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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.
sralph31
Team Middle Grade is dominating Battle of the Kids Books. They usually take more of a beating by #yalit.
brownekr
“Stories aren’t the same as facts!” is now on my list of soul-destroying quotes; kudos to @SLJsBoB Judge Mackler
lucyruth
@kennethoppel @SLJsBoB awww creepy replacement book baby ❤️
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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