For immediate release | May 4, 2021
Carnegie Whitney Grant 2021 Award winners
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CHICAGO — The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants for the preparation, either in print and/or electronically, of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliographies, indexes and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types of libraries in the United States.
The 91´«Ã½ Publishing Committee is proud to announce the 2021 Carnegie-Whitney Award winners, whose proposed projects promote reading or the use of library resources.
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Grace Enriquez and Meg Burns |
A Bibliography of Children’s Literature to Celebrate Multilingualism and Facilitate Translanguaging Pedagogies |
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Jennifer Embree and Neyda Gilman |
Equitable Sustainability Literacy: A Resource Guide for Environmental Justice & Activism |
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Keren Dali and Robert Montes |
Mainstreaming Stories from around the World: Reviews of Children’s International Literature in English Translation |
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Lauren Hays and Jenna Kammer |
Digital Citizenship: An Annotated Bibliography |
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Rae-Anne Montague |
Fifty Years of 91´«Ã½ Stonewall Book Awards: An Annotated Guide |
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Robin Moeller |
We're All Orchids Now: A bibliography of children's picture books about dealing with anxiety, 2010-2022 |
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Shu Wan |
A Trilingual Bibliography of LGBTQ History Books (2000-2020) |
You can view the list of past award winners here .
Applications for the next cycle must be received by Nov. 5, 2021. Recipients will be notified by the end of February 2022.
For more information and guidelines, visit or contact Mary Jo Bolduc, Grant Administrator, 91´«Ã½ at mbolduc@ala.org.
Contact:
Mary Jo Bolduc
Licensing and Permissions Manager
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Publishing
mbolduc@ala.org(312) 280-5416
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