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2013 Judge: Kathi Appelt
Twice Kathi Appelt’s books have duked it out here, and both times they went down to worthy challengers. But she is not bitter. Instead, she has focused her energies on her next novel, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, which features raccoons, pirates, an alligator wrestler, and a giant rattlesnake named Gertrude. When she is not tramping around in imaginary swamps, she is a member of the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She and her husband Ken share their home in College Station, TX with four gifted and talented cats: Peach, Jazz, Hoss and D’jango. They’ve been trying to teach Kathi the ancient language of Catalian, but so far she has only mastered a few nouns, all of which begin with the letter “m.”
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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