{"id":5036,"date":"2013-02-05T13:28:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/blog\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2013-02-05T13:28:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:28:49","slug":"k-a-applegate-wins-the-2013-newbery-medal-also-mississippi-bans-real-animorphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/2013\/02\/05\/k-a-applegate-wins-the-2013-newbery-medal-also-mississippi-bans-real-animorphs\/","title":{"rendered":"K.A. Applegate wins the 2013 Newbery Medal! Also, Mississippi bans real Animorphs."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>K.A Applegate has won the 2013 Newbery Medal for The One and Only Ivan<\/i>!<\/a> A big congrats from all of us here at Hirac Delest! (If you haven’t had the chance to read it yet: Please do. The award is entirely well deserved.)<\/p>\n

There have been many publications about this over the last week, but Publisher’s Weekly got a hold of K.A’s reaction approximately two hours after winning:<\/p>\n

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Normally Katherine Applegate would have been in her house in San Francisco the morning that \u201cthe call\u201d came in. But she\u2019d been visiting family in Richmond, Va., with her 13-year-old daughter, and found herself in a hotel room 3000 miles from home when the phone rang. Her daughter had caught a bug and was running a fever, and Applegate\u2019s mind was not on the Newbery committee. \u201cIt just never crossed my radar screen,\u201d she said. \u201cThey told me it was the medal, and I asked, \u2018Are you sure?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

As the news sunk in, Applegate said she told the committee, \u201c \u2018It\u2019s the best thing that happened to me since I gave birth, adopted my daughter, and got married.\u2019 I heard a great deal of laughter on the phone. It was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Then, she recalled, \u201cI just sat tight and watched the webcast. It was so much easier because I already knew what the outcome would be.\u201d As soon as her Newbery was announced, \u201cthe phone started ringing immediately and incessantly. My husband texted me and said, \u2018OMG you\u2019re trending on Twitter!\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article on Publishers Weekly:
Katherine Applegate on Winning the 2013 Newbery: ‘Stunned Disbelief’<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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\"\"In other news: An amusing article has popped up on The Buzz<\/i><\/a> where a new Mississippi bill has been introduced that forbids human-animal hybrids, such as the Animorphs. The HB 819<\/a> is The Protection of the Human Person Act<\/i>, and would have slapped the Animorphs with a fine should they have ever gone public in our time. <\/p>\n

The article explains a bit more in depth regarding the circumstances and intent behind the hybrids, and can be read in full at The Buzz<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n

Thanks to Jason<\/em> for forwarding this to us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  K.A Applegate has won the 2013 Newbery Medal for The One and Only Ivan! A big congrats from all of us here at Hirac Delest! (If you haven’t had the chance to read it yet: Please do. The award is entirely well deserved.) There have been many publications about this over the last week, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-interviews","category-authors-ka-michael","category-community","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}