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Past Announcements

2008

Children's Illustrator, Pauline Baynes, Dead at 86

2008 Letters About Literature Award Winners Announced

2008 ALA Youth Media Awards Presentation Webcast Available

Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Winners Announced

Illustrator Tasha Tudor Dead at 92

Centre County Reads Begins "Breakfast Serials"

Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winners

Ezra Jack Keats Award Winners Announced

Celebrating Poetry - ALA Book Links Quick Tips

Mario Vargas Llosa to Visit Penn State on April 10

Arthur C. Clarke Dead at 90

The Latest Baker's Dozen: The Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy Published in 2007

A Farewell to Arms This Year's Community Read

Tobias Wolff to Present “Still With Us:
No Farewell to Hemingway” on March 6

Community Read April 16-18

Pennsylvania One Book Every Young Child Selection for 2008 Announced

Centre County Reads Activities Begin January 20

American Library Association Announces Literary Award Winners

Victor Hammer Fellowship in the Book Arts

Children’s Book Press Celebrates Librarians

2008 Letters About Literature Essay Contest Announced

2007

The Office of Intellectual Freedom begins lying about its age tomorrow.  Mark the 40th anniversary of the OIF and of Judy Krug as director of this valuable defender of the rights of American citizens, by browsing their web site!

November is National Novel Writing Month

Norman Mailer Dead at 84

PA Center bids teary farewell to Jen Spence.  Oct. 31st was her last day!  Bye Jen, we will miss you.

Poet Laureate to Visit Berks County

Nobel Laureate to Visit Bucknell

Banned Books Week - Sept. 29 - Oct. 6

Author Madeleine L'Engle, Dead at 88

The Latest Baker's Dozen: The Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy Published in 2006

Keystone Chapbook Award for Pennsylvania Poets Guidelines (Word document)

Letters About Literature Winners Announced

2007 Lee Bennett Hopkins Award Winners Announced

Library History Round Table Honors John Y. Cole at ALA Annual

BookExpo to feature Board Member
Larry Portzline

LLoyd Alexander is Dead at 83

Centre Country Reads "Breakfast Serials" To Begin April 29

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Announced

Civil War Book Signing in Harrisburg on May 4

Meet the Authors - Tawni O'Dell

The Connecticut John Does Discuss Security versus Liberty on PBS' "America at a Crossroads"

E.B. Lewis, Exhibit and Talk at 1:00 p.m. in Foster Auditorium - Pattee Library and Paterno Library

Kurt Vonnegut, Dies at 84

Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn Poetry Reading

Author, Retired PSU Professor, Thomas Rogers, Dies

Penn State's Department of English Community Read Gala for " The Intutionist"

2007 Newbery/Caldecott and Other Children's Book Award Winners Announced

Final Harry Potter Book Cover Revealed

For Roth, a 3rd PEN/Faulkner Win

Joseph Low, Children's Illustrator, Dies

Barbara Gittings, Gay Rights Advocate and Librarian, Dead at 75

Pennnsylvania Humanities Council Launches
New Television Project

2006

Parent Wants 'Huck Finn' Pulled From Classes

Bacall, Danner Win Bryn Mawr Hepburn Awards

National Book Award Winners

Latest Baker's Dozen Books for Family Literacy

Highlights for Children Workshops

Sibel Edmonds Wins PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award

It's National Novel Writing Month!

Pennsylvania Center for the Book at the National Book Festival

Ken Kalfus National Book Award Finalist

Theodore Taylor, Author of "The Cay", Dead at 85

412: Creative Nonfiction Festival

Greater Reading Literary Festival

Centre County Reads "A Walk in the Woods"

12th Annual Writers Conference at Penn, October 14 & 15

Maureen Daly, 85, Chronicler of Teenage Love, Dies

Banned Books Week

Forest Press Receives Special Achievement Award

Letters About Literature Press Release

2006 Lee Bennett Hopkins Award Winners

J.K. Rowling Conjures A Huge Crowd

Outspoken New Englander Is New Poet Laureate

ALA's Guide to Best Reading in 2006 Available

Henriette D. Avram, Modernizer of Libraries, Dies at 86

2006 Lilly Prize Awarded to Poet Richard Wilbur

One Book, Every Young Child, Pennsylvania Press Release

2006 Hans Christian Andersen Award Winners Announced

Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania

The Baker's Dozen 2004

2006 ALSC Award Winners

"Women's History Month" with Primary Sources

"Irish-American History/Potato Famine" with Primary Sources

"African-American History Month" with Primary Source

2005

Nikki Grimes Recipient of NCTE Excellence in Poetry Award

Playwright Takes a Prize and a Jab at U.S.

Goodbye, Moon

Stan Berenstain, Children's Author, Dies at 82

National Council on Bookstore Tourism to Support Grassroots Travel Niche for Booklovers

Google Library Battle Rages On At NYPL

Celebrating the 100th Birthday of John O'Hara

August Wilson Is Dead at 60

Tawni O'Dell To Speak on October 12

Patriot Act Action Alert

A Reading of Fiction by Charlotte Holmes

NPR : Web 'VidLits' Used to Promote New Book

Celebrate El Día del los Niños/
El Día de los Libros April 30th


Celebrate National Library Week

Applications for the Libri Foundation's 2005
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN grants are due March 15


The New York Public Library's Digital Gallery

Caldecott and Newbery Medal Winners Announced
2004 This Holiday Season Give the Gift of Reading

Nancy Larrick, Author of a Guide to Children's Reading, Dies at 93

Award-winning Illustrator
Trina Schart Hyman dies at 65


Celebrate Children's Book Week
November 15 - 21


Pennsylvania Citizens for Better Libraries recognizes the efforts of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book (PDF)

PA's Rare Book Collection at Risk

Check out our new fun family literacy activities tied to Pennslyvania's public library summer reading program!

Mrs. Rogers in our Neighborhood (PDF)

PHC Now Accepting Applications for Large Humanities Grants

Award-Winning Children's Author Dead At 59

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