The Newbery Reading Challenge fits nicely into my professional interests as a Children’s Librarian. It’s a points-based challenge:
- 3 points for a Newbery Medal Winner
- 2 points for a Newbery Honor Book
- 1 point for a Caldecott Book
You choose which level to aim for:
- L’Engle: 15 – 29 points
- Spinelli: 30 – 44 points
- Avi: 45 – 59 points
- Lowry: 60 – 74 points
- Konigsburg: 75+ points
I’m in for the Konigsburg level. I’m planning to double-up a number of books for this one with the Old School Kidlit Reading Challenge and looking at these possible titles:
- Sounder by William H. Armstrong
- My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
- Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
- The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
- My Father’s Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
- To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
- It’s Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
- The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
- Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
- The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Every year, too, after the ALA Youth Media Awards are announced (February 12th, 8am MT this year), I go back and read the books I didn’t get to yet. And Caldecott books are often a part of my weekly Storytimes.
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