Jan 30, 2023
Congratulations to the 2023 Newbery Medal winner and honorees!
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Congratulations to the 2023 Newbery Medal winner and honorees!
Love seeing the increase in Thai main characters in middle- grade age content.
Top left: Anne Boonchuy from ‘Amphibia’
Top right: Molly McGee from ‘The Ghost and Molly McGee’
Bottom: Sai from ‘The Last Mapmaker, a book by Christina Soontornvat
Title: The Last Mapmaker | Author: Christina Soontornvat | Publisher: Candlewick Press (2022)
The Last Mapmaker, by Christina Soontornvat
A perfectly respectable secondary-world fantasy middle grade book, about a girl who's an apprentice mapmaker who has to keep her low-born background secret, and sets out on a shipboard journey to discover a fabled lost continent. Pretty predictable, and didn't really speak to me, but overall well done and I think it would be very good for people who are in the actual age category it's meant for.