NBA Authors at BookExpo America 2012
This year’s BookExpo America (BEA) is just around the corner, June 4-7 in New York City. We’ll be there tweeting live from author events and signings, so be sure to follow us on Twitter to get the play-by-play. To see a list of the past and present National Book Award Winners, Finalists, and Judges who will be speaking and/or signing books at BEA, click here. >
Feature:
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 >
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
Free and open to the public
Reservations requested
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Ursula K. Le Guin won the National Book Award for Children’s Books in 1973 for The Farthest Shore. She was also an NBA Finalist three other times: in 1972 for The Tombs of Atuan (Children’s Books), in 1977 for Orsinian Tales (Fiction), and in 1985 for Always Coming Home (Fiction).
Photo © Wes Guderian.
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