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ALA Youth Media Awards
Newbery Award – Hello, Universe written by Erin Entrada Kelly Caldecott Award – Wolf in the Snow illustrated and written by Matthew Cordell Coretta Scott King Author Award – Piecing Me Together written by Renée Watson Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award – Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets illustrated by Ekua…
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Checking In: Newbery/Caldecott 2017
Yep, you read that right. Travis Jonker wrote up a great list of some Caldecott and Newbery suggestions for his blog 100 Scope Notes on School Library Journal, granted we have no idea what the Committees will be talking about, but I’m in love with at least half of each of…
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Youth Media Awards or BEST Day for Children’s Literature/Media
The Youth Media Awards are announced every January at 8:00 am, when most sane people are getting ready for work, commuting, or just beginning work. This year because the American Library Association Midwinter Conference was held in Seattle, the awards were announced at 11:00 am EST. For most of the…
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It’s Never Too Early to Think About the Newbery Award
In recent years, I’ve begun following the Newbery Award more closely. It’s extremely interesting because the Newbery Committee does not provide the public with a short list of books that they are looking at for receiving the award, but there are plenty of blogs circling the blogosphere that offer their own opinions…
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Wonder
Wonder written by R. J. Palacio is a beautifully written novel for middle school readers about being different – something almost everyone can relate to on some level. The main character is a 5th grade boy named August Pullman who was born with severe facial deformities that prevented him from going to school…
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And the Winner is….
The book and media awards were announced yesterday and every year I am so excited to hear who the winners will be. The Newbery Award definitely caught me off guard this year. I was actually trying very hard to keep up with the Newbery buzz and reading a lot of…
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Moon Over Manifest
I finally got my hands on the 2001 Newbery Award Winner – The Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool. The story is set during the Great Depression in a small town called Manifest, Missouri. It is here that the reader meets Abilene, a 12-year-old girl searching for herself. Interwoven throughout Abilene’s…