Inspired by former classmate and all around superstar John Schu and his Newbery/Caldecott challenges, I’m pledging to read all the Printz medal and honor books and today my list just got longer.
The 13th Printz winner was announced this morning at ALA’s Midwinter Conference. (Congrats John Corey Whaley, you’re next on my list, seriously!) Helpfully I already have one 2012 honor in the bag, The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater which was also one of my favorite audiobooks. In fact for each of the years I have read at least one title, except 2010. Why, I have not a clue, it wasn’t not intentional just a crazy happenstance. As of today I’ve read 24 of 62 Printzes (Printzz? Printz’? Printzi? Prizies?) so overall I have a strong head start which will hopefully lead to finishing.
For the next few months I’m going to be reading the ones I’ve miss or intentionally skipped and rereading other I haven’t read in a long time (Looking For Alaska, Jellicoe Road *note buy more tissues*). I also plan to write a small review for each title, my take, thoughts on why it won and it’s place in the canon (does YA have a formalized canon? Hold please…okay Google is unclear, will investigate further.)
First up tomorrow will be Kit’s Wilderness, 2001 Winner, and Skellig, 2000 Honor, by David Almond, mostly because I’ve just finished them. Yeah, I won’t really be doing this in any real sort of order so deal. To the Printzmobile!
