{"id":45427,"date":"2025-07-05T22:44:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45427"},"modified":"2025-07-05T22:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T02:47:33","slug":"sonderbooks25-2003-sonderbooks-stand-outs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45427","title":{"rendered":"Sonderbooks25 – 2003 Sonderbooks Stand-outs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I did it! I revised my 2003 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a> to a phone-friendly format!<\/p>\n

I’m celebrating my 25th year of writing Sonderbooks with #Sonderbooks25<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My original plan was to reread *one* book from each year’s Sonderbooks Stand-outs, revise the early years’ Stand-outs pages to the new, phone-friendly format, and blog about all the other books in this series.<\/p>\n

Well, my plans are changing. First, I can’t resist reading *all* the reviews I posted each year. In the early years, they were “issues” of Sonderbooks – and 2003 went from Sonderbooks #45<\/a> to Sonderbooks #69<\/a>. (You can find all the back issues on the Back Issues page<\/a>.) And I’m rereading my Project 52 posts. 2003 was the year I was 38<\/a> and 39<\/a>. We still lived in Germany, still thought I had a happy marriage, my kids were 15 and 9, and we took a family vacation to Scotland. I still worked half-time at Sembach Base Library.<\/p>\n

Another thing that’s slowing me down is it turns out I made a *lot* of books Stand-outs. (I read and reviewed even more – I was only working half-time.) And it takes a very long time to revise the webpages because I pretty much have to do it from scratch. This will get easier after I finish 2005, when I can do more simple copying and pasting.<\/p>\n

So – I did reread and review Beyond the Limit<\/a><\/em>, by Joan Spicci, as part of this project, but I also found some other old Stand-outs available on eaudio and listened to them. And I’m finding I want to reread everything! It won’t happen – but I read some wonderful books back then.<\/p>\n

So instead of blogging about all the books I didn’t reread – I’m trying to post on social media most days about those old Stand-outs. That way I can think about them one at a time and present them to people one at a time. But meanwhile, do check out my new webpage for the 2003 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>! <\/p>\n

I do love that Fairfax County Public Library still owns a copy of almost all the picture books I named as Stand-outs in 2003. I maintain this is not because our picture book collection is too old but because those picture books were and are truly wonderful.<\/p>\n

I’m having lots of fun celebrating #Sonderbooks25<\/a>. I hope some of the fun will spread to readers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did it! I revised my 2003 Sonderbooks Stand-outs to a phone-friendly format! I’m celebrating my 25th year of writing Sonderbooks with #Sonderbooks25. My original plan was to reread *one* book from each year’s Sonderbooks Stand-outs, revise the early years’ Stand-outs pages to the new, phone-friendly format, and blog about all the other books in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sonderbooks25","category-stand-outs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45427","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=45427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45429,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45427\/revisions\/45429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}