nventor (King)
Honorable Mention – Megan Leung, Age 4, What a Teddy Bear Needs (Evergreen)
Children Ages 7-12:
1st Place – Marisa Leung, Age 10, The Fish’s Pearl (Evergreen)
2nd Place – Arianna T. Le, Age 12, Fate Fate (Tully)
3rd place – Cindy Xu, Age 11, The Tale of the Empire State Building (Calabazas)
Honorable Mention 1 – Shreyan Mayukh Mitra, Age 7, Stop It! I Don’t Like It! (Alviso)
Honorable Mention 2 – Nathan Koketsu, Age 12, Aro (Willow Glen)
1st Place – Shirley Huang, Age 14, Midnight Moon (Vineland)
2nd Place – Kelly Lien, Age 15, Was It Innocence? (Evergreen)
3rd Place – Tess Shell, Age 15, Hidden Flowers Circus (Willow Glen)
Honorable Mention 1 – Aeryn Frost, Age 16, Child of Ink (West Valley)
Honorable Mention 2 – Vi Le, Age 17, The Black Book Market (Berryessa)
1st Place – Jared Russell, Colma (Rose Garden)
2nd Place – Kenzi Smith, Blank Spaces (King)
3rd Place – Queena Xu, Finding Our Melody (Edenvale)
Honorable Mention – Michele Cajes, Happiness (Evergreen)
If you have a talent for creating comic/manga style illustrated short stories, you are invited to enter San José Public Library’s Graphic Novel Making Contest for all ages as part of our Summer Reading Celebration, 2013. This contest is sponsored by San José Public Library, Hijinx Comics, San José Museum of Art and TRY Japan Culture Group.
Here’s how to enter …
Entries will be judged on content and illustrations by a panel of library staff and comic industry professionals. All cash prizes will be awarded as gift cards.
Winners will be announced and prizes awarded at a reception to be held at the Seven Trees Branch Library on Saturday, August 24th at 2:00 p.m.in the Community Room.
San José Public Library staff members are ineligible to participate.
San José Public Library reserves the right to refuse submissions that are not appropriate for a general audience. This contest is open to all California residents.
San Jose Public Library wants your recommendations for the International IMPAC Dublin award now! (Deadline May 16, 2013)
Is there a novel you read last year that you enjoyed? Nominate it for the IMPAC Dublin award!
Every year San Jose Public Library, along with other major libraries from around the world nominates a work of fiction written or translated in English published the preceding year for the International IMPAC Dublin Award. From the Long list of recommended books, a short list of 10 books is chosen by a jury of authors. From this list of finalists a winner is chosen and announced the following June.
The book must be a novel, published in English between January 1 and December 31, 2012 or an English translation of a book originally published between 2008-2012.
Post your recommendations below no later than May 16.
For more information on the IMPAC Dublin award: www.impacdublinaward.ie
In celebration of National Preservation Week, San Jose Public Library is offering a way for you to preserve your personal and family memories. Library staff will be on hand to help you scan photographs and documents that have meaning in your life, and perhaps that you would like to share with others.
I have a photograph of my grandfather, a World War II veteran, who passed away last year. My grandmother gave me this image and also shared with me a few stories about how they first met and what their early years together were like. I would like to share this image and her personal stories with my 20 cousins spread throughout the United States. In this way the family memories can be saved and handed down.
Let us help you do the same. We welcome you to attend a Scan Day at any of the following times and places. Please bring up to ten items to scan and we will help you save the digitized images to a CD.
Thrusday, April 4th 11-1 pm
Friday, April 5th 2-4 pm
Thursday, April 11th 11-1 pm
Thursday, April 11th 4-6 pm
The hills are green and the weather is in turns warm or rainy. Its time to get out into the garden and get some work done! I've been walking out and doing a little bit of weeding every morning and today I sowed some seeds.
March is a great month to get st