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Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal) じょん・にゅーべりー・めだる

Edition 55 (1976)

Children's literature awardEnglish-language children's booksAmerican literature award

Winners

3 people
Susan Mary Cooper すーざん くーぱー Winner

The Grey King is a contemporary fantasy novel by Susan Cooper, published almost simultaneously by Chatto & Windus and Atheneum in 1975. It is the fourth of five books in her Arthurian fantasy series The Dark is Rising.

The Grey King is a contemporary fantasy novel by Susan Cooper, published almost simultaneously by Chatto & Windus and Atheneum in 1975.

224 pages
fantasyfolklorefatefriendship
Sharon Bell Mathis しゃろん べる まてぃす Nominee

The Hundred Penny Box is a 1975 children's novel about a young boy, his great-great-aunt, and the box she uses to store 100 pennies, each penny representing a year of her life. It was written by Sharon Bell Mathis and illustrated by the duo Leo and Diane Dillon. The book was a Newbery Honor book in 1976.

The Hundred Penny Box is a 1975 children's novel about a young boy, his great-great-aunt, and the box she uses to store 100 pennies, each penny representing a year of her life.

familymemoryfolkloreintergenerational exchange
Laurence Michael Yep ろーれんす いぇっぷ Nominee

Dragonwings is a children's historical novel by Laurence Yep, published by Harper & Row in 1975. It inaugurated the Golden Mountain Chronicles and is the fifth chronicle in narrative sequence among ten published as of 2012. The book is used in school classrooms and has been adapted as a play under its original title. Yep and Dragonwings won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 1995, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award. It had been a runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal.

Dragonwings is a children's historical novel by Laurence Yep, published by Harper & Row in 1975.

336 pages
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