Thoughts on Newbery: Today’s the Day!

In a few hours all will be known. The��award winners will have been called and the announcements in snowy Chicago will have been made.��My congratulations to all��in advance — the honorees, those who were considered, and the hard working committee members. And as a public service for anyone dismayed for any reason, here are a couple of posts that may help.

If you think the committee missed an important book, must have not given the award because the author was too well-known, felt another comm...