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July 19, 2025 by Travis Jonker

The Yarn LIVE with the 2025 Newbery Winners! (Part I)

July 19, 2025 by Travis Jonker   Leave a Comment

Kate O’Shaughnessy, Chanel Miller, Erin Entrada Kelly, Ruth Behar, Lesa Cline-Ransome, Me

Travis: This one was a lot of fun.

At the end of June I moderated a panel of the 2025 Newbery winners (Ruth Behar, Chanel Miller, Lesa Cline-Ransome, Kate O’Shaughnessy, and Erin Entrada Kelly) at the ALA Annual Conference in Philadelphia.

Our conversation touches on a bunch of different topics, including getting “The Call” from the Newbery committee, and advice they have for aspiring writers.

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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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