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From 1971 they have been called Honor Books and their authors have been awarded Newbery Honor citations. For biographies of cited writers see Category:Newbery Honor winners. The Medal was inaugurated in 1922. As few as zero and as many as eight runners-up have been named but from 1938 there have been one to five annual Honors.
Besides the Newbery Medal, the committee awards a variable number of citations to leading contenders, called Newbery Honors or Newbery Honor Books; until 1971, these books were called runners-up. As few as zero and as many as eight have been named, but from 1938 the number of Honors or runners-up has been one to five.
From 1971 their works have been called Honor Books and they have received Newbery Honor citations. For articles about cited books see Category:Newbery Honor–winning works. The Medal was inaugurated in 1922. As few as zero and as many as eight runners-up have been named, but from 1938 there have been one to five annual Honors.
These books have won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". For biographies of winning authors see Category:Newbery Medal winners .
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Estes’s book The Hundred Dresses was a Newbery Honor Book in 1945. It spoke about the bullying of children based on their races and their nationalities. The book is about a young Polish girl named Wanda Petronski who is bullied by her classmates for her unusual Polish name and the blue dress she wears every day. Wanda claims to have a hundred ...
In 1952 Minn was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal, awarded by the American Library Association for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." In 1971, when the new Newbery Honor Book title was retroactively applied to earlier runners up, it received this designation. [1]
Despite the above, the book has also faced a lot of controversy due to offensive language. [4] According to the American Library Association, Crazy Lady was one of the top one hundred banned and challenged books in the United States from 1990 to 1999 (62) [ 5 ] and 2000 to 2009 (45), [ 6 ] as well as one of the top ten books in 2005 (9).