Review: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, illustrated by Else Hasselriis. Winner of the 1926 Newbery Medal. A long time ago in ancient China, there lived a sagacious old mandarin and his useless son. The father was famous throughout the neighborhood for his fresh bao, universally declared as the most heavenly bao found [...]
Posts Tagged ‘early Newberys’
Drowning in Shen of the Sea
Posted in Awards, MG books (ages 8-12), tagged early Newberys, reviews on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Pirate’s Life (not) For Me
Posted in Awards, MG books (ages 8-12), YA books, tagged early Newberys, reviews on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When I first started reading the third Newbery award winner, I thought The Dark Frigate, by Charles Boardman Hawes, would be as much of a letdown as its predecessors. For reasons I cannot explain entirely, once the protagonist set out to sea, the story began to draw me in. But first, the overlong and less [...]
The Honorable Cat
Posted in Awards, Picture books, tagged early Newberys, reviews on January 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág: review Here at Reads for Keeps, one of our goals is to read through obscure Newbery books. Jen began with the first two Newbery Medal winners (1922′s The Story of Mankind and 1923′s The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle), and I wanted to follow suit by reviewing the earliest Newbery [...]
Dolittle does little….storywise
Posted in Awards, Kids books-general, tagged early Newberys, reviews on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There’s this man, this very extraordinary, mysterious, eccentric man. He visits distant lands. He’s from a different time. He travels on adventures with a companion who is much too young for him. And he is known throughout as the Doctor… If only! No, John Dolittle, the eponymous character from the 1923 Newbery medal winner The [...]
A Sense of History
Posted in Awards, MG books (ages 8-12), Nonfiction, tagged early Newberys, reviews on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Confession: as someone who takes pride in keeping up with the Newberys, I was flummoxed to realize I had never read the First Ever award winner. I couldn’t even name the title or the date. What a travesty! And that became my (sole) motivation for reading the 1922 Newbery winner, The Story of Mankind, by [...]
