Laura Amy Schlitz Wins 2008 Newbery Medal
Laura Amy Schlitz won the 2008 Newbery Medal for Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village, illustrated by Robert Byrd (Candlewick). Park is a school librarian in Baltimore; this is the second year in a row that the Newbery has been won by a librarian.
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children’s book published the previous year. The annual award is named for eighteenth-century English bookseller John Newbery.
The formal purpose of the award is described as: “To encourage original creative work in the field of books for children. To emphasize to the public that contributions to the literature for children deserve similar recognition to poetry, plays, or novels. To give those librarians, who make it their life work to serve children’s reading interests, an opportunity to encourage good writing in this field.”
The Newbery Award thus became the first children’s book award in the world. It remains the best known and most discussed children’s book award in the United States.
Honor Books for 2008 include:
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)
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