Monday, January 17, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Lost in a Good Book
I am currently reading a mystery that is so good that I got wrapped up in it and didn't get my blog changed to post it as my "currently reading" book until I was more than half done with it. It is called The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard. Pickard is a Kansas author who writes the Jenny Cain mystery series. I like the Jenny Cain books, but this one is better. Pickard has matured over the years and this book has richness and depth which the Jenny Cain books do not. The Virgin of Small Plains is more like true literature than a light quick-read mystery (not that there is anything wrong with light books). I am reading this on my Nook Color and I only miss the smell of the paper pages a little. A review will (hopefully) be forthcoming.Next up for me: The Scent of Rain and Lightning, also a Pickard book, and a recent choice by Barnes & Noble as one of their recommended selections.
Newberry and Caldecott Awards Announced
Newberry Award:
I get so excited every year when the Newberry Award is announced. This medal is given every year by the American Library Association "to the author of the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." My mom taught 5th grade for more than 25 years and she always told me that you can't go wrong with a Newberry book. I was delighted when I learned that this year's winner is both written by a Kansas author and set in Kansas. It is Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool. I haven't read it yet, but am looking forward to it. It is set during the depression with another story/mystery from World War I interwoven. Here are links to this year's winner and the Honor Books (runners up):
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
One Crazy Summer
by Rita Willimas-Garcia
Heart of a Samurai
by Margi Preus
Turtle in Paradise
by Jennifer L. Holm
Caldecott Medal:
The Caldecott Medal is given each year by the ALA to the most deserving picture book. This year's winner is A Sick Day for Amos McGee
by Philip Christian Stead. Below are links to it the Honor Books.
A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip Christian Stead
Interrupting Chicken
by David Ezra Stein
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
by Laban Carrick Hill
I get so excited every year when the Newberry Award is announced. This medal is given every year by the American Library Association "to the author of the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." My mom taught 5th grade for more than 25 years and she always told me that you can't go wrong with a Newberry book. I was delighted when I learned that this year's winner is both written by a Kansas author and set in Kansas. It is Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool. I haven't read it yet, but am looking forward to it. It is set during the depression with another story/mystery from World War I interwoven. Here are links to this year's winner and the Honor Books (runners up):Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
One Crazy Summer
by Rita Willimas-GarciaHeart of a Samurai
by Margi PreusTurtle in Paradise
by Jennifer L. HolmCaldecott Medal:
The Caldecott Medal is given each year by the ALA to the most deserving picture book. This year's winner is A Sick Day for Amos McGee
by Philip Christian Stead. Below are links to it the Honor Books.A Sick Day for Amos McGee
by Philip Christian SteadInterrupting Chicken
by David Ezra SteinDave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
by Laban Carrick Hill
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