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John Newbery Medal

John Newbery Medal

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Sep 28, 2026

Mark StorrsHOST
40:07
They have to.
Rob MorphyHOST
40:09
Author, National Book Award winner, and three-time Newbery recipient Virginia Hamilton explained, Folktales are the only work of beauty a displaced people can keep, and their power can transcend class and race lines because they address visceral questions.
Rob MorphyHOST
40:24
Why side with good when evil is clearly winning? If I am killed, how can I make my life resonate beyond the grave? End quote.
Rob MorphyHOST
40:32
According to the Dade Homeless Trust circa 1997, approximately 1,800 homeless children were being bounced between county shelters and the streets.
Scott HellerPANELIST
50:52
By Dave Eggers.
Elisabeth EganPANELIST
50:53
Newbery winner.
Scott HellerPANELIST
50:54
Was it?
Elisabeth EganPANELIST
50:54
Yeah, it won the Newbery, for sure.
Scott HellerPANELIST
50:56
Yeah.
Scott HellerPANELIST
50:56
It, I mean, I would, it's a, it's a book for, it's a kids book.
Betsy BirdGUEST
15:20
They'll do a comedic performance once in a while, but it's so hard to credit comedy.
Betsy BirdGUEST
15:27
I do want to give credit to the Newbery and the Caldecott.
Betsy BirdGUEST
15:30
They do give awards to funny books on a pretty regular basis.
Betsy BirdGUEST
15:33
So if you're trying to like build the case of like, they never get to give it to funny books.
Betsy BirdGUEST
15:37
That's not true.
Betsy BirdGUEST
15:38
They actually do do a pretty, particularly the Newbery does a pretty darn good job.
Julie HedlundHOST
15:42
Okay.
Julie HedlundHOST
15:42
So tell me, give me examples on the picture books.
Megan Wagner LloydGUEST
2:48
And a couple things happened in school that really, um, made me feel like this is where my, my talents were.
Megan Wagner LloydGUEST
2:54
We had some type of, like, reading contest where if you read all these books, it was like a Newbery list of books, then you got a gift card to, like, this local toy/bookstore.
Megan Wagner LloydGUEST
3:07
And I was, like, the only third grader who, who read all the books, you know?
MegHOST
3:11
Mm.
Jake ParkerHOST
20:40
[laughs] Jake out here just trying to arrange Eisners.
Doogie HornerGUEST
20:47
Newbery bait.
Doogie HornerGUEST
20:47
[laughs]
Jake ParkerHOST
20:49
[laughs] Or Eisner bait or something like that.
Rira YuHOST
10:42
So congratulations to Sophie Dow on their book deal.
Marvin YueHOST
10:46
All right, next up, Athenium acquired world rights to A Drop of Kindness, a picture book by Newbery Honor author Andrea Wang and illustrated by Sally Sobel Hahn.
Marvin YueHOST
10:56
This original folktale follows a water buffalo who must choose whether or not to share the little she has with her neighbors during a drought.
Marvin YueHOST
11:03
Demonstrating the Chinese proverb, a drop of water shall be returned with a gushing spring.
Marvin YueHOST
11:27
Yeah.
Rira YuHOST
11:27
Yeah.
Rira YuHOST
11:28
She's also the author of Watercress, which is the picture book that she won a Newbery honor for.
Marvin YueHOST
11:34
Yeah.
Amanda BullockGUEST
21:51
And it's just a wonderful story.
Amanda BullockGUEST
21:52
And Renee, of course, won the Newbery Medal last year.
Amanda BullockGUEST
21:54
And it's just great.
Amanda BullockGUEST
21:58
We love her.
Curtis ChangHOST
10:35
There's a little gold medal there.
Curtis ChangHOST
10:37
So it's like a Newberry Award medal.
Curtis ChangHOST
10:40
And she says, this isn't exactly about war, but.
Curtis ChangHOST
10:45
It's something you might be interested in.
Gigi HowardHOST
1:40
Her middle-grade novels have garnered significant recognition.
Gigi HowardHOST
1:43
Lupe Wong Won't Dance received the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor, while her second novel, The Last Cuentista, was awarded both the John Newbery Award and the Pura Belpre Award.
Gigi HowardHOST
1:56
Her latest book, Zolo, re-imagines the Aztec myth of origin and of man's best friend.
Gigi HowardHOST
2:04
Our drink this week was a Man'o'War cocktail to pair with the title Old Man's War.

19 MINS LATER

Gigi HowardHOST
21:29
Mm.
Donna Barba HigueraGUEST
21:29
And i- and I had written, read lots of books up to that point, but that was one where I was like, "Wow, this is..." I, I, I have this lifelong love of sci-fi because of that introduction.
Donna Barba HigueraGUEST
21:41
And so when I won the Newbery Medal, I thanked her in my speech 'cause I was thinking a lot about that, like, the people who create it, created a writer, and she was, for sure, pivotal.
Donna Barba HigueraGUEST
21:54
And so I thanked her, and then I just was like, "I wanna know what happened to her." So I was looking for her obituary, 'cause she was, you know, my age when I was a little girl, and I w- like, probably seven, eight, nine years old when I was going.
Jessica TillipmanHOST
0:40
He now focuses on educating acquisition teams through ASI government and ASI education.
Jessica TillipmanHOST
0:47
He's also inexplicably a Newbery Medal winner for his groundbreaking work in children's procurement studies with the publication of My First FAR.
Jessica TillipmanHOST
0:59
A link to which will be put in the comments.
Jessica TillipmanHOST
1:02
Will Roberts, welcome to Beyond the Far.

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