* Is there any 14-year-old for whom this book is suitable? Questions for committees to consider include these: If a book is challenging, and suitable for 13-14-year-olds but not for younger readers, is it eligible? Yes but it can be given an award only if it does what it sets out to do as well as or better than other, younger books that are also eligible. In some instances, award-winning books have been criticized for exceeding the upper age limit of fourteen. The newest revision of the Newbery Manual contains an appedix of “Expanded Definitions and Examples” which helps to clarify:ĬHILDREN’S BOOK – means a book for which children, up to and including age 14, are an intended and potential audience. Books for this entire age range are to be considered. ALSC awards (with the exception of the Geisel award for books for beginning readers) are given to “children,” defined as “persons of ages up to and including fourteen.”įrog and Toad Together, by Arnold Lobel, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1973, despite the young age of its intended audience.
Children are defined as persons of ages up to and including fourteen, and books for this entire age range are to be considered. The book displays respect for children’s understandings, abilities, and appreciations. A “contribution to American literature for children” shall be a book for which children are an intended potential audience. There were two main issues, neither trivial, which I think also pertain to this title:Ģ. Those of you who were around for my Mock Newbery in 2006 might remember the discussion for Megan Whalen Turner’s previous The King of Attlolia, which did wind up on our Honor list, though not uncontentiously.
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