What is the Children’s Literature
Festival?
Where can I get more information?
What authors / illustrators will
be there?
What do I have to do to qualify?
Is there a timeline for
qualifying?
What are this year’s nominees?
Can you suggest some other good
books to read?
How do I know if a book qualifies
for the Literature Festival?
NEW FOR
2011-2012 (Last updated, August 12, 2011):
There are
LOTS of changes to the Literature Festival field trip this year, and I haven’t
been able to keep up with them all just yet.
I will update this information (especially the timeline!) in the days
and weeks to come, but until then, check out the Library Blog for information straight
from Mr. Schrag.
-- Thanks!
What is the Children’s Literature Festival?
Where can I get more information?
What authors / illustrators will be there?
What do I have to do to qualify?
Is there a timeline for qualifying?
One really good way to make it to the Literature Festival is to set goals. Beginning on the first day of school, August 24, 2011, there are 184 calendar days until the final deadline of February 24, 2012. Below is a suggested timeline for qualifying—questionnaires can be turned in on any date—but the dates in bold are official and nonnegotiable.
(Some dates fall on weekends / holidays. Turn those questionnaires in the next school day.)
What are this year’s nominees? (* = one of my new
favorites!)
Can you suggest some other good books to read?
Sasquatch by Roland Smith
Zach’s Lie by Roland Smith
Jack's Run by Roland
Smith
Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith
The Last Dog
on Earth by Daniel Ehrenhaft
City of
School Story by Andrew Clements
Time For Andrew by Mary Hahn
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Boy Who Saved
Baseball by John Ritter
Holes by Louis Sachar
How Angel Peterson Got
His Name by Gary Paulsen
Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
Mountain Solo by Jenette Ingold
Undercurrents by Willow D. Roberts
Week in the
Woods by Andrew Clements
Cold in
Summer – Barrett, Tracy
The Antrian
Messenger by G.
Clifton Wisler
The Seer by G. Clifton Wisler
Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
Kingdom Keepers by
Ridley Pearson
Lightning Thief by
Rick Riordan
On Etruscan Time by
Tracy Barrett
How do I know if a book qualifies for the Literature
Festival?
Use the Mark
Twain Master List that includes most nominees and winners
(we
have found a few books missing from
the list) and the list of Newberry
Winners.
Every book on either list is
a qualifying book.