Twenty by Jenny invites you to build your child's library one book at a time.

Jenny recommends 20 classics, in each of four age groups, to get you started. Each month, her complimentary email newsletter recommends a brand new book in each age group so you can continue to expand your selections.

With more than 9,000 children's books published each year, it's hard to judge the best. Twenty by Jenny will recommend the top picks for you.

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Congratulations to the 2012 ALA Award Winners!

Newbery Medal Winner
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

Newbery Honor Books
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin

Caldecott Medal
A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka

Caldecott Honor Books
Blackout by John Rocco
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell

Here is the complete list of children's book winners.

Winnner, Michael L. Printz Award & William C. Morris Award for a Debut Novel:
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Printz Honor Books:
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman
The Returning by Christine Hinwood
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Here is the complete list of young adult book winners.

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Congratulations to the new National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, for 2012-2013:

Walter Dean Myers

Here's the complete story in the New York Times (with a quote from yours truly, who felt honored to serve on the selection committee).

Have you seen our author interviews? 

 

1) Katherine Paterson and her longtime editor, Virginia Buckley, discuss Bridge to Terabithia.

2) Katherine Paterson and Virginia Buckley discuss the author's most recent novel, The Day of the Pelican.

3) Kate DiCamillo takes us inside her writing process.

4) Kate DiCamillo discusses her most recent novel, The Magician's Elephant.

5) Sharon Creech and her editor, Joanna Cotler, discuss her process on Love that Dog.

6) Sharon Creech and Joanna Cotler discuss the author's most recent novel, The Unfinished Angel.

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