MORE 'PROCESS' POSTS
Readers, stay tuned. We are still in the process of our Third (and might not be the Last) Round of Balloting. As evident from yesterday’s whirlwind of comments (more than two hundred before we closed the comments for the two posts,) our 17 Heavy Medal Award Committee members are taking this task of picking a […]
This are the results of our second round of voting. A few more books are OFF the table: Front Desk, Just Like Jackie, The Night Diary, Poet X (This one kills me!), and Small Spaces. So, we are left with the following titles to further examine: [The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge] First x 3 Second x 1 […]
Last night, all 17 members of the Heavy Medal Award Committee cast our votes for the first time. And we have not yet selected a winner. Here are the guidelines to determine a winning title. A. Each member must cast three separate votes. One each for First Place, Second Place, and Third Place. B. A First Place […]
The Newbery Award will be announced on January 28th. Heavy Medal Readers are invited to share their predictions of what books are most likely to earn a gold or silver Newbery seal.
Happy end of the year, Heavy Medal followers. This is a reminder that on Wednesday, January 2nd, our Heavy Medal Award Committee deliberation will commence. The nineteen members on HMAC will introduce and debate the eighteen finalists following the schedule below. All Heavy Medal readers are invited to share your opinions as well. However, the official […]
We are so happy that 19 Heavy Medal readers have volunteered their time and energy to discuss the finalists. News Flash: after a round of email “voting” Just Like Jackie and Snow Lane are both on the discussion table and we are going to have 18, instead of 16, titles to ballot for in late January. The official […]
Although the Newbery Committee will meet at the end of January, 2019, to choose the most distinguished books for children published in the United States in 2018, the full Committee has already convened twice in 2018: once at the Midwinter Conference to meet each other and be briefed of what to expect for their year-long service, and […]
After many emailed, texted, and phoned conversations, we finally made our choices. In compiling the list, we try to balance between reader support: many of the titles have received strong HM reader support; critical success: winning other awards, making multiple end-of-the-year best lists, etc.; and the HM bloggers’ personal picks: since even one nomination could put a book on the table during the […]
Let the excitement mount! As our final nomination round winds down and the discussion of the many”Best Of” lists of the year comes to an end, it’s time to officially call for the Heavy Medal Committee members. These will be HM readers who are committed to: Read (and re-read) all the 15 (fifteen) titles on our […]
As we continue to get December nominations from Heavy Medal readers, it’s also the time of year when we see Best of the Year lists coming out from journals. So far we’ve seen lists from School Library Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, and Kirkus, as well as the New York Public Library. Horn Book and Booklist should be […]
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