Judging from the Newbery Award books I’ve seen and read, the books need to be well written, but they also need to have an unusual topic. Given the sheer numbers of books written and published, that’s fair. Some of them are so original, however, they defy categorization. This image is the final drawing in “My …
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The Newbery Medal is the most prestigious award given for American children’s literature. While the books must be published in the United States, they do not need to be set there. Many of the authors of these books were either from the country they wrote about or spent a significant amount of time there. They …
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Newbery Award books, by definition, must be written by Americans or first published in the United States, but they do not have to be ABOUT the United States. These books are all set in various parts of the modern United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) although they are all set in the past. One …
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In Part 2 of our series on FREE Newbery Award winners, this week we bring you books set in the Western part of the United States. Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James Newbery Medal, 1927 Smoky the Cowhorse is set in the 1910’s, just long enough before the novel was written to document the shift …
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