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December 17, 2015 by Travis Jonker

Coming Soon: Top 10 Posts of 2015

December 17, 2015 by Travis Jonker   3 comments

Top 10 of 2015

Full-on reflection mode over here. Starting next week and continuing over the holidays, I’ll be counting down my most popular posts from the past year, from number ten to number one. See you then.

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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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  1. Eric Carpenter says

    December 17, 2015 at 11:18 am

    How about a list of Top Ten ideas for posts that never became actual posts (for whatever reason).

    • Travis Jonker says

      December 17, 2015 at 12:05 pm

      From the drafts file! (I reserve the right to turn any of these into posts)
      1. Cheap Children’s Literature Knock-Offs (I look at popular series and attempt to make funny knock offs)
      2. Working Titles of Famous Children’s Books (this is one I still want to do, but I don’t think I’ll be able to find the time to research)
      3. The Top 5 Comments Ever on 100 Scope Notes (this one would take a ton of time, but it would be fun to do. There are a couple very weird/funny ones out there)
      4. The Geisel Award Infographic (this one will happen at some point)
      5. Library Tales: Buried Overdue (a story explaining an extremely late book return in our library)
      6. I Just Can’t Quit You (about series that hang on way longer than expected)
      7. What Your Favorite Children’s Book Says About You (I need to be in a really jerky mood if I ever hope to do this one. I must not be in a jerky mood enough, because I’ve never finished it)
      8. My Precious: Nonfiction Books Kids Obsess Over (there are a few nonfiction books that seem to have a magical hold on certain kids)
      9. Excellent Award Placements (some books have covers just made for awards)
      10. 5 Cover Lessons Learned from Old Books (plan was to point out stuff that doesn’t work well on covers today that used to be the norm)
      As you can see – many of these are languishing for good reason. Maybe in 2016…

      • Kate B. says

        December 18, 2015 at 1:32 pm

        For me, “Excellent (?) Award Placements” begins and ends with this story: https://twitter.com/andrewkarre/status/667831685715656704

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