Joanna: http://alawebca
Patti: sweet, thanks!
Joanna: so we just wait here, i think.
Patti:: so it says 7:45 EST so 6:45 Central time right? Too early for this.
Joanna: yes.
Patti:: Excellent. Cdog had a total meltdown this morning. I think it was related to the fact that he ate nothing for the past two days and was starving.
Joanna: no! J is fussing right now. i can't believe he heard me make coffee. so this should be an interesting morning! thank goodness sesame st starts at 7.
Patti:: ha!
Joanna: no! and hey! thom has to announce the alsc/newbery winners since he is pres of alsc! just saw it on his facebook!
Patti: Really! that is cool!
Patti: hey it is up! tell me when you see it and I'll click
Joanna: see the webcast?(out changing diaper)
Patti: Yes, refresh!No worries, let me know when you're back
Joanna: LOL on!
Patti: Let the announcements begin
Patti: There is elevator music. Should there be elevator music on the internet?
Joanna: heh
Patti: Ahhhh! Preannouncement
Joanna: we on on! coffee poured. baby on lap w/ bottle.we rule.
Patti: Super, moving to a room that does not include my son
Joanna: BRIDES SFAREWELL~!!!!!
Patti: Cool! I'm back
Joanna: too bad i have no knowledge of audlt lit.
Patti: That Soulless sounds awesome
Joanna: STITCHES!!!!!
Patti: Just the top ten?
Joanna: (J is very entertained w/ my 3 open windows! he's laughing)can't be here all morning.
Patti: I guess the entire list would be mammoth
Joanna: Hi, Thom!
Patti: Thom! I like his tie
Joanna: me, too. mic isn't tall enough.show alison show alison show alison
Patti: I feel like we're listening to click, clack moo.just the feedback. The FEEDBACK!!!
Joanna: OMG. you are exactly right. president talk = coffee time
Patti: That is too funny, I was just reaching for mine. Glorious coffee.
Joanna: Marcelo?
Patti: Good guess
Joanna: Anything but typical?
Patti: (Schneider Award) Django? Never heard of it
Joanna: Djang - best young children's book.Djano Reinhart is a super. You'll love his music.
and you've heard it lots of times.Anything but typical!!!
Patti: Ha! You totally called it
Joanna: Nora Raleigh Baskin did a good job.drumm rolll
Patti: She really did. I liked it. Good god! You're good
Joanna: but it is Mar SELL O.Not Mar CHELL O
Patti: Interesting how there was 2 autism books awarded
Joanna: I didn't realize the Schneider Award was for autisim. That's what Camila said.
Patti: Oh Ha!
Joanna: So that limits it?
Patti: Well, that explains it. Although the first dude had burnt hands not autism. Or did he have both?
Joanna: Maybe she said autism and disability experiece.Hm.On too.. Coretta Scott King.
Patti: Cool how it is announced on MLK Day
Joanna: Happy Dr. MLK Day, indeed!whoops. who just won the lifetime achievement?
Patti: Have they announced it?Click Clack MOOOO,WALTER DEAN MYERS!!!
Joanna: Well, Walter Dean Myers! Of course. He's awesome.
Patti: Awesome. How has he not won this before?
Joanna: You know, he'd make a good children's lit ambassador!
Patti: Yes! he really would. He is such a nice man.
Joanna: 1st year they started the Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement award.
Patti: Well that explains how he hasn't won it before.
Joanna: Steptoe Award for New Talent: The Rock and the River
Patti: Makes a lot of sense, this one has gotten tons of buzz. We'll have to get more copies in our system.
Joanna: I want to read it.
Patti: Illustrator award: My People, Langston Hughes
Joanna: Iove that a photography book won illustrator!!
Patti: and the illustrator is gone! Wish I had caught his name.Nice! Mare's War for the honor
Joanna: (cute alert: J is clapping w/ the audience).WHOA! Here's a book I heard nothing about in the Mocks.
Patti: Author Award: Bad News and Outlaws.That one seems very cool.
Joanna: very.
Patti: Love the cover.(adorable about J)
Joanna: Me, too. Illustration looks fantastic.(S's up too.)
Patti: YALSA!!!
Joanna: Thom is back to announce YALSA.getting shivers
Patti: teen reading is good, blah blah blah... Oh hey,The Magicians made Alex too.
Joanna: An nonfiction author! Bodes well for nonfiction in the awards.It's a nonfiction year!
Patti: that's nice, I have no idea who he is, but I'm sure he deserves it.
Joanna: you know his books.
Patti: (C is running up and down the hall screaming)
Joanna: I think he also wrote Truce w/ came out this year.
Patti: Oh, ok. That one seemed interesting. Alison talked about that one at our Liar book exchange.William C Morris: William was called Bill (aka unneeded factoid)
Joanna: quick! a guess to the winner!
Patti: Hold Still.ha.WRONG!!!
Joanna: So it's funny to see names of people I know.
Patti: I haven't read any. They all seem like good books.
Joanna: I've been a librarian for a looong time.
Patti: LOL.Nonfiction award up next.
Joanna: another guess for this one!Could it be Claudette Colvin?Hmm.
Patti: Claudette Colvin seems like a solid guess.(now C is banging on the door)
Joanna: How funny that I read almost all of those.
Patti: I've got to go for Written in Bone
Joanna: Couldn't fiish Charles & Emma.LOL!
Patti: Charles and Emma!
Joanna: Charles and Emma for the win!
Patti: Aren't they making a movie about this too? I believe I just read something about a movie about them. Based on this book? I don't know.
Joanna: (J's latest talent is to "paint" with his bottle's leftover milk.) A movie would be good.
Then I don't have to finish reading it?
Patti: (nice, hopefully on your wood furniture)
Joanna: (mm. and sofa)
Patti: I have no plans to read it, we'll just add that onto my list of not going to read.
Joanna: PRINTZ!!!!!!!!!
Patti: PRINTZ!!!!!! My heart is palpitating
Joanna: Honor: Charles & Emma
Patti: Charlies and Emma! That was on a lot of people's lists
Joanna: Monstrumologist
Patti: MOnstrumologist
Joanna: Totally off everyone's Radar!
Patti: Punkzilla = depressing.
Joanna: WHat are these books!??
Patti: Tales of the Madman Underground.
Joanna: Rick Yancy was great @ the Teen Book Fest.
Patti: Lots of surprises.NOT Marcello
Joanna: drum roll! HOLY SH*(&$&&!!!
Patti: GOING BOVINE!!!!
Joanna: Libba Forever!!
Patti: Another one I couldn't read! But I love Libba Bray. How cool!
Joanna: I have it checked out right now.It's in my bag.
Patti: And out of left field comes The Printz Award. That is nice.
Joanna: See NO MARCELLO.I'm almost awesome.It was too perfect in it's ending.
Patti: And in Going Bovine the dude dies. See? Books are better when people die.
Joanna: Well hells bells, Patti:. I haven't read it YET. 
Patti: I haven't either. Sorry! On to Odyssey Award.
Joanna: Odyssey Audiobooks:
Patti: Love
Joanna: Peace, Locomotion!
Patti: Nice, We are the Ship.WINNER: Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken.I haven't even heard of this, despite it being DiCamillo.
Joanna: Same here.
Patti: Click Clack MOOOOO
Joanna: Pura Belpré
Patti: Marcello? haha
Joanna: maybe Confetti Girl (J fic)
Patti: We Were Here by De La Pena
Joanna: Illustration: David Diaz - Diego
Patti: I didn't like that one. Oh well.
Joanna: My Abuelita - Yuyi Morales.LOVE this book. Sad itdidn't win. John Parra-Gracias Thanks
Rafael Lopez - Book Fiesta (dia de los ninos/dia de loslibro).Cute.
Patti: Pat Mora for the win, surprise surprise.
Joanna: Yes, but for illustration.
Patti: oh right haha
Joanna: But yes, Pat Mora.(diaper changing. brb)
Patti: Honor Books for Text:Diego Bigger Than Life and Frederico Garcia Lorca.Winner: Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez.I meant to read that one.
Joanna: so no marcello?
Patti: Nope!
Joanna: Now that is a shame.I loved that being Mex-American wasn't central to the theme. But maybe that is why?
Patti: (dang it cdog just came in the room. Thankfully for a book)
Joanna: Mex-Am is who he is. There is some stuff about his dad in law school at Harvard and racism in the law firm.(Cdog cracks me up.)
Patti: (he's crying that he want's mommy to read to him)
Joanna: (sorry he doesn't like TV)
Patti: (me toooooooo)
Joanna: (J&S are watching batman & scooby doo video)
Patti: (lucky lady)
Joanna: Arbuthnot Honor Lecture :
Patti: Ohhhh Lois Lowry to announce
Joanna: No, she wins!
Patti: oh! ha!
Joanna: Or is given he lectureship.Hee.
Patti: (I'm sitting here feeling guilty I'm not reading "Silly Goose" to C)
Joanna: (so this chattin is so dang fun)
Patti: (yes) That's nice. I really like Lois Lowry.(and I'm hungry and Lugnut is clawing at the door to be let out)
Joanna: I can get this one if you need to break.Batchelder Award: Honor: Big wolf and little wolf (picture book?) Eidi. Moribito 2 (Moribito 1 won last year)
Patti: You know, I thought Moribito would be a huge draw, it hardly checks out at any of our branches.
Joanna: A Faraway
Patti: Me neither, it just seemed cool and had a cool cover. I expected bigger things.
Joanna: SIBERT MEDAL - informational books
Patti: Written in Bone! I hope anyhow.
Joanna: heh. DAY-GLO Brothers from
Patti: fabulous.
Joanna: Almost bought Moonshot.WHOA! Claudette Colvin for the Honor.
Patti: come on written in bone for the win....
Joanna: ALMOST ASTRONAUTS!SLAM SLAM SLAM!
Patti: ALMOST ASTRONAUTS! Color me surprised.
Joanna: Oh fun times on blogs. People have strong feelings against this one.
Patti: Apparently the writers bias was not as important as we thought. Very interesting.
Joanna: I didn't think it was as bad as others. But noticeable.
Patti: Yes, lots of debate. I like these types of winners. Who wants something we've all expected?
Joanna: Interesting on how that editorial voice will be considered from here on out.
Patti: I'm glad, I did like this one. ontoVideo award, Andrew Carnegie
Joanna: I love surprises.
Patti: Don't Let the
Joanna: Mo's first win of the night!Can't be an
[note: a clip of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus is showing.]
Patti: LOVE IT! Maybe C would watch this. Love the voice.
Joanna: But it is narrated by Jon Scizeka.= awesome.
Patti: I bet your mom would let me. Best line of the book.
Joanna: This is really funny.
Patti: hahahaha Love the freak out.
Joanna: I love the Noooooooos!!!!!
Patti: ha! probably.Let's Do Nothing is my guess.
Joanna: Honor: I Spy Fly Guy.Little Mouse Gets Ready! GN by Jeff Smith and Toon Books!
Mouse & Mole...Pearl & Wagner.
Patti: cute!
Joanna: a graphic novel!Wins!No Mo!
Patti: CUTE!!!! Love it. Benny and Penny.Wait, this is a beginner reading award. Let's Do Nothing isn't a beginning reader.Get on the ball!It's good that Willems didn't win. You shouldn't win awards every year.
Joanna: Caldecott Medals. I finally read Lion and Mouse this weekend. ALL THE WORLD - another
Patti: Nice! ATX in the house
Joanna: Red sings from treetops (new book to me)
Patti: me too.
Joanna: MEDAL....IS....Lion and the Mouse
Patti: awesome!
Joanna: Jerry Pinkney
Patti: I bet a lot of people go home happy today. I haven't actually seen it. I'm sure it is wonderful.NEWBERY
Joanna: NEWBERY COMETH. 4 HONORS: Claudette Colvin!
Patti: Lots of love for Claudette.
Joanna: Well well well...Calpurnia
Patti: REALLY!!!! Race issues not an issue apparently.
Joanna: Where the Mt Meets the Moon! Still not finished. PATTI:!!!!!!!!!!
For You!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patti: HOMER!!!! Loved this book. Sooo funny!When you Reach me!
Joanna: Well, no surprise here. When You Reach Me for the Newbery.
Patti: No upsets on the Newbery, that's for sure. Everyone had talked about these books.
Joanna: Well, Homer Figg is a surprise. And I am shocked about Calpurnia Tate for the Honor.
Patti: me too. VERY.
Joanna: (hee hee. Thom is telling us to clean up!)
Patti: And we'll never know what their rationale was.
Joanna: Yep.
Patti: And cue elevator music.
Joanna: Ah, more elevator music!LOLSoothing guitar picking. Pseudo jazz?
Patti: LOL! well, it was lovely chatting! I will clean up and post.
Joanna: You are awesome. I had a great time. Same deal next year.
Patti: Definitely! Fun Fun Fun!
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Thanks for posting it. Don't have gmail, but I was imagining the convo while listening. Big surprises! Maybe I should do Going Bovine for the Book Exchange in Feb.?
It was a great time. I read our conversation again! LOL You should do Going Bovine although it might be hard to get the book.
Oh yall are hilarious! This was so much fun this year! Let's totally do Going Bovine for February. I found an arc in my stack of books recently. And boo to Patti for ruining it for me!
I couldn't get through Going Bovine, either. It was torture! Why were you guys surprised at Calpurnia Tate? I thought it was spectacular.
DogEar, I enjoyed Calpurnia very much. During our Mock Newbery, the issue of race and Viola came up and several members voiced concern over how slavery was, in their opinion, brushed aside with the grandfather's comment of "that's what she knows" or something like that. (I don't have the book on hand.) So since we had issue with this, we were curious about the real Newbery Committee. To note: we did pick Calpurnia as one of our Mock honor books.
For me, specifically it was when Calpurnia was asking her grandfather how Viola could stand working all day in the kitchen and he answered, "that's all she knows." If he had answered something like, "that's the best of the options available to her." or something like that I wouldn't have batted an eye. But the truth is that is NOT all she knows. This wasn't long after slavery. Viola could have been their house slave. There is just a whole bunch of complex relationships and reasons as to why she can stand working hard in the kitchen every day. Like she is black in a hostile environment. Like she has no family left because they've all been sold off. And so on and so forth. I really liked the book, I loved Calpurnia, loved the ending. Hated that part. For me, that ruined the book. It left a bad taste.
I quite liked Going Bovine. It was hard to read in the beginning but it really got going. I was sad to see it end.
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