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<p class="MsoNormal">The 2017 Bell Award Winners for the five early literacy practices have been announced! The five winning titles have corresponding early literacy activity sheets available on the
<a href="https://www.clel.org/bell-awards-winners">Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy website</a>. The 2017 Bell Shortlist includes the winning titles and four runners up for each of the five early literacy practice, a total of
<a href="https://www.clel.org/previous-nominations">25 great books for young children</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Katie Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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