Newbery

First time author Clare Vanderpool worked with a determined spirit to complete this poignant historical fiction novel, Moon Over Manifest, the 2011 Newbery Award winner.

In Linda Newbery's children's book Nevermore, Tizzie moves with her mother to a country estate. Their new home is full of mysterious people and situations that just don't make sense to Tizzie.

The Newbery Award Medal books are excellent literature for children. Here are my ten picks for books that I have enjoyed and feel are valuable for all children.

Have you seen a stamp for a Newbery Medal or Newbery Honor on a book before and wondered what that meant? Read all about the Newbery awards straight from a school librarian.

If you're looking for a short, but very high-quality piece of literature to read, you could do a lot worse than picking up one of these young-adult books that won Newbery Medals.

The Newbery winners are great books, but they're not always something you want to read to your younger kids (or direct them to in order to read them themselves), since many handle rather adult themes. I'll tell you some of the best ones for younger readers here.

Newbery Honor recipient Jennifer L. Holm discusses cupcakes, collaborations, and her critically acclaimed books.

How are the books we encourage children to read shaping their world view?

All kinds of characters from past comic books and novels have been rereleased in movie theatres lately around the world, generating astounding amounts of money, aside from the modern-day blockbusters, here are 3 more to add to the brew.

"Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!" by Laura Amy Schlitz, won the prestigious Newbery Award for Children's Literature in 2008. Here's my quick review.

"The Slave Dancer' is an important but sometimes disturbing children's book about slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Linda Newberry writes of a boy an the cusp of adolescence who is haunted by scenes from the second World War.

Trailers for the film showed fantastical images of an imaginary world, Terabithia, created by Jess and his new friend Leslie.