Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry is the 1940 Newbery Medal winner. Set in the Polynesian Islands before the traders and missionaries first came to the South Seas, it is the story of Mafatu who is known as The Boy Who Was Afraid. What was it that he was so afraid of? The ocean. In [...]
I read Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, the 1998 Newbery Award winner, in my ongoing project to read all of the Newbery books.
Set in the 1930’s during the great depression in the dust bowl of Oklahoma, Out of the Dust is told as a diary in free verse form, a style of writing [...]
Back in January, I reviewed Savvy by Ingrid Law. I’ve found that in the four months since I read Savvy, I have grown to be more fond of it, which is a good thing. I mentioned in my book review that it was getting Newbery buzz and I was then thrilled when Savvy won a [...]
Kirby Larson is the Newbery Honor author of Hattie Big Sky and co-author with Mary Nethery of Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship and Survival. I interviewed Kirby this past September about both books and of course received a recipe from Kirby. While there are a couple of recipes found at the [...]
The Voice That Challenged A Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman is a 2005 Newbery Honor book. This is one of those times where I am resorting to the jacket flap because I keep thinking how I could rewrite it in my own words and then I realize I [...]
