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October 3, 2022 by Travis Jonker

Introducing the 2022 ENDIES Awards!

October 3, 2022 by Travis Jonker   Leave a Comment

Way back when The Undies Case Cover Awards were first discussed, another award idea was tossed around: an award for the best endpapers.

You know what endpapers are, right?

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#Endpapers for the end of your week!

From American Desi by @JyotiGopal and @supriyakelkar_
(@LittleBrownYR, June 2022) pic.twitter.com/IKPjeIyGpx

— Mel Schuit 📚🍍 (@spiky_penelope) July 22, 2022

They’re the first thing you see when you open the cover of a book. Endpapers are often pretty boring: pain paper in one color or another.

But sometimes, the endpapers are beautiful. Sometimes, they even add to the story.

We want to honor the most creative endpapers of the year, and so . . .

The 2022 Endies Endpaper Awards!

Here’s how The Endies will work:

Now through October 31st, 2022 we are accepting nominations* for the best endpapers of the year

In November, we will announce our favorites.

*To nominate end papers for the 2021 Endies:

Make sure your nomination was published between November 1, 2021 and October 31, 2022. If so, take a photo of the front endpapers AND the back endpapers (click here to see an example).

Click here to submit!

*NOTE* You must have a Google account to submit.

Anyone (including publishers) can nominate! You can nominate as many books as you’d like.

Let’s recognize the best endpapers of the year!

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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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