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I'm more than a little heartbroken that Ruta Sepetys' absolutely STUNNING novel, Between Shades of Gray, didn't even get a Printz Honor. There were so many books I was certain would be honored today - Okay for Now, Wonderstruck(although it did win a Schneider Award), A Monster Calls... And how were there only 2 Newbery Honors??? What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall in the judges' rooms.
On the plus side, I'm celebrating Printz Honors and Odyssey Honors for Maggie Stiefvater'sThe Scorpio Races! And Newbery Honors for Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back Again!
And I'm excited to add to my must-read list: - I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen (Geisel Honor) - Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet (Sibert Winner) - Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Pura Belpre Winner and Morris Honor) - Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley (Printz Winner and Morris Winner)
What did y'all think of the 2012 ALA Youth Media Awards? Which awards had you standing and cheering? Which books do you think were overlooked? And which titles are you now excited to dive into?
5 Comments on ALA Youth Media Awards: WHAT?!, last added: 1/25/2012
I was also shocked that Between Shades of Grey didn't win, I haven't read it yet, but I heard it was such an eye opening book. I haven't really heard too much about the books that won. Thanks for the great post Katie! :)
I can't wait to hear what you think of "I Want My Hat Back"--I loved it but it seems to be very divisive. "Balloons Over Broadway" is a great one--the pictures alone make it a worthwhile purchase for a home library. Final thought: I was embarrassed to say that while I have all of the Caldecott Honors in my library and love them, I don't have medal winner!
I'm surprised, as well, that Wonderstruck didn't dominate a bit more. I read the summary for "Where Things Come Back" and it doesn't really interest me, but I also have Under the Mesquite on my TBR list and Shades of Grey is already on my kindle awaiting me!
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, Wendy Lamb Books, 2006, 194 pp, ISBN: 0553376055
Recap:
While some might bemoan the fact that their father has shipped them off to England to live with a whole passle of strange cousins, Daisy is actually finding the whole situation rather brilliant.
Not only will she get to miss the birth of her stepmother's demon child, as it turns out, her cousins are nothing short of wonderful. Their life together on the farm is full of magic and love and adventure and yes, there might be a war coming on, but surely it will never reach them all the way out in the country. Right?
...Right?
Wrong.
Review:
How I Live Now is one of those books where you're reading and reading and reading (because of course you can't put it down) and the entire time you know in the back of your mind, "I'm holding a little piece of magic in my own two hands!"
Daisy's voice as the narrator was the first sign that this book was something extraordinary. With her run-on sentences and Generous Use of Capitalized Letters and tongue in cheek observations and unabashedly honest confessions, Daisy sounds just exactly as every 15-year-old should, but is somehow wiser, funnier, and more lovabl
2 Comments on How I Live Now, last added: 4/25/2011
Going Bovine by Libba Bray, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2009, 496 pp, ISBN: 0385733976
- Mad Cow Disease
- A talking yard gnome
- Fire giants
- Starfighter: The most quoted movie ever (never thought I would say that about a movie not starring Will Ferrell)
- A pink haired, punk angel with spray-painted wings
- The Church of Everlasting Satisfaction and Snack N' Bowl
- Snowglobe killers
- An epic journey through space and across the country
Are you confused yet? Yup, I was too. Going Bovine was certainly unlike anything else I've ever read. I have to admit, the first chapter made me pretty skeptical about the remaining 490-ish pages. I just was not super interested a teenage-stoner-boy-narrator who swears a lot and specializes in apathy. However, I LOVE Libba Bray and I'm a pretty big fan of the Printz Award, so I kept reading.
Final verdict? While Going Bovine is not one of those books that I'm going to recommend to everyone I know, I can appreciate it for it is: amazingly creative, incredibly unique, and one that will you keep you guessing until the very last feather falls. For me, the ultimate message had a lot in common with William Wallace's famous quote: Every man dies, but not every man really lives. Cameron's journey was all about the importance of creating adventures and experiencing everything life has to offer.
Whether you've read Going Bovine or not, you have got to check out Libba Bray's website. It is absolutely fabulous! She has created links and pages for all of the strange and wonderful things from her books, like CESSNAB, the Copenhagen Interpretation, and even the Great Tremalo.
I love this lady.
1 Comments on Going Bovine, last added: 10/30/2010
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen-Yang, First Second, 2006, 233 pp, ISBN: 1596431520
Because I just can't figure out how to summarize this wholly unique read, here is a good one from Amazon:
"Indie graphic novelist Gene Yang's intelligent and emotionally challenging American Born Chinese is made up of three individual plotlines: the determined efforts of the Chinese folk hero Monkey King to shed his humble roots and be revered as a god; the struggles faced by Jin Wang, a lonely Asian American middle school student who would do anything to fit in with his white classmates; and the sitcom plight of Danny, an All-American teen so shamed by his Chinese cousin Chin-Kee (a purposefully painful ethnic stereotype) that he is forced to change schools. Each story works well on its own, but Yang engineers a clever convergence of these parallel tales into a powerful climax."
I have never read anything like American Born Chinese. The three different story lines each brought to light a different aspect of Chinese or Chinese-American culture. Each was engaging on its own, but the overall message clicked into place when the three lines were woven together in the end.
This masterful graphic novel imparts universal themes of racism, shame, friendship, and self-acceptance. Jin Wang and Danny will help young readers to question stereotypes that they once understood to be truths. The vivid drawings throughout brought the story to a whole other level. I'm pretty positive that American Born Chinese is unlike anything my students have ever read and I would be fascinated to listen in on a class discussion of this text.
Have any of you ever read American Born Chinese in school? What was the experience like? Do you have any suggestions for teaching with it?
3 Comments on American Born Chinese, last added: 9/19/2010
I am always pushing the Printz Award winners on my students and I cannot get kids to check out this book, even the Asian-American kids aren't interested in it, but this is just for general library distribution, perhaps it would be better if it were used in a class. I di have one teacher who did an assignment on graphic novels, so this one was checked out to a student and I forgot to ask how he/she did on the assignment.
You know, that's not too surprising. I have a lot of respect for the book as a whole: the format as a graphic novel, the illustrations themselves, the unique story line, the seldom represented characters... But it just wasn't one of those "can't put it down" books.
I just posted my review and thoughts about this one today too! I read it for one of my grad school classes because we were discussing Printz winners, but I haven't talked to anyone who has used it in their classroom.
It has been a long, long time since I've read a book that I absolutely couldn't put down, a book that made me jump up and down with excitement because I just loved it so darn much.
Jellicoe Road is the book that I have been waiting for.
It's so completely impossible to summarize this story and do it any kind of justice, so I'm just going to give you a list:
- a decades old war between the Townies, Cadets, and students of the Jellicoe School
- an accident from the past that comes back to mean everything in the present
- a girl named Taylor Markham who was abandoned years ago at a 7-11
- a quest to find the mother who left her there
- a beautiful, wonderful, tragic family of friends
- a Prayer Tree, a Club House, and a dorm full of arsonists
- Narnie, Tate, Webb, the Hermit, Jonah Griggs, Santangelo, Rafaella, the Brigadier
- "What do you think would happen if we kissed right here, right now," he asked, digging his hands into the pockets of his khaki pants, grinning.
"I think it would cause a riot."
"Well, you know me," he says, lowering his head toward me. "Causing a riot is what I do best."
Jellicoe Road is pure magic. At this moment, I am regretting almost all of my past positive reviews, because this book is beyond compare. I loved the mystery of the dueling stories, the competition of the Cadet/Townie/Jellicoe war, the complete and utter sincerity of the love stories - past and present.
When I reached the last page, and all of the pieces had finally been put together, I just had to sit back and close my eyes and spend a few last moments savoring the wonder that was the Jellicoe Road.
To me, author Melina Marchetta is a genius and an artist and stories like hers are the reason why I fell in love with reading in the first place.
3 Comments on Jellicoe Road: This is What I've Been Waiting For, last added: 7/9/2010
This book is one of my favorites and I was regretting all of my previous positive reviews too. The last page made me bawl my eyes out. Here's my review if you're interested: http://librarylurker.blogspot.com/2010/05/jellicoe-road-by-malina-marchetta.html
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I was also shocked that Between Shades of Grey didn't win, I haven't read it yet, but I heard it was such an eye opening book. I haven't really heard too much about the books that won. Thanks for the great post Katie! :)
I can't wait to hear what you think of "I Want My Hat Back"--I loved it but it seems to be very divisive. "Balloons Over Broadway" is a great one--the pictures alone make it a worthwhile purchase for a home library. Final thought: I was embarrassed to say that while I have all of the Caldecott Honors in my library and love them, I don't have medal winner!
I'm surprised, as well, that Wonderstruck didn't dominate a bit more. I read the summary for "Where Things Come Back" and it doesn't really interest me, but I also have Under the Mesquite on my TBR list and Shades of Grey is already on my kindle awaiting me!
Balloons Over Broadway is such a beautiful story! You're in for a real treat. It's one I had to buy, I loved the story and illustrations that much.
I Want My Hat Back-- a new remarkable direction for children's books. so amused for such a quick read :)