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<\/a>June winner Caitlin King’s favorite book from her month of reading: Jos\u00e9 Sanabria’s picture book, ‘As Time Went By.’<\/p><\/div> June reading challenge winners, and the new goal for July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18808","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\/18808","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFor the past two months, I’ve laid down a challenge<\/a> \u2014 an invitation<\/a> \u2014 to ShelfTalker readers: join me in trying to read\u00a0one book every day, in any genre, for the month. In May, I did well. In June, not so well. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t read, although a West Wing<\/em> binge did cut into my nighttime page counts, but more that I neglected to record my books. My fellow challenge-takers, however, did beautifully\u00a0in June! Caitlin King<\/strong><\/span> is the Grand Prize Winner for June – and as such, gets to request an advance reading copy of a book she has been eager to read. (Caitlin, you can email your request to me at\u00a0ebluemle at publishers weekly dot you know the rest.) Kudos also to Megan G.<\/strong><\/span> and Betsy W.<\/strong><\/span>! You are also welcome to request ARCs, and I will do my best to get them for you. I will also vow to do better at recording the books I’ve read this month!
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\nJuly’s challenge is mostly the same: try to average one book a day (you can bulk-read some days to make up for blanks) and record your titles on the Google Doc I’ve set up). July’s twist is to get more diversity into the mix. (Note: this shouldn’t be a twist, of course. It should be the default, easy. It’s simply\u00a0a richer and more delicious way to read. But it’s still a challenge to find equal numbers of offerings.) If you are dedicated, try at least a 50-50 split between books featuring white main characters and those featuring main characters of color. Resources for great books include: The Brown Bookshelf<\/a>, the Children’s Book Council’s Diverse Children’s & YA Lit<\/a> list, We Need Diverse Book’s WNDB’s roundup of resources<\/a>, and my own diversity database of 1,300+ books, A World Full of Color<\/a>.
\nIf you’d like to challenge yourself to a month of fabulous books, head to the July page<\/a> and pop your name in the doc. Happy sunshine and reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"