The word moot is an archaic term meaning "argue, debate, discuss." In early English history, a moot was a meeting to discuss local affairs. Moot comes from the Old English gemot, meaning "meeting."
Monday, January 17, 2005
Award Winners
ALA announces that the 2005 John Newbery Award goes to Kira-Kira, by Cynthia Kadohata. Kitten’s First Full Moon, authored and illustrated by Kevin Henkes, has won the Randolph Caldecott medal.
Newbery Honor Books
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt,
Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, by Russell Freedman
Caldecott Honor Books
The Red Book, by Barbara Lehman
Coming on Home Soon, illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Jacqueline Woodson
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, by Mo Willems
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