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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 events. Let us know if we’ve missed yours in the comments and we’ll add it in.
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Hey, I’m 1/2 so far in @sljbob predictions. http://blogs.slj.com/battleofthebooks/2016/03/08/round-1-match-2-drowned-city-vs-echo/?platform=hootsuite … Keep this up, and I’ll get my 4/8 goal. https://readsforkeeps.wordpress.com/2016/03/05/battle-of-the-kids-books-predictions-2/ …
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Proof of our Battle of the Kids’ Books March Book Madness. Come vote!
#mbm2016#dpbattleofbooks#danapoint#library
SaraCoo08365060
About to be heartbroken by either Goodbye Stranger or Gone Crazy in Alabama losing in the @SLJsBoBbattle today. #librarylife #titletalk
thishannah
I’m officially caught up in the @penguinkids @SLJsBoB fever. Big win for my bracket!! Yeah Rita!blogs.slj.com/battleoftheboo…
sralph31
Best judge quote: “It’s no fun to have blood on your hands, even if…[it’s] literary.” – @michaelwbuckley@SLJsBoBblogs.slj.com/battleoftheboo…
Reads for Keeps 
Maggie Villalobos 
Finally, how about this series of tweets between two of our contenders post-bout:
Rebecca Stead
@rebstead Proud to have lost this one: http://blogs.slj.com/battleofthebooks/2016/03/09/round-1-match-3-gone-crazy-in-alabama-vs-goodbye-stranger/ …@OneCrazyRita@sljournalRita Williams-Garcia
@OneCrazyRita@rebstead@sljournal Yo Rebecca!!! Feeling like#Rocky Got my gloves packed and heading out for boxing!Rebecca Stead
@rebstead@OneCrazyRita@sljournal picture? Because I know you’re not speaking metaphorically.Rita Williams-Garcia
@OneCrazyRita@rebstead@sljournal@Gleasonsboxing No metaphors. Just working on slipping and jabbing.Rebecca Stead
@rebstead@OneCrazyRita@sljournal@Gleasonsboxing A million hearts to this!!!!Rita Williams-Garcia
@OneCrazyRita@rebstead@sljournal@Gleasonsboxing A million hearts back atcha!
Filed under: 2016, 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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