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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.
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 ...
The Underneath is a children's book by Kathi Appelt. It tells the story of an abandoned cat who goes to live with a maltreated hound dog underneath a crooked old house in a bayou on the border between Louisiana and Texas. Published in 2008, The Underneath is a John Newbery Honor book, ALA Notable Children's Book and a National Book Award ...
Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity is a children's book about the history of pre-Columbian cultures in America illustrated by C. B. Falls.It was published in 1951 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1952. [1]
Mountains Are Free is a children's historical novel by Julia Davis Adams set in Switzerland in the 14th century. It retells the legend of William Tell and the Swiss struggle against the Habsburgs from the viewpoint of an orphan boy. [1] The novel, illustrated by Theodore Nadajen, was first published in 1930 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Seabird is a 1948 book for children and young people, ... Seabird was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1949. [3 ...