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. Miss Rumphius Award, 2011 . On Saturday, December 3, 2011, the NJ Center for the Book awarded the 2011 Miss Rumphius Award to Kim Zito, school media specialist at Crossroads Middle School, South Brunswick. It was presented at the NJ Association of School Librarians.
& Spa, Long Branch, NJ.  The Miss Rumphius Award celebrates collaboration between librarians and teachers. What great project have you done recently that can be replicated by your peers? This year’s winner, Kim Zito, was the driving force behind South Brunswick’s first ever 2011 community-wide reading initiative entitled South Brunswick Reads . . .,The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It was a ground-breaking partnership between the South Brunswick Public School District and the South Brunswick Public Library..
. The concept won quick approval from both the School District Board of Education and the Public Library. Kim created a wiki for school district staff, library staff, students, and the public to explore and celebrate South Brunswick Reads. The wiki included access to free e-book and audio versions of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as well as video clips from different film versions. There were resources for students, links to lesson plans for teachers, and listings for activities at the public library. The wiki also included interactive learning opportunities for students and a number of internet resources.. . In the schools, students who read the book hung a golden brick with their name on it on the school walls, building a yellow brick road throughout the district.. . Kim was nominated for the award by Chris Carbone, Library Director of the South Brunswick Public Library. Carbone pointed out that schools and public libraries can easily partner together and promote a title for their community to read. The program naturally lends itself to creative ways to incorporate a theme into library programs, school assignments, family experiences and a shared journey that will increase a sense of community.. . To quote Betty Turock, who chaired the awards committee, "this was among the most ambitious activities that I remember reported in the years of this contest." Her creative use of internet resources, collaboration, innovation, and ability to be replicated made Kim an outstanding selection this year. Other members of the committee were Dr. Gus Friedrich, Marianne Gaunt, and Dagmar Finkle.
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The NJCFTB thanks Fran King, President of the NJ Association of School Librarians, and April Bunn, Conference Chair, for monitoring and arranging all the details to make the presentation of this award possible at the Conference. It was indeed a wonderful day. National Book Festival 2011
New Jersey Center for the Book has chosen the new children's book Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story
 by Thomas Yezerski (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011) which features the renaissance of the Meadowlands ecosystem as the focus of New Jersey's exhibit in the Pavilion of States at the Library of Congress's annual National Book Festival on the mall in Washington, D.C. New Jersey Center for the Book has focused on Science Literacy throughout its tenure in New Jersey, featuring a Stellar Science Spectacular Symposium for Educators to launch the reopening of the Liberty Science Center in 2007 and last year's Science is FUNdamental, launching a month-long celebration of science programming in the Monmouth County Library System.. New Jersey Center for the Book has partnered with the NJ Meadowlands Commission and the NY/NJ Harbor Estuary Program and the publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, as well as our long standing partnership with the New Jersey State Society of Washington DC. For further information and events listing, visit the Library of Congress National Book Festival website.  . . .  Celebrate the Joys of Reading Aloud
. Come to the 11th annual National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are honorary chairs for the event. The festival is free and open to the public.
Saturday, Sept. 24: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 25: 1 to 5:30 p.m. . Variety of Authors and Pavilions . More than 100 authors headlined the National Book Festival, including David McCullough, Russell Banks, Dave Eggers, Terry McMillan, Pulitzer Prize winners Siddhartha Mukherjee and Jennifer Egan, Garrison Keillor, Amy Chua & Toni Morrison. .
See all 2011 authors . Reception for the 2011 Letters about Literature Finalists and Winners
at the Princeton University Art Museum The New Jersey Center for the Book reception for the 86 finalists and winners in the Library of Congress / NJ Center for the Book 2011 Letters About Literature essay competition was held at the Princeton Art Museum, Princeton University, on Wednesday, May 11th, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.
Letters About Literature is a national reading promotion program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, presented in partnership with Target and affiliated state centers for the book. The task for young readers is to, “Write a letter to an author explaining how his or her work somehow changed your view of the world or yourself.” There are three levels of competition: Level I: Grades 4-6 Level II: Grades 7-8
and Level III: Grades 9-12. Once again, New Jersey has a NATIONAL HONOR WINNER from among the 69,700 entries nationwide. In addition to a $100 gift card from Target, National Honor Prize winners will also secure a $1,000 Letters About Literature Reading Promotion Grant, courtesy of Target, for a community or school library. 
Former NASA Columbia STS 61-C astronaut Bob Cenker
will be the featured speaker
10th Anniversary of the New Jersey Center for the Book
Wednesday, April 27, 2011, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm At the Zimmerli Museum on the Rutgers University Campus
New Brunswick, NJ Event is Free - No Registration Necessary A most fitting way to toast this past decade of the imaginative and innovative dimension that the New Jersey Center for the Book has brought to the literary landscape of New Jersey View photos of the 10th Anniversary Celebration View the 10th Anniversary Brochure, Part 1 View the 10th Anniversary Brochure, Part 2 View the 10th Anniversary Brochure, Part 3 Walter Dean Myers to be awarded the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information Award for Literature for Children and Young Adults -- click for details
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