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Post by susanb on Jun 8, 2024 22:12:40 GMT 1
As I reviewed my list for this year's challenge, I realized that two of the authors are award winners, (Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Doris Gates), which got me to thinking that award winning/honored authors would be a great category for next year (too late for this year ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) ), and maybe for a section on your site, Claire?
Thinking of both winners and honored/shortlisted/highly commended, whatever that particular award has for "runners up", since I think that when you think of the thousands of books published in every country in any given year, when you get down to just a handful, they really are the cream of the crop!
These are the ones I know of, I'm sure there are many more:
USA Newbury Medal and Award authors
Marguerite Henry Will James Doris Gates Eloise Jarvis McGraw Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Marion Dane Bauer Francis Kalnay Ann Nolan Clark Kate Seredy
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction authors L.M. Elliott
Edgar Award Nancy Springer Alison Hart Eloise Jarvis McGraw Lynn Hall Phyllis Whitney Betty Cavanna
Pulitzer Prize Jane Smiley
UK Carnegie Medal and shortllist authors
K.M. Peyton Mary Treadgold Michael Morpurgo Elizabeth Goudge Berlie Doherty Rumer Godden Helen Griffith
Ernest Benn award Josephine Pullein-Thompson
Australia Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) winner and honor authors
Joan Phipson Colin Thiele Mavis Thorpe Clark Elyne Mitchell Reginald Ottley
Edgar Award Colin Thiele
Canada TD Canadian Childrens book award authors
Mary Ellen Lang Collura Catherine Anthony Clark
Europe Newbury Award
Meindart de Jong
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Post by garej on Jun 9, 2024 15:01:19 GMT 1
JPT's All Change won the Ernest Benn award in 1961. I can't find details of that particular award online but if we are counting any award then surely that would qualify rather than major awards such as the Carnegie Medal.
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Post by Claire on Jun 9, 2024 21:10:15 GMT 1
Great idea for a category Susan, but yes, will leave it for next time as we have quite a few categories already. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) Thanks very much for the list. I did start adding awards on each author's page but a section listing all the authors and their awards would be good. The website has been neglected a bit over the last couple of years. Soon as I get this house renovation project under my belt I'm hoping to have a over-haul of the site and try and get everything more up to date.
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Post by susanb on Jun 10, 2024 14:15:56 GMT 1
Hi Claire, sounds great! I hope the renovation is going well, though I know those projects always take longer (and cost more) than you ever imagine at the outset ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) Hang in there! Happy to update my original list with anything anyone comes across! I created the original list just by doing a scan of the major book awards that I was aware of, I know there are many more awards out there that I don't know about and I may well have missed authors who have written pony books in my quick look at the major awards, too In thinking of US awards, I wondered if there might be a few in the Scott O'Dell Award for Historic Fiction, a US children's book award, and went out to the site and found....THIS YEARS AWARD WENT TO A HORSE BOOK! Going to your point, Claire, that we should be on the lookout for current day works out there! Posting a link here and will do again on the 2024 Summer Challenge thread, in case anyone is looking for a book for the "new" category:
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