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[rockinlibrarian]

BOOK PROJECT IS DONE!

So I'm back. Okay, you probably didn't realize I was gone. But, yeah. I did my best to avoid procrastination as deadline loomed, which meant, okay, maybe SKIMMING the friends' page, but not reading in-depth or responding much. So I'VE been away, but you probably didn't notice, because it's not like I post every day to begin with, and unless you were like "how come amy didn't respond to my post when she always comments on junk?" you probably didn't miss my comments, and how could you miss my reading when you don't know it even takes place?

But, all that said, I don't have much more for you, because Sammy got very sick of me being at the computer last week and is still rather angry at me for being here now. So I'll be brief.

The ALA awards for 2008 are announced. This makes me lonely for other people who actually care. I have to find a kid lit community on lj.

Comments

[danoke.livejournal.com]

I feel so out of it now! I worked in the kid's section of Barnes and Noble as the Children's Lead for just about three years. I could tell you all those winners for those years, but reading the winners this year, I haven't even heard of most of them! But, it was the best three years of my work life. I miss it in many ways!

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Here's the Horn Book's page on the winners, (http://www.hbook.com/resources/awards/ala/default.asp) which has reviews and descriptions and pretty pictures and such, which is very educational.

What's funny is that all the ones I've heard of are the Caldecotts (medal and honors), when I actually READ more novels. Well, Hugo Cabaret, the Caldecott winner, technically IS a novel, just one in which much of the story is told in pictures (pretty sure this is a first for the Caldecott, and will throw off all the poor elementary school librarians who every year plan to read the Caldecott winner to their first graders)-- that was the title I'd heard the most about actually, starting from Amazon.com's repeated insistence that I "might be interested in" it since before it was even released, and I'd been meaning to get it the next time I went to the bigger library in the next town, which is tomorrow morning, and now I wonder if there's going to be a rush on it tomorrow suddenly!

Actually, I'm pretty sure I've HEARD of the Newbery Medal winner, but not much beyond that. I definitely need to read the Christopher Paul Curtis one; I always enjoy his books a lot.

[danoke.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember seeing the Hugo Cabaret book and was confused because it was an actual novel. It's funny how they pick them sometimes! I would always put the winners on display even if we weren't required to because we had so many teachers and librarians come in the day of the announcement looking for them.

[ardentreader.livejournal.com]

I care! Actually, the 2008 award announcements reminds me I need to get back on track with my 'real all the newberry medal books" goal.....I DID have the most recent ten done.....in addition to others...now I need to read this one as I hadn't gotten to it yet.....I need to lock myself in a closet somewhere and read...

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Yay!

It sounds really interesting, the Newbery. It makes me think of Catherine Called Birdy even though it's probably absolutely nothing like except for the setting, but that still makes me curious! I used to want to write medieval stories when I was a kid, and, well, I DID write them, it's just my accuracy probably wasn't very good!