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We’ve Got the 2019 Caldecotts (And Lots of Other Award Winners)

jackie February 2, 2019 Activism, Booklists, Children's Books, Events and Celebrations activism, caldecotts, Children's Books, libraries, picture books, reading

I went to ALA Midwinter while it was happening in Seattle last weekend, and it was amazing to walk the exhibits space and just see so many great books. I’m not as current with what’s happening in children’s lit since I left teaching, and I really miss it. I love being a full time, working writer, but…I love children’s books, and I love sharing them with kids. I was at ALA on Sunday, and then Monday morning they held the ALA Youth Media Awards, where they announce all the big winners in kidlit. This is what I watch every year for the announcement of the Newbery and Caldecott books, and then I immediately buy all of the Caldecotts for H’s collection–we have them all for every year of her life, plus the year I was pregnant (and lots of other years because I just love Caldecott books). I also picked up a lot of the other award winners announced on Monday, and by Tuesday they’d all arrived.

ALA Midwinter in Seattle

jackie February 1, 2019 Booklists, Events and Celebrations, Grownup Books books, events, librarians, reading

I know I’m not a working librarian anymore, but the American Library Association had its annual midwinter conference here in Seattle over the weekend. Which was really exciting since this is where the announce the Newbery and Caldecott books every year! I didn’t go to the awards ceremony, but I did spend Sunday afternoon walking around the exhibit floor.

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January Books We Read

jackie February 1, 2018 Booklists, Children's Books, Grownup Books, YA Books audio books, books, Children's Books, Grownup Books

It wasn’t a terrible month for reading, or a bad to start to a new year of books.

We’re still in this phase of life where we read and reread H’s favorite books on a loop, so even with our trips to the library, we don’t read that many new books. She could have Winnie-the-Pooh read to her every night and be completely happy, and…honestly we’re also pretty happy. Adam loves reading Pooh to her. But we did read some new stuff this month.

2018 Books Read

jackie January 11, 2018 Booklists booklists, books, lists

Time for a new year! And 2018 is a big year. It’s the 10th anniversary of this blog in April, and that means it’s the 10th anniversary of me keeping this running booklist. So here’s the new list, I’m getting a jump on my reading already for the year. As always, this post will be linked on the What I’ve Read page over on there on the left.

What We’ve Been Reading

jackie October 8, 2017 Booklists, Children's Books books, Children's Books

I so wanted to do a summer reading post back in August to wrap up the stuff we read during those months off from school. But it just never happened. I didn’t stay on top of the photos for some books, and it was just a much busier season than I anticipated (I started working full time for Wirecutter on July 5th).

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Protest Books for Kids, and Sewing As Empowerment

jackie March 27, 2017 Activism, Booklists, Children's Books activism, books, Children's Books

In January, I wrote a list of protest and activism books for kids for GeekMom. I never blogged about the list here, but after last Friday’s events, when the health care bill was killed after people on both sides of the aisle spoke out, it felt like a good time to remind our kids that speaking out–and speaking up–works.

2017 Books Read

jackie February 18, 2017 Booklists booklists, books, lists

I’m late getting this year’s running list of books I’ve read up and running, but here we go! This is actually better than last year, when I didn’t start blogging the list until mid March.

2016 Books Read

jackie March 16, 2016 Booklists booklists, books, lists

I am a little behind starting this year’s running booklist. I keep all my booklists and crafts made lists here, and this post will get updated as the year goes on.

What We’re Reading at Home This Week, 2/17/15

jackie February 17, 2015 Booklists books, picture books

This should really be titled what I’m reading at home this week. And actually, it was last week. Anyway, H hasn’t been in much of a mood to try new books, although she is still reaching for some of the Caldecotts we just bought. These are three I’d checked out of the library for her, but I really enjoyed them myself. Two of them were on a lot of Mock Caldecott lists as contenders this year.

2015 Books Read

jackie January 15, 2015 Booklists booklists, books, lists

Man, last year was a stinker for reading. My lowest year to date. I was a bit busy juggling a lot of different things, but it’s no excuse! This year, I WILL do better. I have to break 100 at least, I mean seriously. I’m back teaching, which should spur me on. It’s kind of hilarious to see how my life has changed since I started this blog in 2008 and how that’s affected my reading.

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