SPEED ROUND with the 2025 Newbery Winners!





Travis: This is the second part of our interview with the 2025 Newbery winners: Ruth Behar, Chanel Miller, Lesa Cline-Ransome, Kate O’Shaughnessy, and Erin Entrada Kelly.
Part I was the interview portion. Today, in Part II, I ask the group some rapid fire speed round questions. This was a lot of fun.
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About Travis Jonker
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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