Wednesday, October 14, 2009

LIPS TOUCH named as 1 of 5 Y.A. finalists for the National Book Award!


We are SO honored and excited! And I'm SO proud of my wife and her beautiful writing!

Go here for a list of all of the nominees.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am so, so happy for you two. This book is one of the most beautiful collaborations that there could be and so incredibly well deserved. Congratulations to you two!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its about time the stupid world caught on and enjoyed what you two have worked so hard to create.
"Aunt B"

holly cupala said...

This is so incredibly exciting, Jim!!! So proud and happy for your both of you!!!!

Amber Lough said...

I thought I'd commented on here earlier, but I think my mind is muddling facebook with blogs---a very dangerous thing!

Anyway....

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! (Again.)

Jake said...
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Jake said...

Congrats! Lips Touch is one of my new favorite books, so I hope it wins an award!

Jim Di Bartolo said...

Thanks so much! We're VERY excited over here for this news! 2009 has been MUCH better to us than yucky sucky 2008!

Stephanie Perkins said...

YAAAAAHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

I couldn't be more thrilled! Really, truly could not :) :) :) Lips Touch DESERVES this and so much more. Congratulations to you and Laini, and may this be the first of MANY honors!!

Veronika said...

I love the whole concept you did with the illustrations! I really like making illustrations like you did with this book: taking a step further from the text. I'm often making illustrations where it's not clear right away what they mean or how they relate, but after you've read the text, it starts to make sense. My teachers don't like it though, they want more of the straight forward things...
But you've proved that working in this way can make it so much more exciting!!!!
Amazing work! Congratulations to both you and Laini!