Representing the Best of the Year
Leah Langby
December 9, 2011
Keeping Up With Kids

Here’s an extremely cool and practical use of Wordle by school librarian Gina Beirne on . These are YA book titles that have turned up on various best-of-the-year lists–the larger the title, the more times it has appeared. What an attractive way to help people make sense of the best-of-the-year lists! I like the idea, I want to try it out for a younger audience, too. Check back to see if I ever get around to it!

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