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Beverly wrote: "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."

It certainly gives us more possible choices.

If you're new, msg 41, 42, and 44 will help you figure out what's going on. Welcome!

In July 2015 we'll be reading the 1941 Medal Winner, Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry.

In August each of us will pick and choose from the 1941 Honor books:

Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Young Mac Of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall

(I've gotta say, I loved the first & third when I was a girl and look forward to rereading them - the other two, I've never heard of!)

Sept. 2015 - Medal Winner from 1942 - The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds.

Oct. the 1942 Honor books:

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin

(Nov. as above:
Inside Out & Back Again, Breaking Stalin's Nose
... 2012 Honor books, both of which we read in the 'old' version of this club.)

Dec. 2015 - Medal Winner from 1943 - Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Vining.

Jan. 2016, the 1943 Honor books:

The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

Feb. 2016 - The Medal Winner from 1944 - Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

March 2016, the 1944 Honor books:

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fog Magic by Julia L. Sauer
Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

April 2016 - The Medal Winner from 1945 - Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

May 2016 as above: the Newbery Winner from 2013, The One and Only Ivan.

June 2016, the 1945 Honor books:

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton

July 2016 - the Medal Winner from 1946 - Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

August 2016, the 1946 Honor books:

Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
Bhimsa, The Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
New Found World by Katherine Binney Shippen

Sept. 2016 we'll be reading the Medal Winner from 1947, Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Oct. 2016 each of us will pick and choose from the Honor books of 1947:

The Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
Big Tree by Conrad & Mary Buff
The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore M. Jewett

Nov. 2016 we'll take a break from the older books, as noted above, and read an Honor book from 2013, Splendors and Glooms, by Laura Amy Schlitz.

Cheryl wrote: "Sept. 2015 - Medal Winner from 1942 - The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds.

Oct. the 1942 Honor books:

Little Town on the Prairie by [author:Laura In..."
The Matchlock Gun is a well crafted, compact tale with no loose ends. A minimum of words produces a maximum of information about the people and the place. I really enjoyed this tale based on a single true incident in pre-Revolutionary War rural New York. The Paul Lantz illustrations are excellent. Oh, and as 6 year old Trudy demonstrates, it is fun to repeatedly mutter the phrase, 'Bergom op Zoom'.

Please post your comments in the thread for this month's discussion. This is just the intro. thread. Thank you!

Cheryl wrote: "Please post your comments in the thread for this month's discussion. This is just the intro. thread. Thank you!"

I genuinely tried to find the thread, but failed. My elderly status seems to put me at a disadvantage on the internet.

Steve wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "Please post your comments in the thread for this month's discussion. This is just the intro. thread. Thank you!"

I genuinely tried to find the thread, but failed. My elderly statu..."

If you click on the topic icon, I believe that all topics should be listed. See if that works.

Gundula wrote: "Steve wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "Please post your comments in the thread for this month's discussion. This is just the intro. thread. Thank you!"

I genuinely tried to find the thread, but failed. My..."
Thanks, Gundula. I found it. It would be so much easier if the title of the book was included along with the year it won.

Steve wrote: "Gundula wrote: "Steve wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "Please post your comments in the thread for this month's discussion. This is just the intro. thread. Thank you!"

I genuinely tried to find the thread..."

I would agree with that. I've been confused myself by that, as I tend to remember titles better than dates.

Thank you for the suggestion. Of course, I can't do that for multiple Honor books in a month, but I'm glad to go in and add that information.

Bear in mind that the month that we're discussing the book is the date listed in the subject line, too. This is Sept. 2015, so to me it's easy to look for the thread with the date September 2015 listed.

However, I'm always delighted to accomodate others' preferences as much as I can - just ask!! :)

This folder is getting unwieldy (I see when I try to find all the threads I can retitle). So, I've created a new folder for "Past reads from the Newbery Club." All threads are still open; this is not a dusty archive! It's just a way to be a little more organized.

(I'll put past reads in there after a few months, not immediately, so no worries about readers coming in just a little late each month. ;)

Cheryl wrote: "This folder is getting unwieldy (I see when I try to find all the threads I can retitle). So, I've created a new folder for "Past reads from the Newbery Club." All threads are still open; this is..."

Makes sense, good idea

A comprehensive list of all Newbery Books is available from the ALA. Posted here, and at the beginning of this thread for easy reference, this is what I use:

Gundula wrote: "Makes sense, good idea "

Thank you; I do try, after all, this club is for the readers! :)

Cheryl wrote: "Gundula wrote: "Makes sense, good idea "

Thank you; I do try, after all, this club is for the readers! :)"

Excellent. Thanks, Cheryl.

I would like to share with you this site I found of Newbury books by women writers, not sure if it was already posted somewhere else.

Thank you! I had forgotten about that list, which I shouldn't have done, because some of the older books can be read in full through there.

Updating the calendar, making the new threads, shelving the upcoming reads... have set myself the goal of setting us up through June 2018 within the next day or so.

Also, remember, even though I archive old threads in a separate folder, they are always open, so *please,* if you do get around to reading an old book with a Newbery sticker, do share your thoughts with the group! :)

Btw, "D&A" is an abbreviation for Discussion and Analysis - using it to help me keep track - you can use or ignore at will. ;)

Btw, I'm not going to list the upcoming books here, as I did above in messages 53 through 59. Just look in the folder and you can see them easily enough. Thank you.

I just discovered the Fanfare List, from Horn Books. It covers both picture-books and books for older children, and archives back to 1938 are available here:

It's interesting to see how their choices compare to those of the Caldecott and Newbery committees....

From 1967 Horn Book has had an actual award, jointly presented with The Boston Globe. I was thinking that maybe the Fanfare list kind of functions as a "short list" for the award, but a quick comparison reveals that while most winners are present on the corresponding Fanfare, it's definitely not all.

Some wonderful books on those lists, and I look forward to learning more about the ones that are new to me - here's one: Dionysos and the Pirates: Homeric Hymn Number Seven translated by Penelope Proddow, illustrated by Barbara Cooney (Doubleday) from 1970. There's great breadth and depth in those lists.

Interesting. I too would have thought, short list and winner, but if not, hmm.... So, if we want to spend time looking at old Fanfares, we also ought to look here:

It's nice to see authors on the Fanfares who would not have been eligible for Newbery or Caldecott awards - like Rosemary Sutcliff and Philippa Pearce - side by side with winners like Meindert DeJong and Elizabeth George Speare. To me, that's a more accurate representation of the field.

The gaps are killing me, though - 1941 to 1944, I get - there was a war on: paper shortages, other priorities (despite ongoing great output from Arthur Ransome, Robert Lawson, Kate Seredy, Margaret Wise Brown, et al.). But 1954 to 1957? Eagle of the Ninth, Wheel on the School, Fellowship of the Ring, Horton Hears a Who - those are just from 1954. I'm puzzled.

I'll have to take a look when I get a chance. Does seem odd. And, tx for reminding me about ineligible authors.

I've just made an executive decision to continue to read all Honor books in one month, even the modern ones. For the older books, it made sense because of accessibility issues. For the new ones, it makes sense because many of us have already read many of the books because they're the ones that have been popular lately. So, every May we'll read a Newbery winner, and every November we'll read the Honor books that competed with it.

If you're keeping track, feel free to check my sequence... I believe that takes us out to reading the three Honors for 2017 in November of 2021. Let me know if I tallied things up incorrectly.

Meanwhile, we're still plugging away at older books. Even though we're in the 50s, some of the books are out-of-print and obscure, so I'm creating threads now to give us a chance to hunt down copies.

Upcoming reads are messed up. In July 2019 we will indeed be reading Island of the Blue Dolphins. After that, I'm not sure... something weird happened last time I tried to post anticipated threads... I'll have to straighten it out as soon as I can devote some serious time & energy to it.

Note that each May we read a newer Winner, and each September we read newer Honor books. At least as it stands... I hope that I have it lined up so those two 'modern' months reference the same year... I think that I have to reschedule some of those reads, too.

In any case, things will get straightened out, and the new schedule will *resemble* the current mess. Please bear with me.

Ok, for the reads up to our discussion planned to be held in December 2020, of the Winner for 1968 (From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, we should be straightened out. I fixed several listings in the schedule (the discussion threads in this folder) and in the shelves. And then I checked and double-checked.

But it's a pita, and if you notice anything that seems out of sequence or any missing titles or any other errors, please let me know!

Thanks, Cheryl! :-)

Introducing a side project: /topic/show/...

Which Newbery books that we have read so far are still worth reading now, and why, and how many of us agree with each others' selected favorites?

Here's a handy guide to some other awards:

The picture book club has been doing the Caldecotts.

I would prefer to do an international worldwide award when we eventually get caught up the Newbery books but I don't suppose there is such. At least some of the ones on this list are more diverse, if anyone is currently looking for something different for their children and students.

There is the Batchelder Award, which awards the publisher of a book written in a foreign language which is subsequently translated into English. It is administered by the ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children), which also administers the Newbery, Caldecott, and other awards for children's books.

Beverly wrote: "There is the Batchelder Award, which awards the publisher of a book written in a foreign language which is subsequently translated into English. It is administered by the ALSC (Association for Libr..."

Ah, yes, that is probably the best bet for the sequel to this Newbery discussion. Thank you for reminding me of it!

Ok folks, I need input!

As you may have noticed, this is a quiet club. And I'm tired of the slow pace of getting through these decades of Newbery titles.

So I'm thinking of compressing it by half. That is, we would read (our choice of) the Winner and all the Honor books for each year in just one month.

For example, this month we're just reading Sounder, a short book that not a whole lot of us are interested in.
I think it would have been more fun & satisfying to read the Honor books from the same year (Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor, The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore, and Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele) during the same month.

The advantage of this schedule would be that we could catch up to modern times more quickly... and at some point we would be done with the Newberys and then we could look at different notable books.

A possible disadvantage is that anyone who is trying to read all the titles would have more to read every month. Are any of you doing this?

So, yes, I would have to recompose the schedule and update the bookshelves, but I would certainly be willing to do that.

Anyone who wants more Newbery discussion could also consider joining another group I just discovered, /group/show/...

I, personally, seldom participate because read the ones I was interested in as a kid and I don't really want to ruin my childhood memories with reading them more critically as an adult.

Cheryl wrote: "Ok folks, I need input!

As you may have noticed, this is a quiet club. And I'm tired of the slow pace of getting through these decades of Newbery titles.

So I'm thinking of compressing it by half..."

I have not been able to physically access my local library due to the pandemic and even if I could, many of in particular the older Newbery honour books are often not available. So at present, I am kind of limited to what I have on my bookshelves at home or on my Kindle (and I keep forgetting to check Open Library). Will definitely be participating but only if I have the books in question or can find them on Open Library.

I have no problem with combining winners and honors in the same month.

QNPoohBear wrote: "I, personally, seldom participate because read the ones I was interested in as a kid and I don't really want to ruin my childhood memories with reading them more critically as an adult."

That's fair!

Beverly wrote: "I have no problem with combining winners and honors in the same month."

Thank you!

I don't really participate since most of the books are ones I've read before or am not particularly interested in at present given my limited reading time. But, I do think it's a very valuable project and one I hope to refer back to in future. For what it's worth, though, I don't see any trouble with combining the winners and honors in the same month. Cheryl, I think you should do what appeals to you most to you as you are putting in the time and energy to be the leader of the club :-)

Thanks!

Combining them sounds good, then.
So, May is the 2017 The Girl Who Drank the Moon *and* the honor books for 2017 will be read in June.
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
Wolf Hollow
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

Then in July we'll go back to the older books, focusing on all of one year's books each month.

I'm going to also drop the May/November interruption to read more recent novels. We'll get through the older books faster enough, and catch up to the modern day ones soon enough.

Cheryl wrote: "Ok folks, I need input!

As you may have noticed, this is a quiet club. And I'm tired of the slow pace of getting through these decades of Newbery titles.

So I'm thinking of compressing it by half..."
Reading Honors along with winners could lead to interesting why this and not that discussions. I am all for it.

Thank you, that's a great point!

Note that the current schedule is all messed up. The threads are updated to July (2021) but the dates on the shelves are wrong. I will fix everything asap.

Cheryl wrote: "Thank you, that's a great point!

Note that the current schedule is all messed up. The threads are updated to July (2021) but the dates on the shelves are wrong. I will fix everything asap."

I am also thinking that reading the honour books and the winner together on one thread will be great for comparison and contrast, as yes, there definitely have been instances where I have found some of the honour books better than the actual winner.