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A gold star for tedium
As a bookish child I didn’t simply dislike the Newbery books. I feared them. I abhorred them. The one I hated most was an appallingly miserable story: A native girl is abandoned on an island, finds her baby brother killed by wild dogs and scrapes out a living alone for 18 years. I’ve got nothing against desolation — I’m a DeLillo fan — but that book did me in. And if the books didn’t thrust me into someone’s story of dismal loss and painful poverty, they were so boring that I learned to treat the Newbery’s gold-foil stickers as warning labels. And so when, last week, I heard that the latest Newbery had been awarded to a book about a Depression-era girl sent to live in hardscrabble Illinois with her difficult grandmother — can you say “educational”? — the announcement triggered a PTSD flashback, and made me question again the Newbery list.
Why is the Newbery medal treated as nearly infallible, unlike every other literary award? From critics to book group members, from solitary readers to bookstore owners, bibliophiles love to quarrel with the choices of those who pick the Pulitzer, the Booker and the Oprah moment winners. Nobody assumed…
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Celebrate a century of the Newbery Medal! 
Since 1922, lovers of children's literature -- children and adults alike -- anxiously await the announcement of the Newbery Medal for the "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." This anniversary commemorates not only a century of captivating books, it celebrates the longevity and evolution of the award. The world has changed in the last 100 years, and with it, the Newbery Medal seeks to recognize stories that represent and respect all youth.
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The Newbery Practitioner’s Guide: Making the Most of the Award in Your Work
Item Number: 978-0-8389-3827-0
Publisher: ALA Editions, 2022
Price: $49.99; $44.99 members
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Are Newbery winners the new not-to-read list?
Strauss writes for the Washington Post.
WASHINGTON — The Newbery Medal has been the gold standard in children’s literature for more than eight decades. On the January day when the annual winner is announced, bookstores nationwide sell out, libraries clamor for copies and teachers add the work to lesson plans.
Now the literary world is debating the Newbery’s value, asking whether the books that have won recently are so complicated and inaccessible to most children that they are effectively turning off kids to reading. Of the 25 winners and runners-up chosen from 2000 to 2005, four of the books deal with death, six with the absence of one or both parents, and four with such mental challenges as autism. Most of the rest deal with tough social issues.
An article in October’s School Library Journal -- “Has the Newbery Lost Its Way?” by children’s literary expert Anita Silvey -- touched off the debate, now in full bloom on blogs and in e-mails. It is the new flashpoint in the struggle to draw children into the delicious world of books at a time when the National Endowment for the Arts says fewer Americans are choosing to read than they did 20…