It's Children's Book Week!

Yesterday marked the beginning of Children's Book Week, May 7-13. The guessing game poster (how many literary characters can you name?) is by the award-winning, David Wiesner. Weisner won the Caldecott Award an unprecedented three times--Tuesday, The Three Pigs, and Flotsam [all JP WIE].

Poster courtesy Children's Book Week.

Similarly, there is a guessing game bookmark that can be downloaded here. Its creator is illustrator, Lane Smith. We also have many of his books in our collection, including his recent Grandpa Green [JP SMI], which appeared on several 2011 "year's best picture book" lists.

Bookmark courtesy Children's Book Week.

Both Wiesner and Lane are featured in Show & Tell: Exploring the Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration by Dilys Evans [741.642 EVA].

Last night, the Children's Choice Book Awards were announced. The winners of these awards were determined by the votes of than 900,000 kids! Jeff Kinney was named author of the year and Brian Selznick was illustrator of the year.

Happy Children's Book Week!