Two questions: Is there a list of the winners on the web?
Which winners do you think are the best?
Check the ALA website.
Here's the direct link to the list (sorry it's so long):
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/a...I've been collecting Newbery books for years, and I'm still not sure I could say. The genres and target ages of the books are so broad, which is a credit to the award. Some of the ones that are my personal favorites aren't necessarily the best of the bunch, but here are a few that I think fit both criteria (yes, some are just honors):
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
Holes, by Louis Sachar
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor
The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg
Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (multiple winners in series)
Ramona Quimby, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary
The Black Cauldron, by Lloyd Alexander
Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
Okay, this list is even more subjective than I had thought it would be. I think I was biased towards books I read more than once, and also authors who won multiple awards. What are others' lists?
Thanks for the list! I am suprised by how many winners I have already read (and how many honor books I haven't). Just to clarify, I was asking for personal favorites.
# 3: great list! all great books! I just read
The Hundred Dresses for the first time and think that is now my favorite. it is a book that every second or third grader needs to hear.
I think I have a new favorite
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen the book is simply magical yet ordinary. Another book I just read that I loved was
the Wheel on the School. It is about bringing storks to a small Dutch town but it is really about making friends and being friends.
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