Thoughts on Newbery: My Personal Druthers (for More Than the Newbery)

The announcement for this year’s ALA’s Youth Media Awards is this coming Monday, January 11th and as is true every year there are a large number of potential and worthy honorees, somehaving received more public scrutiny and attention than others. Having served on the 2008 Newbery committee I know how hard the members of all of this year’s committeeswill have worked — not just those days coming up thatthey will be spending together making their selections, but all year long — reading, rereadin...