Clare Vanderpool’s novel Moon Over Manifest, about a young girl living in a hardscrabble Missouri town one summer in 1936, was named the winner of the 2011 Newbery Medal on Monday.
“Vanderpool illustrates the importance of stories as a way for children to understand the past, inform the present and provide hope for the future,” said Newbery Medal Committee Chair Cynthia K. Richey in a statement.
The Newbery Medal is awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children. Each year it recognizes “the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.”
Other books to be cited by the committee include Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm; Heart of a Samurai, by Margi Preus; Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, by Joyce Sidman; and One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia.
Past winners of the Newbery Medal, which is named after the 18th-century bookseller, John Newbery, include Madeleine L’Engle for A Wrinkle in Time; Robert C. O’Brien for Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH; Katherine Paterson for Bridge to Terabithia; Kate DiCamillo for The Tale of Despereaux; and Neil Gaiman for The Graveyard Book.
from: National Post
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