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The Newbery Awards ©2006 Jena Phillips Tuesday, April 17, 12
The Newbery Awards
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What is the Newbery?
The Newbery Medal is an honor given to outstanding children’s books each year by the American Library Association. Books can receive the medal only for the year published.
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How it all began... In 1921, the idea for the award was
presented to the Library Association, and named for an eighteenth century bookseller by the name of John Newbery.
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Rules for the award Consider all forms of writing Must demonstrate
“Distinguished” contribution to literature
Original piece Must be published in that year to
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More Rules...
Written in English For children Authors must be residents or
citizens of the United States
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The AwardThe Newbery Award became the first award, and still the most widely know, for children’s literature.
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Honor Books From the beginning of the
awarding of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, committees could, and usually did, cite other books as worthy of attention.
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Honor Books These books were called the
Newbery or Caldecott "runners-up." In 1971, the committee changed the term "runners-up" to "honor books."
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Honor Book MedalAlthough the number of honor medals awarded each year varies, it is typically between one and five books that receive recognition.
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Bibliography American Library Association’s
sitehttp://www.ala.org/alsc/
awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal
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Assignment You will be creating a Tree Map to sort
the different genres of the Newbery winners and honors.
You will have 10 minutes to sort the basket of books into genre and write them down. Pick someone who writes neatly, and quickly
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SWITCH!! Basket 1 goes to Group 2 Basket 2 goes to Group 3 Basket 3 goes to Group 4 Basket 4 goes to Group 5 Basket 5 goes to Group 1
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Assignment You will be finished once you
have written down the names of 25 books.
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Tonight’s Reading Homework
Create a Circle Map for the “Newbery Award” Include everything you have learned about it.
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