So, the American Library Association announced the Newbery and
Caldecott Medals and the Printz Award yesterday, and in a somewhat
surprising turn of events, I'd already read two of the three.
The Caldecott was awarded to the wonderfully strange
Flotsam by David Weisner. It doesn't really have a plot to
speak of, but it involves a young man who finds a camera on the beach
and discovers in it a roll of film containing a number of bizarre and
unbelievable images. It's a utterly charming book, and well deserving
of the honor. This is Weisner's third Caldecott Medal, which I believe
may be a record. I'll have to look it up later.
The Printz Award, given for "excellence in literature written for young
adults," went to Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese.
It's an original graphic novel - the first graphic novel to win an ALA
prize - about the efforts of a Chinese-American boy to come to terms
with his ethnic identity. It's cleverly written, and I thought the
cartoony drawing style was well-suited to the story. The Printz Award
is pretty new, but I've been impressed with their selections thus far,
and this one is no exception
The Newbery went to a book I've never heard of, The Higher Power
of Lucky, by an author I've never heard of, Susan Patron. I'll
be surprised if I like it as much as I liked last year's winner,
Criss Cross, but I hope at least it will be better than
2005 winner, Kira-Kira, which I did not like. I'll have to
wait a week or so to find out, unfortunately; we don't have any copies
here in the store.
As for those other awards, I'll have a long post about them after work.
I will take a moment to say that it's interesting to be able say that
I've seen as many of the Best Documentary Feature nominees as Best
Picture nominees. That's a first for me, I think.
Award season I
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