Nina Lindsay
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Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery BlogRecent PostsTis the season to curl up with a good bookDecember 1, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1) Newbery committee members can technically do as they please with the "complimentary" books the publishers send them. Many wind up in the members' local libraries or schools. Because my library (happily) generally has copies already in the system of any worthy title anyway, I've often sent most of my books to the Alameda County Community Food Bank, for family holiday gift boxes. Now's the time of year to do it, even though the committee deliberations are still in progress. Nevertheless, I always found I could make a few boxes of books I really really really didn't think I'd need again. Since committee members ...Read More Recent PostsWe Are the ShipNovember 25, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (6) What is it that makes We Are the Ship so heart-thumping? Anyone who enjoys a live baseball game will feel that familiar stadium-big excitement that comes across in Nelson's stunning paintings, with their photographic compositions and larger-than-life perspectives. The heft of the large square book adds to the thrill, and I find myself turning to it often to page through the heavy, slick pages and look one great man after another in the eye. It's a book that makes you feel both humble, and powerful. Nelson's text also adds to the tone. It is in a conversational first-person-plural that one might not expect in nonfiction, but which has the immediacy, familiarity...Read More Industries: Awards, Books, Interviews, K-8 Recent PostsTroubleNovember 24, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (4)
Industries: Awards, Books, Interviews, K-8 Recent PostsLast Call: Still Looking for TitlesNovember 18, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (7) "Thanksgiving" is roughly when Sharon and I try to have our final list of 8 or 9 titles pinned down...giving participants in our January discussion a good six weeks to read them all. We've announced our first five, and have some ideas about what the last few will be--but we still want to hear from you if there's something that didn't come up already, or if something that has already been mentioned hasn't shown up yet on the shortlist. Industries: Awards, Books, Interviews, K-8 Recent PostsUnMockableNovember 13, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) Sharon gave a brief overview of how we organize our Mock Newbery, and I talked more about choosing titles. We're now at the stage of shaking out the end of our shortlist, and I'm officially consigning some of my favorite titles of the year to the "UnMockable" shelf. These include: Industries: Awards, Books, Interviews, K-8
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