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3rd Edit: Reading schedule is being accelerated as of Spring/Summer 2021. I'm doing my best to fix the dates attached to the books in the group Bookshelf and to update the threads, but there may be inaccuracies until October 2021 (that's how far I'm working today, June 2021) and there are definitely inaccuracies after that date. I'd love help, if anyone has time, just PM me. :)

2nd Edit: A comprehensive list of all Newbery Books is available from the ALA. Posted here for easy reference, this is what I use:


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Edit: The discussion that was started in this thread has been resolved. However, this thread is now the general introduction to the club and includes 'club business.' Reading it through is entirely optional. :) You may like to read the most recent posts, however, for fresh announcements.

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I'll follow your requests and energy getting this group back on track. Thanks so much. Yes, we were at 1933 and I agree that for the older Newbery books, it was often impossible to get copies. (Too bad that publishers can't continue to publish award winning books!) As we get to the newer books (40s, 50s?) I'm hoping that the honor books will be easier to find. If that is the case I don't want to rush through them. I'll hang in there with you, Cheryl, and whatever the rest of our groups prefers. You're the best!

Thank you, Cheryl, for keeping the group going. I will go with whatever you suggest. GR feels like a different place now that many readers are leaving. This is a big task to continue so i thank you for your efforts.

Well that was easy. Thank you both for your support!

For December, then I'll set up the retroactive threads, and we'll start fresh in the New Year with .The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War and Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia. (We haven't already tried to discuss those together, right?)

Cheryl, I am in support of whatever you do. Sounds lame I realize, and I am sorry. I am pretty busy right now and only have a chance to log in sporadically. However, this is a group that I did participate in from time to time and would like to continue to do so. I am more likely to read the newer Newberys based upon the time that I have to read them. I just wanted you to know that I was interested.... :)

Thanks again for your efforts with the club, Cheryl. Your plan sounds great! I will probably be unable to participate much, alas, but I am happy the club will thrive again with our enthusiastic members and your leadership.

Great plans Cheryl, I look forward to beginning anew.

Yes, delighted to have you here, Jeannette :-)

I will tag along for some of the reads.

I love that idea! This will keep me on track to read all of the Newbery award winners.

The more the merrier; thanks!

Cheryl, I'm out of the loop with the 1920s for the past work. I did however begin in the 1930s honor books. So I'm happy to bring up the content from that period it was in 1931 or 2 that we started going between the beginning and end.

Fantastic! I'll be continuing to add the rest of the catch-up threads as I have time and am looking forward to your input!

Ok, the upcoming books are on the shelves and on the group home page. In January 2014 we'll be reading, subject to availability & interest for each member, 2 honor books from 1933: The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War and Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia

Then in February we'll read the medal winner for 1934, Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women, which should be more readily available.

And then in March we're going to see which of 8 (yes, eight!) honor books from 1934 we can obtain copies of and discuss. See that thread, or the group bookshelf, for titles.

Thank you, but it wasn't that much work. I'm glad to help restore your shelves.

New question, folks! I was trying to set up our May Newbery read and looking at the list of Medal and Honor books of 2011, the year that Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night got an Honor. I figured that our rotation should have some regularity - and that's the only newer book we've discussed in this, the 'New Newbery Club.'

Well, the thing is, lots of us members who have been involved in this group have read a lot of the books on the Newbery list already. For example, the winner in 2011 was Moon Over Manifest, and I clearly remember a pretty good discussion about that book. Other books we read for the old Fiction Club or for the International club, if I recall correctly?

So, do we want to read those books again, and try to recapture our thoughts, and give new members a chance to join in?

Or we could consider sticking to a pattern similar to the one established for the older books - because of limited availability of most titles we've been covering the whole year's list of books in just two months, and we could do the same with these newer Newbery books, covering all the titles the Group has read one month, and ones that we haven't read in other months.

Or do we not care about regularity at all? Should I just open threads for recent Newbery winners at my whim? Or by a poll?

Or, what ideas/ concerns/ questions/ suggestions do you have??

Btw, the next month that is reserved for the group read of a a newer Newbery is May. So we have plenty of time to figure this out.

Why don't we just make threads for all of the works of fiction (wether Newbery, International or fiction club) that we remember, so that new members can chime in and those of us who have read the books can post our thoughts (or what we remember of the discussions). Personally, I would not at all mind rereading many if not most of the books, but that might also slow down the new clubs and new reads (and might be tedious for/to some of us older members).

Also, are we actually going to relaunch the International Club as well? I think I did make a list of possible suggestions a few months ago, but never heard back from you (or any of the other moderators) wether we want to also have an International Club again or just focus on English-language fiction and the Newbery books.

Gundula wrote: "Why don't we just make threads for all of the works of fiction (wether Newbery, International or fiction club) that we remember, so that new members can chime in and those of us who have read the b..."

I was in the international group, Gundula, and if we start that one up again I will definitely try to participate. It seems like lately babysitting my year old grand-daughter has taken priority from my reading!

I had expressed interest in the international books, but I don't know how the club was run before. If it's picture books or early readers I'm likely to participate, but I don't read much above my child's age (5 at the moment!)

I did not run the International Club, but as I recall the majority was novels (mostly upper middle grade to YA, I think?) with the occasional month of picture books.

I, too, would be more likely to participate if more months were devoted to picture books or novels for younger children. Perhaps a rotation, one month picture books, one month novels for the younger set, one month novels for the older set.

That said, I may not have time to participate frequently so please weigh my comments only lightly compared to those from members with more steadfast interest.

Gundula, with regards to your question, let me check in with the other mods; I believe our plan was to stay just with PB, Newbury and Fiction while we get the new year going and new mods used to their new roles. I know I personally don't have time to head an International Club right now, but since we know there is member interest maybe one of the other mods will want to take it up. Thanks for the reminder.

Sorry, I am v. sick and do not have energy tosit at the pc. I think it's just a cold snd iI sjould be back soon. (I fail st typing on my tsblet.)

Anyway, Gundula, I would try to participsrte in anInternstional Club, but availability was always an issue for me.

Amyway I want more feedback on my question, too, plz, all. See u ehen I'm better.

Cheryl in CC NV wrote: "Sorry, I am v. sick and do not have energy tosit at the pc. I think it's just a cold snd iI sjould be back soon. (I fail st typing on my tsblet.)

Anyway, Gundula, I would try to participsrte in a..."

I think with the International Club, we could do something where we tried to just go for more well-known and more easily available books (because availability was an issue for me at times as well). Maybe we could generate a preliminary list and then ask those interested wether the books listed would, in fact, be available to them (and of interest as well).

Hope you feel better soon, rest and get someone to make you a hot lemon drink (or better yet, a hot toddy).

Jane, Jasmine and I have been putting our heads together on this. We will wait to hear from Cheryl (you poor thing, feel better soon!) and then we co-mods will get back to you all about the International Books :-)

Jane & I have discussed and we will be incorporating the International option into the April reading for the Fiction Club.

Gundula, I did copy and paste all of your list into the following thread under Fiction Club as you had mentioned you were planning on leaving the club and you didn't want the group to lose the lists formulated:
Fiction Club > Recommended Children's Fiction - The List
The international list is still on the original thread and we can determine from there a selection. However please let us know your exit date so I can add them to the other thread if we have a successful International launch.

Jasmine wrote: "Jane & I have discussed and we will be incorporating the International option into the April reading for the Fiction Club.

Gundula, I did copy and paste all of your list into the following threa..."

I was only musing about leaving, and I have kind of decided to stay for the time being (although I will probably not be posting many more reviews unless GR completely changes its tune with regard possible censorship of reviews).

Well, many of us have indeed read, for this group, most of the Newbery books contemporary to *Dark Emperor* which is the 'transition' book from the previous hosts of this club to me. But for the sake of organization, and for new members, we're going to continue our bi-annual 'fresh' reads from that point. However, for the sake of those of us who want to discuss award-winning books that are both recently-published *and* new-to-us, we're going to read all the Honor books together until we're caught up.

If you didn't follow that, don't worry. Next posts have the schedule. And if Jeanette or somebody can shelve them, I'd greatly appreciate it.

May 2014: Moon Over Manifest

November 2014:
Turtle in Paradise
Heart of a Samurai
One Crazy Summer
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night (optional; repeat from Nov. 2013)

May 2015: Dead End in Norvelt

November 2015:
Inside Out & Back Again
Breaking Stalin's Nose

And then we'll be caught up, so, in May 2016 we'll read the Newbery Winner from 2013, The One and Only Ivan.

November 2016: Splendors and Glooms
May 2017: Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
November 2017: Three Times Lucky

Meanwhile, of course, we'll also be trying to catch up on the older Newbery books. So, as you know, within a couple of weeks (April) we'll be reading Dobry, the medal winner from 1935. Then the Honors from that same year (at least whichever ones any of us can obtain).

June 2014:
The Pageant Of Chinese History
Davy Crockett (the one by Constance Rourke)
A Day on Skates: the Story of a Dutch Picnic

July 2014: Caddie Woodlawn (I'm going to buy the one illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; it's cheap used.)

August 2014:
Honk the Moose
The Good Master
Young Walter Scott
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud (this is by the author of the famous Call It Courage)

September 2014: Roller Skates
(pardon the interruption but I just gotta say I *loved* this when I was a girl, read it maybe a dozen times)

October 2014:
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book
Whistler's Van
The Golden Basket (the one by Ludwig Bemelmans)
Winterbound
The Codfish Musket
Audubon (the one by Constance Rourke)

(Nov. as above)
December 2014: The White Stag

January 2015:
Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time (the one by James Cloyd Bowman)
Bright Island
On the Banks of Plum Creek

February 2015: Thimble Summer
(another girlhood favorite ;)

March 2015:
Nino
Mr. Popper's Penguins (another favorite!)
Hello, the Boat!
Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man & Patriot
Penn (the one by Elizabeth Gray, aka Elizabeth Gray Vining)

April 2015:Daniel Boone (the one by James Daugherty)

(May as above)

(Somebody please proofread the dates for me; make sure I didn't skip a month or double up.)

In a year I will start checking availability of the older Honor books. It looks like they'll start getting easier to find, now that we'll be caught up to books published in 1940. If so, we'll space out the Honor titles over at least two months.

Questions, comments, welcome, as always. :)

Sounds wonderful. In messages 46 and 47 we read some of those books in the old Newbery club. But that's okay because hopefully we are advertising them to newer members. All three in #47 are great books and even worthy of rereads! In #46 I met the author of One Crazy Summer at a luncheon for an organization I belong to. She has two novels that follow this one and are worthy of reading. Thanks for all the work, Cheryl.

Thank you Tricia. I bet Rita Williams-Garcia is an interesting person.

Btw, I deleted a bunch of trivial comments from and to a deleted user, so the numbering system is messed up. Sorry.

It's been a year, so I don't think this Newbery Club is "new" anymore, except as compared to the original... I've decided to drop the adjective. Just letting you-all know in case you have this bookmarked or something - don't be confused - same content new packaging!

Copying (and clarifying) info. from previous page here for easier access:

May 2015: Dead End in Norvelt ... 2012 Newbery Winner

November 2015:
Inside Out & Back Again
Breaking Stalin's Nose
... 2012 Honor books, both of which we read in the 'old' version of this club.

And then we'll be caught up, so, in May 2016 we'll read the Newbery Winner from 2013, The One and Only Ivan.

Then we'll read one book a month, because these will be new to us, and will be widely available. So here are the Honor books from 2013, with the months that we'll be reading them:

November 2016: Splendors and Glooms
May 2017: Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
November 2017: Three Times Lucky

(The rest of the year we'll continue to work our way forward with older books....)

It's time to start thinking about the increasing availability of the honor books. For June 2015 I'm making the executive decision to include all four in one month. But reply below if you are really trying to keep up and would strongly prefer future months to have shorter lists.

June 2015

The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Runner Of The Mountain Tops: The Life Of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Louise Robinson
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Boy With a Pack by Stephen W. Meader

I participate only sporadically so I will go with what other group members deem best. But I know that at most, I will only ever get to 1 or 2 Newbery's per month...

Fair enough. Some of them are awfully long, too.

Let me make sure everyone understands what we're doing in this club:

Any participation, at any time, is terrific. Choose only the books you're interested in. Comment in the thread even if it's months old, because they won't close. If you start a book but don't finish it, please let us know and tell us why (boring, racist, too long...). Read the threads but don't participate, if you want - maybe you'll see us talking up a lost treasure and put it on your 'someday' list. This is *your* group, y'all - I'm just trying to facilitate. :)

Thanks, Cheryl. I definitely read the threads...and often wait to see what others think before trying to track down some of the older books. I appreciate all you do as moderator of the Newbery club (as well as all that each of the moderators do! This is a great group...thanks to the members and the moderators.)

I like reading the older Newberys (even the ones that I end up not enjoying), but for me, being in Canada, a lot of the older ones are simply not available (even through ILL, especially since my local library only seems to do ILL within Canada, and often within my own province, Ontario). Sometimes, I've been fortunate to have found some of the older Newberys on sale in used bookstores and for decent prices, but for a book I might really not enjoy, I don't want to spend a lot of money online (and I end up with a pile of books and ever decreasing shelf space). So, I check the library etc. and read and participate when and if I have the time and leisure (and since the threads remain open, I often revisit the threads once I have managed to read a book or find a book again in my shelves; I just noticed I have a copy of Whistler's Van, but it will have to wait). I really do wish that ALL of the older Newberys were in current print (if only for academic interest).

Thanks, Gundula. I'm thinking that availability is still an issue, as is interest... and I'm thinking we don't want to slow our progress to one honor book per month, at least not yet. But again, I'm flexible.

Cheryl wrote: "Thanks, Gundula. I'm thinking that availability is still an issue, as is interest... and I'm thinking we don't want to slow our progress to one honor book per month, at least not yet. But again, ..."

I found the previous Newbery club reads with one book per month really frustrating. Having a selection is easier and moves the years along faster as well (when we did the one book per month reads, there were many months I was not able to participate because of availability issues.

ok :)

See next page for a schedule that takes us all the way to November 2016 - start planning now, everyone!

I like the multiple books a month option, even though I am not often able to participate, because I can't find the books either.