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2019 CILIP Carnegie Longlist

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The longlist for the 2019 CILIP Carnegie Longlist has been announced. This and the Kate Greenaway Medal are the two oldest UK book awards for youth. The medals are judged by children’s librarians. Here are the 20 finalists who made the longlist, selected from over 250 books that were nominated:

The Astonishing Color of After Bone Talk

The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan

Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay

The Boy At the Back of the Class The Colour of the Sun

The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf

The Colour of the Sun by David Almond

A Different Boy Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales

A Different Boy by Paul Jennings

Hilary McKay’s Fairy Tales by Hilary McKay

The House With Chicken Legs The Land of Neverendings

The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson

The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders

Long Way Down The Lost Words

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane

Moonrise Mud

Moonrise by Sarah Crossan

Mud by Emily Thomas

My Side of the Diamond Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki (Walker Studio)

My Side of the Diamond by Sally Gardner

Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki by Kevin Crossley-Holland

The Poet X Rebound

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Rebound by Kwame Alexander

A Skinful of Shadows Station Zero (Railhead, #3)

A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge

Station Zero by Philip Reeve

Things a Bright Girl Can Do The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nichols

The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan

Review: Is That You, Eleanor Sue? by Tricia Tusa

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Is That You, Eleanor Sue by Tricia Tusa

Is That You, Eleanor Sue? by Tricia Tusa (9781250143235)

Saturdays are the days that Eleanor Sue gets to do her favorite thing: dress up. So she dresses up, climbs out her window and knocks on the front door. When her mother opens the door, Eleanor Sue introduces herself as Mrs. McMuffins, the new neighbor. She is invited in for tea. Twenty minutes later, Eleanor Sue is back at the door as a witch. She is invited in for lunch. Then Eleanor Sue is a wise wizard, a ferocious bear, a delivery person, and a cat. Her next outfit is being dressed as a grandma, specifically her Grandma. But her mother may just get in on the act too, just in time for Grandma herself to appear and join the fun.

Tusa’s picture book is a delight. She shares not only the story of Eleanor Sue’s imaginative play but also a supporting mother and family who enjoy Eleanor Sue’s antics. The stories that Eleanor Sue tells as each character are a large part of the book, adding funny details that interplay between the various costumes. There is one fast-paced portion where Eleanor Sue has to hustle with costume changes that adds to the fun. As always with a Tusa book, the illustrations are beautifully done. She has a knack of capturing children at play complete with wrinkled, drooping cloth, and wry expressions.

Full of imagination and playfulness, this should be read while sipping tea. Appropriate for ages 3-5.

Reviewed from copy provided by Roaring Brook Press.

 

2019 USBBY Outstanding International Books

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USBBY

The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) has announced their annual list of the most outstanding international books for young people published during the calendar year. Here is their 2019 list:

GRADES PreK-2

Africville Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings

Africville by Shauntay Grant, illustrated by Eva Campbell

Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings by Francie Latour

A Case for Buffy (Detective Gordon #4) A Drop of the Sea

A Case for Buffy by Ulf Nilsson, illustrated by Gitte Spee

A Drop of the Sea by Ingrid Chabbert, illustrated by Guridi

Farmer Falgu Goes to the Market 35959973

Farmer Falgu Goes to the Market by Chitra Soundar, illustrated by Kanika Nair

I Really Want to See You, Grandma by Taro Gomi

Marwan's Journey Me And My Fear

Marwan’s Journey by Patricia de Arias, illustrated by Laura Borras

Me and My Fear by Francesca Sanna

On the Other Side of the Garden The Patchwork Bike

On the Other Side of the Garden by Jairo Buitrago, illustrated by Rafael Yockteng

Patchwork Bike by Maxine Beneba, illustrated by Van Thanh Rudd

Stories of the Night Tomorrow

Stories of the Night by Kitty Crowther

Tomorrow by Nadine Kaadan

Up the Mountain Path

Up the Mountain Path by Marianne Dubuc

 

GRADES 3-5

After Life: Ways We Think about Death Astrid the Unstoppable

After Life: Ways We Think about Death by Merrie-Ellen Wilcox

Astrid the Unstoppable by Maria Parr, illustrated by Katie Harnett

The Colors of History: How Colors Shaped the World Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World

The Colors of History: How Colors Shaped the World by Clive Gifford, illustrated by Marc-Etienne Peintre

Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World by Guillaume Duprat, illustrated by Patrick Skipworth

From the Heart of Africa: A Book of Wisdom Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes

From the Heart of Africa: A Book of Wisdom by Eric Walters

Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes by Wab Kinew, illustrated by Joe Morse

The House of Lost and Found Missing Mike

The House of Lost and Found by Martin Widmark, illustrated by Emilia Dziubak

Missing Mike by Shari Green

Peace and Me The Sound of Freedom

Peace and Me by Ali Winter, illustrated by Mickael El Fathi

The Sound of Freedom by Kathy Kacer

A Story Like the Wind Too Young to Escape

A Story Like the Wind by Gill Lewis, illustrated by Jo Weaver

Too Young to Escape by Van Ho & Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Vacation What a Wonderful Word

Vacation by Blexbolex

What a Wonderful Word by Nicola Edwards, illustrated by Luisa Uribe

 

GRADES 6-8

Dodger Boy Ebb and Flow

Dodger Boy by Sarah Ellis

Ebb & Flow by Heather Smith

The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle The Island at the End of Everything

The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle by Victoria Williamson

The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Mary, Who Wrote Frankenstein No Fixed Address

Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Julia Sarda

No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen

Small Things Swallow's Dance

Small Things by Mel Tregonning

Swallow’s Dance by Wendy Orr

Voices from the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today

Voices from the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today

 

GRADES 9-12

Skating Over Thin Ice Troublemakers

Skating over Thin Ice by Jean Mills

Troublemakers by Catherine Barter

We Kiss Them With Rain

We Kiss Them with Rain by Futhi Ntshingila

2019 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

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WINNER

Dr. Pauletta Brown Bracy

 

YMA Live Blogging

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Once again I’ll be live blogging ALA’s Youth Media Awards from their online feed. Expect some misspelling on names and some author names missed altogether. My apologies as I try to type as fast as I can!

I admit that cheering and occasional tears also slow me down a bit. These are my Oscars for the year. Good luck to all of the talented and amazing authors and illustrators!

You can join in the fun too on the online feed!

This Week’s Tweets

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Here are some of the cool links I shared on Twitter this week:

2019 Walter Awards

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We Need Diverse Books have announced the winners of the 2019 Walter Awards that honor and celebrate diverse books written by diverse authors. The awards are named in honor of Walter Dean Myers. There are two age categories:

WALTER AWARD WINNER – TEEN

The Poet X

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

 

WALTER HONOR BOOKS – TEEN

Monday's Not Coming The Astonishing Color of After

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

 

WALTER AWARD WINNER – YOUNGER READERS

Ghost Boys

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

 

WALTER HONOR BOOKS – YOUNGER READERS

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems The Night Diary

They Call Me Guero: A Border Kid’s Poems by David Bowles

The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

 

 

 

This Week’s Tweets & Pins

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Here are some of the cool items I shared on Twitter and Pinterest this week:

Black cat sitting on a book

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Disney contracts with Windsor company to produce activity books for the blind | CBC News

Sourcebooks Launches Three Children’s Imprints

The Stories My Students Need to Hear – https://t.co/Gm1SsoLmSS

What To Look For In Data About Diversity In Publishing? – Reading While White

LIBRARIES

Ebooks seem like ‘Netflix for libraries,’ but they’re a drain on budgets

Kansas library asked to move transgender children books

YA LIT

Early 2019 YA Nonfiction Books To Put On Your TBR

Eric Heisserer to Adapt Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse Books as Shadow and Bone TV Series

PW’s Q & A with Roshani Chokshi

This Week’s Tweets

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Here are some of the links I shared over the last couple of weeks on Twitter:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

“Harshly” Judging Islamophobia – https://t.co/nlnAP4LDX6

Irish children’s books enjoying a new ‘golden age’

Newly Updated! Understanding Transgender with LGBTQ Books for Kids via

Telling Her Story: Picture Books about 99 Real-Life Mighty Girls… https://t.co/r1qRwz6649

READING

NPR – Why Millions Of Kids Can’t Read, And What Better Teaching Can Do About It

TEEN LIT

“2018 Proved Black Kids Read (And White Kids Read Books With Black Leads)” by

Entertainment Weekly – Best Comics of 2018 – https://t.co/5nrOiYyOX7

Paste – The 10 Most Anticipated Young Adult Novels of 2019