Last night, the National Book Foundation announced the winners of this year’s National Book Awards. Jesmyn Ward—one of the three women to take home one of the four awards—won her second NBA after 2011’s Salvage the Bones. To follow are this year’s winners. For a full list of finalists, click here. Fiction Sing, Unburied, […]
Earlier this morning, the National Book Foundation announced its 2017 finalists. Find them below, listed by category and linked to their Booklist reviews when available. For those of you not attending the awards ceremony, don’t forget to join us on Twitter the evening of November 15 as Booklist Reader editor Eugenia Williamson live-tweets the whole […]
Throughout the week, the National Book Foundation has announced the longlist for the 2017 National Book Awards. Below, a list of titles, listed by category, linked to their Booklist reviews when available. Fiction A Kind of Freedom, by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Barren Island, by Carol Zoref Dark at the Crossing, by Elliot Ackerman […]
Last night, the National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for the John Leonard prize, their award for first books. Here they are, linked to their Booklist reviews: The Girls, by Emma Cline Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, by Max Porter Here Comes the Sun, by Nicole Dennis-Benn Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi The Nix, by Nathan […]
Most of the articles published in the wake Wednesday’s National Book Awards ceremony—in the New York Times, NPR, the Washington Post, and so on—noted how the presenters and winners addressed our current political landscape. In almost “every award announcement, speakers in the deep-blue literary community addressed Trump’s stunning upset of Democrat Hillary Clinton and how authors should […]
Last night, I live-tweeted the National Book Awards. While I prepare a full post, here’s a list of the winning titles with their winners, linked to their Booklist reviews: Young People’s Literature March: Book Three, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell Poetry The Performance of Becoming Human, by Daniel […]
Tonight, the glamourpusses pictured above will gather together at a banquet hall on Wall Street for the 2016 National Book Awards ceremony, hosted by Larry Wilmore. Eight hundred miles away, while our literary lights sup on exotic delicacies that have been handpicked to tantalize all their senses, yours truly will be glued to her […]
The National Book Awards announced their list of finalists this morning. Here’s the shortlist, linked to their Booklist reviews. Another Brooklyn, by Jacqueline Woodson The Association of Small Bombs, by Karan Mahajan News of the World, by Paulette Jiles The Throwback Special, by Chris Bachelder* The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead *Did anyone else […]
Are you up to speed with this year’s batch of National Book Award nominees? If not, here’s your chance. Over the last week, the National Book Foundation has announced its longlist, with the fiction nominees coming in just this morning. The shortlist is due on October 13, and the winning titles are to be anointed on November 16. To […]
Encouraging Middle-Schoolers to Choose Books
There’s been a lot of discussion among the librarians I know about what to do with middle-schoolers: they just don’t seem to read as much as they used to. I know that here in Chicago, we have a unique perspective on this situation, since our schools run K–8. In my former school system in Maryland […]
Getting Started with the Global Read Aloud
The 2017 Global Read Aloud kicked off yesterday, and I’m here to help. Author and educator Pernille Ripp founded the program as a way to connect students and teachers from different locales around the topics of books. (Think One Book One School or One Book One City, but on a global scale.) Each year, Ripp […]
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: Practice Recognizing Fake News
Cindy: There have been a number of YA fiction books with the title “Two Truths and a Lie,” but we’ve found a creative, informational book for middle-grade students that reinforces evaluating information for truth. Fake news, anyone? Two Truths and a Lie: It’s Alive (2017) by Ammi-Joan Paquette and Laurie Ann Thompson is the first […]
Encouraging Middle-Schoolers to Choose Books
There’s been a lot of discussion among the librarians I know about what to do with middle-schoolers: they just don’t seem to read as much as they used to. I know that here in Chicago, we have a unique perspective on this situation, since our schools run K–8. In my former school system in Maryland […]
Getting Started with the Global Read Aloud
The 2017 Global Read Aloud kicked off yesterday, and I’m here to help. Author and educator Pernille Ripp founded the program as a way to connect students and teachers from different locales around the topics of books. (Think One Book One School or One Book One City, but on a global scale.) Each year, Ripp […]
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: Practice Recognizing Fake News
Cindy: There have been a number of YA fiction books with the title “Two Truths and a Lie,” but we’ve found a creative, informational book for middle-grade students that reinforces evaluating information for truth. Fake news, anyone? Two Truths and a Lie: It’s Alive (2017) by Ammi-Joan Paquette and Laurie Ann Thompson is the first […]
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