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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.
These books have been runners-up for the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association, which recognizes the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". From 1971 they have been called Honor Books and their authors have been awarded Newbery Honor citations.
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.
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 ...
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot is a children's book about Theodore Roosevelt, written by American author Clara Ingram Judson and illustrated by Lorence F. Bjorklund. [1] The book was a Newbery Honor book. [2]
My Brother Sam Is Dead is a Newbery Honor book that was also named an ALA Notable Children's Book and nominated for a National Book Award in 1975. The ALA reports that My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James and Christopher Collier, was the twelfth most frequently challenged book in the period from 1990 to 2000, [1] and the 27th most challenged book from 2000 to 2009.
The novel won the annual Child Study Association of America's Children's Book Award for novels that realistically portray contemporary issues. [3] It was also a Newbery Honor winner for 1957. Meindert DeJong was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his literary works, including The House of Sixty Fathers, in 1960. [4]
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).