The Newberry Award

[locke]

Which ones have you read, which one is your favorite? which books got robbed?

2008 Laura Amy Schlitz -- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
2007 Susan Patron -- The Higher Power of Lucky
2006 Lynne Rae Perkins -- Criss Cross
2005 Cynthia Kadohata -- Kira-Kira
2004 Kate DiCamillo -- The Tale of Despereaux
2003 Avi -- Crispin: The Cross of Lead
2002 Linda Sue Park -- A Single Shard
2001 Richard Peck -- A Year Down Yonder
2000 Christopher Paul Curtis -- Bud, Not Buddy
1999 Louis Sachar -- Holes
1998 Karen Hesse -- Out of the Dust
1997 E. L. Konigsburg -- The View from Saturday
1996 Karen Cushman -- The Midwife's Apprentice
1995 Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons
1994 Lois Lowry -- The Giver
1993 Cynthia Rylant -- Missing May
1992 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -- Shiloh
1991 Jerry Spinelli -- Maniac Magee
1990 Lois Lowry -- Number the Stars
1989 Paul Fleischman -- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
1988 Russell Freedman -- Lincoln: A Photobiography
1987 Sid Fleischman -- The Whipping Boy
1986 Patricia MacLachlan -- Sarah, Plain and Tall
1985 Robin McKinley -- The Hero and the Crown
1984 Beverly Cleary -- Dear Mr. Henshaw
1983 Cynthia Voigt -- Dicey's Song
1982 Nancy Willard -- A Visit to William Blake's Inn
1981 Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved
1980 Joan Blos -- A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
1979 Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game
1978 Katherine Paterson -- Bridge to Terabithia
1977 Mildred Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1976 Susan Cooper -- The Grey King
1975 Virginia Hamilton -- M. C. Higgins, the Great
1974 Paula Fox -- The Slave Dancer
1973 Jean Craighead George -- Julie of the Wolves
1972 Robert C. O'Brien -- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1971 Betsy Byars -- Summer of the Swans
1970 William H. Armstrong -- Sounder
1969 Lloyd Alexander -- The High King
1968 E. L. Konigsburg -- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1967 Irene Hunt -- Up a Road Slowly
1966 Elizabeth Borton de Treviño -- I, Juan de Pareja
1965 Maia Wojciechowska -- Shadow of a Bull
1964 Emily Cheney Neville -- It's Like This, Cat
1963 Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
1962 Elizabeth George Speare -- The Bronze Bow
1961 Scott O'Dell -- Island of the Blue Dolphins
1960 Joseph Krumgold -- Onion John
1959 Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1958 Harold Keith -- Rifles for Watie
1957 Virginia Sorenson -- Miracles on Maple Hill
1956 Jean Lee Latham -- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
1955 Meindert DeJong -- The Wheel on the School
1954 Joseph Krumgold -- ...And Now Miguel
1953 Ann Nolan Clark -- Secret of the Andes
1952 Eleanor Estes -- Ginger Pye
1951 Elizabeth Yates -- Amos Fortune, Free Man
1950 Marguerite de Angeli -- The Door in the Wall
1949 Marguerite Henry -- King of the Wind
1948 William Pène du Bois -- The Twenty-One Balloons
1947 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey -- Miss Hickory
1946 Lois Lenski -- Strawberry Girl
1945 Robert Lawson -- Rabbit Hill
1944 Esther Forbes -- Johnny Tremain
1943 Elizabeth Gray Vining -- Adam of the Road
1942 Walter D. Edmonds -- The Matchlock Gun
1941 Armstrong Sperry -- Call It Courage
1940 James Daugherty -- Daniel Boone
1939 Elizabeth Enright -- Thimble Summer
1938 Kate Seredy -- The White Stag
1937 Ruth Sawyer -- Roller Skates
1936 Carol Ryrie Brink -- Caddie Woodlawn
1935 Monica Shannon -- Dobry
1934 Cornelia Meigs -- Invincible Louisa
1933 Elizabeth Foreman Lewis -- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1932 Laura Adams Armer -- Waterless Mountain
1931 Elizabeth Coatsworth -- The Cat Who Went to Heaven
1930 Rachel Field -- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
1929 Eric P. Kelly -- The Trumpeter of Krakow
1928 Dhan Gopal Mukerji -- Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
1927 Will James -- Smoky the Cow Horse
1926 Arthur Bowie Chrisman -- Shen of the Sea
1925 Charles Finger -- Tales from Silver Lands
1924 Charles Hawes -- The Dark Frigate
1923 Hugh Lofting -- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
1922 Hendrik Willem van Loon -- The Story of Mankind

[KennEnder]

That's embarrassing: I haven't read ANY of them... and I've only HEARD of about five!

[Wil]

I might have read the one about Daniel Boone.
(Interesting tidbit of information: I'm related to him. )

I've seen the movie for Holes, though. Does that count maybe just a smidgin?

[Mich]

Oh, man, this list brings back memories. Maniac Macgee? The High King? Mrs. Frisby? Even Amos Fortune, Free Man.

[locke]

my favorite modern winner is The Giver, of the classics, my favorite is the Bronze Bow, though it's been ages since I've read it. pardon me whilst I wander towards abebooks...

it's pretty cool the Newberry's been around longer than the Oscar.

the book that was robbed (should have won) imo, is The Dark is Rising

[Jayelle]

I've read the following, bolded are the ones I love.

Bud, Not Buddy
Holes
The View from Saturday
The Giver
Shiloh
Maniac Magee
Number the Stars
The Whipping Boy
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Bridge to Terabithia
Julie of the Wolves
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
The High King
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
A Wrinkle in Time [/superextrabold]
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Ginger Pye
The Door in the Wall
The Twenty-One Balloons

I have heard of many of them, mainly the newer ones. It makes me feel like a good children's librarian that I've read/know so many of these.

Did Dark is Rising get robbed? She did win for Grey King. Usually it's only one in a series that gets the award.

[locke]

I guess a couple other books that should of won were Where the Red Fern Grows and The Yearling. The Hobbit as well.

I've read (or heard) the following, a random grading scale I made up just now:
A=awesome
E=excellent
H=Highly recommended
R=recommended
M=meh

Kira-Kira - E
The Tale of Despereaux - A
A Year Down Yonder - A
Holes - A
The View from Saturday - A
The Giver - A
Shiloh - M
Maniac Magee - A
The Hero and the Crown - A
Dear Mr. Henshaw - M
Jacob Have I Loved - E
Bridge to Terabithia - A
The Grey King - E
Julie of the Wolves - H
The High King - E
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - A
It's Like This, Cat - M
A Wrinkle in Time - A
The Bronze Bow - A
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - E
Secret of the Andes - R
Strawberry Girl - H
Caddie Woodlawn - R

[zeroguy]

1972 Robert C. O'Brien -- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1968 E. L. Konigsburg -- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1963 Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
1944 Esther Forbes -- Johnny Tremain

I can't remember much about Johnny Tremain (meaning I probably didn't enjoy it too much) -- aka "should be called Johnny Deformed" from The Simpsons -- but the rest were great. Kinda makes me think I should read more from this list, but I'm not sure how much I'd like them now that I'm older...

Edit: Just in case someone recognizes the NIMH title from the movie... argh, the book was nothing like that.

[Mich]

Just in case someone recognizes the NIMH title from the movie... argh, the book was nothing like that.

With something like NIMH, I always forget that some people might have actually only seen the movie. I just take it for granted, you know? That's an annoying thing with movies based off of books, even when they're reasonably good adaptations. Like today I mentioned The Golden Compass, and someone said "I haven't seen that one yet," and, naturally, I had forgotten there even was a movie.

Things are irritating.

[Luet]

1994 Lois Lowry -- The Giver
1986 Patricia MacLachlan -- Sarah, Plain and Tall
1978 Katherine Paterson -- Bridge to Terabithia
1972 Robert C. O'Brien -- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1963 Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

I have only read 5 but you've given me a good list to work off of for the library. My favorite would have to be The Giver (which I read for the first time recently), followed by NIMH...however, I like the movie just fine too.

[starlooker]

1994 Lois Lowry -- The Giver
1986 Patricia MacLachlan -- Sarah, Plain and Tall
1981 Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved
1978 Katherine Paterson -- Bridge to Terabithia
1973 Jean Craighead George -- Julie of the Wolves
1968 E. L. Konigsburg -- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1963 Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
1961 Scott O'Dell -- Island of the Blue Dolphins
1959 Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1946 Lois Lenski -- Strawberry Girl
1936 Carol Ryrie Brink -- Caddie Woodlawn
1923 Hugh Lofting -- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Wow, I have a lot of reading left to do.

Sidenote -- I love Katherine Patterson. Also, my parents read "Caddie Woodlawn" to me when I had the chicken pox in third grade.

[Oliver Dale]

Just in case someone recognizes the NIMH title from the movie... argh, the book was nothing like that.

With something like NIMH, I always forget that some people might have actually only seen the movie. I just take it for granted, you know? That's an annoying thing with movies based off of books, even when they're reasonably good adaptations. Like today I mentioned The Golden Compass, and someone said "I haven't seen that one yet," and, naturally, I had forgotten there even was a movie.

Things are irritating.

I know you're not speaking ill of the movie. Because I will take you out back and introduce you to my handy 2x4....

[Mich]

I know you're not speaking ill of the movie. Because I will take you out back and introduce you to my handy 2x4....

Hey, I grew up with that movie. I love that movie. But people don't seem to understand that there was a book, one that was almost completely unlike the movie.

Unless you were talking about The Golden Compass, in which case I shall simply say "It is on my list of things to see."

[Young Val]

I've read them all.

[locke]

I've read them all.

and you are awesome.

how is the Higher Power of Lucky? I've been wanting to read that one.

[Young Val]

It's amazing. And not just because Susan Patron is our client and I'm editing the sequel, either.

[locke]

excellent, I'll buy it at borders tomorrow (monday, I work nights, it's not tomorrow until I wake up after I've gone to bed, heh) when I'm getting part of my mom's birthday present. wasn't there some controversy over this book getting banned for some ridiculous reason?

[Young Val]

Yes; the word "scrotum" appears in the text (not even in a vulgar context) and people FREAKED.

[locke]

sigh. People are really stupid.

[Ela]

I guess a couple other books that should of won were Where the Red Fern Grows and The Yearling. The Hobbit as well.

The Hobbit wasn't really published as a kid's book originally, I don't think, so I don't know if it would have been eligible. When it first came out, I remember seeing it filed with fantasy and scifi.

[Ela]

Which ones have you read, which one is your favorite? which books got robbed?

1995 Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons
1994 Lois Lowry -- The Giver
1990 Lois Lowry -- Number the Stars
1986 Patricia MacLachlan -- Sarah, Plain and Tall
1984 Beverly Cleary -- Dear Mr. Henshaw
1978 Katherine Paterson -- Bridge to Terabithia
1972 Robert C. O'Brien -- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1971 Betsy Byars -- Summer of the Swans
1963 Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
1961 Scott O'Dell -- Island of the Blue Dolphins
1944 Esther Forbes -- Johnny Tremain
1934 Cornelia Meigs -- Invincible Louisa
1923 Hugh Lofting -- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

I think I may have read a couple of others, but I can't remember clearly, so I didn't indicate those.

[Rei]

1994 Lois Lowry -- The Giver
1992 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -- Shiloh
1990 Lois Lowry -- Number the Stars
1976 Susan Cooper -- The Grey King
1972 Robert C. O'Brien -- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1969 Lloyd Alexander -- The High King
1963 Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

I'm not positive that I've read Number the Stars, but I get the feeling that I did at one point. There are definitely a few on that list which I need to read at some point, or re-read as the case may be. And others I really would rather not, such as Shiloh.

[Ela]

Asking as someone who's never read it, what's wrong with Shiloh?

[locke]

The Hobbit came out in 1937 and was generally perceived as a children's book, iirc. Tolkien thought of it that way himself, I think.

Shiloh is a book about a boy and a stray dog he saves, only to have the cruel-to-animals owner take the dog, Shiloh, away from him, causing the boy to rail against the injustice, and eventually trying to spring 'his' dog. at least that's what I remember from reading it back when it first came out. I remember I liked it, bought the sequel, (saving shiloh I think it was called) but never read it.

[Rei]

I liked the book at the time, but I've since found that I really do not enjoy the animal-story genre with books like Big Red and Shiloh anymore.

[locke]

Gordon Korman wrote a book called "no More Dead Dogs!" in which the classroom rebels at being asked to put on an amateur play of the book they read, one of the dead dogs books (a fictional one that's really over-the-top) only I never finished the book because it was poorly written and the main character was an ass.

[Eaquae Legit]

His later stuff really kind of sucks.

[Ela]

I loved Big Red. One of my favorite books, as a kid.

[locke]

yeah Korman's early stuff is great, I want to Go Home, Who is Bugs Potter, a Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag, Son of Interflux, and of course Bruno and Boots, or at least the first three or four. especially, Beware, the Fish!, and the War With Mr. Wizzle

[Jayelle]

The Hobbit as well.

The Hobbit didn't get robbed. The Newberry is exclusively American, same with the Coldecott.
The British have the Carnigie Medal.
Canadians have the GG's.

[Ela]

The Hobbit as well.

The Hobbit didn't get robbed. The Newberry is exclusively American.

Yeah, I was thinking it was something like that, when I read Locke's post. Thanks for confirming it, Jayelle.

[Jayelle]

Dang, you quoted me before I edited. Turns out the Caldecott is American too.

[locke]

so why did the Gray King win and how was the Dark is Rising nominated?

ETA
google is my friend you have to be an American citizen and Cooper had moved to the States in 1966. There are other brits on the awards list so I guess they were similarly transplanted. I always thought lloyd alexander was british, turns out he's not.

[Eaquae Legit]

Susan Cooper lives in the US and did when she wrote them.

[Eaquae Legit]

1996 Karen Cushman -- The Midwife's Apprentice
1994 Lois Lowry -- The Giver
1991 Jerry Spinelli -- Maniac Magee
1990 Lois Lowry -- Number the Stars
1987 Sid Fleischman -- The Whipping Boy
1985 Robin McKinley -- The Hero and the Crown
1978 Katherine Paterson -- Bridge to Terabithia
1976 Susan Cooper -- The Grey King
1973 Jean Craighead George -- Julie of the Wolves
1969 Lloyd Alexander -- The High King
1963 Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
1950 Marguerite de Angeli -- The Door in the Wall
1941 Armstrong Sperry -- Call It Courage
1936 Carol Ryrie Brink -- Caddie Woodlawn
1923 Hugh Lofting -- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

There's a few others I may have read, but if I can't remember them, they don't count. I had no idea that Maniac Magee and The Giver were so recent.