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Tag: Caldecott 2024

January 23, 2024 by Betsy Bird

2024 ALA Youth Media Awards Winner Round-Up!

I round up all my interviews, guest posts, and reviews of the current ALA YMA winners. In case you want to know more about a book, this is a good place to start.

January 18, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Newbery/Caldecott 2024: Final Prediction Edition

Today I'm offering my final prediction edition of both the Newbery and the Caldecott. These are not the books that I am saying I want to win (though I do) but the books that I think will win.

January 8, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: 2024 Caldecott Contenders

As track records go, I don't want to brag but the Fuse 8 n' Kate podcast does a particularly good job each and every year of selecting potential Caldecott winners. This year we consider a new three.

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Amusing, sweet, and strange. A wondrous mix of the familiar with the utterly original. Meet Olive for yourself.

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September 19, 2023 by Betsy Bird

Committees, I do not envy you your job this year. We just have too many award-worthy books. Someone needs to speak to management about this.

Review of the Day: There Was a Party for Langston, King of Letters by Jason Reynolds, ill. Jerome and Jarrett Pumphrey

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With a single photograph you get a truly great picture book pairing and the start of a beautiful collaboration. To life! To joy! To books!

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Review of the Day: An American Story by Kwame Alexander, ill. Dare Coulter

January 17, 2023 by Betsy Bird

In his latest book Kwame Alexander tackles the subject of slavery head on, providing a template not just for teachers, but for any adult wishing to give the kids of today a better grasp on material that so many have worked so hard to avoid for all these years.

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