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Someday My Printz Will Come Inside Someday My Printz Will Come
How Many Stars Does it Take to Catch a Printz?   [Note from
Karyn: Usually when someone is kind enough to write a guest
post, I labor over a worthy introduction. But true to her
detail-oriented self—see post, below—Elizabeth wrote her own
introduction. So I'll just say that we apologize for the delay
between posts, but there was this thing known as ALA. We'll be
back on track in the upcoming weeks with a writeup of the
RealCommittee celebrations from Sophie, and then more on that
pesky series issue. For now, please enjoy the amazing
statistical guest post below. I love empirical data!]  Back in
her April “Reading, Reading, Reading!” post, Karyn said,
“Remember that any book with three or more stars [from the six
major review journals] is automatically a contenda,” leading me
to ask in the comments, “Is there an empirical rationale for
considering 3-star books auto-contenders? Has the Prin