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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Newbery Wayback Machine: Last Stop on Market Street, by Matt de la Peña (2016)

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I don't think anyone saw Last Stop on Market Street as the leading Newbery contender for 2016. If you, like me, think of A Visit to W...
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Monday, November 7, 2016

Newbery Wayback Machine: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman (2009)

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Plenty of Newbery-winning authors have had thriving careers outside the confines of children's literature. Will James and Walter Edmonds...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Newbery Wayback Machine: Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George

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Wow. This book surprised me. I expected to enjoy it. I expected that the research about the natural world would be very good, and the resear...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Newbery Wayback Machine: Missing May, by Cynthia Rylant (1993)

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Several years ago, when I did my look back at the 2011 Newbery winner, Moon Over Manifest , I introduced my discussion of it by talking ab...
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Thursday, August 4, 2016

Newbery Wayback Machine: A Gathering of Days, by Joan W. Blos (1980)

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Nowadays, when I think of novels in diary form for children, what comes to mind are snarkily humorous books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid ...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Newbery Wayback Machine: A Visit to William Blake's Inn (1982)

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Hello! As observant readers may have noticed, I have been silent in this space for several months. Perhaps I fell through a dimensional po...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Newbery Wayback Machine: M. C. Higgins, the Great, by Virginia Hamilton (1975)

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Trying to figure out who the "greatest" American children's author of all time might be is an essentially impossible task. (...