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October Mentor Text Check-In and Challenge: Keeping Up With CYBILS Nominations

10/20/2015

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By Carrie Charley Brown
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It’s that time of the month. Are you ready for a challenge? Since I have been wrapped up in the amazing world of judging the CYBILS Fiction Picture Book Nominations again this year, I figured this would also be the perfect challenge for you, too. After all, it hits many of our ReFoReMo goals:
 
  1. Read from the current market. CYBILS nominations cover books published between October 16, 2014 and October 15, 2015. Now, THAT’S current!
  2. Read and research consistently. With an expected total of somewhere around 200 nominations, it will definitely keep your habit consistent. (And fast-n-furious!)
  3. Decide for yourself which elements can help you with your writing.  CYBILS nominations were open to the public for 15 days…meaning anyone could nominate a book. After that time, authors themselves, publishers, and publicists can nominate, too. We get a wide variety of books…some outstanding mentor texts and some, well, you can be the judge for yourself. We can learn from all sorts of examples. Sometimes mentor texts show what-to-do and others show what-not-to-do with our writing.
 
So, I invite you...no, I CHALLENGE you, to read and research with me. The working list of nominations can be found HERE. Let’s read! And if you want to take it a step further, write a few reviews, too!

Reviews for Three:
What About Moose? Written by Corey Rosen Schwartz & Rebecca Gomez and Illustrated by Keika Yamaguchi

Wherever You Go Written by Pat Zietlow Miller and illustrated by Eliza Wheeler

I Thought This Was a Bear Book Written by Tara Lazar and Illustrated by Benji Davies


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Kirsti Call
10/20/2015 10:41:39 am

I love how reading and immersing myself in books helps me figure out what works and what doesn't.

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Carrie Charley Brown
10/20/2015 02:09:58 pm

Yes! And I love sharing it with our community to learn from one another. :)

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Jilanne Hoffmann
10/20/2015 01:38:00 pm

Just attended a San Francisco South SCBWI-initiated PB analysis group last night (maybe 20+ attendees) at The Booksmith on Haight in San Francisco. We covered what we all thought made a great PB beginning. Then we scoured the shelves and selected books at random to share their great beginnings. It was fun, and we got to see a wide variety of books that we may or may not have pulled to read ourselves.

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Carrie Charley Brown
10/20/2015 02:09:19 pm

What a fun and valuable experience, Jilanne!

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Cassie Bentley
10/20/2015 02:38:46 pm

I love the idea of getting together with others to discuss PB beginnings. Thank you Jilanne.

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