The 2011 Easy Reader/Early Chapter Book Judges

These are the books that help kids make the leap from hogging Mom's lap at storytime to sneaking a flashlight under the covers.  It's an important transition, and including this genre was an acknowledgement that these books didn't properly fit with either picture or middle grade books.  They're in a class by themselves, as are the judges.

Round 1

Katie Ahearn
Secrets and Sharing Soda

Sherry Early
Semicolon

Darshana Khiani
Flowering Minds

Catherine Nichols
The Cath in the Hat

Sheila Richburg
BooksNhand

Danielle Smith
There's a Book

Amanda Struckmeyer
Team Struckmeyer

Round 2

Ashley Barrineau
YA Library in Training

Katie Davis
Katie Davis

Amanda Furman
Maestra Amanda's Bookshelf

Stacey Loscalzo
Stacey Loscalzo

Zoe Toft
Playing By The Book

UPDATE: My profound apologies for the bad links. Not sure where my brain was instead of on my editing. They're fixed now. -Anne

Comments

[Darshana]

There is an error with the links for the blogs, Flowering Minds, BooksNhand, and Maestra Amanda's Bookshelf. Would somebody be able to fix the post?

For Flowering Minds it should be http://www.flowering-minds.com
For BooksNhand it should be http://booksnhand.blogspot.com/
For Maestra Amanda's Bookshelf it should be http://www.maestra-amanda.blogspot.com/

[Katie Ahearn]

Thank you, Anne, for doing such a lovely job on these posts. Can I ask for one more quick edit? The link to my blog still has the "blog name" part in it. It should just read "Secrets & Sharing Soda." Thanks!

[Terry Doherty]

Thanks a KAZILLION Anne! The bad links were likely on me ... Not sure where MY brain was ;-)

[Anne]

@Terry: Nope, they were all my doing. Bad cutting and pasting, confusing TypePad instructions, you name it. That's always, always the editor's fault, so I will fight you for the blame. Heh.

Anyway, I think all the blog names and links should be good now (crosses fingers).