Sunday, January 25, 2009

February Book Choices

Last night was so great, all! Doesn't it always seem to fly by too quickly?

Just quickly, did you look to see the Printz winner(s)?

2008 The White Darkness, Geraldine McCaughrean
2007 American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang
2006 Looking for Alaska, John Green
2005 how i live now, Meg Rosen

And Newbery

2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, Laura Amy Schlitz
2007 The High Power of Lucky, Susan Patron
2006 Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins
2005 Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata

And Caldecott

2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick
2007 Flotsam, David Wiesner
2006 The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated by Chris Raschka and written by Norton Juster
2005 Kitten's First Full Moon, Kevin Henkes

5 comments:

Rylie Suzanna said...

I'm going to start with last year's honorable mention: The Book Thief. Has anyone else read this one? What are you reading?

Kjirsten said...

I have read it, Jade. It's amazing. I think I still have my copy if you'd like to borrow it. Let me know. I am going to finish Grapes before I move on. Looking forward to the next round though. :)

Rylie Suzanna said...

I'm trying to see if the Tattered Cover could provide us with a book talk for GOW. I haven't heard back, but I e-mailed on Sunday. Will call today.

I got a copy of The Book Thief at the library. Thanks for the offer!

J

Kristen, Kent, Fia, and Emmo said...

Thanks for the list, Kj!

I'm reading "American Born Chinese", "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!" and "The Invention of Hugo Cabret".

I'm intrigued by "The Book Thief" (thanks Jade) and "The Graveyard Book" (thanks Theresa). Maybe I'll get those read, too!

Kristen, Kent, Fia, and Emmo said...

Oh, I could add "Kitten's First Full Moon" too. We have that one. I love it!