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The Hour Approaches–Our Newbery Predictions!
Next Monday, Jan. 25, during its annual Midwinter Conference (which is virtual like everything else this year) the American Library Association will announce the winners of the most coveted awards in children’s literature. There are several categories, but the oldest and most prestigious is the John Newbery Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature. We’ll let you know the actual winners on Monday, but we also like to try our hand at predicting. So, with a spin to the Wheel of Fortune . . . Janie: I look to current social and political trends to make my guesses, though that’s not always reliable. Each year’s Newbery committee is notoriously quirky!…
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More Than a Decision
“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go… You have to ask the question — you have to want to know — in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.” ~ Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School Professor SESSION… The post More Than a Decision appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Personal Armageddons
Suffering Is Universal We don’t deliberately look for trouble in life. It comes. Suffering is a universal fact; no one can escape its claws. The rain falls upon the just and the unjust. We all face personal armageddons. Some people have the mistaken idea that becoming a Christian will be a shelter from the… The post Personal Armageddons appeared first on FaithGateway.
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2021 Newbery Buzz #6: Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
We wrap up our Newbery Buzz series for this year with a discussion of Echo Mountain a historical novel set during the Great Depression. Joining us will be Pamela, a longtime friend and sometime contributor to Redeemed Reader. Janie: Echo Mountain has reaped three starred reviews in the most prestigious journals. Its author, Lauren Wolk, won a Newbery silver medal for her first novel, Wolf Hollow, three years ago. So it’s likely this book has been under discussion ever since it was published last spring. Here’s a brief synopsis: Ellie’s family (her parents, older sister Esther, and little brother Sam) took a severe hit when the stock market dropped and…
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Reordering Our Thoughts
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. — Joshua 1:8 What consumes your thoughts most days? When given the chance, where does your mind wander? Are you frequently… The post Reordering Our Thoughts appeared first on FaithGateway.
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How Do We Live in Uncertainty?
It’s hard to remember a time filled with more collective uncertainty. Life almost feels like we are in a holding pattern. We can’t make plans. We say to people, “Let’s get together when things go back to normal,” but we have no idea when that’s going to be. So how do we live now?… The post How Do We Live in Uncertainty? appeared first on FaithGateway.
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Exclusive Premiere: Lucas Hoge’s First Gospel Album ‘Sunday Sessions’
Check out the track “Old Rugged Cross” from country artist Lucas Hoge’s first Gospel album Sunday Sessions!
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Caldecott-Buzzy Picture Books
The Barnabus Project, Our Little Kitchen, and I Am Every Good Thing are all contenders for this year’s Caldecott award for illustration. The Barnabus Project by the Terry, Eric, and Devin Fan (the Fan Brothers). Tundra, 2020, 72 pages. Reading Level: Picture book, ages 4-8 Recommended for: ages 4-10 Barnabus lives under a bell jar in a secret lab far below the Perfect Pets pet store. Mouse-size, with mousy ears and tail, he also sports miniature elephant’s feet and trunk. Barnabas is comfortable being himself, but the man-sized creatures in the green rubber suits have marked him as a “Fail.” He’s not the only one: the secret lab is filled…
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Carrie Underwood Announces Release Date For Gospel Album
On Christmas Day, Carrie Underwood announced in a video on social media that she will be releasing a new gospel album titled My Savior. This week, she shared the release date for this upcoming record. The album will be releasing on March 26, just in time for Easter. “For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to record an album of my favorite gospel hymns, and after [my Christmas album] My Gift, it felt like the perfect time to make it happen.” Carrie posted on Instagram. “It’s called My Savior and it will be here March 26.” Along with the announcement of the release date, Carrie also shared…
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2021 Newbery Roundup #2: When You Trap a Tiger, Efren Divided, Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street
Three more possible Newbery contenders we never got around to reviewing. When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller. Random House, 2020, 302 pages Lily, her older sister Sam, and their mother are moving in with their Halmoni (grandma). Lily is happy about it and Sam is angry, but Sam has been generally miserable since their father’s death some years earlier. And now Halmoni is dying of brain cancer. Shortly after the move, Lily sees a tiger in the rain—a hallucination, or could it be somehow real? As the tiger appears to be stalking her, Lily realizes that Halmoni sees it too. It turns out that the tiger is a…
