{"id":112,"date":"2009-10-27T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2009\/10\/27\/its-mock-awards-time\/"},"modified":"2009-10-27T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T08:10:00","slug":"its-mock-awards-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Mock Awards Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s awards time! Well, mock awards, at least. I have been asked now by three book-y friends what my picks are for the Newbery, Caldecott and Printz awards this year. I love the mock awards because they get me really thinking about the books, and there&#8217;s a great deal of cachet if you get them right.<\/p>\n<p> So I&#8217;m throwing down the gauntlet to all you avid readers with strong opinions. What do you think will get the nod come January?<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ll start off:<\/p>\n<p> Newbery: <em>When You Reach Me<\/em> by Rebecca Stead<\/p>\n<p> Caldecott: <em>The Lion &amp; the Mouse<\/em> by Jerry Pinkney<\/p>\n<p> Printz: <em>Wintergir<\/em>ls by Laura Halse Anderson.<\/p>\n<p> Come January, I&#8217;ll announce who among our readers got the most right. I&#8217;m only going to count the winners, but if you want to list the two to three honor books per category, well, you just go ahead. While I can&#8217;t promise a prize, you will get bragging rights and everyone who reads&nbsp;ShelfTalker will think you&#8217;re a book whiz with an eye for quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s awards time! Well, mock awards, at least. I have been asked now by three book-y friends what my picks are for the Newbery, Caldecott and Printz awards this year. I love the mock awards because they get me really thinking about the books, and there&rsquo;s a great deal of cachet if you get them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}