JLG Selects the Titles Destined for Future Awards!
We’ve been asked more than once if our reviewers have a crystal ball in their offices. Why? Because time and again, year after year, the titles they choose go on to earn the industry’s most highly esteemed accolades. In fact, more than 95% of our carefully selected books later receive favorable reviews or earn additional awards.
This means that by the time the awards are announced, JLG members are ahead of the game—because most of the winners will already be on their shelves. (Remember, we select them before they’re honored with these distinctions.) What’s more, many previous award winners are also available in our Backlist Catalog for as low as $5.00 each.
Just a few of recent award winning books JLG members received:
The Newbery Medal, 2008
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village (Winner)
Elijah of Buxton (Honor Book)
The Caldecott Medal, 2008
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Winner)
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Honor Book)
Knuffl e Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Honor Book)
Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, 2008
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Winner, Fiction and Poetry)
The Arrival (Winner, Special Citation)
Shooting the Moon (Honor Book, Fiction and Poetry)
Frogs (Honor Book, Nonfiction)
The Michael L. Printz Award, 2008
The White Darkness (Winner)
The Coretta Scott King Book Award, 2008
Elijah of Buxton (Winner, Author Award)
The Schneider Family Book Award, 2008
Hurt Go Happy (Winner, Teen Category)
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, 2008
Vulture View (Honor Book)
The Robert F. Sibert Medal, 2008
Lightship (Honor Book)
The Scott O’Dell Award, 2008
Elijah of Buxton (Winner)
Charlotte Zolotow Award, 2008
Pictures from Our Vacation (Honor Book)
Granddad’s Fishing Buddy (Highly Commended)
The Pura Belpré Award, 2008
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
(Winner, Author Award)
My Name Is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez / Me llamo Gabito:
La vida de Gabriel García Márquez (Illustrator Honor)
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale* (Author Honor)
The Sydney Taylor Book Award, 2008
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk (Winner, Older Readers)
National Book Award, Books For Young People
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Winner, 2007)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Finalist, 2007)
Chains (Finalist, 2008)
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Finalist, 2008)
E. B. White Read Aloud Award, 2008
When Dinosaurs Came with Everything (Winner, Picture Books)
*The English edition of the JLG title: Martina, una cucarachita muy linda
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