{"id":20901,"date":"2017-03-28T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=20901"},"modified":"2017-03-28T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T11:00:51","slug":"got-a-favorite-childrens-bookstore-nominate-it-for-the-pannell-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=20901","title":{"rendered":"Love a Children’s Bookstore? Nominate It for the Pannell Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2008 Pannell award artwork by Chris Van Dusen.<\/p><\/div>\n

There’s a wonderful award given annually that recognizes excellence in children’s bookstores: the Lucille Micheels Pannell Award<\/a>. Generously co-sponsored\u00a0by the Women’s National Book Association (another fab WNBA!) and Penguin Young Readers Group, the award “recognizes bookstores that enhance their communities by bringing exceptional creativity to foster a love of reading and books in children and young adults.”<\/p>\n

Anyone can nominate a favorite bookstore, including\u00a0customers, sales reps, publishing folks,\u00a0authors and illustrators, staff, owners, and managers of the store, and more. Once all of the nominations are in, the award committee (made up of a group of publishing professionals) notifies the nominated stores, who then submit supporting materials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are actually two Pannell awards given each year\u00a0in children’s bookselling: one recognizes a children’s specialty store and the other recognizes a general bookstore with an exceptional children’s department. So if you love a bookstore \u2014 your own or someone else’s \u2014 that you feel deserves recognition for its children’s bookselling, the deadline is coming up on April 10.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a *very* meaningful award for children’s booksellers, so please get the word out to\u00a0nominate your favorite store. It’s easy to do; just see the instructions below. One caveat: check out the WNBA website’s list of past Pannell winners<\/a>, so you don’t nominate a store that has already won.<\/p>\n

(Lest anyone\u00a0think this is a thinly disguised attempt to garner nominations for my own bookstore, I’ll mention that we were the lucky recipients of the award in 2008, an honor that was accompanied by a piece of framed original art\u2014featuring a pig!\u2014by the marvelous Chris Van Dusen.\u00a0We\u00a0proudly display it at the store, and the photo at the top of the post is from the day we received it.)<\/p>\n

Happy nominating! Feel free to trumpet your children’s bookstore love\u00a0in the comments section.\u00a0I know that the booksellers from those stores will be aglow from your kind words.<\/p>\n

The rest of this post comes directly from the WNBA’s Pannell Award press release:<\/p>\n

There are two easy ways to nominate a bookstore for the WNBA Pannell Award.<\/b><\/p>\n

1. Complete the <\/span>Online Nomination Form<\/a> (URL: <\/span>https:\/\/goo.gl\/f6mHNA<\/span>)
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\n2. Email WNBAPannell@gmail.com <\/span>and include the following:<\/p>\n