Comments on: A Review of the 2010 Newbery Medal Winner, ‘When You Reach Me’: Enjoyable? Yes. The Year’s ‘Most Distinguished’? Maybe Not.

By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:25:51 +0000

Thanks for mentioning “Sophie’s World.” Always meant to get to that one but never did. Maybe your comment will inspire me …

By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:17:05 +0000

What a lovely surprise on a day when you can hear the cars NOT starting all over the New Jersey! We’re getting hammered by snow, and all I can handle today is Twitter, but I hope to tweet the news there soon. Thank you ever so much.

By: Digital Dame

Digital Dame — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:06:28 +0000

It sounds reminiscent of Jostein Gaarder’s “Sophie’s World” as well.

By: Weekend Reader

Weekend Reader — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:53:05 +0000

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By: Weekend Reader

Weekend Reader — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:54:45 +0000

There was an interesting editorial in the New York Times on Jan 23 regarding the line you identify as the best line (“. . .hate to think about other people reading my book. . . “) at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/weekinreview/24rich.html?scp=41&sq=book%20review%20jan%2024&st=cse.

I appreciate your review on this book which I, too, thought was good but not necessarily Newbery quality.I think you are correct in your analysis that the Newbery is seen as a fiction award.

By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:17:55 +0000

Oh, how sad if true. CLAUDETTE COLVIN is such a good book.

But I’ve seen issues like the one you mentioned come into play in awards many times, so your comment is plausible to me (along with a couple of other possible explanations, including that the judges have come to see the Newbery as a “fiction” award).

Thanks for your comment. Of the books that you’ve read — winner and honor books — which do you think will still be important decades from now?
Jan

By: speedytexaslibrarian

speedytexaslibrarian — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:51:45 +0000

Thanks for the link to my review, Jan! My gut feeling on why CLAUDETTE COLVIN did not win: it is a book about a person of color that was not written by a person of color.