{"id":24510,"date":"2018-02-06T07:36:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T12:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=24510"},"modified":"2018-02-06T07:36:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T12:36:44","slug":"countdown-to-the-big-awards-and-a-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=24510","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to the Big Awards, and a Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

In less than a week, 18 of the most important awards for children’s and teen’s literature will be announced\u00a0live via video feed<\/a> from Denver, at 8 am on Monday, February 12.\u00a0Tens of thousands of viewers will be riveted as the American Library Association reveals the winners of the Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Printz, Sibert, Stonewall, Geisel, Wilder, and many other awards. This is our field’s Oscars ceremony, our Olympics, and while the auditorium won’t contain as much glitter (literally speaking) as the Academy Awards or perhaps quite as much muscle tone as the long track, the literary shimmer and tone will be spectacular.
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\nThis year’s awards are being announced on the late end \u2013 most years, we know all the winners by mid-January. I can’t decide if the wait has made the\u00a0anticipation more excruciating than usual, but I do know\u00a0that it will be easier to settle into the new year of books more fully once we’ve anointed 2017’s champions.
\nHere’s the full list of awards that will be announced on Monday morning, and I invite you all to make your predictions of the winners in these categories. (In case you need a refresher on the criteria for each award, visit the American Library Association’s website<\/a>, which provides links to all of them.)
\nThe person with the most correct answers will win a special prize:\u00a0a fabulous Colson Whitehead canvas pouch created just for\u00a0independent bookstores\u00a0for April 28th’s Independent Bookstore Day.\"\"
\nYou must post your predictions in the comments below by Sunday, February 11, 11:59 pm. You do not have to predict all categories, but the person with the highest number of correct predictions will win.\u00a0<\/strong>(Note: Awards Committee members\u00a0aren’t allowed to participate, nor can anyone they’ve pillow-talked with about the awards.)<\/span>
\nAlex Awards<\/strong>
\nCoretta Scott King Book Awards<\/strong>
\nCoretta Scott King \u2013 Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement<\/strong>
\nJohn\u00a0Newbery\u00a0Medal<\/strong>
\n(Laura Ingalls) Wilder Award\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMargaret A. Edwards Award<\/strong>
\nMay Hill\u00a0Arbuthnot\u00a0Honor Lecture<\/strong>
\nMichael L.\u00a0Printz\u00a0Award<\/strong>
\nMildred L.\u00a0Batchelder\u00a0Award<\/strong>
\nOdyssey Award<\/strong>
\nPura\u00a0Belpr\u00e9\u00a0Awards<\/strong>
\nRandolph Caldecott Medal<\/strong>
\nRobert F.\u00a0Sibert\u00a0Informational Book Medal<\/strong>
\nSchneider Family Book Award<\/strong>
\nStonewall Book Award \u2013 Mike Morgan & Larry Romans\u00a0Children\u2019s & Young Adult Literature Award<\/strong>
\nTheodor Seuss\u00a0Geisel\u00a0Award<\/strong>
\nWilliam C. Morris Award<\/strong>
\nYALSA\u00a0Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults\u00a0<\/strong>
\nTo remind yourself of some of the\u00a0possible contenders for these incredible awards, take a gander at Jen J.’s roundup of starred reviews<\/a>. While you’re there, sneak a peek at the sheet for 2018’s books, too \u2013 there are some books with four starred reviews already! You can also gather ideas from SLJ’s Heavy Medal blog<\/a>\u00a0and Betsy Bird’s Fuse 8 post<\/a>, as well as mock Newbery and Caldecott discussions all over the web. Happy handicapping, and good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your chance to claim a little reflected Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and Coretta Scott King award glory.<\/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-24510","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\/24510","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=24510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}