And the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award goes to . . .
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is considered the biggest children’s literature award in the world. Imagine ALSCs Legacy Award, except it comes with a cash prize of half a mil. Past winners include Laurie Halse Anderson, Jacqueline Woodson, Maurice Sendak and more.
This year the award went to Jon Klassen. Maybe the best part is that you can listen to “The Call”. It makes me wonder – should we do this for all the Newbery and Caldecott winner calls as well?
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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Just wanted to clarify that the ALSC Legacy Award is open to any author or illustrator in the world as long as their books are and have been available in English in America.
Yes – thank you Eric! I updated the post