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\"Caldecott\"<\/a><\/a>Ok, here’s my stab at next week’s ALA Award Announcements.\u00a0 I have short and long lists for both the Caldecott and Newbery Awards, hoping that some from the long list might be good contenders for other awards, like the Theodore Geisel, Scott O’Dell or Prinz Awards.\u00a0 My apologies if any Canadians snuck on the list (extracted two to my knowledge so far, those tricky Canucks), and a few I haven’t seen on other prediction lists but seem so obvious to me that there must be some reason for disqualification, or else why aren’t they on everyone’s list?\u00a0 Here ’tis:<\/p>\n

Caldecott Top Contenders:<\/strong>
\nChalk<\/em> by Bill Thomson
\n<\/a>Art & Max<\/em> by David Wiesner
\nCity Dog, Country Frog<\/em> by Mo Willems, illustrated Jon J. Muth
\nBink and Gollie<\/em> by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, illustrated by Tony Fucile<\/p>\n

Caldecott Alternate Contenders:<\/strong>
\nBunny Days<\/em> by Tao Nyeu
\nOld Bear and His Cub<\/em> by Olivier Dunrea
\nA Sick Day for Amos McGee<\/em> by Philip Stead, illustrated by Erin E. Stead
\nHere Comes the Garbage Barge<\/em> by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Red Nose Studio
\nFlora\u2019s Very Windy Day<\/em> by Jeanne Birdsall, illustrated by Matt Phelan
\nKakapo Rescue: Saving the World\u2019s Strangest Parrot<\/em> by Syd Montgomery
\nLing and Ting: Not Exactly the Same<\/em> by Grace Lin
\nWe Are in a Book<\/em> by Mo Willems<\/p>\n

Newbery Top Contenders:
\n<\/strong>One Crazy Summer <\/em>by Rita Williams-Garcia
\nZora and Me <\/em>by Victoria Bond
\nThe Dreamer<\/em> by Pam Munoz Ryan
\nCountdown<\/em> by Deborah Wiles
\nThe Night Fairy<\/em> by Laura Amy Schlitz
\nWhat Happened on Fox Street<\/em> by Tricia Springstubb<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

Newbery Alternate Contenders:<\/strong>
\nOut of My Mind<\/em> by Sharon Draper
\nA Tale Dark and Grimm<\/em> by Adam Gidwitz
\nMockingbird<\/em> by Kathryn Erskine
\nThe Red Umbrella<\/em> by Christina Gonzalez
\nKeeper<\/em> by Kathi Appelt
\nForge<\/em> by Laurie Halse Anderson
\nThe War to End All Wars: World War I <\/em> by Russell Freedman
\nHeart of a Samurai<\/em> by Margi Preus
\nBamboo People<\/em> by Mitali Perkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, here’s my stab at next week’s ALA Award Announcements.\u00a0 I have short and long lists for both the Caldecott and Newbery Awards, hoping that some from the long list might be good contenders for other awards, like the Theodore … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}