Newbery Reading

[merriehaskell]

If this becomes a meme, it's not going to be one of those "Star this, bold that" ones. I want to address the Newbery winners and honor books that I have consumed as a reader. I want to discuss the ones I read as a kid, and the ones I read as an adult, and the ones I've read in both modes, and see how my opinions have changed. I suspect I will

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[aj]

I went through a huge Newbery/Rebecca Caudill reading phase in 2003/2004, and read a good portion of your list here. That being said, there were a few titles that won that made me raise an eyebrow. I could NOT STAND Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi, and was unthrilled by The Tale of Despereaux. But then, I could just be dead inside.

That being said, I regularly reread The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle and love it as pie!

[merriehaskell]

Had to look up Rebecca Caudill--that's an Illinois award. No wonder I hadn't heard of it. ;)

I was really surprised to see so many Avi books on the lists since the days I used the list as a reading guide. Based on my steady diet of YA and poking around the bookstores over the last fifteen years, I wouldn't have thought they were Newbery's kind of books. There I go, judging books by their covers...

[merriehaskell]

It's kind of the same for me--I'd read all of 1 of the 2000s selection--but I did read backward quite a bit.

I've heard of everything for the last two years, though I haven't read it--but that's the "becoming a children's author" effect. I started paying attention to the awards again. Though I'll point out that I never stopped reading YA, and tons of it at that--it's interesting to me that so few of my faves hit even the honor books.

[dendrophilous]

I haven't read any of the 1920s books.

I've read a huge chunk of the ones from the mid-60s to the mid-80s, and pretty much none after that, which makes sense given my age.