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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Newbery Wayback Machine: Tales from Silver Lands, by Charles Finger (1925)

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  The Newbery Terms and Criteria loudly proclaim, "there are no limitations as to the character of the book considered except that it b...
Friday, February 5, 2021

Newbery Wayback Machine: Dobry, by Monica Shannon (1935)

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  Dobry is a Bulgarian boy, who lives in a Bulgarian village high in the Bulgarian mountains. He and his Bulgarian mother and grandfather te...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Newbery Wayback Machine: The Summer of the Swans, by Betsy Byars (1971)

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  Fourteen-year-old Sara Godfrey is having a difficult time, in a way that I think a lot of people her age -- or who have ever been her age ...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Newbery Wayback Machine: Gay-Neck, The Story of a Pigeon, by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1928)

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  Gay-Neck, The Story of a Pigeon  begins, at least in my copy, with a brief dedicatory letter from the author to one Suresh Chandra Banerji...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Newbery Wayback Machine: Miss Hickory, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (1947)

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Rachael warned me before I started Miss Hickory  that it was a "weird book," in a tone somewhere between amusement and caution. My...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Newbery Wayback Machine: Invincible Louisa, by Cornelia Meigs (1934)

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  An interesting facet of the experience of reading some of the older Newbery winners is the difference between their reception at the time ...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Newbery Wayback Machine: Thimble Summer, by Elizabeth Enright (1939)

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Thimble Summer opens in the middle of a horrible hot and dry spell in rural Wisconsin. Nine-year-old Garnet Linden has gone swimming with he...