Thoughts on Newbery: Hopes for 2019

This past year has been an odd one for me in terms of Newbery possibilities. You see, I’m chairing the Boston Globe-Horn Book award committee and we consider books published in an unusual timeframe: June 2018 — May 2019. As a result, I’ve had to focus my attention on books that came out the second part of last year. I did read a number of the earlier ones in ARCs before that, but not as many as I would have otherwise. So with that caveat here are some titles I’d be happy to see recognized a w...