Newsletter, February 2002

Welcome to the February issue of our newsletter. If you'd like to have each issue delivered to your email address you can sign-up for a subscription.

In This Issue You'll Find:

• Featured Subject: States in Kids' Books.

Since our last newsletter the Newbery and Caldecott awards have been announced. The Newbery went to Linda Sue Park for A Single Shard (Order Info), and the Caldecott went to David Wiesner, illustrator and author of The Three Pigs (Order Info).

For the full announcement see:
http://www.ala.org/news/v8n2/awardsrelease.html

For those who missed our last newsletter the most recent additions to our web site are:

• Featured Subject: Wind
• Featured Author: James Stevenson.
• Featured Subject: Work and Careers.
• Featured Book: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse.
• Featured Book: Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin.

Remember that the Snowflake Bentley book above is especially appropriate for this season as is our Featured Subject Winter.

For materials appropriate to Black History Month see Martin Luther King Jr. and Tolerance.

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Featured Subject: States in Kids' Books.