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March 17, 2010 by Betsy Bird

The Top 10 Children’s Novels Prediction Challenge

March 17, 2010 by Betsy Bird   11 comments

Here’s the deal.  We’re nearing the end of this poll, but something yet remains.  The top ten winners.  And as with last year’s Top 100 Picture Book Poll, I’m calling upon you, the readers, to guess what will end up in the top slots.

To win you need to first guess the Top 10 Books.  But to become the ultimate winner you need to also place them in the correct order of appearance.  Do this and you’ll win a fabulous prize.  Honest.  I’m not a giveaway gal, but in this case I can make an exception.

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By my calculations book #11 will post on Monday, March 29th.  Therefore you have until midnight of the 29th to email me your guess at Fusenumber8@gmail.com.  I will announce the true winner after the #1 book comes out.  If there is more than one, there will be more than one fabulous prize given out.  What are the prizes?  Haven’t a clue.  But I get enough cool stuff in the mail that I’ll be able to offer you your pick of the choices.

Email me early and risk it, or email me late and risk forgetting to send me your choices.  The choice is entirely yours.

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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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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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  1. angelina41 says

    March 17, 2010 at 10:40 am

    If that date of May 25th is correct, I’m going to cry.

  2. Sondy says

    March 17, 2010 at 10:50 am

    Betsy, could you maybe post a list of all the titles that have been announced so far? I keep forgetting if certain ones have been mentioned, and that way I wouldn’t have to look through every single post again. (Of course, if I were smart, I would have made my own list as you went along.)

  3. My Boaz''s Ruth says

    March 17, 2010 at 11:05 am

    MAY 25th???!!! Do you mean March 25th? Or are you going to post 1 book a week or something?

  4. Fuse #8 says

    March 17, 2010 at 11:31 am

    Doggone “M” months. March, of course. Corrected!

    In terms of the books already listed, Six Boxes of Books has compiled the titles on her site at sixboxesofbooks.blogspot.com/2010/03/top-100-childrens-novels-from-fuse-8.html

  5. Old Gene in Tacoma says

    March 17, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    March Madness at its finest!

  6. DaNae says

    March 18, 2010 at 8:15 am

    The correct order? Are you kidding me?

  7. Fuse #8 says

    March 18, 2010 at 8:55 am

    Hey, man. Can’t let everyone win. There has to be SOME challenge to it. In the event that no one gets it right I’ll find some way to make a runner-up system.

  8. My Boaz's Ruth says

    March 19, 2010 at 9:17 am

    I suggest a points system.

    1 pt for every title on a person’s proposed top ten list that is the correct book, wrong location

    2 pts for correct book, correct location

    If someone gets all 10 books in the right order, they will have the most points. If they don’t, then you have a consistent system for measuring the rest.

  9. Genevieve says

    March 25, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    Wait, Betsy – does “till midnight on the 29th” mean the midnight between the 28th and 29th, so Sunday midnight? Before you’ve posted #11? That’s what I’m guessing it means, but I would’ve called that midnight on the 28th, so I’m not positive.

  10. rockinlibrarian says

    March 25, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    I like Ruth’s points system idea. And am also curious which midnight is the actual due date.

  11. Fuse #8 says

    March 25, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    Yup. Looks like a good point system to me.

    I meant midnight between the 29th and the 30th, after I’ve posted #11. Once #10 has posted I won’t accept any guesses.

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