{"id":667,"date":"2017-10-26T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T02:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=667"},"modified":"2017-10-26T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T02:22:50","slug":"198-four-bonus-months-of-newbery-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"198. Four Bonus Months of Newbery Reading!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I read a comment on Heavy Medal blog that when the commenter was on the Newbery committee, they didn&#8217;t read many Advance Reader Copies except a few they picked up at ALA Midwinter Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I don&#8217;t have any ARCs for a given publishing year until Midwinter Meeting myself. Next year&#8217;s Midwinter Meeting is in February.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, our youth materials selector sent me an entire box of 2018 children&#8217;s book ARCs. (Sent to the library to consider purchasing.) So she is granting me FOUR BONUS MONTHS of Newbery reading! (Btw, anything nominated by myself or another committee member, I will read the finished copy as well. But this gives me a headstart.)<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve been super eager to start reading since April &#8211; this is such a gift!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to mention any titles or any opinions. But I am SO EXCITED to be reading for the Newbery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I read a comment on Heavy Medal blog that when the commenter was on the Newbery committee, they didn&#8217;t read many Advance Reader Copies except a few they picked up at ALA Midwinter Meeting. Normally, I don&#8217;t have any ARCs for a given publishing year until Midwinter Meeting myself. Next year&#8217;s Midwinter Meeting is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}