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While we’re spending some time in the upper age ranges of the Newbery, I wanted to talk about Jack Gantos’ FROM NORVELT TO NOWHERE. Jonathan touched on it in his post Revisting Sequels, where I was tickled to hear him confess he likes it better than the first, since I’ve been toying with that […]
Spring. After a exhausting fall and winter of measuring the year’s best books against each other; the new publishing year opens and those of us who doggedly follow children’s literature in the peculiar quest of speculating about the Newbery Medal get excited. Very excited. The slate is clean: what book will garner next year’s golden […]
Here we are folks, with a whole row of Heavy Medalers/BOBers. The room is smaller this year, and completely full…with an overflow room set up downstairs. We were here….early. There are many many amazing award winners being announced, and I won’t be able to get them all in, but here are some recognizing books we’ve […]
We had 76 voters which is about 5 times the size of the real committee. Our results are followed by some analysis. THE THING ABOUT LUCK . . . 16 (1st) + 6 (2nd) + 3 (3rd) = 88 points FAR FAR AWAY . . . 9 (1st) + 8 (2nd) + 8 (3rd) […]
At the end of this week the committees will start their discussions. What haven’t we covered enough yet? I want to highlight one other Best Books Outlier, Tim Tingle’s HOW I BECAME A GHOST: A CHOCTAW TRAILS OF TEARS STORY, which showed up on Kirkus’ Best list, and also got a strong review from Horn Book. It bears an […]
It’s time for our virtual edition of the Mock Newbery! We’ll declare a winner and honor books after the first ballot so it won’t really be very similar to what the real committee will be doing, but it will still be a lot of fun, and that’s what counts, right? What follows is the list […]
This is the third and final time that the Newbery committee will trade nominations (3 in October, 2 in November, 2 in December). In order for a book to be on the table for discussion, it must first be nominated, so we may see many people use their final two nominations, not to build consensus, […]
Okay, it’s time for us (and the real Newbery committee) to submit two more nominations for the month of November. You’ll remember that my October strategy was to simply nominate the three best books. If, since that time, I have come to believe that another one or two books have genuinely supplanted one of those […]
As I review the titles that seem to stand out strongly so far… I note a LOT of previous medal winners (Kadohata, Williams-Garcia, Appelt, DiCamillo, Henkes, Spinelli, Choldenko, Vanderpool…), and common favorites (Ursu, Urban, Pennypacker…). This always gives me pause. The committee is able to read broadly enough, they can level that “star” effect, but […]
Readers are invited to take part in our “Compare/ Contrast” exercise. Select two titles from this year’s Newbery Medal contenders, and compare them using the Newbery criteria. We'll see which title stands up against the other.
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