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After KidLit TV live streamed the Irma Black Award and Cook Prize ceremony, professor and intrepid reporter Susannah Richards, PhD interviewed several of the accomplished kid lit creators in attendance. Find out which past Irma Black Award winner’s next book will focus on demystifying fractals, how Mac Barnett makes a ghost appear out of thin air, and how John Rocco’s daughter inspired him to write Blizzard.

Irma Black wrote and edited children’s books. She was a longtime member of the Bank Street Writers Laboratory. The Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature is awarded to an exceptional book whose text and illustration augment each other in such a manner that they create an unforgettable whole.

The Cook Prize is named in honor of Don Cook of the Bank Street Graduate School of Education and Michael Cook (no relation) of the Bank Street School for Children. The Cook Prize is awarded to an outstanding picture book focused on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for those aged eight to ten.

The Irma Black Award and Cook Prize are unique because children are the ultimate judges of the winning books.

2015 Irma S. and James H. Black Award Winner
Sam & Dave Dig a Hole
Author: Mac Barnett
Illustrator: Jon Klassen
Publisher: Candlewick Press

2015 Cook Prize Winner
Galapagos George
Author: Jean Craighead George
Illustrator: Wendell Minor
Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books

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Posted by Julie Gribble
August 19, 2015, 5:30 pm

About Julie Gribble

Julie Gribble

Julie Gribble produces works for children and the children’s literature community in both the United States and Great Britain. While a Children’s Literature Fellow at Stony Brook Southampton, she founded KidLit TV to help children’s authors and illustrators connect with their audience by using new technologies to complement and promote their work. Julie is also founder of the upcoming TeenLit TV which will feature video programs for YA fans. Julie has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and is a multi award-winning writer, screenwriter, filmmaker, and producer. Her charming picture book, Bubblegum Princess, is based on a true story about Kate Middleton and was released on the day the first royal baby, who we now know as Prince George, arrived. Copies of the book have been donated to underprivileged children in the US and to children’s hospices in the UK. NALIP BAFTAIn addition to producing KidLit TV’s original shows, Julie co-produced Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg, a feature film shot in Dorset, England with Bonnie Wright of Harry Potter fame, and DOG BOWL, a short film by Gordy Hoffman which premiered at the 2015 Raindance International Film Festival in London.  Julie sits on the Children’s Committee of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts: BAFTA-NY and is a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, New York Women in Film and Television, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She has presented at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, NYC School Library System Spring Institute, and the 21st Century Children’s Nonfiction Conference.

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