In preparation for the SLJ Pre-Game / Post-Game Show each year I try to collect all the Mock elections for Newbery or Caldecott or Printz or Sibert or Coretta Scott King or really anything that’s out there. It’s mildly exhausting and you’re always bound to miss someone somewhere. Last year I dutifully collected the Mocks in a post but it still seemed strange that I was the only one compiling them. Happily this year ALSC is doing the work for me. The following message was posted on several children’s literature listservs. If you’ve a Mock Election coming up (or that has already happened) please note the following (and check out the huge amount of winners they’ve already posted!!).
Every year, libraries and schools around North America offer Mock Election programs in preparation for the annual Youth Media Awards. These discussions are a great opportunity for children?s literature aficionados to gather and discuss a topic they love, and to learn more about some of the great, recently published books for kids.
A page is being developed on the ALSC Blog with as many of the results from this year’s Mock Elections as can be found. Check it out here. You can also find this tab on the homepage of the ALSC Blog.
If you are a library, school, bookstore, discussion group, blog, MLIS class, or other group of interested readers, we’d love to include the results of your mock elections of young people’s literature. Send off the names of your mock winner and honor titles to [email protected] with other pertinent information you would like to share, including the name of your library, your city/state, a url to your library and/or Mock Election site, the number of participants, and a contact name & email for further information. We look forward to posting a wide variety of results!
Check back often to see what titles are being selecting in Youth Media Award Mock Elections, feel free to share this page widely, and stay tuned to find out the real winners as they are announced at the Midwinter Conference on January 11, 2016 in Boston.
Happy reading! Happy discussing!
Mary
Mary R. Voors
ALSC Blog manager
Betsy, you mention “several children’s literature listservs” in your post today. I would like to know if I could follow them as I do Ch_Lit? Thanks for spreading the word on where to read about the Mocks.
Sure. The two places I saw it posted were the child_lit listserv and the PUB-YAC listserv. Those are the places I see the most Mock information generally anyway.