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This Week’s Peanut Gallery
Here’s what we’ve come across this week. Be sure to let us know if we’ve overlooked your post and we’ll be sure to add it on. (And check out our giveaway over on the sidebar. Starting next Friday, fifteen of you who post about the Battle will receive specially designed t-shirts. So start working on those posts!)
- Our Undead Poll got the attention of biologist, professor, and blogger PZ Myers who, in his review of The Frog Scientist, mentioned the Battle and urged his readers to vote for their favorites in the poll.
- Book Nut also pointed out the Undead Poll and recommended, “So, go, and choose wisely my friends.”
- Karen Macpherson did a nice piece on the Battle in her “In this ‘March Madness,’ literally playing by the book.”
- Brainlair‘s busy reading contenders; hope you are too!
- Sonderbook‘s got her first round picks and excellent reasons for them.
- Bookshelves of Doom recommends you “… not to miss it, even if you’re suffering from Olympic exhaustion.”
- The New Jersey State Library Talking Book and Braille Center has information on which BoB contenders are available through them in Braille and/or audio.
- Our own SLJ ran an article about the Battle in their Extra Helpings edition, featuring the way Greenwich Country Day librarian Mary Clark highlights the Battle in her library and Eric Carpenter’s previously mentioned bracket contest.
- Kidsmomo is ready! They note, “If you missed it last year, DO NOT make that mistake again.”
- Ms. Fuse recommends office pools!
- Marge Loch-Wouters, in “Are You Sleeping?” gives us a great build-up, notes that “The battle has been preceded with weeks of hilarious build-ups,” and urges everyone to tune in Monday.
- Jen Funk Weber’s got a “stash surprise” for the winner of her bracket contest.
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About Battle Commander
The Battle Commander is the nom de guerre for children’s literature enthusiasts Monica Edinger and Roxanne Hsu Feldman, fourth grade teacher and middle school librarian at the Dalton School in New York City and Jonathan Hunt, the County Schools Librarian at the San Diego County Office of Education. All three have served on the Newbery Committee as well as other book selection and award committees. They are also published authors of books, articles, and reviews in publications such as the New York Times, School Library Journal, and the Horn Book Magazine. You can find Monica at educating alice and on twitter as @medinger. Roxanne is at Fairrosa Cyber Library and on twitter as @fairrosa. Jonathan can be reached at hunt_yellow@yahoo.com.
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