The end of the year is approaching. For me, that means skyrocketing speculation about the Youth Media Awards (YMAs), which include the Newbery, Caldecott. I love pouring over year-end best of lists and reading as many 2017 books as I can. Another reason I look forward to this time of year: I love a good mock award discussion. For this blog, I’ll focus on different ways to host a mock award with school-age kids (for more on the benefits of hosting a blog for your colleagues, check out Amanda Foulk’s stellar post on Guessing Geisel).
Tag: Mock Elections
Get Ready to Submit YOUR Mock Election Results
The Mock Election Results page is now open!
Compiling 2017 Mock Youth Media Awards Election Results
Learn how you can find out about this year’s school, library, bookstore, and book discussion group winners in YMA Mock Elections – including Mock Newbery, Mock Caldecott, Mock held around the country. AND learn how you can post the results of your own discussions and elections.
Mock Election Results
Every year libraries and schools around the United States offer Mock Election programs in preparation for the annual Youth Media Awards. These discussions are a great opportunity for children’s literature aficionados to gather and talk about a topic they love and to learn more about some of the great, recently published books for kids. We are developing a page on the ALSC Blog with many of the results from this year’s Mock Elections around the country. Check it out here. You can also find this tab on the homepage of the ALSC Blog. So far, we have some results from: Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana Eastern Shore Libraries Lane Libraries, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, and other nearby schools in southwest Ohio Massachusetts Library System We’d love to include your Mock Election. If you are willing to have us post your results, just send…