A New Children's Book Award for Comedy - From Author, Librarian, and School Library Journal Blogger Betsy Bird

Named in honor of Paula Danzinger, Betsy Bird recently announced "The Danzinger Awards For Hilarious Kids Books"

completely crowdsourced, the awards will be given in five categories:

– The Funniest Picture Book of 2017
– The Funniest Fiction for Older Children of 2017
– The Funniest Debut Author for Kids of 2017
– The Funniest Debut Illustrator for Kids of 2017
– The Memorial Dead Funny Person Award (2017)

You can vote here.

Shouting out to SCBWI's own Sid Fleischman Humor Awards, Betsy writes, "What this country wants, nay, needs is not one but MANY humor awards for children’s books."

 Sounds great!

 Illustrate and Write On - and go vote! 
 Lee

Amber Brown Grant Application Deadline Extended to March 1st

The late author Paula Danziger

I'm back, dear readers, after eight days in New York and back to back conferences. (You'll hear more about each of them later. And if you haven't checked out the SCBWI TEAM BLOG coverage of the Annual Winter Conference, click here!)

My post-conference post today is to ask you to spread the work that...

the Amber Brown Grand applicaton deadline

has been extended to March 1st, 2011!

The grant, named after a beloved character created by author Paula Danziger, brings a guest author to a school that cannot normally afford to do so.

Here's information on the grant from SCBWI.org:

One school will be rewarded with an all expense paid, full day visit by a well respected children’s author or illustrator. The chosen school will also receive a $250 stipend to assist in creating this memorable event to celebrate reading, learning, and children’s literature and $250 worth of books by the visiting author. Additionally, one runner up school will be selected and rewarded with books valued at $250.

If you know of a school that would qualify, please send them here for the application.

Click here to read a guest post from SCBWI's Amber Brown Grant coordinator Gee Cee Addison about her experience visiting the school that recieved the grant in 2010.