A Year of Reading

This blog began as an extension of our conversations about possible contenders for the Newbery and Caldecott Award winners. Our &qu...

The winners of the ALA Youth Media Awards were announced yesterday morning. ( Complete list of winners here .) I'm still scratching...

We are starting a Mock Newbery Club at our school this year.  We have a meeting coming up to introduce books and think about those we'd...

Here are the award-winners I read in 2013: Newbery -- Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures Newbery Honor -- The Year of B...

Franki and I had a little email conversation late last week. It went something like this: She: "Are we ignoring the Newbery this year...

It was January 2005. As always, I was very excited about the announcement of the Caldecott and Newbery Awards. There was no social media ...

Main idea:  Both of the "biggies" (Newbery/Caldecott) were COMPLETELY off my radar: never saw them, never heard about them. Howeve...

Today is the finish line for a year of work for the readers on the Newbery and Caldecott committees. The NCTE Notable Children's Books...

Last year , I totally had to concede to Franki -- only she and our bookstore friends, Beth and Sally, had read The Graveyard Book. This yea...

100 Scope Notes has the scoop on where to watch the live webcast of the ALA Newbery/Caldecott Awards and how to stay in touch on Twitter ....

Franki read the Newbery before it was announced today, so technically , she wins the friendly little non-competition (HA!) upon which this ...

So, how did I do over here in "attempting to have read the Newbery" land? Newbery: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schli...

Sharon's Newbery is picking up where Nina's Newbery (mock Newbery blog/event in Oakland) left off last year.