Comments on: Jan the Hungarian Predicts … ‘We Are the Ship’ Will Win the 2009 Caldecott Medal http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/jan-the-hungarian-predicts-%e2%80%a6-%e2%80%98we-are-the-ship%e2%80%99-will-win-the-2009-caldecott-medal/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:28:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/jan-the-hungarian-predicts-%e2%80%a6-%e2%80%98we-are-the-ship%e2%80%99-will-win-the-2009-caldecott-medal/#comment-7174 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:52:31 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=6328#comment-7174 That was my feeling, too. Shouldn’t we expect scrupulous accuracy in a Sibert winner?

I am going to say more about We Are the Ship very soon. (I’ve written the review and would normally post it Saturday but don’t know if I can wait that long.) Question: Would a baseplayer from the early decades of the 20th century say, “The man was awesome”?

]]> By: speedytexaslibrarian http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/jan-the-hungarian-predicts-%e2%80%a6-%e2%80%98we-are-the-ship%e2%80%99-will-win-the-2009-caldecott-medal/#comment-7172 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:19:19 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=6328#comment-7172 Seeing that it won the Sibert is an even bigger surprise. I knew it was a shoe-in for King awards.

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/jan-the-hungarian-predicts-%e2%80%a6-%e2%80%98we-are-the-ship%e2%80%99-will-win-the-2009-caldecott-medal/#comment-7168 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:59:40 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=6328#comment-7168 I’d have the same problem. So I’d favor an ALA rules change on this one (though the group has had the same policy for such a long time that I have little hope that it will occur). There might also be Texas teams in the book. I couldn’t find any obvious ones in the index but there are southern ones such as the Atlanta Black Crackers. I’m off to try to find the results …

]]> By: speedytexaslibrarian http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/jan-the-hungarian-predicts-%e2%80%a6-%e2%80%98we-are-the-ship%e2%80%99-will-win-the-2009-caldecott-medal/#comment-7167 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:22:43 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=6328#comment-7167 Hmm, I don’t know – I haven’t read the book, but as a librarian (and one who purchases the children’s books for my collection), I would have a problem giving an award to a supposedly nonfiction book for kids with factual errors.

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