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SIGH. I really mean to blog more, especially when I have fabulous cyber-pals who e-mail to see if I am okay. I am. Maybe a little blue lately, but mostly fine. I just haven't had much time or energy to blog. Too much time spent at work, where blogging is verboten. I will try to start up again SOON. Promise. In the meantime, how blue am I? Well, apparently, You Are Sky BlueDreamy and

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My fabulous friend and colleague, A, texted me Saturday to let me know that the Coretta Scott King committee is adding a new award: The Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. This will be awarded to an author, illustrator, and/or a librarian! I have no details, just a brief text message received. If anyone else has more details, please fill me in. A tells me this is to be awarded

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I have to leave for work, but throughout the day, I will clean up the award info, add links, (maybe) give opinions, etc. I'mma have a lot to think about on the ride in! updated at noon, 1/14/08: As far as I know, all of the information and links below are now correct. Thanks for your patience. My top priority was just getting the news up ASAP!

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Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz Honors: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

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Winner: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick Honors: Henry's Freedom Box illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Ellen Levine First, the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger The Wall by Peter Sis Knuffle Bunny, Too by Mo Willems

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Winner: There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems Honors: First, the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger Hello, Bumblebee Bat by Darrin Lunde and illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne Jazz Baby written by Lisa Wheeler and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre and illustrated by Steve Jenkins

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Winner: Jump In! Freestyle Edition produced by Kevin Lafferty along with executive producer John Davis, and co-producers, Amy Palmer Robertson and Danielle Sterling

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Winner: The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Sean Qualls Honors: Frida: ¡Viva la vida! Long Live Life! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand Martina, the Beautiful Cockroach retold by Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Michael Austin Los Gatos Black on Halloween by Marissa Montes, illustrated by Yuyi Morales

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Los Gatos Black on Halloween illustrated by Yuyi Morales and written by Marisa Montes Honors: My Name Is Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez/Me llamo gabito: La vida de Gabriel García Márquez illustrated by Raúl Colón and written by Monica Brown My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo written and illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez

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Winner: The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain written and illustrated by Peter Sís Honors: Nic Bishop Spiders by Nic Bishop Lightship written and illustrated by Brian Floca

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Winner: VIZ Media for Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe, translated by Alexander O. Smith Honors: Milkweed Editions for The Cat or, How I Lost Eternity by Jutta Richter, translated by Anna Brailovsky Phaidon Press for Nicholas and the Gang by Rene Goscinny, translated by Anthea Bell

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The 2009 lecture will be delivered by... Walter Dean Myers

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Winner: Live Oak Media for Jazz Honors: Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary 'Jacky' Faber, Ship's Boy, produced by Listen & Live Audio Dooby Dooby Moo, produced by Scholastic/Weston Woods Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, produced by Listening Library Skulduggery Pleasant, produced by HarperChildren's Audio Treasure Island, produced by Listening Library

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Winner: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean Honors: Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill

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The winner of the Edwards award is... Orson Scott Card

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Winner: Let it Shine written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan Honors: The Secret Olivia Told Me illustrated by Nancy Devard and written by N. Joy Jazz on a Saturday Night written and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

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Winner: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis Honors: November Blues by Sharon Draper Twelve Rounds to Glory by Charles R. Smith, Jr.

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Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It by Sundee T. Frazier

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Best Children's Book Kami and the Yaks written by Andrea Stenn Stryer and illustrated by Bert Dodson Best Middle School Book Reaching for Sun by Tracy Vaughn Zimmer Best Teen Book Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby

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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China by Matthew Polly Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm by Jeff Lemire Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones The Name of the Wind by

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I am *really* hoping our Monday Morning staff meeting doesn't overlap with this most exciting day in the children's lit year -- annoouncement of the ALA Children's Book Awards. Awards to be announced today are: Alex Awards for the best adult books that appeal to teen audience Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's video Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture

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This announcement was on Paul Kidby's website: Folks, I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, which lay behind this year's phantom "stroke". We are taking it fairly

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Okay, so Science Boy and I went to see The Golden Compass on Friday night. More on that later, if I can wrangle the time. BUT... They showed, like, 57 commercials and previews before the film. Finally I leaned over and whispered to SB, "Y'know, I want to see a preview of Inkheart so badly and this would be the perfect film to them to show it before!" No sooner had the words left my mouth, then.

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I was just finishing The Aurora County All-Stars, Deborah Wiles excellent new book, and was struck by the beauty of this statement: "It is hard to see inside someone's heart unless you have an invitation, and, even then, you must agree to come inside."

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Wisdom from a couple of baseball legends: "Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand, just watching what goes on, in my opinion, you're wasting your life." (Jackie Robinson) "Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on earth." (Roberto Clemente)

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