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"The
world's 85 richest people own as much as the poorest 50% of humanity . .
."
--Oxfam report
"May the
odds ever be in your favour . . ."
--The
Hunger Games (9780439023528) 10.99
THE
2014 ALSC MEDIA AWARDS
Stoner Bill: Hey dudes and
dudettes! Welcome to the 2014 Association for Library Service to
Children Media Awards from beautiful downtown Philadelphia in the venerable
Pennsylvania Convention Center. Double D and I are outside on the red
carpet eagerly anticipating the arrival of a galaxy of literary stars. As
Double D mentioned earlier, we are stoked! It looks like the first limosine
has pulled up. (craning neck) It couldn't be . . . yes, it is
conservative superstar Stephen Colbert! He is fresh from his Grammy win
for the Spoken Word category for his own America Again (9780446583978)
28.99. Man, I hope Double D can fight through this rabid crowd of
librarians to interview him . . .
Double D: Mr.
Colbert! Congrats on your Grammy win!
Stephen Colbert: Winning the
Grammy proves I am the greatest word-spoker on the planet. Just imagine
if I could read!
Double D: Well-spoken,
Stephen! Well-spoken . . .
Stoner Bill: Dressed
in a squirrel motif, I can see Kate Dicamillo, who won the Newbery
MedalTM for her latest book, Flora and Ulysses (9780763660406)
17.99, striding down the aisle. Also, since the winners were announced
this morning, I can give you the rundown on who won what. The Caldecott
MedalTM went to Brian Floca for his Locomotive (9781416994152)
17.99. The Michael Printz Award was awarded to English author
Marcus Sedgwick for Midwinter Blood (9781596438002) 17.99. The Coretta
Scott King Author Award went to Rita Williams-Garcia for P.S. Be
Eleven (9780061938627) 16.99. Watermelon Seed (9781423171010)
16.99 by Greg Pizzoli received the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. And
last and probably least, Susan Roth's Parrots Over Puerto Rico
(9781620140048) 19.95 won the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal.
And I believe all of the winners will be attending tonight's soiree.
Double D: Thanks,
Bill. And very prosfessionally done I might add.
Stoner Bill: But what about
David Wiesner's Mr. Wuffles (9780618756612) 17.99? I loved Mr.
Wuffles. Mr. Wuffles? Mr. Wuffles was only an honoree!?!?
Double D: I knew it was
too good to be true. We'll be right back after the break.
Odds
& Sods
As far as I am
concerned, there can never be too many penguin books and I have stumbled upon
another cute one. Melissa Guion's Baby Penguins Love Their Mama! (9780399163654)
16.99 is the perfect book to bring a tear to mom's eye on Valentine's
Day. Much like penguins themselves, it is beyond adorable . . .
We have also
received a pretty nifty Detroit sports book called Detroit City of
Champions: The Players Volume 1: Joe Louis and the 1935 Detroit Tigers (9780981743417)
39.95. Granted, the title is a bit unwieldy, but each book is signed and
includes a DVD chronicling the 1935 season . . .
We are in agreement about penguins, Mickster.
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