The John Newbery Medal, frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author
Newbery Medal
Frederic G. Melcher first proposed the idea for the Newbery Award.
John Newbery, called "The Father of Children's Literature", was an English publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market.
Hendrik Willem van Loon won the first Newbery Medal in 1922 for his book The Story of Mankind.
All the Blues in the Sky is a 2025 children's novel, written in both prose and free verse, by American's children author Renée Watson.
Newbery Medal
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