On Monday the American Library Association, ALA, announced it’s Children’s Book Winners for a slew of awards including the Caldecott and Newbery.
As a kid of course I noticed the award stickers, I mean they were bright and shiny and pretty, but I didn’t really know what they meant or what they were for really. I would read anything, whether or not someone said they were good. And even now when I do get a book for a young cousin I usually first think of the books I read and really liked as a kid, and go from there. I do still like to look at kids and young adult (YA)books, kids books are just fun for the illustrations, I still pick some up. And there are some YA books which are just very good reading.
But with the shear number of books, aaward winners and lists are a great way to find good books easy, and just get to know more authors you may have otherwise (literally) overlooked.
