MORE POSTS FROM JANUARY 2015
Our Winner: THE FAMILY ROMANOV (11 1st place votes; 1 2nd; 2 3rd) Our Two Honor Books: THE CROSSOVER (4 1st; 4 2nd; 2 3rd) and BROWN GIRL DREAMING (2 1st; 6 2nd; 4 3rd). I’m posting our whiteboard so that you can see (sort of) the three ballots that it took to get to […]
From the following review journals: Booklist, Bulletin, Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal. Six lists— BROWN GIRL DREAMING THE FAMILY ROMANOV THIS ONE SUMMER Five lists— THE FARMER AND THE CLOWN FIREFLY JULY RAIN REIGN THE RIGHT WORD WEST OF THE MOON Four lists— BEYOND MAGENTA EL DEAFO GRASSHOPPER JUNGLE GLORY O’BRIEN’S […]
Our final book to reconsider is THE MADMAN OF PINEY WOODS. The first time around Nina rightly noted that despite a leisurely pace, the storytelling elements–plot, character, setting–make this a worthy book to discuss. We only had three comments, but they were all packed with good insights. Is this book too heavy-handed or didactic? Are […]
There is a myth that spring books don’t win awards, and several theories about the myth…that it is a self-fulfilling prophecy because publishers save their better books for the fall, or is because committee members have time to get disillusioned with early books and don’t with late ones. I find the reverse of the latter however: […]
BROWN GIRL DREAMING has six starred reviews, presumably six best of the year lists (where are you Bulletin?), the National Book Award, and it’s placed the highest through our two rounds of unofficial nominations. It’s a shoo-in for the Newbery Medal, right? I’d like to think it has a very good chance. Personally, I find […]
We often try to spotlight as many atypical Newbery books as possible rather than chasing down every last middle grade title, but the shorter time frame has hijacked some of the posts that we normally devote to them, but we find ourselves with some extra time this week as we await the mock choices from […]
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