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Newbery, Caldecott, Printz

cross posted to my fan journal
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By Diane Roback -- Publishers Weekly, 1/18/2010 7:20:00 AM

Rebecca Stead has won the 2010 Newbery Medal for When You Reach Me (Random/Wendy Lamb). Jerry Pinkney has won the 2010 Randolph Caldecott Medal for The Lion & the Mouse (Little, Brown). And Libba Bray has won the 2010 Michael L. Printz Award for Going Bovine (Delacorte). The awards were announced this morning at the American Library Associatio...

Other help links regarding Haiti

President Obama sent out this e-mail message regarding not only his verbal response and promise of help, but also giving links to the Red Cross and another site working on aid to Haiti.

kateelliot also recommends Partners in Health, an organization based in Haiti. She says: "It has an excellent track record, financial transparency, and one of the co-founders was awarded MacArthur Genius Grant for his work in health care and poverty. I've also heard him speak. So I can vouch highly for this or...

Earthquake in Haiti

cross-posted from my fan lj


By now you'll have heard that there's been a deadly earthquake in Haiti. Thousands are dead and, due to the country's poverty, there's very little at home to help the survivor with basic matters like food, water, housing, and medical care. President Obama has already pledged our help, as have the U.K. and Venezuela. The U.N. is releasing ten million dollars in aid. The head of the U.N. station, his deputy, and at least 100 other staff members are missing in the ...

Iran watch

I figured many of you might have become weary of my Iranian obsession, which is why I haven't posted about recent events, but I have not given it up myself. I ground my teeth when masked men attacked Mousavi's vehicle during the funeral procession for the death of another opposition leader about a month ago; I've been following the trials, the protests, and most recently, the deaths as demonstrators took to the streets once more on a year-end Muslim holy day. It's during this time that Mous...

My Favorite Books of 2009

Happy New Year, everyone! (There, I didn't shout, so as not to disturb any aching heads.)

Rather than copy lists from this journal to my fan journal, or vice versa, I'm going to go the lazy person's route this year!

This link will take you to my list of my favorite adult books, with the traumatic ones clearly marked. As some of you have noted, I have read some disturbing books this year, and I thought it was important to give people fair warning as to the contents.

This link will take you to t...

Tired of jumping through hoops for pretend security

I fly a lot. I have flown a lot since I began book tours. In October of 2001, on my first American book tour, I was searched on every flight I took. On one flight, I was searched three times (one of those times involving my actually being taken off the plane). I did my best to be a good sport about this--I was from New York City, after all. I figured out, when I learned every other writer who flew that autumn was also being searched, that it was the one-way ticketing that sent up the red...

Women don't need the same health care as everyone else

A writer named Meg White has written this incisive analysis regarding the next act in the fight for healthcare reform that points out a nasty abscess in the whole thing and points out that when our elected officials negotiates deals with the anti-choice right they are, in effect, negotiating with terrorists. But it seems that when it comes to women's healthcare, it's okay, because we don't matter as much as men.

I've included excerpts here, or you can use the link above to read the whole arti...

While we're on sexism in the military

(and before anyone jumps on me, may I remind you I did not say our guys are squeaky clean in the sexual abuse department)

Today the New York Times published this disturbing report about the lot of the female soldier and of some male soldiers, dealing with harassment, stalking, abuse, and rape from fellow personnel. It's a long piece, and it's unsettling. We like to think, when our women go off to serve, that at least they'll be safe from sexual predation, but these witnesses testify to the c...

Oh, yeah, General--you're doing some fast stepping NOW

So even if it's in the orders, the good general isn't really going to throw women and men in jail because the women got pregnant and, occasionally, they'll find out who the man was. He just meant to scare people into thinking. Women are valuable resources he doesn't want to send home if they get pregnant, because it's always on purpose, and not because the condom failed, or the pills, or the soldier was raped*, because that's never known to happen.

He doesn't trust the majority of his women ...

Birthday wishes

My thanks to everyone, belatedly! It's wonderful to have so many well wishers!