SHAME ON THE TODAY SHOW

"It’s become a tradition. The Tuesday after the Newbery/Caldecott Awards are announced, the winners, along with the YALSA or ALA president, are guests on the Today Show."

Would you believe that the Today show said they turned down the segment this year because of a a “lack of interest and scheduling problems”?

And then they had the gall to feature Jersey Shores' Snooki's book A Shore Thing. Eww.

Read more about it HERE and HERE.

Erin Stead of Ann Arbor, Michigan won the Caldecott Award  A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Roaring Brook, 2010) while the Newbery went to Clare Vanderpool for Moon over Manifest (Delacorte, 2010) from Wichita, KS. Both are debut titles and the publishers found they had no copies of Moon over Manifest to fill the orders that started flooding in.