Announcing the 2012 Innovations in Reading Prize Winners!
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s Innovations in Reading Prizes:
- Bookends: A Television Program for Teens Who Like to Read (Fort Collins, CO)
- Lilli Leight (Coral Gables, FL)
- Literacy Chicago for Reading Against the Odds (Chicago, IL)
- Street Books (Portland, OR)
- Inger Upchurch for Real Men Read Storytime and Mentoring (Memphis, TN)
To learn more about the Innovations in Reading Prize and each of the winners, click here >
Feature:
BookUp Named Finalist for 2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award!
We’re excited to share the news that BookUp, our after-school reading program for middle-schoolers, has been named a 2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award finalist! The award is given annually by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and its partner agencies, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. We’d like to thank our wonderful instructors and partners for making BookUp such a successful program. For more information about the award, visit www.nahyp.org. >
UPCOMING EVENT:
Joseph Mitchell’s Harbor
A panel discussion of the old New York Harbor, using Joseph Mitchell’s The Bottom of the Harbor as a guide and inspiration.
Featuring:
- Mark Kurlansky
- Luc Sante
- Robert Sullivan
- Nathan Ward
- James Sanders - Moderator
Tuesday, June 19, New York City
On tumblr:
Today is the birthday of Katherine Anne Porter (right), shown here with fellow Award Winner Janet Flanner (left) at the 1966 National Book Awards. Porter won the Fiction Award that year for her Collected Stories and was a Finalist twice previously: in 1953 for The Days Before (Nonfiction) and in 1963 for Ship of Fools (Fiction).
Photo by Wagner International Photos
National Book Awards