About four years ago, I had the pleasure of listening to Richard Peck present a variety of workshops about writing. Ever since then, I’ve been meaning to pick up something that he wrote. It took me a while but I finally did. A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck is a 1999 Newbery Honor [...]
Well, since this is a book blog, I should mention the fact that my husband has published a book. Can you believe that I never mentioned that?! Isn’t that awful of me? So here I am finally mentioning it. So yes, when Taylor was 17 (17?!) he authored and illustrated a children’s picture book called [...]
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman was a 1996 Newbery Honor book. What exactly did Jamie, our young main character see? I don’t think I’ll spoil anything because it’s revealed in the very first sentence and as soon as I read it, I thought, “Oh no, this isn’t going to be pretty.” Jamie see’s his [...]
I read Missing May by Cynthia Rylant as part of my life-long goal to read all of the Newbery books. Missing May won the Newbery Medal in 1993. Missing May is the story of Summer, who has lived with her Aunt May and Uncle Ob since she was six after she was orphaned and nobody [...]
What a cute, wonderful little story. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levinewas another book I read as one of my life goals to read all of the Newbery books. Ella Enchanted is a 1998 Newbery Honor book (see entire list here). Plus, I recently found it for 25 cents and I can’t beat that. Plus, [...]
Maw Books is sponsored by Successful Reads - Books for Success
Copyright 2010. Natasha Maw. All Rights Reserved.
