The Top 10 Children’s Novels Prediction Challenge
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.
Filed under: Top 100 Children's Novels (2010)
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 Kirkus, 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 BlueSky at: @fuse8.bsky.social
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If that date of May 25th is correct, I’m going to cry.
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.)
MAY 25th???!!! Do you mean March 25th? Or are you going to post 1 book a week or something?
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
March Madness at its finest!
The correct order? Are you kidding me?
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.
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.
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.
I like Ruth’s points system idea. And am also curious which midnight is the actual due date.
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.