Book Report Project Award Winner & other award winners

From 1922 - present, there has been one book chosen each year to receive the Newbery Medal. The book you choose has to be:

1. A Newbery Medal Award Winner or another award winner approved by the teacher 2. Be on Accelerated Reader 3. A book you have never read

In 1921 Frederic G.Melcher had the Newbery Medal designed by René Paul Chambellan. The bronze medal has the winner's name and the date engraved on the back. The American Library Association Executive Board in 1922 delegated to the Children's Librarians' Section the responsibility for selecting the book to receive the Newbery Medal. The inscription on the Newbery Medal still reads "Children's Librarians' Section," although the section has changed its name four times and its membership now includes both school and public library children's librarians in contrast to the years 1922-58, when the section, under three different names, included only public library children's librarians. Today the Medal is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of ALA.

How the Newbery Award came to be: The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. On June 22, 1921, Frederic G. Melcher proposed the award to the American Library Association meeting of the Children's Librarians' Section and suggested that it be named for the eighteenth-century English bookseller John Newbery. The idea was enthusiastically accepted by the children's librarians, and Melcher's official proposal was approved by the ALA Executive Board in 1922. In Melcher's formal agreement with the board, the purpose of the Newbery Medal was stated as follows: "To encourage original creative work in the field of books for children. To emphasize to the public that contributions to the literature for children deserve similar recognition to poetry, plays, or novels. To give those librarians, who make it their life work to serve children's reading interests, an opportunity to encourage good writing in this field." The Newbery Award thus became the first children's book award in the world. Its terms, as well as its long history, continue to make it the best known and most discussed children's book award in this country.

After reading your story, you must choose ONE of the project ideas listed below to do for your literature project.

DEADLINES: 1. Finish Reading the story by October 31st and take the AR test. 2. Finish the project by November 7th

Projects are graded on neatness and quality of your work.

Illustrated Flow Map: Create an illustrated flow map of the significant events in the story. (use construction paper or poster board) You must draw the pictures, as well as give a short written caption explaining each illustration.

Alphabet Book: Create an alphabet book that focuses on key events, characters, ideas, and information from your book. Include an illustration on each page as well as 1-2 sentences explaining each letter. 18 letters.

Movie Poster: The movie poster must include original illustrations that show scenes from the book, movie reviews, list the actors that will portray the different characters, and the title of the book. Also include a letter to a movie producer persuading him/her why the story, characters, etc.. would make a great movie. ONLY BOOKS THAT HAVE NOT ALREADY BEEN MADE INTO MOVIES CAN DO THIS PROJECT!

Setting Pamphlet: Select five key settings for significant events in the book or places that had major impacts on the characters' development. Each panel of the pamphlet can represent a different setting with an illustration and short written explanation of how that setting influenced the story or affected the characters' lives.

Picture Book: Design a picture book retelling some major events from the story. This could be read to children.

Poetry: Write a collection of poetry based on the book. Minimum of 4 poems with at least 12 lines each. Decorate each poem with pictures that tell about the story and poem.

Hit Song: Write the hit song to the book you read. The song needs to retell the story or a significant event. Must have a at least 20 lines. May put it to music and sing it for extra credit.

Bookstore Display: Design a display to be used in bookstores to advertise the book you read. The display should be attractive and contain information about the book that will encourage people to buy it. You must include a one page review of your story on the display. Critique the story - it’s plot, characters, description, ect...

Newspaper Article: Create a newspaper article covering a main event in the story. The article needs to have a “photograph”. The “photograph” is a hand drawn picture that relates to the article. The article needs to by at least 1 1/2 pages with the “photograph”

Board Game: Create a board game for the story. The game must TEACH the story to those who play it. The game must include detail instructions on how to play, have an attractively decorated playing board, game pieces, and question cards.

Powerpoint: Create a Powerpoint/Keynote presentation that tells about the story. Card 1: Title Card (Title of the Book; author; your name; date; and an illustration); Cards 2: Characters; Card 3: Story Setting; Card 4: Story Plot; Card 5: What was your favorite part of the story. ***Illustrations that are hand drawn and scanned into cards are preferred.

Crossword: Create a crossword puzzle of important events from the story. You must include at least 24 words in the puzzle. The words must be important to the story. The words & clues for the answers must teach the story. Must have a blank puzzle, as well as an answer key. Decorate with illustrations that pertain to the story. NEWBERY MEDAL AWARD WINNING BOOKS (choose one you haven’t read): 2011 by Clare Vanderpool 2010 by Rebecca Stead 2009 by Neil Gaiman 2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schiltz 2007 The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron 2006 by Lynne Rae Perkins 2005 Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata 2004 : Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo 2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi 2002 The Single Shard by Linda Sue Park 2001 by Richard Peck 2000 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis 1999 by Louis Sachar 1998 by Karen Hesse 1997 by E.L. Konigsburg 1996 The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman 1995 by Sharon Creech 1994 by Lois Lowry 1993 by Cynthia Rylant 1992 by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 1991 by Jerry Spinelli 1990 by Lois Lowry 1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleishman 1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman 1987 by Sid Fleishman 1986 Sarah, Plain, and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan 1985 by Robin McKinley 1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary 1983 Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt 1982 A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard 1981 by Katherine Paterson 1980 A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos 1979 by Ellen Raskin 1978 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor 1976 by Susan Cooper 1975 M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton 1974 by Paula Fox 1973 by Jean Craighead George 1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien 1971 by Betsy Byars 1970 by William H. Armstrong 1969 by Lloyd Alexander 1968 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg 1967 by Irene Hunt 1966 I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino 1965 Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska 1964 It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville 1963 by Madeleine L'Engle 1962 by Elizabeth George Speare 1960 by Joseph Krumgold 1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare 1958 by Harold Keith 1957 Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen 1956 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham 1955 by Meindert DeJong 1954 …And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold 1953 by Ann Nolan Clark 1952 by Eleanor Estes 1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates 1950 The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli 1949 by Marguerite Henry 1948 The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois 1947 by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1946 by Lois Lenski 1945 by Robert Lawson 1944 by Esther Forbes 1943 by Elizabeth Janet Gray 1942 by Walter Edmonds 1941 by Armstrong Sperry 1940 by James Daugherty 1939 by Elizabeth Enright 1938 by Kate Seredy 1937 Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer 1936 by Carol Ryrie Brink 1935 by Monica Shannon 1934 : The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs 1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis 1932 by Laura Adams Armer 1931 The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth 1930 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field 1929 by Eric P. Kelly 1928 Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji 1927 Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James 1926 by Arthur Bowie Chrisman 1925 Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger 1924 by Charles Hawes 1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Loftin 1922 by Hendrik Willem van Loon

Honor Books that you can choose: 2009 Savvy by Ingrid Law 2003 Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff 2001 The Wanderer by Sharon Creech 1999 A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck 1998 Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff 1974 The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (you may also choose Over Sea, Under Stone - 1st book in the series) 1960 My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George