Comments on: Notables http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/ A Mock Newbery Blog Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Mr. H http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69795 Mr. H Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:06:39 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69795 I gotcha now. Thanks. It is interesting that neither were there earlier, but like you said, not worth dwelling on. I gotcha now. Thanks. It is interesting that neither were there earlier, but like you said, not worth dwelling on.

]]> By: Jonathan Hunt http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69759 Jonathan Hunt Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:22:02 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69759 I'm still not sure that I was clear. The discussion list is what the Notables committee discusses during their meetings. The final list is those which made the cut either because of a vote or because of winning an ALSC award. I’m still not sure that I was clear. The discussion list is what the Notables committee discusses during their meetings. The final list is those which made the cut either because of a vote or because of winning an ALSC award.

]]> By: Jonathan Hunt http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69758 Jonathan Hunt Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:19:47 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69758 All ALSC award winners make the final list which is now posted. But those two titles were absent from the discussion list (which is generally posted before Midwinter and taken down just after). I don't want to read too much into that fact except to point out that the only group of people who read as widely as the Newbery and Caldecott committees is the Notables committee (although even so Notables does not have the luxury of multiple reads). It just goes to prove how fruitless predictions really are--and one of the reasons our mock discussions focus on simulation rather than prediction. All ALSC award winners make the final list which is now posted. But those two titles were absent from the discussion list (which is generally posted before Midwinter and taken down just after). I don’t want to read too much into that fact except to point out that the only group of people who read as widely as the Newbery and Caldecott committees is the Notables committee (although even so Notables does not have the luxury of multiple reads). It just goes to prove how fruitless predictions really are–and one of the reasons our mock discussions focus on simulation rather than prediction.

]]> By: Mr. H http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69754 Mr. H Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:03:18 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69754 I also see BREAKING STALIN'S NOSE . . . Am I not looking at the right list? I also see BREAKING STALIN’S NOSE . . . Am I not looking at the right list?

]]> By: Mr. H http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69753 Mr. H Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:02:07 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69753 Jonathan, you said A BALL FOR DAISY was absent from the list but I'm seeing it there on the list . . . am I missing something? Jonathan, you said A BALL FOR DAISY was absent from the list but I’m seeing it there on the list . . . am I missing something?

]]> By: Sondy http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69598 Sondy Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:42:50 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69598 Oops. I see now you were both delighting that it WAS there. (You can delete my earlier comment and this one if you want!) Oops. I see now you were both delighting that it WAS there. (You can delete my earlier comment and this one if you want!)

]]> By: Sondy http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69596 Sondy Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:41:16 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69596 SWIRL BY SWIRL is there -- the very last book listed in the "All Ages" category. SWIRL BY SWIRL is there — the very last book listed in the “All Ages” category.

]]> By: DaNae http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69595 DaNae Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:38:18 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69595 I was in the middle of compiling the thrills I found on the list when our computers went down for the day. For what its worth I was happy to see: DO YOU KNOW WHICH ONES WILL GROW? This filled a curriculum need for my Kindergartners, who study the difference between the things that are alive and things that are not. WHERE'S WALRUS - which won our school wide Mock Caldecott THE UNFORGOTTEN COAT & FLYAWAY & TALL TALES - loves from foreign lands And just because they are wonderful: HIDDEN BLUEFISH SWIRL BY SWIRL PRESS HERE And of course Heavy Medal's own: OKAY FOR NOW A MONSTER CALLS AMELIA LOST MAY AMELIA WONDERSTRUCK Now I'm off to do some more ordering. I was in the middle of compiling the thrills I found on the list when our computers went down for the day. For what its worth I was happy to see:

DO YOU KNOW WHICH ONES WILL GROW? This filled a curriculum need for my Kindergartners, who study the difference between the things that are alive and things that are not.

WHERE’S WALRUS – which won our school wide Mock Caldecott

THE UNFORGOTTEN COAT & FLYAWAY & TALL TALES – loves from foreign lands

And just because they are wonderful:

HIDDEN
BLUEFISH
SWIRL BY SWIRL
PRESS HERE

And of course Heavy Medal’s own:

OKAY FOR NOW
A MONSTER CALLS
AMELIA LOST
MAY AMELIA
WONDERSTRUCK

Now I’m off to do some more ordering.

]]> By: Jonathan Hunt http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69585 Jonathan Hunt Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:35:05 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69585 Best Fiction for Young Adults is currently up-- http://www.ala.org/yalsa/bfya/2012 --but still waiting for the nominations for the Nonfiction Award. Best Fiction for Young Adults is currently up–

http://www.ala.org/yalsa/bfya/2012

–but still waiting for the nominations for the Nonfiction Award.

]]> By: Misti http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69583 Misti Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:19:11 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/heavymedal/2012/01/25/notables/#comment-69583 Ouch! A lot of my favorite middle-grade novels are not on the list -- MO WREN, but also BREADCRUMBS and THE PENDERWICKS AT POINT MOUETTE. Ah, well . . . I know I'll still be recommending them for a long time, lists and awards or no. Ouch! A lot of my favorite middle-grade novels are not on the list — MO WREN, but also BREADCRUMBS and THE PENDERWICKS AT POINT MOUETTE. Ah, well . . . I know I’ll still be recommending them for a long time, lists and awards or no.

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