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Tag: Mildred L. Batchelder Award

November 6, 2024 by Betsy Bird

Further Predictions! Everything That ISN’T Newbery/Caldecott 2025

Take your mind off of politics with this utter ridiculous prediction post zeroing in on the potential ALA Youth Media Award winners.

November 22, 2022 by Betsy Bird

A Lost Hero: The Rediscovery of Mildred Batchelder

I was just looking through some random files in my library, when I made a shocking discovery . . .

January 24, 2012 by Betsy Bird

Newbery / Caldecott / Etc. 2012: Post Awards Edition

Since it’s apparently football season (or at least that’s what the trending topics on Twitter seem to imply) think of this as a kind of post-game recap of what went on yesterday in the land of ALA Media Awards.  Each year I like to look at what I got right, what I got wrong, what […]

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Review of the Day – Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi

June 4, 2008 by Betsy Bird

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit By Nahoko Uehashi Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu Arthur A. Levine Books (an imprint of Scholastic) $17.99 ISBN: 978-0-545-00542-5 Ages 9-14 On shelves now No one can look you in the eye and tell you that kids today don’t read Japanese literature. A simple stroll by the manga section of any […]

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