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Now let's load some serious love all over the Cybils Poetry Award Winner for 2015! Over at her Poetry for Children blog, Sylvia Vardell summarizes the process of nomination and first-round panel selections for this award. These fine folks read widely and chose seven outstanding books as finalists.
I served as one of the 2nd round judges who studied and discussed the merits of these seven finalists in passionate detail, with guidance from Jone MacCulloch. Now, after keeping mum for almost two weeks, Diane Mayr, Rosemary Marotta, Linda Baie, the aforementioned Laura Shovan and I can shout our choice from the tops of our blogs! (Drum roll please....)
The 2015 Children's and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Award
for Poetry goes to...
FLUTTER AND HUM/ALETEO Y ZUMBIDO
by Julie Paschkis
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This collection offers 21 short poems on the ever-popular theme of good eats. They're organized by season and are rhymed and metered verse, every one. Titles like "Only Guacamole!", "How a Poet Orders a Shake," "Voyage of the Great Baked Potato Canoes" and "The Word's Biggest Birthday Cake" give a good sense of the spirit of this collection aimed at readers 4-12. Here are two excerpts.
from "Welcome to Watermelon Lake"
That's right, it's PINK! And what is more,
you're sure to like the pale green shore,
and how you feel so fresh and new—
you’ll love it here, we promise you!
But wait, there’s more! This place is sweet!
We even have a little fleet
of small black boats for summer fun—
enough of them for everyone!
and from “Gingerbread House Makeover”
And picture now a healthy house,
admired from coast to coast,
adorned with corn and carrot sticks
and built of whole wheat toast…
The radish roses near the walk,
the grove of broccoli tree,
the teeny-weeny doorknobs made
of bright green peas…”
Just makes you smile, doesn't it, starting the day with those tasty mouthfuls?! Puts me in mind of some foodily nonsense I experimented with years ago....
The Produce Cinquains Kiwi: alien green inside, alien fuzz outside—fruit that will never look dewy.
| Raisin: shrinking darkly, the grape adds its juices to the cloud of vapor on the ho- rizon. |
Oranges: thick skins heavy with Florida sunshine, so round that they resist being arranged.
| Mango: no matter how you slice it, the flesh around its deceptively large stone gets mangled. |
Wax bean: its name alone is unappetizing— not to mention how it looks fake, lacks green.
| Peaches: all of August’s sweet heat accumulates until the fruit dips within our reaches. |
Carrot: how can something that grows in the dark be as bright as the feathers of a parrot?
| Cabbage: once a month I buy one, thinking coleslaw; three weeks later it goes in the garbage.
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The Poetry Friday Roundup is with Keri today at Keri Recommends--go get a bite of poetry produce!
This month I'll be highlighting some of the top-notch poetry published in the last year--so top-notch that it was deemed by the
Cybils Award Round 1 panel to be a finalist for the award. As a Round 2 judge, I'm going to share some excerpts from each book this month. Since it finally got cold here in Maryland this week, I'll begin with...
Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Coldby Joyce Sidman
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| Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 |
This book, illustrated by Rick Allen using a complicated combination of linoleum block prints hand-colored, "digitally scanned, composed, and layered," contains just 12 poems. Some are free verse and some are rhymed and metered. This collection has received 5 starred reviews and almost a dozen awards, including in 2014, since it was published in November of 2014.
excerpt from "Winter Bees"
We scaled a million blooms
to reap the summer's glow.
Now, in the merciless cold,
we share each morsel of heat,
each honeyed crumb.
We cram to a sizzling ball
to warm our queen, our heart, our home.
excerpt from "Chickadee's Song"
The sun wheels high, the cardinal trills.
We sip the drips of icicles.
The buds are thick, the snow is slack.
Spring has broken winter's back.
How's that for a little taste of the cold?
Please join Tabatha for some more of the muscle and grace of great poetry--she's got the Roundup at
The Opposite of Indifference today.
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on 1/1/2016
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It's true--I'm a judgy person. It can hardly be helped when it's a strong quarter of your
personality. This trait can be problematic in everyday life, but I'm diving into 2016 with a new project that positively requires me to be judgy! This year I am serving as a Round 2 Judge for the Cybils Poetry Awards--if you're not familiar with the Cybils, read all about them
here. The process is quite formal, and after a longer period of Round 1 review performed by panelists, I and my fellow Round 2 judges (Linda Baie, Rosemary Marotta, Diane Mayr and Laura Shovan with leadership from Jone MacCulloch) have about 6 weeks to choose a winner from the seven finalists....and here they are!
HOUSE ARREST
by K. A. Holt (Chronicle)
THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOK OF NATURE POETRY
edited by J. Patrick Lewis (National Geographic Children’s Books)
FLUTTER AND HUM/ALETEO Y ZUMBIDO
by Julie Paschkis (Henry Holt)
PAPER HEARTS
by Meg Wiviott (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
THE POPCORN ASTRONAUTS AND OTHER BITEABLE RHYMES
by Barbara Ruddel, illustrated by Joan Rankin ((Margaret K. McElderry Books)
FULL CICADA MOON
by Marilyn Hilton (Dial Books)
WINTER BEES AND OTHER POEMS OF THE COLD
by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (HMH Books for Young Readers)
Congratulations to all the authors and their publishers! Here is my starting point: I own one of these books already; I know quite a bit about two more, and nothing at all about the other four. Oh what fun it is to look forward to deep reading (for which I have less time than I ought to these days. How is it that parenting teens is so much more time-consuming than parenting toddlers?)
The Poetry Roundup for the first day of the new year is with Mary Lee (and Franki, celebrating TEN years of blogging) at A Year of Reading. All the best to everyone is what we all--I hope we ALL--fervently wish for the world...simple kindness and deep respect. Poetry is always a part of that.
Bonus video: President Obama tells Kid President how kids and adults can work together to change the world. It's a couple of years old now, but it applies just as well today.
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Today I received the happy news that REPLAY has been nominated for a 2012 Cybils Award…
Plenty of contemporary books for beginning readers are hip and cutting edge. I'm thinking specifically of Jon Klassens's
I Want My Hat Back with its sly humor and muted, understated illustrations. I love
I Want My Hat Back, but I also love
Frog and Friends, a more traditional, dare I say, old-fashioned beginning reader.
Eve Bunting has crafted three charming stories all featuring Frog, a laid-back amphibian who enjoys hanging out with his friends Rabbit, Possum, Raccoon, and Squirrel. In the opening tale--my favorite of the three--Frog wakes to discover a round orange THING with a long tail floating in his pond. He calls to his friends and they in turn are mystified as well. When THING (a balloon) tragically bursts, the remorseful group believe they have killed it and hold a funeral (hilarious). What I especially like is that the story ends with them never figuring out what THING is.
The second story is about a blue scarf Raccoon knits for Frog, suffering with a cold. Not able to wear it, Frog re-gifts, and the scarf makes the rounds before returning full circle to Frog, who thanks to Possum, is able to secure the scarf and wear it. In "Frog and Hippo," the final story, Frog shares his pond with an escapee hippo from a nearby zoo and tries to convince him to return home.
Readers who enjoy Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books are sure to become fans of
Frog and Friends. Eve Bunting has perfect pitch when it comes to beginning readers. The action is briskly paced, the dialog snappy, and the humor is never forced but comes naturally out of the situation. Josee Masse did a terrific job with illustrations that compliment, not take over the text.
Also reviewed at
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Frog and Friends
by Eve Bunting
illustrated by Josee Masse
Sleeping Bear Press 40 pages
Published: July 2011
This book was nominated for the 2011 Cybils Awards in the Easy Reader/Early Chapter Book category. I am a first-round panelist in this category, and this review reflects my opinion only.
Today I'd like to welcome to The Cath in the Hat Jacqueline Jules, the 2010 winner of a CYBILS Award in the Short Chapter Books category. Jacqueline is an accomplished children's book author who has published picture books as well as the chapter book series Zapato Power featuring Freddie Ramos, a Hispanic eight-year-old with the superpower of speed. Book three in the series, Freddie Ramos Zooms to the Rescue, was just released. In it, Freddie tackles strange goings-on involving a mysterious purple squirrel running loose through his school and causing mischief. Then the squirrel inadvertently sets a real disaster in motion. Zoom! It's Freddie Ramos to the rescue!
First off, congratulations on winning a CYBILS for Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off. What was your reaction upon hearing the news?
Tears! Joyful shouting! Happy dancing! I was very surprised and enormously honored. This award is for literary merit AND kid appeal. That is very important to me. And it was chosen by bloggers who are teachers, librarians, and parents—people I admire and who are just as dedicated to children and children’s literature as I am. In addition to being an author, I am a teacher and a librarian. When I read a book, I consider my own reading pleasure and a child’s reaction. I’ve read many award-winning children’s books that I personally enjoyed but wasn’t sure I would widely recommend to my students or fellow teachers to use in the classroom. The C
Yeah, Freddie! Freddie Ramos is an engaging boy who receives a remarkable present out of the blue--a pair of purple sneakers with silver wings that allow him to go so fast he can outrace a train. Freddie, like all superheroes, uses to powers to do good. In this first book of the series, he retrieves a classmate's library book, tracks down an underage graffiti artist, and rescues a lost puppy.
Written by
Jacqueline Jules, this early chapter book features a Latino child who lives in Starwood Park Apartments, an apartment complex a few short blocks from his elementary school. Freddie recently moved there with his mother, a single parent who struggles to make ends meet. Freddie's father, a war hero, died two years earlier. The text is sprinkled with Spanish words, but their meaning is always put in context, making them easy for beginning readers to figure out. Miguel Benitez's black-and-white illustrations lend a comic-book style that fits in perfectly with the superhero theme.
Freddie Ramos Takes Off recently won a
Cybils Award in the short chapter book category. A second book,
Freddie Ramos Springs into Action, shows Freddie learning to control his superpowers in a responsible way. The third book in the series,
Freddie Ramos Zooms to the Rescue, is due out next month. Viva la Freddie!
Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off
by Jacqueline Jules
illustrations by Miguel Benitez
Albert Whitman and Company, 88 pages
Published: 2010
The shortlists for the Cyblis awards are up. There are some fantastic books listed here, in all the categories (fiction picture books; non-fiction picture books; easy readers; middle-grade fiction; non-fiction middle grade/young adult; young adult fiction; graphic novels; poetry). So check them out; you’ll likely find some books you’ll want to read.
This year, I was on the panel for fiction picture books. As always, it was a great experience. All of us cared deeply about children’s books. I fought hard for some books, as did everyone, and we cast our votes. Eventually we came up with a list that I think is a fantastic one. (Though there’s a book I wouldn’t have chosen, that’s my own personal opinion/reaction, and the list is truly a wonderful one.) Check out the picture book finalists and their summaries here.
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Congratulations, that is fabulous!!
Thanks, Ashley!