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Tag: 2018 Caldecott contender
Sexual Harassment and Post-ALA YMA 2018 Thoughts (not necessarily at the same time)
Before we begin discussing yesterday’s Youth Media Award announcements, it would be positively ludicrous if I were to say anything on this blog without first directing your attention to an event that almost eclipsed the Award announcements altogether. If you have missed the current #metoo movement within the children’s and young adult literature industry, then […]
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Super Special Caldecott Contender Edition
I’m so excited! Kate and I are taking a little break from our usual schtick this week because a week from today is the most exciting day of the year. You know the one I mean. It’s a week until the ALA Youth Media Awards where they’ll be announcing the Newbery and Caldecott Awards!!! I’m […]
Newbery / Caldecott 2018: Final Prediction Edition
I was all prepped to begin today by saying that the entire reason I’m doing this post in January is because the ALA Youth Media Awards are slated to go live in February this year . . . but then I looked at last year’s Final Prediction Edition and saw that it was posted on […]
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Newbery / Caldecott 2018: Fall Prediction Edition
*stumbles into the room* Is everybody happy?!? Okay. So. So it’s been quite the year already and we haven’t even gotten to the awards announcement in *checks watch* . . . Wait. The Youth Media Awards celebration is in February this year?!? For crying out loud, anything could happen between now and then. No no […]
Review of the Day: Silent Days, Silent Dreams by Allen Say
Silent Days, Silent Dreams By Allen Say Arthur A. Levine Books (an imprint of Scholastic) $21.99 ISBN: 978-0-545-92761-1 Ages 8-12 On shelves October 31st I love what makes biographers tick. I lack that ability and it’s so interesting me the way in which a person selects not just their subject but the aspects in their […]
Newbery/Caldecott 2018: The Summer Prediction Edition
Did Betsy drop the ball in her last Spring Newbery/Caldecott Prediction post? Yes, Betsy did drop the ball in her last Spring Newbery/Caldecott Prediction post. Will Betsy do better with her Summer Newbery/Caldecott Prediction post? Yes, Betsy will do better with her Summer Newbery/Caldecott Prediction Post. Back in the spring I ran into a bit […]
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Review of the Day: Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell
Wolf in the Snow By Matthew Cordell Feiwel and Friends (an imprint of Macmillan) $17.99 ISBN: 978-1250076366 Ages 4-7 On shelves now It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why it is that I love picture books as much as I do. Putting aside the usual reasons (brain growth, increasing a child’s capacity for wonder, parent/child bonding, […]
Caldecott 2018: Spring Prediction Edition
Folks, for 9 years now I’ve been doing these goofy little Newbery/Caldecott prediction posts. I get ’em wrong far more often than I get ’em right but they’re fun and I enjoy doing them. March 15th is normally the date of the Spring Prediction Edition, and as tradition states I’m supposed to show you how […]
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