Episode #95: Newbery and Caldecott!
Thank you for tuning into another episode with the Book Friends Forever! Grace and Alvina talk about the 2021 Newbery and Caldecott Award winners and see how they did with their predictions. They discuss their past award favorites, and discuss the potential effects of the award.
“How have you been?”
Grace has been busy preparing for a Lunar New Year celebration with her family and sending out a New Year newsletter. Alvina has been really busy at work with long zoom meetings. The ALA mid-winter virtual meeting had four special guests: Peter Brown, Leslie C. Youngblood, Tori Sharp, and Laekan Zea Kemp.
Award Winners:
John Newbury Medal Award: When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller, published by Random House Books for Young Readers.
Newbery Honors:
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team. by Christina Soontornvat. Published by Candlewick Press.
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom. by Carol Boston Weatherford and Illustrated by Michele Wood, published by Candlewick Press.
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, published by Dial Books for Young Readers.
We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly, published by Greenwillow Books.
A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat, published by Candlewick Press.
Caldecott Medal Award Winner: We are Water Protectors, by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade.
Caldecott Honors:
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart, by Zetta Elliot and Illustrated by Noa Denmon. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The Cat Man of Aleppo by Karim Shamsi-Basha, Irene Latham, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers.
Me and Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera, published by Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books
Outside In by Deborah Underwood and Cindy Derby, published by Houghton Mifflin.
A variety of books were honored this year and they were wonderful. Diversity was front and center. Grace and Alvina talk about how they did with their award predictions from the last BFF episode. They also discuss effects of the award on your life and career.
Fortune Cookie Segment: “What we’re reading right now!”
Alvina is reading, Know My Name by Chanel Miller.
Grace is reading, They didn’t Teach Us This in Worm School! by Simone Lia.
“What are you grateful for?”
Grace is grateful that a minor medical issue is gone, (perhaps now that the election is over) and Alvina is grateful for their new mattress topper and getting a good night’s sleep.
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