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Kathleen Isaacs of Booklist, reviewed the book saying, "Mr. Jupiter’s first appearance promises a fantasy, but except for one other episode of wish fulfillment, this is, rather, exaggeration for the sake of humor. Fun for some, but other readers may play hooky before the year is over".
Pages in category "Nebula Award for Best Novel–winning works" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "National Book Award for Young People's Literature–winning works" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 1970 Newbery Medal winning book Sounder, by William H. Armstrong, was the inaugural winner of the Mark Twain Award in 1972. [ 2 ] Peg Kehret has won the Mark Twain Award four times, once in 1999 for Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio , a memoir of her childhood, and three times in six years from 2007 to 2012 for novels.
In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for " The Best of the Booker ".
The William Allen White Children's Book Award is a set of two annual awards for books selected by vote of Kansas schoolchildren from lists prepared by committee. As a single award it was established in 1952 by Ruth Garver Gagliardo , a children's literature specialist at Emporia State University , which continues to direct the program. [ 1 ]
General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.
It gave its first award in 1975, to The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White. [2] The YHBAs added the Intermediate and Middle Grade categories in 1986, and the Picture Book category in 1992. The most recent winners (2023 - 2024) were There's a Ghost in This House by Oliver Jeffers (Picture Book), What Comes Next by Rob Buyea (Intermediate), and ...