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And the Winners Are . . .

Posted by Sherry on 1/18/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Newbery Project

Newbery Medal When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. Semicolon review here. Newbery Honor Books: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly. Semicolon review here. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick. Caldecott [...]

 
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Semicolon’s 12 Best Middle Grade Fiction Books of 2009 plus Newbery Predictions

Posted by Sherry on 1/14/2010 in 2009, 2010 Projects, Children's Fiction, General, Newbery Project

1. Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin. Semicolon review here. 2. Dani Noir by Nova Ren Suma. Semicolon review here. 3. Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick. 4. Heart of a Shepherd by Roseanne Parry. Semicolon review here. 5. William S. and the Great Escape by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. Semicolon [...]

 
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Sunday Salon: Twelve Projects for 2010

Posted by Sherry on 1/3/2010 in 2010 Projects, Advanced Reading Survey, BIble Reading Project, General, History, LOST Project, Newbery Project, Operation Clean House, Poetry Project, Prayer Project, Projects, Pulitzer Project, Semicolon Book Club, Sunday Salon, Texas Tuesday, U.S. Presidents Reading Project

For the last couple of years, instead of resolutions, I’ve been thinking in terms of projects, lots of projects that I wanted to complete during the year. I wouldn’t say I was any more or less successful with my projects than most people are with resolutions, but I like the tradition anyway and plan to [...]

 
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Read Aloud Thursday: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Posted by Sherry on 11/19/2009 in 2009, 2010 Projects, Children's Fiction, General, Newbery Project, Read Aloud Thursday

Z-Baby has been listening to the audiobook CD version of Kate DiCamillo’s award-winning book about India Opal Buloni, her smiling dog, and her preacher daddy all week long. The narration by Cherry Jones is great, with a thick Southern accent and different voices for all the characters. Me: What made you laugh in this book? [...]

 
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Read Aloud Thursday: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsberg

Posted by Sherry on 9/24/2009 in Children's Fiction, General, Newbery Project, Read Aloud Thursday

Z-Baby (8) can’t read very well yet. She reads, but not well enough to enjoy reading the stories that are appropriate for her maturity and intellectual level. We do read to her, but we can’t read to her all day long. So, she has discovered the joy of recorded books. When she’s not doing school [...]

 
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Newbery Newsflash (Late)

Posted by Sherry on 1/27/2009 in General, Newbery Project

As most of the kidlit world already knows, Neil Gaiman’s novel The Graveyard Book won the Newbery Award, announced yesterday. Who am I to disagree with both the Newbery committee and the Cybils panelists? I will only say that I started it once and made it through the first two pages, determined to give it [...]

 
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Newbery/Caldecott and Other Predictions

Posted by Sherry on 1/21/2009 in 2008, Booklists, Children's Fiction, General, Newbery Project

My picks: The Newbery Award is awarded to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Winner: The Underneath by Kathi Appelt. Honor Books: The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall. Alvin Ho by Lenore Look. Masterpiece by Elise Broach. The Caldecott Award is given to the artist of the [...]

 
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Twelve Projects for 2009

Posted by Sherry on 12/27/2008 in -100 Movies 2010, 2010 Projects, BIble Reading Project, General, LOST Project, Madeleine L'Engle Project, Newbery Project, Operation Clean House, Poetry Project, Prayer Project, Projects, Pulitzer Project, Semicolon Book Club, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

Last year instead of resolutions, I thought in terms of projects, lots of projects that I wanted to complete in 2008. I wouldn’t say I was any more or less successful with my projects than most people are with resolutions, but I like the tradition anyway and plan to to continue it this year. So [...]

 
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Christmas in South Dakota, 1910

Posted by Sherry on 12/17/2008 in Celebrations, Children's Fiction, General, Newbery Project, US History Project, Young Adult Fiction

She unwrapped an unwieldy bundle, covered with newspapers. Out of it fell a giant tumble weed, its spiny leaves dried on its skeleton stalk; its bushy top mounted on a trunk made of a broomstick. “Do you think that would do fer a Christmas tree?” she asked. Becky looked at the dry bush with softened [...]

 
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Newbery Project: 2008

Posted by Sherry on 1/1/2008 in Children's Fiction, General, Newbery Project

I think in terms of projects rather than resolutions. I’m posting the plans for some of my projects here so that I can keep track of them and for your edification. I’ve been working on this project off and on since last year. I managed to cover three years last year: 1922, 1923, and 1924. [...]

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