HIT:State Book Awards (Long)

["Mary K. Olzawski" <MKAT0@AOL.COM>]

Dear Netters:

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all of your help. You
may recall that I sent a message a couple of weeks ago asking for information
about state book awards for a presentation my partner and I had to make for
our Children's Lit. class. I am happy to say that I received 68 responses. My
partner, Beth, and I made our presentation this past Monday. We handed out a
table of the states, the names of the awards and when they were established,
the age group they represented, and the most recent winners and authors. It
was well received and all of our classmates, many of whom are already school
librarians, were very happy to have the information.

Several of you asked me to post a hit of the state awards, so here they are
in alphabetical order. If a state is not listed, it is because we did not
hear from them or we could not find any information about them from any of
the major search engines. For those of you who asked, the requirements for
Media Specialist Certification here in Texas are: 21 hours of prescribed
graduate level Library & Inforlmation Science classes (includes internship)
and 3 years of classroom teaching experience. We have a great need for LMS
right now, so jobs may be fairly easy to attain. The Texas Library
Association's website is: www.txla.org.

Again, our heartfelt thanks to all of you who took the time from your summer
vacation to help out a couple of MLIS students. Best wishes to all of you for
a great school year!

Mary K. Olzawski
El Paso, Texas

STATE AWARDS

Alabama        Emphasis on Reading Award
Arizona         Young Readers Award
Arkansas       Charlie May Simon Award & Arkansas Diamond Award
California       Young Readers Medal
Colorado        Colorado Children's Book Award
Connecticut    The Nutmeg Award
Delaware        The Delaware Diamonds Program and/or The Blue Hen Award
Florida           Sunshine State Young Reader Award
Georgia         Georgia Children's Picturebook Award & Georgia Children's
Book Awrd
Hawaii           Nen'e Award
Illinois           Rebecca Caudill Young Reader Award
Indiana          Young Hoosier Award
Iowa              Iowa Children's Choice Award
Kansas         William Allen White Award
Kentucky      Kentucky Bluegrass Award
Maine           The Maine Student Book Award
Maryland      The Black-Eyed Susan Award
Mass.          Children's Book Award
Michigan      The Reader's Choice Award
Minnesota    The Maud Hart Lovelace Award
Mississippi   Mississippi Children's Book Award
Missouri       The Show Me Award & The Mark Twain Award
Montana       The Treasure State Award
Nebraska      The Golden Sower Award
Nevada         Nevada Young Reader's Award
New Ham.     The Great Stone Face Book Award
New Jersey   The Garden State Book Awards   (3 different age groups)
New Mex.     Land of Enchantment Award
New York     Empire State Award    (given for a body of Literary Works)
N. Carolina   The Children's Book Award
N. Dakota     Flicker Tale Children's Book Award
Ohio            The Buckeye Children's Book Award
Oklahoma    Sequoyah Awards & Sequoyah Young Adult Awards
Penn.          Young Reader's Choice Award
RI                The Rhode Island Children's Book Award
S. Carolina   South Carolina Children's/Junior/Young Adult Book Awards
S. Dakota    Prairie Pasque Award
Tenn.          The Volunteer State Book Award
Texas         The Bluebonnet Award  (Check out:
www.Txla.org/html/tba_info.html for
                  information regarding the award or find a list of the
1999-2000 nominees)
Utah           Children's Book Award
Vermont     Red Clover Award & Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award
Virginia      Young Reader's Award
WA.           Children's Choice Picture Book Award & Sasquatch Book Award
West VA.   West Virginia Children's Book Award
Wisconsin  The Golden Archer Award
Wyoming    Indian Paintbrush Award

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