{"id":1860,"date":"2011-01-09T23:13:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T03:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2011-01-09T23:25:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T03:25:42","slug":"award-announcement-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"Award Announcement Excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow the ALA media awards will be announced, including the well-known Newbery and Caldecott Medals.  I&#8217;m definitely planning to watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/alawebcast.unikron.com\/index.php\">webcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think the time posted is wrong.  It will start at 7:45 PST, which I believe is 10:45 EST, but it says 11:45 EST.  I hope that I am right, because if it starts at 11:45, I will have to get to work.<\/p>\n<p>I posted my Newbery predictions below, under my post on 2011 plans.  Today I went to a meeting of the DC KidLit Book Club (for adults who love children&#8217;s books), and we talked about Caldecott possibilities.  The discussion got me behind a book I&#8217;d already looked at recently, because it&#8217;s on the Cybils shortlist:  <em>Chalk<\/em>, by Bill Thomson.  It is truly a brilliant book, and Pam Coughlan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/\">Mother Reader<\/a> pointed out that all the exquisite illustrations are hand-done, not computer generated.  And what&#8217;s nice is that it isn&#8217;t only pretty pictures &#8212; they tell a compelling and excellent story.<\/p>\n<p>So we shall see.<\/p>\n<p>I do love it that the country is talking about children&#8217;s books for awhile when the awards are announced.  I wonder how many authors and illustrators will sleep with a phone right by their beds tonight?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, check this <a href=\"http:\/\/wizardswireless.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/on-eve-of-caldecott-awards.html\">fun poem<\/a> by Susan Kusel about the anticipation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow the ALA media awards will be announced, including the well-known Newbery and Caldecott Medals. I&#8217;m definitely planning to watch the webcast. I think the time posted is wrong. It will start at 7:45 PST, which I believe is 10:45 EST, but it says 11:45 EST. I hope that I am right, because if it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}