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I’ll be compiling a monthly list of new books, awards, and appearances of our illustrious INK members.

This being December, we don’t have any Oscar ceremonies to report, but we have a boatload of new and notable books and awards.

NEW BOOKS

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Homesteading: Settling America's Heartland photos by William Muñoz (Missoula, MT, Mountain Press)

April Pulley Sayre, Let's Go Nuts! Seeds We Eat (Beach Lane/S&S)

David Schwartz, Rotten Pumpkin (Creston Books)
Karen Romano Young, Bats and Rats: A Humanimal Doodles Book (Collins Big Cat)

More new books are among those below…

AWARDS AND NOTABLES

Ann Bausum: Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours (National Geographic
• Jane Addams Children's Book Honor Award for older readers
• Carter G. Woodson Award (Middle Level) from National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)

 Susan Goodman: It's a Dog's Life: How Man's Best Friend Sees, Hears, and Smells the World (Roaring Brook Press)

• nominated for the Beehive Book Award for 2014. 

• The Center for Children’s Books (U of Illinois), 2013 Guide Book to Gift Books for kids.

Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan: The Mad Potter/ George E. Ohr: Eccentric Genius (Neal Porter Book/ Roaring Brook Press)

 • SLJ Best Books 2013 Nonfiction

 • Booklist Youth Editor's Choice 2013

Deborah Heligman, The Boy Who Loved Math: the Improbable Life of Paul Erdos (Roaring Brook Press)

• New York Times Notable Children's Book of 2013

• Kirkus Best Books of 2013. 

• Book List Top 10 Science and Health Book for Youth

• Booklist and Booklinks Top 30 (1 of 2 in Mathematics) lasting connection in the K-8 classroom. 

• Best Jewish Children's Book by Tablet Magazine. 

Steve Jenkins, The Animal Book (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

• Kirkus Best Children’s Book of 2013

• National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book

Steve Jenkins and Robin Page, Animals Upside Down (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

• Kirkus Best Children’s Books of 2013 and on the  

• National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book

• California Reading Association Eureka! Honor Award.

Barbara Kerley, The World is Waiting for You (National Geographic)

• Kirkus Best Children’s Book of 2013

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent: Dogs on Duty: Soldiers' Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond (Walker Children’s Books)

• Mitten Award, Michigan Library Association

Elizabeth Rusch: Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit up the World (Candlewick)

• Gelette Burgess Award for biography.

April Pulley Sayre, Eat Like a Bear, illustrated by Steve Jenkins (Henry Holt)

• National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book

April Pulley Sayre, Here Come the Humpbacks! (Charlesbridge)

• National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book

• Editor’s Choice, Science Books and Films. 

April was also a Picture Book Month Champion.  Read her blog on that forum here.

http://picturebookmonth.com/2013/11/why-picture-books-are-important-by-april-pulley-sayre/

Steve Sheinkin, Lincoln’s Grave Robbers (Scholastic)

• Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2013

David Schwartz, Where Else In the Wild? (Tricycle Press) Finalist Grand Canyon Reader Award (Arizona Children's Choice Award)

• NY Public Library's infographic of the Best Children's Books of 2013

Melissa Stewart, No Monkeys, No Chocolate (Charlesbridge)

• National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book

Melissa Stewart: A Place for Turtles (Peachtree)

• National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book

Tanya Lee Stone, Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles:America's First Black Paratroopers (Candlewick)
• Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2013

• Kirkus Best Books of 2013

• Texas Tayshas Reading List

• Parents' Choice Award Recommended Title

• Tennessee's Volunteer State Book Award List

Tanya Lee Stone, Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? (Henry Holt)

• Parents Magazine Best Nonfiction Picture Books 2013

• National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book

• Junior Library Guild

• Spring 2013 Kids Indie Next List