Posted by Anne W on Friday, Mar 2, 2018
Kids, here's your chance to make your voice heard at the ballot box: vote for the Children's Choice Award in the ICPL Children's Department throughout the month of March!
The Children's Choice Award is the only national book award given only by children and teens. There are five books nominated (also chosen by kids in school libraries around the country) in each of three age group categories: kindergarten to second grade, third to fourth grade, and fifth to sixth grade.
Visit our voting booth and fill out the secret ballot for your age group category. The winners will be announced when voting ends everywhere on May 6!
For a full list of this year's nominees, click here.
Kids can also vote online (instantly and without entering any personal information) by visiting http://everychildareader.net/vote/.
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Anne W. works in Children's Services and Collection Services. She loves to read, go on low-budget road trips (especially to camp and hike in national parks), and drink craft beer on a patio. Anne W. enjoys visiting thrift stores, but is also a minimalist. Anne W. has two daughters, a husband, and three cats. Anne W. divides her reading...
A couple of middle-class government employees (she was a public librarian, he was a postal carrier) living in a tiny, rent-controlled apartment in New York City spent the 1960s and ensuing decades building one of the foremost collections of minimalist and conceptual art in the world on a budget. Their apartment was jam-packed - every wall covered floor to ceiling with art - with this style of art, which was all they could afford because it wasn't yet popular. Now their collection, which they donated to the National Gallery, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Read about this extraordinary couple in a new children's picture book biography and then also watch the documentary Herb and Dorothy (found in adult nonfiction DVDs - DVD/708.0092/Vogel), which describes how this couple "managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means." -Anne W