Camas County School District Library

National Library Week April 10-16, 2016

Celebrating Beverly Clearys 100th birthday

April 2016
Awards Beverly
Cleary has received:
John Newbery Medal
and More

John Newbery Medal

1984, 1982, 1978 Dear
Mr. Henshaw, Ramona
Quimby, Age 8, Ramona
and Her Father

Dorothy Canfield
Fisher Children's Book
Award
1985, 1966, 1958
Dear Mr. Henshaw, Ribsy,
Fifteen

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Medal 1975

Golden Kite Award for

Fiction
1983 Ralph S. Mouse

Regina Medal
1980

National Book Award

for Childrens Books
(Fiction, Paperback)
1981 Ramona and Her
Mother

CCSDL will have Beverly

Cleary book displays,
activities, and free books
to give away this week.

Beverly Cleary is
an American writer of
fiction for children
and young adults.
One of America's
most successful writers of children's literature, 91 million copies of her books have been sold
worldwide.
Born: April 12, 1916 (age 99),
McMinnville, OR
Education: Chaffey College, University of Washington, University of
California, Berkeley
Children: Marianne Elizabeth Cleary,
Malcolm James Cleary

Beverly Cleary Quotes:

Children should learn that reading

is pleasure, not just something that
teachers make you do in school.
I grew up before there were strict
leash laws.
I don't think children's inner feelings
have changed. They still want a
mother and father in the very same
house; they want places to play.
If you dont see the book you want
on the shelf, write it.
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade
level in our house.

National Library Week will be observed April 10-16, 2016 with the theme,
Libraries Transform. First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. All types of libraries - school, public, academic
and special - participate.
This year's National Library Week theme is Libraries Transform, reminding all
Americans that todays libraries are not just about what we have for people, but what we do
for and with people. Increasingly, libraries are places of creativity where people can meet to
share a hobby, use a 3D printer, edit a video, or use software to record their own music.
Libraries offer access to the tools and technology and training essential to the economic and
cultural lives of their communities.
Honorary Chair for National Library Week 2016 is Gene
Luen Yang, award-winning graphic novelist and the 2016-2017
National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature.
His 2006 book, "American Born Chinese,"
was the first graphic novel to be a finalist for a National Book Award and the first to win the American
Library Associations Printz Award. It also won an
Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album.