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This Week’s Peanut Gallery
These Peanut Gallery posts are where we put up whatever we’ve found around the web responding to the latest BOB news. Be sure to let us know in the comments if we’ve missed yours and we will add it in here.
Tales from a Loud Librarian is going all out with her Mock BoB. Check out her library’s doors below and then go watch her fired-up video!
And then there is the amazing Jen over at Read for Keeps who is taking a statistics class and decided to analyze our brackets. Wow, is all we can say!
On Pinterest Amy McLanahan put up a terrific image of her library’s BoB display and wrote that, “Each week, we add the winners of each battle leading up to the final match.”
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And, of course, many are weighing in on Twitter:
- colbysharp Working on our Caldecott Edition of Battle of the Books.#sljbob instagram.com/p/knNlJCHnif/
- randomhousekids Typical! @jenniholm will serve as the Big Kahuna Judge in the @sljournal Battle of the Books!blogs.slj.com/battleoftheboo… #sljbob
- brandymuses Every single judge is amazing this year. Every. One. RT @SLJsBoB: This year’s Big Kahuna is… ow.ly/tJtWR#sljbob
- malindalo RT @SLJsBoB: The judges’ brackets revealed:bit.ly/1hvkHPU #sljbob <- I’m judging THE THING ABOUT LUCK vs ROSE UNDER FIRE no biggie
- book_nut The @SLJsBoB brackets are up! (I love this time of year….) blogs.slj.com/battleoftheboo…
- ralph31 books4yourkids.com/2014/01/litera… I need to read this for @SLJsBoB, but the book has a negative cloud over it. This post is encouraging.
Filed under: 2014, Peanut Gallery
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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