This is the second year in a row that I've been out sick the day the winners are announced.
This is also the second year in a row that the Newbery went to a book that I know nothing about. Am I just a massive loser? Am I totally out of touch with the world of children's lit? Sad.
Newbery Winner:
The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron (ill. Matt Phelan)
Honor Books:
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Did you notice that all of those books have female protagonists? Odd.
Printz Award:
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Printz Honors:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
I still haven't read American Born Chinese because (ahem) my library doesn't have it. Same goes for Surrender. I've read the other three honor books -- no real surprises there. Oh, and if you'd like to see John Green freak out about writing yet ANOTHER Printz-worthy book, be sure to watch yesterday's Brotherhood 2.0.
Margaret A. Edwards Award:
She hadn't won it already? Shocking.
Alex Awards:
A bunch of books that DIDN'T include The Privilege of the Freaking Sword. What's up with that, guys? Feeling a bit peeved here.
The rest of the awards (including the Coretta Scott King, the Batchelder, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder) here.
As you putter around the blogs today, you'll find that nobody knew about the Newbery winner. Well, except for Kelly, who actually reviewed it. But otherwise, I've found a collective "huh?" I, among others, also noticed the girl books thing. Yes, odd.
The John Green video was so awesome. When I saw you hadn't posted about it yesterday, I was so close to sending you an email just to make absolutely certain that you didn't miss it. I know you're a fan.
Posted by: MotherReader | 23 January 2007 at 09:18 AM
We were talking about the girl protagonist thing (when I stopped by work yesterday simply to gossip about the various awards). I'm in the same ignorant boat about Lucky, but it is nice to see books slightly towards the younger end winning - I felt like Criss-Cross was really pushing it last year. I think you'll like American Born Chinese if you can ever get your hands on it.
Posted by: jess | 23 January 2007 at 12:05 PM
I really have to get around to reading Octavian Nothing.
Posted by: Adam S. | 23 January 2007 at 02:56 PM
For the Printz, there is only one girl protagonist (Liesl, The Book Thief, and arguably Death is the real main character there.) ABC: guys (and Monkey King!) main character; Octavian: guys; Katherines: guys; Surrender: guys.
Posted by: Liz B | 24 January 2007 at 12:49 PM
A bunch of books that DIDN'T include The Privilege of the Freaking Sword. What's up with that, guys? Feeling a bit peeved here.
WORD.
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