From: Cassie Wilson <catstaff1>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:26:36 -0600

A librarian friend of mine looked at this year's winners of all three biggies (Caldecott, Newbery, and Printz) and commented, "These must be examples of those cases when no one can really agree on the best, so they pick compromises." I couldn't really argue with her. Thank goodness for the Notables and Best Books lists. I am half afraid that the major awards are going to lose stature with the general population if they don't start choosing books with more general appeal that at least someone is really enthusiastic about.

Cassie Wilson


Ruth I. Gordon wrote:
> Rox is 100% correct. 'Nuff said.--Big G
> On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Roxanne Feldman wrote:
>
>
>> After serving on Newbery (2002) and Notables (2008), I have learned
>> at least
>> one thing: just because a book has not made it to the lists does not
>> automatically mean that it is not a really really fine piece of
>> work. It
>> definitely doesn't mean that the Committees deliberately try to
>> exclude
>> certain titles. The Committees are looking from so many angles at so
>> many
>> books, and the members of each Committee also have such different
>> ideas and
>> tastes, one can never really draw simple conclusions based on the
>> final
>> choices.
>>
>> --
>> Roxanne Hsu Feldman a.k.a. fairrosa
>> Middle School Library (4th-8th Gr.)
>> The Dalton School, New York City
>> http://www.dalton.org/program/libraries/middle/
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