{"id":680,"date":"2018-12-14T14:58:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/?p=680"},"modified":"2021-08-15T04:13:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T04:13:17","slug":"announcing-a-new-csk-blog-series-csk-winning-books-through-the-decades-observations-and-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/2018\/12\/14\/announcing-a-new-csk-blog-series-csk-winning-books-through-the-decades-observations-and-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing a New CSK Blog Series: CSK-Winning Books Through the Decades, Observations and Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In celebration of fifty years, the CSK Marketing Committee will present a special series of blog posts entitled \u201cCSK Winning Books through the Decades: Observations and Reflections.\u201d Each CSK Marketing Committee member will reveal his or her unique prospective on a specific decade.\u00a0 The 1970s were the formative years for the award as new African American writers emerged.\u00a0 In the 1980s, the CSK Book Awards became an official ALA award as African American literature evolved and transformed the landscape of children\u2019s literature.\u00a0 The 1990s revealed\u00a0 that the very existence of the Award provided opportunities to be published and recognized for African American authors and illustrators where none existed in the past. The 2000s saw the award raise the level of expectations for editors and creators of children\u2019s literature, becoming a goal to aspire to for African American writers and illustrators.\u00a0 Now, in the 2010s, the award has succeeded as one of ALA\u2019s most prestigious honors.\u00a0 Stay tuned to the CSK Blog for more illuminating facts about the CSK Book Awards through the decades!<\/p>\n

Carolyn Garnes is the Chair of the CSK Marketing Committee. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In celebration of fifty years, the CSK Marketing Committee will present a special series of blog posts entitled \u201cCSK Winning Books through the Decades: Observations and Reflections.\u201d Each CSK Marketing Committee member will reveal his or her unique prospective on a specific decade.\u00a0 The 1970s were the formative years for the award as new African … Continue reading Announcing a New CSK Blog Series: CSK-Winning Books Through the Decades, Observations and Reflections<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","category-csk-50th-anniversary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olos.ala.org\/csk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}