Please feel free to copy, download, or link to these lists. We ask only that you cite the source. It is nearly impossible to isolate the specific combination of attributes that makes a book a Bulletin Blue Ribbon. It's a good question, and one that, more often than not, pushes a questionable title one way or the other. Here is the list of Bulletin Blue Ribbon books for 1998, including two late entries from 1997.
T here are picture books, fiction, nonfiction, and even a couple of easy readers.
We think these titles exemplify those elusive qualities that make a book stand out from the rest, even if the rest are very, very good. Happy New Year. Babbitt, Natalie, ad. In order to earn his princess, a young man must retrieve three hairs from the devil's head. Bodkin, Odds, ad.