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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.
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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:
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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