SLJ Trailee Award!

All day I’ve been thinking, I need to shout this out to the world, I’m so excited! But then I think…should I save it for the podcast? Then I told myself, stop it, you! Say it in both places! So I am! I won the 2011 SLJ Trailee Award! And in this week’s podcast you’ll get to hear a recording of it being announced and a mini-interview with the head of the committee, Teresa Schauer. Here is the article, and below, once again, is the trailer that won.
And a shoutout of thanks to the judges who selected my trailer and 23 other finalists were Daryl Grabarek, editor of SLJ‘s Curriculum Connections and Touch and Go; Shannon McClintock Miller, a librarian at Van Meter Community School District in Van Meter, IA; Melanie Mubarak, an elementary school librarian at Fort Bend ISD in Houston, TX; John Schumacher, a school librarian at Brook Forest Elementary School in Oak Brook, IL; and Joyce Valenza, a teacher-librarian at Springfield Township High School in Springfield Township, PA.
2012 Trailee Award Results
Publisher/Author Created for Elementary Readers
Little Chicken’s Big Day by Katie Davis (S & S/Margaret K. McElderry Bks, 2011). Trailer created by Katie Davis.
Publisher/Author Created for Secondary Readers
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Quirk, 2011). Trailer created by Quirk Books.
Student Created for Elementary Readers
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little, Brown, 2009). Trailer by the members of the Bookie Woogie Book Blog.
Student Created for Secondary Readers
Tenderness by Robert Cormier (Delacorte, 1997). Trailer by Daniel Neal, a student at Flower Mound High School in Flower Mound, Texas-Sherry Thompson, Librarian.
Adult Created for Pre-K-12 Readers
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (Dial, 2010). Trailer by Amy Oelkers, an MLS student at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Educator/Librarian Created for Pre-K-12 Readers
The Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski (Farrar, 2008). Trailer by Analine Johnson, Library Media Specialist at Rodolfo C. Centeno Elementary in Laredo, TX.