Battle Commander

The Battle Commander is the nom de guerre for children's literature enthusiasts Monica Edinger and Roxanne Hsu Feldman, fourth grade teacher and middle school librarian at the Dalton School in New York City. Both have served on the Newbery Committee, Monica on NCTE's Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts, and Roxanne has just completed two years on ALSC/ALA's Notable Children's Books committee. They are also published authors of professional books, articles, and reviews in publications such as the New York Times, School Library Journal, and Horn Book. Monica and Roxanne share their ideas and great love of children's and young adult books with the world via their blogs: Monica's is educating alice (http://medinger.wordpress.com) and Roxanne's is Fairrosa's Reading Journal (http://www.fairrosa.info/rj).

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Battle of the Kids' Books

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Book Tweets 4

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Books, their words and themselves, do live forever in our hearts.

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Book Tweets 3

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Those who are no longer in contention are moving on... but apparently, one of our finalists is in turmoil.

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The Peanut Gallery: Round 3

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Most seem to be waiting with bated breath for Judge Lowry to decide. Here are a few tidbits seen around this past week.

Writes Collecting Children's Books, "I still contend that, children’s book or not, THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING : THE KINGDOM OF THE WAVES by M.T. Anderson is the most literary, most compelling, and most deserving-of-a-Pulitzer novel published in 2008. I wonder if the Pulitzer committee even considered it. I know wh

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