{"id":7402,"date":"2009-07-16T20:52:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2009-07-16T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T00:52:52","slug":"james-kennedy-wins-the-newbery-award-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/16\/james-kennedy-wins-the-newbery-award-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"James Kennedy wins the Newbery Award! (sort of)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"james_cropt\"James Kennedy<\/a> (Nara-ken, 2004-06)<\/strong>, author of The Order of Odd-Fish<\/strong><\/em><\/a> continues to redefine the standard job description for “author.”\u00a0 In his latest adventure, he gave a speech at the American Librarians Association<\/a> where he forcibly took the Newbery Award from “Neil Gaiman<\/strong><\/a>.”\u00a0 And that’s not even the most shocking part.<\/p>\n

After watching the video clips below, you may find yourself contemplating the young Japanese students James once taught.\u00a0 What has become of them and how have their lives been affected, or perhaps more appropriately, distorted?\u00a0 Perhaps a film-making member of the JET alum community could set out to produce a documentary on the subject.<\/p>\n

Until then, watch and enjoy below.\u00a0 Or watch and read the post on James’ site:\u00a0 “I Win the Newberry”<\/a><\/p>\n

Video 1: James announces his intention to strip Gaiman of his Newbery.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Video 2: Freya and Erin act out a scene from his novel The Order of Odd-Fish.<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Video 3: Neil Gaiman and James fight for the Newbery.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Need a little more James Kennedy?\u00a0 Click here<\/a> to see video of him reading at the JET Alumni Author Showcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Kennedy (Nara-ken, 2004-06), author of The Order of Odd-Fish continues to redefine the standard job description for “author.”\u00a0 In his latest adventure, he gave a speech at the American Librarians Association where he forcibly took the Newbery Award from “Neil Gaiman.”\u00a0 And that’s not even the most shocking part. After watching the video clips […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,40,26,9,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-celebrity","category-humor","category-uncategorized","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t