Yesterday was the birthday of a VERY nice Jewish girl (NJG), writer E.L. Konigsburg.

She won the prestigious Newbery Award for "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," Almost thirty years later, in 1997, Konigsburg won a second Newbery for her novel, "The View from Saturday."

And she was my mom's cousin (by marriage)! She died almost 10 years ago.

Anyone else love her books?

#AYearForArt #Writer #Mazeldon #Jewish #NJG #Author #Newbery #Jewish #JewishPride

FREEWATER Review: 5⭐ - A beautifully written, pretty much perfect #middlegrade adventure. Amina Luqman-Dawson takes inspiration from stories of 19th-century Black Americans living independently in the vast southern swampland where they kept themselves safe from the predation of plantations and the bounty hunters they employed.

Full review: https://www.instagram.com/p/CohOKuWraTK/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

#freewater #AminaLuqmanDawson #newbery #winner #tbr @bookstodon #books #CorettaScottKingBookAward

I follow the Newberys in particular because I read a lot of the winners as a kid, and they're the oldest and one of the best-known ALA awards. The 1928 #Newbery honorees just joined the public domain at the start of this month; online copies of them, earlier awardees, and selected later ones can be found here: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/prize.html. But the other, newer ALA awards are definitely worth checking out too.

#ALA Youth Media awards are out! _Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson wins the #Newbery Medal, and there were 3 Newbery honorees. And a bunch more books got various other awards. Here's the ALA press release mentioning them all: https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2023/01/american-library-association-announces-2023-youth-media-award-winners And here's more information on the awards: https://www.ala.org/news/mediapresscenter/presskits/youthmediaawards/alayouthmediaawards #Bookstodon

RT @LisaYee1@twitter.com

La la la la, what's that? Oh, Maizy Chen's Last Chance is NEWBERY HONOR BOOK AND I AM SO EXCITED AND COULDN'T STOP CRYING WHEN I FOUND OUT AND I AM GOING TO EAT CAKE TODAY.

Thank you to the committee and to @ALALibrary@twitter.com!!!!
#ALAYMA #MaizyChensLastChance #Newbery @randomhousekids@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LisaYee1/status/1620080235025928193

The real Academy Awards, the ALA’s Youth Media Awards #Caldecott, #newbery, #corettascottking. https://twitter.com/ALALibrary/status/1619700666905264128