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I am posting twice today because I'm also on a blog tour thanks to The Children's Book Review. Go to my post here to read about the newest addition to a geography series, and a giveaway!
It was so exciting to see who won the Sibert Award. Although I only predicted one of them, and I still need to read two of them, I'm glad that Alyson gave us the idea to keep reading wonderful non-fiction so we might have an idea of who could win a medal! Here is a list of those awarded:
Winner:
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras, written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh, is the Sibert Award winner. - Need to read!
Honor Books:
Honor Books:
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, written and illustrated by Don Brown - Read, loved it, and predicted!
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club, by Phillip Hoose - Read, loved it, forgot it was a candidate!
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March, written by Lynda Blackmon Lowery as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley, illustrated by PJ Loughran - Need to read!
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, written by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes - Need to read, have it as of today!
Here are the books I read this week:
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club, by Phillip Hoose - Read, loved it, forgot it was a candidate!
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March, written by Lynda Blackmon Lowery as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley, illustrated by PJ Loughran - Need to read!
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, written by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Ekua Holmes - Need to read, have it as of today!
Here are the books I read this week: