This Week’s Peanut Gallery
Here’s what we’ve come across this week. Be sure to let us know if we’ve overlooked your post and we’ll be sure to add it on. (And check out our giveaway over on the sidebar. Starting next Friday, fifteen of you who post about the Battle will receive specially designed t-shirts. So start working on those posts!)
- Our Undead Poll got the attention of biologist, professor, and blogger PZ Myers who, in his review of The Frog Scientist, mentioned the Battle and urged his readers to vote for their favorites in the poll.
- Book Nut also pointed out the Undead Poll and recommended, “So, go, and choose wisely my friends.”
- Karen Macpherson did a nice piece on the Battle in her “In this ‘March Madness,’ literally playing by the book.”
- Brainlair’s busy reading contenders; hope you are too!
- Sonderbook’s got her first round picks and excellent reasons for them.
- Bookshelves of Doom recommends you “… not to miss it, even if you’re suffering from Olympic exhaustion.”
- The New Jersey State Library Talking Book and Braille Center has information on which BoB contenders are available through them in Braille and/or audio.
- Our own SLJ ran an article about the Battle in their Extra Helpings edition, featuring the way Greenwich Country Day librarian Mary Clark highlights the Battle in her library and Eric Carpenter’s previously mentioned bracket contest.
- Kidsmomo is ready! They note, “If you missed it last year, DO NOT make that mistake again.”
- Ms. Fuse recommends office pools!
- Marge Loch-Wouters, in “Are You Sleeping?“ gives us a great build-up, notes that “The battle has been preceded with weeks of hilarious build-ups,” and urges everyone to tune in Monday.
- Jen Funk Weber’s got a “stash surprise” for the winner of her bracket contest.
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About the Contest
School Library Journal's Battle of the Kids' Books is a competition between 16 of the very best books for young people of the year, judged by some of the biggest names in children's books.
The 2010 Battle of the Kids’ Books was excellent. Our great thanks to the publishers, the judge-writers, SLJ, and spectators for making this such a blast. See you next year!
The Battle Commander (Monica Edinger and Roxanne Feldman) and the Commentator (Jonathan Hunt)
Round One
Match 1 (March 15, Judge Jim Murphy)
Charles and Emma vs. Claudette Colvin
Match 2 (March 16, Judge Nancy Farmer)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate vs. Fire
Match 3 (March 17, Judge Candace Fleming)
The Frog Scientist vs. The Last Olympian
Match 4 (March 18, Judge Helen Frost)
Lips Touch vs. The Lost Conspiracy
Match 5 (March 19, Judge Gary Schmidt)
Marcelo in the Real World vs. Marching for Freedom
Match 6 (March 22, Judge Cynthia Kadohata)
Peace, Locomotion vs. A Season of Gifts
Match 7 (March 23, Judge Anita Silvey)
The Storm in the Barn vs. Sweethearts of Rhythm
Match 8 (March 24, Judge Julius Lester)
Tales from Outer Suburbia vs. When You Reach Me
Round Two
Match 1 (March 25, Judge M.T. Anderson)
Charles and Emma vs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Match 2 (March 26, Judge Angela Johnson)
The Last Olympian vs. The Lost Conspiracy
Match 3 (March 29, Judge Christopher Paul Curtis)
Marching for Freedom vs A Season of Gifts
Match 4 (March 30, Judge Shannon Hale)
The Storm in the Barn vs Tales from Outer Suburbia
Round Three
Match 1 (March 31, Judge Megan Whalen Turner)
Charles and Emma vs The Lost Conspiracy
Match 2 (April 1, Judge Walter Dean Myers)
Marching for Freedom vs Tales from Outer Suburbia
Undead Poll
Big Kahuna Round
April 5, Judge Katherine Paterson
The Lost Conspiracy vs The Frog Scientist vs Marching for Freedom
- April 3 Peanut Gallery
- March 27 Peanut Gallery
- March 20 Peanut Gallery
- March 12 Peanut Gallery
- March 5 Peanut Gallery
T-shirt Winners
- Third week:
- Monday: Heidi Lewis and Marge Kelly
- Tuesday: Robin Willis and Annamaria Basile
- Wednesday: Michelle Reid and Jeanne Kasten
- Thursday: Betsy Loredo and Kathleen Hartzler
- Friday: Krissie Carter and Will Strait
The 2009 Battle of the Kids’ Books
Recent Posts
- Winner of the 2010 Battle of the Kids’ Books
- Big Kahuna Round
- This Week’s Peanut Gallery
- Winner of the Undead Poll
- Round 3 Match 2 Marching for Freedom vs Tales from Outer Suburbia
What People Are Saying…
- Fantasy on Round 1 Match 2: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate vs Fire
- jordan p on Round 2 Match 4: The Storm in the Barn vs Tales from Outer Suburbia
- Fusenews: Mmmm. Pulled pork. « A Fuse #8 Production on The Opening Ceremony
- Fusenews: Stars in your multitude, scarce to be counted « A Fuse #8 Production on Round 1 Match 2: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate vs Fire
- Funtime Recap: The First Week of BoB « A Fuse #8 Production on Round 1 Match 2: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate vs Fire
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Only three days left to fill out a bracket and show your predicting prowess. So far 27 brackets have been submitted. In an effort to get some more participants I’ve decided a prize is in order. If we get 50 or more entries, the winner will receive an ARC of Suzanne Selfors’ SMELLS LIKE DOG (a potential battler in next year’s contest).
So fill out a bracket and have your friends or coworkers do so as well. Entry closes prior to Monday’s round 1 announcement.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHA0aWJyZm9UOFlSOTREQzJWTTl4QkE6MA
Awwww, I don’t get a t-shirt for posting THIS week? Never mind, I was meaning to follow the progress of the tournament, and this will give me added motivation!
Is there any possibility of making those t-shirts available for purchase by the public?
Be fun, wouldn’t? Don’t know at this point.
So how can I decide on an Undead title when no titles have been eliminated yet? The very title I choose could be a shoo-in for the winner and then I waste my vote which could go for a worthy though less popular title. I will vote anyway. Still….