Showing posts with label best of 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label best of 2008. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Golden Kite Awards Announced

The Golden Kite Awards have been announced. While I haven't read the winner, Down Sand Mountain by Steve Watkins (though I read the obligatory fifty pages before abandoning), I did greatly enjoy one of the honor books...The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Notable books of 2008

ALSC has announced its notables list for 2009.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

NCTE Orbis Pictus Awards Announced

The Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children has been announced. This year's winner is Shelley Tanaka's Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator. If I'd come across it, I'd have read it I'm sure...as I went through a phase of reading anything and everything Earhart. And the subject still intrigues me. Oh well. Something to look for at the library I suppose.

Honor books include: Tonya Bolden's George Washington Carver, Candance Fleming's The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, Russell Freedman's Washington at Valley Forge, Kadir Nelson's We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, and Dorothy Hinshaw Patent's When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature's Balance in Yellowstone.

There is also a list of recommended books.

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BBYA Fun

Best Books for Young Adults (BBYA)'s Top Ten has been posted. I am just thrilled to see Ten Cents A Dance on the list. Sure, Hunger Games and Nation are there too. But you'd expect them to be there. And this is not the only title on the list that might surprise people.

I've only read three on the list. And there were four that were completely-new-to-me...never-ever-ever heard of them.

The complete list of BBYA for this year is 86 titles long. It has quite a few that I've read--and some that I've just loved. Many of the titles were Cybils nominees and some finalists as well.

The ALA Notables List (for younger readers not teens) is also available now. Read it here.
SLJ's Best of 2008.

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Monday, January 26, 2009

The Big Announcements

First I was using twitter, for the last two awards I used PW. My thoughts will be in a separate post.

Alex Awards--10 Best Adult Books
Benioff, David. City of Thieves.
Swanwick, Michael. The Dragons of Babel
Ferraris, Zoe. Finding Nouf.
Tinti, Hannah. The Good Thief.
King, Stephen. Just After Sunset: Stories.
Jordan, Hillary. Mudbound.
Tucker, Todd. Over and Under.
Bloom, Stephen G. The Oxford Project.
Barow, Toby. Sharp Teeth.
Rebeck, Theresa. Three Girls and Their Brother.

Schneider Family Book Awards
0-10: Parker, Robert Andrew. Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum.
11-13. Connor, Leslie. Waiting for Normal
13-18 Friesen, Jonathan. Jerk, California

Coretta Scott King Book Awards

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award: (illustrator) Strickland, Shadra. Bird. Written by Zetta Elliott.

Illustrator Honor Books:
Nelson, Kadir. Author/Illustrator. We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball.
Qualls, Sean. Illustrator. Before John Was A Jazz Giant. Written by Carole Boston Weatherford
Pinkney, Jerry. The Moon Over Star. Written by Dianna Hutts Aston.

Illustrator Winner:
Cooper, Floyd. The Blacker the Berry. Written by Joyce Carol Thomas.

Author Honor Books
Thomas, Joyce Carol. The Blacker the Berry. Illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
Smith, Hope Anita. Keeping the Night Watch. Illustrated by E.B. Lewis.
Weatherford, Carole Boston. Becoming Billie Holiday. Illustrated by Floyd Cooper.

Author Winner:
Nelson, Kadir. We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball.


Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production
The Absolutely True Diary of A Part Time Indian written/narrated by Sherman Alexie

Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults:
Laurie Halse Anderson

William C. Morris Award
Bunce, Elizabeth C. A Curse Dark As Gold.

Michael L. Printz Award Honors:
Anderson, M.T. Octavian Nothing, volume 2
Lockhart, E. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Pratchett, Terry. Nation.
Lanagan, Margo. Tender Morsels.

Michael L. Printz Award Winner:
Marchetta, Melina. Jellicoe Road.

Pura Belpre Awards

Illustrator Honor Books
Gutierrez, Rudy. Papa and Me. Written by Arthur Dorros
Delacre, Lulu. The Storyteller's Candle. Written by Lucia Gonzalez
Cordova, Amy. What Can You Do With a Rebozo. Written by Carmen Tafolla.
Illustrator Award
Morales, Yuyi. Just In Case.

Author Honor Books:
Morales, Yuyi. Just In Case
Jimenez, Francisco. Reaching Out
Gonzalez, Lucia. The Storyteller's Candle.
Author Award
Engle, Margarita. The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom.

Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Uehashi, Nahoko. Morbito: Guardian of the Spirit. Translated by Cathy Hirano

Robert F. Sibert Medal
Honor Books:
Deem, James M. Bodies From the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Rediscovery of the Past.
Kerley, Barbara. What To Do About Alice: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!
Sibert Medal
Nelson, Kadir. We Are the Ship.

Geisel Award Winner:
Willems, Mo. Are You Ready to Play Outside.

Geisel Honor Books:
Grant, Judyann Ackerman. Chicken Said, Cluck.
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro. One Boy.
Davis, Eleanor. Stinky.
Campbell, Sarah C. Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award: Ashley Bryan

Newbery Award:
Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard Book

Newbery Honors:
Appelt, Kathi. The Underneath.
Engle, Margarita. The Surrender Tree.
Law, Ingrid. Savvy.
Woodson, Jacqueline. After Tupac & D Foster

Caldecott Medal:
Krommes, Beth, illustrator. The House In the Night. Written by Susan Marie Swanson

Caldecott Honors:
Frazee, Marla. A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever.
Shulevitz, Uri. How I Learned Geography.
Sweet, Melissa. (illustrator) A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams. Written by Jen Bryant.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Good news for Chains!

Just read this at Roger's blog. Laurie Halse Anderson has won the Scott O'Dell award for Chains!! I love that book.

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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Sydney Taylor Book Awards Announced

THE 2009 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARDS
ANNOUNCED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES

The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Younger Readers: As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom by Richard Michelson with illustrations by Raul Colon

The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Older Readers: Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse

The Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Teen Readers: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti

Honor books and notable books can be found listed here.

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Thursday, December 04, 2008

Horn Book Fanfare Best of 2008

Full list and full descriptions can be found here at the Horn book site.

The fiction titles:

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to The Nation, Volume 2, The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Forever Rose by Hilary McKay
Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
Nation by Terry Pratchett
The Last of the High Kings by Kate Thompson

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Friday, November 28, 2008

NYT: Notable Children's Books of 2008

Have you seen this list yet? The New York Times list of Notable Children's Books for 2008.

Wabi Sabi by Mark Reibstein
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 2, The Kingdom On the Waves by M.T. Anderson
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
ABC3D by Marion Bataille
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

SLJ Best Books 2008

Here is School Library Journal's list of best books of 2008. For having 67 books, they sure are missing some of the biggies--those that are my favorite and best. I'm skipping over (for now) the picture books and nonfiction. Here are the fiction titles they've highlighted:

The Seer of Shadows by Avi
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Coraline the Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman. Adapted by P. Craig Russell.
Paper Towns by John Green.
Well Witched by Frances Hardinge
My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath
The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
The Door of No Return by Sarah Mussi
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
The Leanin' Dog by K.A. Nuzum
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Clementine's Letter by Sara Pennypacker
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford
Impossible by Nancy Werlin

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Thursday, November 06, 2008

PW's Best of Children's Fiction 2008

Read the full list here.

Children's Fiction

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation: Volume 2: The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
Masterpiece by Elise Broach
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
Dark Dude by Oscar Hijuelos
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Savvy by Ingrid Law
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Nation by Terry Pratchett

Other categories that may be of interest: children's picture books, children's nonfiction.

What do you think of the list? I would have made a few switches. The Underneath should be there. As should Adoration of Jenna Fox. And I could do without Bog Child altogether. I am only about sixty pages into the book, but I'm so not getting why this book is making all the lists and getting all the stars. B-O-R-I-N-G!

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Best of 2008--Amazon Editors Picks for the Best

2008 Top 10 Lists

Middle Readers
1. The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
2. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
3. Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
4. My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath
5. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
7. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
8. A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
9. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
10. Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out.

Teens (*Editors seem to have trouble counting to ten as there is no number two listed.)

1. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation: Volume 2: The Kingdom On the Waves by M.T. Anderson
3. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
5. Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
6. The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante
7. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
8. Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
9. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
10. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards


Given in three categories (poetry and fiction, picture book, and nonfiction), the Boston-Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced today with a special citation added in as well.

The 2008 winners are:

Nonfiction
The Wall by Peter Sís (Foster/Farrar)

Fiction and Poetry
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Ellen Forney (Little)

Picture Book
At Night by Jonathan Bean (Farrar)

Special Citation The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Levine/Scholastic)

The two honor books in each category:

Nonfiction:
Frogs by Nic Bishop (Scholastic)
What to Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham (Scholastic)

Fiction and Poetry:
Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell (Atheneum)
Savvy by Ingrid Law (Walden/Dial)

Picture Book:
Fred Stays with Me! by Nancy Coffelt, illustrated by Tricia Tusa (Little)
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee (Harcourt)



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