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The John Newbery Medal
Newbery Beginnings
• The Newbery medal was created in 1922 by the American Library association.
• The medal is awarded to the best story for children published the previous year.
Newbery Medal Design
How did the Newbery Award
begin?
How the Newbery Medal Came to Be
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the
American Library Association for the most distinguished American
children's book published the previous year.
How the Newbery Medal Came to Be
On June 21, 1921, Frederic G. Melcher proposed the award to the American Library Association meeting of the Children's Librarians' Section.
He suggested that it be named for the eighteenth-century English bookseller John Newbery.
His proposal was approved by the ALA Executive Board in 1922.
The purpose of the Newbery Medal was stated as follows:
"To encourage original creative work in the field of books for children.
To emphasize to the public that contributions to the literature for children deserve similar recognition to poetry, plays, or novels.
To give those librarians, who make it their life work to serve children's reading interests, an opportunity to encourage good writing in this field."
The Newbery Award became the first children's book award in the
world.
It is still the best known and most discussed children's book
award in this country.
The Newbery committee also mentioned other books as worthy of attention.
Such books were referred to as Newbery or Caldecott "runners-up.“
In 1971 the term "runners-up" was changed to "honor books."
TERMS and CRITERIA
The Medal is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in English in the United States during the preceding year.
The book must be an original work. Honor Books may be named.
The authors must be citizens or residents of the United States.
"Contribution to American literature" indicates the text of a book. The committee must consider all forms of writing - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
• A "contribution to American literature for children" means that the book must be one in which children are a potential audience.
•The book respects for children's understandings, abilities, and appreciations.
•Children are defined as persons of up to and including fourteen.
"American literature published in the United States" means that books originally published in other countries are not eligible.
Published . . . in the preceding year" means that the book has a publication date in that year, was available for purchase in that year, and has a copyright date no later than that year.
"Resident" means that author has established and maintained residence in the United States rather than being being a casual or occasional visitor.
The term, "in English" means that the committee considers only books published in English.
The book stand alone….in other words not depend on other media for enjoyment.
Newbery books are judged on these points:
• theme
• accuracy, clarity, organization
• plot development
• character development
• setting (time and place)
• style
Find Newbery Medal books
Click on this web site in
The American Library Association to find a list of
Newbery winner and honor books:
Choose 5 books to research.
Newbery Medal
Find out about Newbery authors
Go to the following site and read about an author. Answer the questions on the web site about one author of your choice.
Newbery Medal Award Winning Authors
Some Recent Newbery Award Winners
2008:
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
by
Laura Amy Schlitz
Some Recent Newbery Award Winners
2007:
The Higher Power of Lucky
by Susan Patron
Some Recent Newbery Award Winners
2006:
Criss Cross
by
Lynne Rae Perkins
Some Recent Newbery Award Winners
2005:
Kira-Kira
by
Cynthia Kadohata
2004:
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
by Kate DiCamillo
2003:
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
by Avi
2002:
A Single Shard
By
Linda Sue Park
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
2000:
Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
1999:
Holes
by Louis Sachar
1998:
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
1997:
The View from Saturday
by E.L. Konigsburg
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
1995: Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
1992:
Shiloh
by
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1991:
Maniac Magee
by
Jerry Spinelli