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Once upon a time there was a Newbery blog, which discussed contenders both real and mock. And people loved it. (They still do: head here to see for yourself, unless you came from there, in which case,...
View ArticleDefining the terms, part 1
The Printz is a funny animal. On the one hand, it’s loosely defined—no 90 page manual here. But at the same time, we all seem to know what it is when we see it (“it” being a book worthy of the award)....
View ArticleDefining the terms, part 2
Still with us after Friday’s mega post? Yay! This one tackles the second half of the criteria, and it’s actually a bit shorter. So, picking up right where we left off… Having established what the award...
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Stuck
CC-licensed image by Hellojenuine. For the past few months, I’ve been circling around and back to two books.* I start reading. I stop reading. I start again, from the beginning. I get a little further....
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HULK SMASH
Get it? Get it, guys!? A long time ago, we started out thinking and talking about the Printz policies and procedures. And do you know what I said? What I typed, I mean? Yeah, but who wants to be on a...
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Printz 2012 Celebrations Whirlwind Recap!
Double Awards! So Fancy & Shiny! I flew to Anaheim, my suitcase packed with dresses, knowing intellectually that it would be the end of my term on the 2012 Michael L. Printz Award Committee, but in...
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Anticlimactic: I don’t believe in Printz Genre Bias
So I’ve been writing and rewriting a post on genre bias and the Printz for — I’m not kidding you — the past two weeks. But it boils down to a very drama-less post about a lack of genre bias in...
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