Tell Me True
It’s Tell Me True Tuesday!
A reader wants to know, “Has a Newbery award winner ever won multiple times?”
Okay, my eyes are actually crossed from counting this one… In terms of medals, E.L. Konigsburg (The View from Saturday and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler), Joseph Krumgold (Onion Stone and And Now Miguel), Lois Lowry (The Giver and Number the Stars), Katherine Paterson (Jacob Have I Loved and Bridge to Terabithia) and Elizabeth George Speare (The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Bronze Bow) have all been awarded two Newbery Medals.
A number of authors have been the recipient of multiple Newbery honor awards including Russell Freedman, Nancy Farmer, Gary Paulsen, Virginia Hamilton, Padraic Colum, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Laura Ingalls Wilder, each of whom have won at least three honor awards.
For a complete list of winners, visit the American Library Association’s web site.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
[...] After a number of years of rejection, Alexander was finally published as a children’s author. The first book of his Prydain series was published in 1964. The last book of the series, The High King, won the Newbery Medal in 1969. Another book in the series, The Black Cauldron, was named a runner-up for the medal in 1966, a status now known as a Newbery Honor Book. [...]