Newbery 2024

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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.

September 19, 2023 by Betsy Bird

Newbery/Caldecott 2024: Fall Prediction Edition

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.

Heists, Celebrity, and Mystery: An Interview with Nicholas Day About The Mona Lisa Vanishes

June 7, 2023 by Betsy Bird

What we have here is a work of narrative nonfiction that will completely suck in child readers. I talk with the man behind one of the best books for kids in 2023, bar none.