Obama Becomes Our 44th President
First Good Masters, Sweet Ladies gets the Newbery.
Now Obama has swept the presidency.
I don’t mean to jump the gun here, but this is turning out to be a pretty good year, isn’t it?
Since I’ve been rendered near incoherent with joy, I’ll just leave it at that for today. Be warned that tomorrow I will make up for it with an overcompensation of wordiness.
Until then . . . . . wow. Wowie wow.
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About Betsy Bird
Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on Twitter: @fuseeight.
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Whoooo Hooooo! The energy is way too high to sleep. We are history. So exciting!
Such a wonderful night, I could hardly sleep. Hard to get up and get on the road, but I’m so excited to go to work for our new pres.
It is a wonderful morning here–sunny, warm. Everyone I’ve seen is smiling so far, including my 9-year-old godson, who was most annoyed that he couldn’t vote for Obama himself.
We were at a loss for words today, too. But it didn’t stop us from posting about how we felt — with children’s books doing the talking for us:
write4kids.com/blog/2008/11/05/revolution/
World has changed,jumped off its old axis. Now the hard work begins. For ALL of us.
Wahooooo.
Jane