From Oprah Kids to Youth Sports

Carol Sibley, Library, has recently worked with a committee of the American Library Association to develop two new bibliographies of children’s books. Oprah Kids’ Reading List will be posted on Oprah’s website and includes recommended books for toddlers through tweens. The sports booklist, developed for Up2Us, a national coalition of Sports-Based Youth Development organizations, lists recommended children’s books by sport. Click headline to see both reading lists.

Carol Sibley served as juror for poetry award winner

Carol Hanson Sibley, Library, recently served as one of the jurors appointed to select the 2010 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award. The award honors the “best” poetry book for children published in 2009. The committee selected “Button Up” by Alice Schertle as the winner. Three honor books were also named: “A Curious Collection of Cats” by Betsy Franco, “Crossing Stones” by Helen Frost, and “The Tree that Time Built” by Mary Ann Hoberman. The award is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.