Brandon has started a reading meme from the list of Newbery Medal winners. Here's my entry -- this sort of fun bookish meme is just my speed right now, when the only time I'm not queasy is when I'm horizontal.
Have read
Have not read, but have heard of (includes "I don't really know much about this book, but I've seen it on the library shelves enough times to notice and remember it.")
Have on my shelves **
2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (HarperCollins Children's Books)
2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux)
2011: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)
2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)
2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)
2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press) (listened to the first chapters on CD and couldn't take it; maybe it's better reading than hearing?)
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Dial)
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion) **
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper) (I think I've read this.)
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett)
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar) **
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton) **
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell)
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt)
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally) **
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking) **
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking) **
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott) **
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton) **
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd) **
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan) **
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Stokes) **
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)
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+JMJ+
Don't mind if I join you. =)
2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
2011: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean [Started reading someone's copy while in his home; had to stop when it was time to leave]
2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan
2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg **
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman [Read about half of it before a friend took it back]
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry **
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor **
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli **
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry **
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan **
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos ** [Own a copy, just haven't read it yet. For shame, I know.]
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin **
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson **
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor **
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper **
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox **
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien **
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg **
1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle **
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell **
+JMJ+
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold **
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli **
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray [Another one I own but haven't read yet]
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink **
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly **
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
It's interesting seeing the hit-and-miss of the lists -- MrsD not having read The Westing Game, Enbrethiliel not having read The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, not having reading Caddie Woodlawn in my own case.
The overlaps are interesting, too: the three books we've all three read are Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, The Bridge to Terabithia, and A Wrinkle in Time.
Just to break things up further: I haven't ready any of the ones that all three of you have read.
Actually, looking over the list, it mostly strikes me that I haven't read many Newberies. The only ones I have read are:
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton) [know I read it but don't remember much about it]
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan) [I think I read this, but I'm not 100% sure]
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)[I think I read this, but I'm not 100% sure]
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Stokes)
I want to play that - have been trying to get my 10yo voracious reader to read more early Newberys, but it's a hard sell....
I recommend Wheel on the School since you haven't read it - such fun. Maybe read aloud?
1982, 1955, 1953, 1945, 1930, 1924, and 1922 are all on our shelves, and all but the '20s books have been read and enthusiastically endorsed. (The last two are awaiting reading and judgment.) Feel free to browse and read.
One of the nicest things about the teenage years is that they can go through your chapter book collection and pull all the bad, boring, and generally lesser books. So you can sell them and buy better books. Our goal is a 100% Awesomeness book collection.
Must add - last time I was in your delicate condition, I found the best thing was the snowballs from Casey's on 45th and Airport, conveniently close for husband runs. Try the juiceballs; they're great for that particular shade of queasiness. I'm told many similarly situated women find relief from Casey's. You can even just get a are snowball if that works better. Yelp them.
+JMJ+
Did anyone else feel a bit regretful when making their own lists? I couldn't help thinking that it would have been so easy to have read some of the titles I've seen around but never tried--and I certainly had over half my life to do so! But then again, I didn't know at twelve that I would be doing a meme like this at [age redacted--LOL]!
Another reaction I had, which surprised me a little, was defensiveness. =P I wanted to point out that I've also read a bunch of Newbery Honour books, and spent time going through the backlists of several Newbery Medal winners. Then, of course, there are all those other excellent titles that were never shortlisted for this award, but were for others, or just flew under the radar of literary committees.
I suppose that if someone were creating a reading regimen, the humble figure of one Newbery book a year would be the Recommended Reading Allowance. In which case, I'm still behind. LOL! But there's always time for another reading binge to get one caught up! =)
Enbrithiliel --
Very much so, on both the "What was I doing that I missed so many?" and the "But I was an avid reader!" fronts. I suppose it was the hit-and-miss nature of reading as a child -- the works I read were usually those that were recommended by teachers or librarians, which in turn usually meant those that they had enjoyed when kids.
MrD --
It sort of blows my mind that you've never read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. But I suppose that's because it came at me from several sources in elementary school -- library recommendations, reading at school, etc.
+JMJ+
Brandon -- Most of the books I read were those I picked out myself. There were at least two which an aunt picked out for me (Number the Stars and The Slave Dancer), though not because she had enjoyed them as a child. She's the sort who likes choosing new books for people, and she must have seen the children's section of the bookstore as a great new challenge.
And Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH almost slipped past my fingers, too. I didn't get to it until I was working full time. But I was really glad when I finally did and wished I hadn't taken so long.
The Westing Game didn't fare so well, though. One reason I hesitate to start reading all the "books I should have read before" is that I tried The Westing Game when I was in uni and quite liked it . . . but it wasn't magical the way the others were. I'll really have to reread it so it gets another shot.
E, when you say "magical", do you mean fantastical, or zesty? I find that as I've grown older, I have more and more affinity for books that are rooted more solidly in the human condition, without the gloss of the fantastic to make them shinier or more "appealing". This is not to say that I reject all fantasy, but genre (as shorthand) of any sort holds less and less attraction for me.
I've seen The Westing Game, and The Slave Dancer and a number of others at the library, and I'll start picking them up. Eleanor just turned 11, and she's a pretty voracious reader, but her comfort level is for reading down to easier books. I'm going to start checking out the Newberies and leaving them around -- and reading them myself.
I don't remember when I read Mrs. Frisby, but it wasn't as a child. It might not have been until several years ago.
One reason this list makes me happy right now is that I have a strong desire to read, but I don't feel that I have the mental stamina to tackle books full of adult issues right now (and if I read another modern novel where the romance between the main characters hinges on adultery, I will spontaneously combust). The Newberies give me hope for some quality reading -- good thing I'm going to find myself spending lots of time with Opinionated Homeschooler's bookshelves soon. :)
I decided to play along too.
Mrs D, I'm with you. When I'm pregnant I read a lot of juvenile fiction. I just can't handle books that require too much cogitation or stamina. I wish I'd had this list during my last pregnancy.
+JMJ+
Hi, Mrs. Darwin! When I said "magical," I was referring to that ineffable knowing, from the first page, that you and the book will be good friends for the rest of your lives. As much as I enjoyed The Westing Game, I didn't have that when I read it. On the other hand, The Slave Dancer, which is less "my type" of book, being very serious historical fiction, managed to hook me quite successfully.
I know we can't be fast friends with all the books we read, but I think I have higher hopes for Newbery winners. =P
As I may have hinted, though, I've been wanting to try The Westing Game again. You're the second person to mention it to me specifically this month, so I'm taking that as a sign! ;-) If you decide on it, too, we could be company for each other. =)
And to answer your question: I recall it as being "quirky" rather than "fantastical." Grounded in reality, yes, but with odd characters who wouldn't be out of place in a sitcom. (I will reread this paragraph after I've read the book and hope I don't laugh at myself too much!)
I'm super late to this party ... but wanted to chime in and say that my great-grandfather wrote this one: 1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
Not the easiest read these days because the language is old fashioned. But still we all dutifully read the stories when I was a kid since he was a relative ... and they weren't half bad! :-)
Whoa, flashback: not much of a Newbery reader (considered myself too old for them by the time I permitted myself fiction. Was a weird kid) but - was once a neighbor to Maia Wojciechowska, the 1965 winner. She attended Mass at Liturgy in Santa Fe back in the early '80s, and I worked there.
She was a character.
The only two I've read: A Wrinkle in Time and Shadow of a Bull.
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