Telgemeier's Smile Named Honor Book In 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards

According to a post at Raina Telgemeier's web site supported by the official press release to which the cartoonist links within the post's body, Telgemeier's recent graphic memoir Smile was named an Honor Book in the 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature program. The story of Telgemeier's coming of age structured around various travails with her teeth but certainly not limited to that subject, Smile is the first comics work to be included in those awards. The post mentions the author plans to be in Boston in October when the awards are formally given out, which are followed by a one-day symposium on the winning works. The awards have been given out since 1967. Smile has also apparently sold extremely well for Scholastic/Graphix, and should be included in any accounting of comics best-sellers made at the end of this year.
 
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