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This Week’s Peanut Gallery
These Peanut Gallery posts are where we put up whatever we’ve found responding to the latest BOB news. Be sure to let us know in the comments if we’ve missed yours and we will either add it here or put in our next Peanut Gallery post. (A bit sparse this week, but we figure things will pick up when the battle begins!)
Around the web:
- Wyoming Public School’s Media Centers are happy we are back.
- We got a mention in NCTE’s Inbox.
- BooksnStories has a battle plan (to “start reading aggressively.”)
On Twitter:
- Cecilia Cackley Still agonizing over what gets my Undead vote in the #sljbob. El Deafo or Brown Girl Dreaming? Maybe This One Summer?
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Sherri Powers so Excited to be part of Battle of the Books! How Do You BOB?
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Reads for Keeps Thanks to #sljbob, I gave CHILDREN OF THE KING a 2nd chance. I got thru it this time, and liked it. Worthy match w/BROWN GIRL DREAMING
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Ash Lists I need to read: The Printz, Tournament of Books, Battle of the Kids‘ Books, Alex Awards, this year’s Hugos, Morris Awards (?)
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Sara Ralph All these snow days are making it easier to complete the books for Battle of the Kids Books. On the last 3!
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Stacey Friedberg We are famous! So pumped for Battle of the Books 🙂
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Erica Bretall ” History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.” -Egg & Spoon #reading #sljbob
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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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