My first breakout session was conducted by the hard working and long reading ILF YHBA committee. The Young Hoosier Book Award turned 40 this year. In addition to introducing the 2015-2016 nominees, the presenters also read aloud from YHBA winners of years past and gave prizes to people for guessing the title of the books based on short snippets of text. The atmosphere was festive with "40" decorations everywhere and people jumping up and oohing, ahhing and ummming as we all had our memories jogged with 4 decades of award winning juvenile fiction.
Here is a link to the list of nominees for 2015-2016:
https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/ilfonline.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/YHBA/2015-16_YHBA_Nominees.pdf
This was a great first ILF session for me to attend because my school participates in the YHBA program each year. It was great to learn more about how the nominees are chosen and what the committee does. Once the 20 nominees are chosen for each age group, the committee writes lesson plans for each title that they provide for teachers and librarians to use for free. This is after they have read many many books in an effort to choose the best of the best in children's literature. One day, when I'm finished with grad school, I would love to serve on this committee. The current committee gave us fair warning, though, that it requires a substantial time commitment. In the mean time, I will enjoy sharing the fruits of their labor with my students.
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