Tag: Newbery
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #imwayr 2/11/19
On the blog: A slice about the ALA Youth Media Awards announcements In reading: I’ve been busy reading Newberys this week, as I hadn’t read the winner or two (only two?!) honor books. First up was the gold medal winner, Merci Suarez Changes Gears, which has been sitting on my shelf unread since it was…
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Top Ten Newberys I’ve Never Read
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and Bookish. Normally on the day after the ALA Youth Media Awards announcements, I’m organizing my reading for the month to come, planning to catch up on winning titles that I missed. Especially the Newbery. I often criticize the Newbery for its predictable choices and lack of…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: ALA Media Awards Anticipation Plus Suggestions for Caldecott #nfpb2015
On Monday, February 2, the ALA Youth Media Awards will be announced. I’ll be watching the live webcast and chatting with my nerdy friends on Twitter as the announcements are made. I’m interested in all of the awards, for different reasons. The Printz is important to my work in Adolescent Literature. When I look…
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Fifteen Favorite Newbery Medal or Honor Books
This week, the students in my Children’s Literature class are reading The One and Only Ivan and thinking about the criteria for the Newbery Award. Next week, they will select one or more Newbery books on their own to read and review for the class. I thought I would share fifteen of my favorites. I tried to…
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Quick Thoughts on the ALA Media Awards
This photo is from last year, but I loved that it shows #alamya, The One and Only Ivan, AND the Newbery Medal all trending at the same time! It’s hard to settle down after the excitement of this morning’s ALA Media Awards announcements! I woke up just in time to see the Printz announcement. That’s…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 12/16/13
Thanks to Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers for hosting the kidlit version of this weekly meme. This week on my blog, I wrote about the last class of the semester in my Methods course, gave my Methods students some advice for continuing their professional development, and used the Internet for what it’s really made…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/7/13
Visit Teach Mentor Texts and Unleashing Readers to participate in this weekly kidlit-focused meme. This week, I read A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return, a superb graphic novel/memoir by Zeina Abirached, which I’m considering adding to the syllabus of one of my courses next semester. It would fit in Contemporary Literature, Children’s…
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Newbery Challenge: Strawberry Girl (1946)
Lorna at Not for Lunch and I happened to note last week that we have been neglecting our Newbery Challenges for some time, so we decided to pair up to get back to it. Lorna is reading the Newbery Medal winners in order, and she has already completed the list through 1945, which makes me…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/27/13
Visit Teach Mentor Texts to participate in the kidlit version of It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? I had a good reading week and feel like I got back on track after a brief reading slump. I read a lot of picture books out loud to my kids. My two favorites were: Marie-Louise Gay is…
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What I’ve Been Reading
My Father’s Dragon won a Newbery Honor in 1949. Unlike most of the older Newberys I’ve read, it didn’t seem like a book published 60+ years ago. It looked and felt like a book that could have been published much more recently. Which I guess is why it has such staying power. It’s a very…
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