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Teen Librarian Toolbox
by Amanda MacGregor
Good Comics for Kids
by Brigid Alverson
The Classroom Bookshelf
by Denise Davila
A Fuse #8 Production
by Betsy Bird
March 26, 2011 by Elizabeth Burns
Match: Barbie v Keeper Judge: Naomi Shihab Nye Nye is a poet, and she starts with allusions to one of my favorite poems from one of my favorite poetry books: Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses. Nye’s own language is wonderful: “Languid, overheated/chilled lostness enables focused horizontal absorption into material,” “bravado-spirit,” “Americana historiana,” […]
March 25, 2011 by Elizabeth Burns
Match: The Cardturner v Countdown Judge: Laura Amy Schlitz Let us be clear about something: all the books in contention for SLJ BoB are good books, or they wouldn’t be here on this list. One may say that a book is not a perfect book, but how often are books perfect? One may say other […]
March 24, 2011 by Elizabeth Burns
Match: Trash by Andy Mulligan v Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. Judge: Mitali Perkins Perkins approached this by examining the elements of the two books. I have to laugh at this, because it is so familiar! I don’t have a “list” that I use for reviews, but when I’ve been on a committee I […]
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March 23, 2011 by Elizabeth Burns
Match: A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz v They Called Themselves the K.K.K. by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (my review) Judge: R.L. Stine R.L. Stine – best known for the nightmares he creates for readers in his books. Guess what? Stine can add another notch to the nightmares he gives — this time to authors! Stine is […]
March 22, 2011 by Elizabeth Burns
Match: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud (my review) v Sugar Changed the World by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos Judge: Adam Rex Oh, sugar, sugar. You know what is made of awesome sauce? Using footnotes in writing about a Bartimaeus novel. Rex gets it! “I’m even going to go out on a limb and say that […]
March 19, 2011 by Elizabeth Burns
Match: The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds v One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (my review) Judge: Karen Hesse I sit, clicking through links, oh, look! The latestSLJ Bob decision! Reading, uh huh, uh huh…. Wait, what? Hesse picked WHAT? Listen…. that is the sound of everyone’s SLJ BOB’s predictions crumbling.
March 18, 2011 by Elizabeth Burns
Match: Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch v Keeper by Kathi Appelt Judge: Susan Patron Part of the fun and strategy of doing your own brackets for SLJ Bob is trying to get into the head of the judge. As of today, I’m 50/50 split, guessing two correctly; guessing one incorrectly; and allowing hope […]
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