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In 1921 Frederic G.Melcher had the Newbery Medal designed by René Paul Chambellan. The bronze medal has the winner's name and the date engraved on the back. The American Library Association Executive Board in 1922 delegated to the Children's Librarians' Section the responsibility for selecting the book to receive the Newbery Medal.
The inscription on the Newbery Medal still reads "Children's Librarians' Section," although the section has changed its name four times and its membership now includes both school and public library children's librarians in contrast to the years 1922-58, when the section, under three different names, included only public library children's librarians. Today the Medal is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of ALA.
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. On June 22, 1921, Frederic G. Melcher proposed the award to the American Library Association meeting of the Children's Librarians' Section and suggested that it be named for the eighteenth-century English bookseller John Newbery. The idea was enthusiastically accepted by the children's librarians, and Melcher's official proposal was approved by the…
Early on Monday morning, January 23 (7:45 a.m. CST, to be exact), attendees at the ALA Midwinter Meeting at the Dallas Convention Center Theater will be buzzing with anticipation as the winners of the 2012 Youth Media Awards—including the storied Newbery and Caldecott Medals—are revealed. The announcement will be carried via a live webcast, and tweets, text messages, and phone calls will blast the news to the world at lightning speed. And all over the country, booksellers will hope and pray they have enough stock on hand to meet demand for the winners.
“No other award has the economic significance of the Newbery and Caldecott,” says Anita Silvey, author, former publisher of children’s books at Houghton Mifflin, and former editor-in-chief of the Horn Book. “As a publisher, I knew how important the awards were. You could have a book that eked out sales of 2,000 copies when it was published sell 100,000–200,000 in a year after winning the award.” And the distinction of winning the awards helps to keep books in print, insuring cumulative sales over a longer period.
Newbery/Caldecott lore is filled with examples of such success, Silvey notes. When Bradbury Press won the 1974 Newbery Medal for…