{"id":997,"date":"2011-01-09T08:26:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=997"},"modified":"2011-01-07T22:26:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T02:26:56","slug":"mock-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/mock-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying to figure out why I have zero interest in all those Mock Newbery and Mock Caldecott awards and their accompanying lists of contenders.\u00a0 Back when I was at Simmons studying children’s literature, I was hugely interested in all the Mock hype.\u00a0 In several of our classes we had intense discussions over which books might win, and I remember passionately supporting Holes <\/em>by Louis Sachar over all other possible winners (and I was right, it won, which made me feel pretty special).\u00a0<\/p>\n

But now that I work in the “real” world as a children’s librarian – I don’t make predictions, nor do I care about or want to read the predictions made by others.\u00a0 I did listen to the live webcast last year, with great enthusiasm, and I even jumped up with joy when one of my favorite books of the year got a Newbery Honor (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon <\/em>by Grace Lin).\u00a0 I’ll be doing storytimes during the webcast this year, but if I weren’t, I would listen to the live feed again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So why do I have no interest in the Mock lists and awards?\u00a0 I truly can’t figure it out.\u00a0 It’s not for lack of enthusiasm for the awards themselves, nor is it because I haven’t read many of the books, since I’ve usually read all of the ultimate winners and honor books.\u00a0 And it’s not because I don’t have strong opinions, because I do.\u00a0 Maybe I’m just too busy to be bothered?\u00a0 Or maybe the Mock hype stretches on for too long?\u00a0 It’s a mystery, a true mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying to figure out why I have zero interest in all those Mock Newbery and Mock Caldecott awards and their accompanying lists of contenders.\u00a0 Back when I was at Simmons studying children’s literature, I was hugely interested in all the Mock hype.\u00a0 In several of our classes we had intense discussions over which … Continue reading Mock stuff<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-literature","category-young-adult-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}