I'm just back from an excellent and exhausting first ALA experience. The big news of course are all the Printz, Newbery and Caldecott winners and honorees. I was lucky enough to attend the Newbery and Caldecott banquet and it was quite an event. Hundreds upon hundreds of librarians and industry folk in a cavernous hall spending 3 1/2 hours eating dispiriting banquet food while listening to a slate of incredibly inspiring and moving speeches.
Printz winners and honorees can be found
here , Newberry winners
here and Caldecott winners
here.
Of these, I'm embarrassed to admit I've only read a couple of the Printz winnders,
Shipbeaker and
Stolen, both of which were really fantastic. I'll definitely be shooting to finish up all the Printz honorees
How about you all? Any personal favorites among the lists you can recommend? Anything you think should have been on there and wasn't?
Ship Breaker is incredible.
ReplyDeleteHeart of a Samurai looks awesome too, but I haven't read it.
Heart of a Samurai IS awesome.
ReplyDeleteI just finished listening to Shipbreaker on the way back from DC. Excellent--and the audio version is well done.
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