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.
Barbara Mojica
February 25, 2013 - 9:06 am ·Wow! I am so happy for you. Katie, you give so much to others. It’s about time you won!
Katie
February 26, 2013 - 9:06 am ·Thanks, Barbara…but this was from the 2012 Trailees! 😎
joycevalenza
January 26, 2012 - 8:01 pm ·Love your work, Katie! Congrats. And thanks for all the smiles.
joyce
katie
January 26, 2012 - 10:15 pm ·Thanks Joyce!
Penny Klostermann
January 25, 2012 - 7:19 pm ·Congratulations! I watched your trailer when you mentioned it in a podcast. So cute.
phyllis
January 24, 2012 - 7:18 pm ·That’s something to cluck about! Congratulations. The trailer is adorable. I love how you
got those chicks to talk!
katie
January 24, 2012 - 7:44 pm ·Thanks, Phyllis! Casting that video was crazy! Feathers flying!
Joanna
January 24, 2012 - 6:20 am ·You sold it to me as soon as I saw the real chicks. 🙂 Congrats on a great trailer and a super award!
Linda Lodding
January 24, 2012 - 3:07 am ·Wonderful news to wake up to! I LOVE your trailer and you are such a deserved winner! Congratulations, Katie!!!
Z-Dad
January 23, 2012 - 11:39 pm ·Congrats Katie!
katie
January 24, 2012 - 8:02 am ·Thanks, Z!
Jennifer Kirkeby
January 23, 2012 - 8:15 pm ·Very exciting new! Congratulations, Katie! The trailer is sooo cute!
katie
January 23, 2012 - 8:27 pm ·Thanks Pam! See, book trailers really do sell books!
katie
January 23, 2012 - 8:27 pm ·Thanks, Jennifer!
Julie Falatko
January 23, 2012 - 8:06 pm ·Yay!
Pam Swallow
January 23, 2012 - 8:03 pm ·What a terrific trailer — such adorable chicks and sweet kids’ voices.
I am going to run out and get a copy for my “coming soon” new grand-daughter.
Gold star, Katie!
katie
January 23, 2012 - 7:13 pm ·Thanks! I’m really thrilled. I’ve never won a competition before!
Elizabeth
January 23, 2012 - 6:48 pm ·Wahooooooo!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! 🙂 e
Beth Stilborn
January 23, 2012 - 4:58 pm ·Congratulations, Katie! That’s such good news. (And I just watched the trailer again. Because I love it so much I had to watch it again before I commented.)
It’s KATIE’S Big Day!