All right, that post title didn't quite rhyme, but close enough for government work...
Determined to have read at least the major Printz and Newbery winners, if not the honors, I tore madly through Kristin Cashore's Graceling this weekend (oh yes! Shades of Tamora Pierce and Alison Croggon, but with its own fearsome energy. I want to be Katsa in my next life, but only if I can have Po...) and will finish John Green's Paper Towns by bedtime (I'm loving it, much to my surprise. I found Looking for Alaska to be fairly annoying, but Paper Towns has a deliciously loose and free vibe - Green really gives his inner geek free rein, with nerdtastic results). Madapple and The Knife of Never Letting Go and many others remain unread, vibrating impatiently on my shelf.
So - the awards will be announced tomorrow morning, and while I will be happy with any number of books as winners (it was a really good year, wasn't it?), here are the books that are close to my heart and would give me extra pleasure if they happen to be winners:
Newbery - Horvath's My One Hundred Adventures or Appelt's The Underneath
Caldecott - Nelson's We Are the Ship
Printz - Lanagan's Tender Morsels or Green's Paper Towns
At 7:45 am MT (which is 6:45 am Eva M. time), I'll be hunched in front of my work computer, cheering madly along with all the rest of you book-addled folks.
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