From: Janice Del Negro <delnegro>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 08:48:44 -0600 (CST)

All books nominated by ALSC members for Newbery and Caldecott are considered by the committee; the committee, on the other hand, gets to read everything submitted to them by publishers and make recommendations of their own.

I need to be clearer, here, I think. Publishers submit everything they think would even have a remote chance of being nominated for discussion to the committee; the committee reads everything they get (which is usually just about everything that comes out in a publishing year, which I can tell you from personal experience is a *lot* of work) and then individual committee members nominate the books they wish to discuss or believe worthy of discussion under the medal criteria.

Any member of ALSC who has a title they wish to nominate for discussion by either committee can do so by sending the title to the chair of the committee, which would immediately put it "on the table" for disussion.

Since both the nominations and discussions are confidential and closed, your question as stated is unanswerable.

But it's a good one.

Janice BCCB

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Violet Harris wrote:
Received on Tue 24 Feb 1998 08:48:44 AM CST