Now THAT is how you do an award season, my friends. Boy oh boy, I was mighty pleased MIGHTY PLEASED by a good 98% of the winners (and of that 2% that didn’t please me, I’ll never tell). I fully intend to do a post about all the neat stuff I saw on the conference […]
Award Season Speculation: How Has the Process of Discussion Changed Over the Years?
January 18, 2017 by
Are you excited? I’m excited. Who wouldn’t be? Very soon, almost too soon, it will be Monday morning and all around the world we’ll be able to tune into the live feed of ALA’s Youth Media Awards to hear the winners of the Caldecott, Newbery, Printz, etc. Not like in the old days when you […]
Newbery / Caldecott 2017: Final Prediction Edition
January 4, 2017 by
Normally published in December, now pushed up to January for your reading pleasure. But I’m shaking things up this time around. Let’s do something a little different. In all my past Final Prediction Editions of Newbery/Caldecott winners, I cling stubbornly to the same format: name the predicted winner and honors. This year I’m going a […]
Review of the Day: Snow White by Matt Phelan
November 18, 2016 by
Snow White: A Graphic Novel By Matt Phelan Candlewick Press $19.99 ISBN: 978-0-7636-7233-1 Ages 9-12 On shelves now I’d have said it couldn’t be done. The Snow White fairytale has been told and retold and overdone to death until there’s not much left to do but forget about it entirely. Not that every graphic novel […]
Review of the Day: They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel
September 21, 2016 by
They All Saw a Cat By Brendan Wenzel Chronicle Books $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-4521-5013-0 Ages 4-7 On shelves now It’s funny. Unless you’re a teacher or librarian, a grown adult that does not work or live with children will come into very little contact with picture books. Then, one day, they produce a few kids and […]
Newbery / Caldecott 2017: Fall Prediction Edition
September 19, 2016 by
Mmmm. It’s that time again. The summer is beginning to cool its jets and with fall on the horizon I need to present the third in my yearly four-part prediction series. What was that fantastic quote Travis Jonker came up with the other day? Ah, yes. “Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, […]
Newbery/Caldecott 2017: The Summer Prediction Edition
June 20, 2016 by
Fickle little me. Titles appear. Titles disappear. Many of the books I placed on my Spring 2017 predictions list are gone by June, and what has changed? Aren’t the books as wonderful now as they were when I originally propped them up? Of course they are, but I’ve done enough book discussions in the intervening […]
Newbery / Caldecott 2017: Spring Prediction Edition
March 16, 2016 by
What? Who? Now? Yes, if you’re checking the calendar you’ll see that three whole months of 2016 have gone by and you know what that means. Prediction time! But Betsy, you say, that is quite simply the kookiest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s March, for crying out loud. We’ve ten months until the next award […]
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