Speaking of Cybils, I’m having great fun going through the many, many nominated picture books. I’ve read about 140 of the 176 titles and have seen some truly wonderful books. It’s going to be very hard to narrow my favorites list down, much less work with the other panelists to bring seven books to the final shortlist. But I’m looking forward to the challenge.
Speaking of challenges, I totally bailed on NaNoWriMo as my fifth grader hit the skids with her schoolwork. We’re having some issues with the amount of work involved this year and her own ability to do that work. The teacher has not been helpful. So, I spent November doing far more work on fifth grade homework than on my novel, but I was glad to get the firm starting point that NaNoWriMo offered. I am very proud of my buddies Abby and Sarah who met their goals. Congratulations! (They’ve both also got great gift-giving blog posts going with 12 Days of Giving and Tween Book Buying Guide.)
Speaking of gifts, don’t you want to win a free book you can give as a present this holiday season? Enter by leaving a comment with your favorite 2009 book for a chance to win The Day Glo Brothers plus a surprise picture book. And of course I have to plug 105 Ways to Give a Book for your holiday book-buying needs.
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Thank you, thank you! I have to say that this November... was tough. But I'm happy to have finished (and to have finally gotten all the 12 Days of Giving posts done last night!).
Looking forward to seeing what your panel comes up with for the Cybils shortlists!!
I admire you for giving it a shot--I didn't even TRY to do NaNoWriMo this year!! :( Maybe next year...
So sorry to hear about the homework problems! I'm making my way thru blog reading backlog due to NaNo this year, and just wanted to chime in on that before I got lost in your more recent posts and forgot to speak up...
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