Newbery/Caldecott 2022: Spring Prediction Edition

Honestly, I didn’t mean to write this post for St. Patrick’s Day. It just sort of fell out like that. Still, why the heck not? If St. Patrick’s Day is all about luck, then let’s see how lucky I am at predicting next year’s Newbery/Caldecott winners.

This year’s prediction list is particularly strange. I’ve been doing these since 2008, but this is the first year where I haven’t been able to see the bulk of the books in a physical form. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the larger publi...