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Hendrik Willem van Loon won the first Newbery Medal in 1922 for his book The Story of Mankind. Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first Indian American to win the Newbery Medal. [17] Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote five books each named a Newbery Honor between 1938 and 1944.
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.
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 .
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 writers have won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" (one book). For articles on winning books see Category:Newbery Medal–winning works.
John Newbery (9 July 1713 – 22 December 1767), considered "The Father of Children's Literature", was an English publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market. [1]
Caddie Woodlawn is a children's historical fiction novel by Carol Ryrie Brink [1] that received the Newbery Medal in 1936 and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. The original 1935 edition was illustrated by Newbery-award-winning author and illustrator Kate Seredy. Macmillan released a later edition in 1973, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. [2]
A Single Shard is the Newbery Award-winning novel by Linda Sue Park.The New York Times praised A Single Shard as being "deftly shaped" and "surprisingly moving", stating that the Newbery Medal would help expose the novel to an audience it would otherwise have not reached.
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