John Newbery Medal

They have to.

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.

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.

According to the Dade Homeless Trust circa 1997, approximately 1,800 homeless children were being bounced between county shelters and the streets.

By Dave Eggers.

Newbery winner.

Was it?

Yeah, it won the Newbery, for sure.

Yeah.

It, I mean, I would, it's a, it's a book for, it's a kids book.

They'll do a comedic performance once in a while, but it's so hard to credit comedy.

I do want to give credit to the Newbery and the Caldecott.

They do give awards to funny books on a pretty regular basis.

So if you're trying to like build the case of like, they never get to give it to funny books.

That's not true.

They actually do do a pretty, particularly the Newbery does a pretty darn good job.

Okay.

So tell me, give me examples on the picture books.

And a couple things happened in school that really, um, made me feel like this is where my, my talents were.

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.

And I was, like, the only third grader who, who read all the books, you know?

Mm.

[laughs] Jake out here just trying to arrange Eisners.

Newbery bait.

[laughs]

[laughs] Or Eisner bait or something like that.

And it's just a wonderful story.

And Renee, of course, won the Newbery Medal last year.

And it's just great.

We love her.

There's a little gold medal there.

So it's like a Newberry Award medal.

And she says, this isn't exactly about war, but.

It's something you might be interested in.

Her middle-grade novels have garnered significant recognition.

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.

Her latest book, Zolo, re-imagines the Aztec myth of origin and of man's best friend.

Our drink this week was a Man'o'War cocktail to pair with the title Old Man's War.

Mm.

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.

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.

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.

He now focuses on educating acquisition teams through ASI government and ASI education.

He's also inexplicably a Newbery Medal winner for his groundbreaking work in children's procurement studies with the publication of My First FAR.

A link to which will be put in the comments.

Will Roberts, welcome to Beyond the Far.