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Eve of the Battle Peanut Gallery
Brandy’s got some thoughts,wishes, and guesses.
Battle of the Books begins on Tuesday!!!! My anticipation level at this point is pretty high. I get ridiculously excited about this every year. Usually I have one book that I love and want to see win, and one that I want to see go down quick. That is not the case this year. While I do have a favorite, I also have several other books I love in the battle. And I didn’t loathe any of them. I sort of don’t know what to do with that.
The LibrariYAn appreciated our posts of the past week:
The start of School Library Journal’s Battle of the Kids Books is just days away. Before we get into the grueling face-offs, BoB is giving each book a chance to introduce itself. And in the most adorable way possible: with introductory blurbs written by student readers, in the voice of the book. Holy wow!
I loved these books before. And now they have personalities. Written by witty teens and pre-teens. Who is their English teacher? Give that (wo)man or those (wo)men a raise. Pronto. Seriously. It’s a pretty serious writing task to personify a book. And these are the bees knees.
The Card Catalog’s ruminations:
There are two months each year when I get overly obsessive about children’s literature (I know, my siblings and roommates would say “Only TWO?? Just who do you think you’re fooling?”). The ALA Media Awards in January are like my Oscars. And the SLJ Battle of the Kid’s Books (BOB) is like my Super Bowl/March Madness/World Series or any other sports comparison you’d like to make.
BooksnStories been reading:
Ah, reading… It is a salve to my weary – and sometimes restless – soul. Over at Battle of the (Kid’s) Books, you can now vote for the one book in the entire contest that you want to return to the Final Round if it gets voted off. I LOVE this part of BoB because sometimes a worthy book falls short of a worthy judge’s expectations. Ya know what I mean? Judges are human.
And then there is Horn Book editor Roger Sutton’s rant..I mean, take (and he’s got something intriguing in the works about this):
and I hope the SLJ judges will similarly refrain from holding back–too often those judges indulge in ostentatious and overlong handwringing about how HARD it is to DECIDE between two such ever-shining testaments to the power of the written word, blah, blah, blah, awesome, awesome, wimp out, PEACE.
Over at twitter:
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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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