Check us out on Pinterest!

The Lower School Library now has a Pinterest account to collect relevant resources for students, teachers, and parents. I just started curating it today, but so far there are SIX boards:

• Search Engines for Kids
• Reference for Kids
• Websites for Kids
• Children's Books & Authors
• News for Kids
• Local Libraries

More coming soon! If you have any requests, just leave a comment below! 

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It's an award-winning day!

While my family shovels the 20 inches of snow a kind blizzard left them yesterday, thousands of librarians brave the ice and slush of Chicago to attend the Youth Media Awards Ceremony at the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference this morning. The Youth Media Awards! The Caledecott! The Newbery! And tons others that are just as wonderful but lesser-known.

Huge congratulations to Dan Santat and my favorite picture book of the year The Adventures of Beekle for winning the Caldecott Medal! And this is why I love Twitter:

This is what having lunch with a newly minted Caldecott medalist looks like. @dsantat #alayma pic.twitter.com/q5oawGzolR
— Lisa Yee (@LisaYee1) February 2, 2015

One Caldecott winner and SIX honors! Six! Can you tell I'm excited? Here they are:

Nana in the City written and illustrated by Lauren Castillo

The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art illustrated by Mary GrandPré, written by Barb Rosenstock

Sam & Dave Dig a Hole illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett

Viva Frida written and illustrated by Yuyi Morales

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant

This One Summer illustrated by Jillian Tamaki, written by Mariko Tamaki

Sadly, we only have Sam & Dave in the LS Library, but we will definitely put the others at the top of our list for next year. Well, except for This One Summer, which is a young adult graphic novel - and a fantastic one at that! - about a teen girl's summer at the beach with her family.

For the complete list of awards and award-winners, check out the official press release here.