine Books (@AALBooks) January 28, 2019
DREAMS. DO. COME. TRUE. My heart is bursting—I want to thank the committee members of @ala_apala for recognizing immigrants, diversity and hope!!! Thank you to the librarians of this country who put a shiny award sticker on ALL books all day by recommending them to kids! pic.twitter.com/QZhQMupATT
— Kelly Yang (@kellyyanghk) January 28, 2019
Live from the @Scholastic office...the first #ALAYMA to be announced is the Asian/Pacific American Award and the MG novel goes to...FRONT DESK by @kellyyanghk!!! pic.twitter.com/QWfikhefsQ
— Arthur A. Levine Books (@AALBooks) January 28, 2019
I'm so overwhelmed I don't even know what to say, except THANK YOU! When I was Caroline's age and felt so incredibly alone, I never could've imagined this moment, and feeling so much love and acceptance. Thank you, thank you, thank you! pic.twitter.com/aaqcTNANBm
— Kheryn Callender Author Updates (@kheryncasey) January 28, 2019
Yesterday, THE PARKER INHERITANCE received a Coretta Scott King Honor & an Odyssey Honor (for audiobook). I am grateful to the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury, the Odyssey Award Committee, ALA, ALSC & everyone else who helped make this possible! See you this summer! #alayma pic.twitter.com/GweO8n6Yhy
— Varian Johnson (@varianjohnson) January 29, 2019
Children’s Legacy 2019: Walter Dean Myers is the 2019 Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner #alayma #alamw19
— ilovelibraries.org (@ILoveLibraries) January 28, 2019
This is what librarians look like. #alamw19 #librarylife #blackexcellence pic.twitter.com/MrW7LewmyB
— Deimosa Webber-Bey (@dataquilter) January 28, 2019
The Coretta Scott King Awards are so great this year... wish we had reviewed them all! Here is our review of the dazzling Honor winner The Parker Inheritance by @varianjohnson (together with Hurricane Child!) https://t.co/ZBMqmU06cc
— Maria Russo (@mariarussonyt) January 28, 2019
