{"id":3295,"date":"2011-03-29T21:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T01:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2021-09-11T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:29:59","slug":"battle-of-the-kids-books-round-two-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=3295","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Kids’ Books Round Two Round-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been sick, so you won’t see as many of my comments in the Round Two of School Library Journal’s Battle of the Kids’ Books<\/a>. However, I simply had to check and see how my favorites had done in Round Two. And Surprise, Surprise! This time ALL my picks<\/a> won! (This is the advantage to picking after the first round<\/a> finishes. The picks I made on Eric Carpenter’s blog<\/a> before the tournament have mostly all fallen out of the competition.)<\/p>\n

As always, there’s some brilliant analysis from the celebrity author judges. I don’t have to revise my opinion that I gave last week. My favorite in the top half is The Cardturner<\/a><\/em>, with Keeper<\/em> close behind, so I won’t be too sad if Keeper<\/em> wins, while rooting for The Cardturner<\/em>.<\/p>\n

My favorite in the bottom half is The Ring of Solomon<\/em>. I haven’t read Trash<\/em> yet, but I definitely plan to. There’s some talk that The Ring of Solomon<\/em> didn’t get its due this year. To some extent I agree, because it’s a brilliant, clever, well-crafted novel. However, Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus Trilogy<\/a><\/em> was such a towering work of genius, it makes The Ring of Solomon<\/em> less impressive by comparison. Still excellent, though!<\/p>\n

Great stuff! If you enjoy kids’ books at all, I highly recommend following the Battle of the Kids’ Books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been sick, so you won’t see as many of my comments in the Round Two of School Library Journal’s Battle of the Kids’ Books. However, I simply had to check and see how my favorites had done in Round Two. And Surprise, Surprise! This time ALL my picks won! (This is the advantage to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295","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=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40077,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/40077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}