#Sid Fleischman

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reading game, 6!

6. Biggest surprise Thanks for the ask!

Looking at my reading list, I see a couple of surprises... All of them are books I was not expecting to enjoy so much. I was surprised by how much I LOVED The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg. It's a story about four smart kids and their teacher and their community, and the unexpected connections between them. I can see why it won a Newbery, but it's also simply enjoyable and entertaining. I also LOVED Princess Academy when I reread it for the first time in 10+ years. It became a favorite this time, when I merely liked it before. It's exactly the sort of book I want to read and write, with adventure, family, a coming-of-age story, and excellent themes and characters. Another book I was unexpectedly obsessed with was Bandit's Moon by Sid Fleischman. I was really compelled by the central character of the book--the titular bandit leader--and I was very interested in the history behind the book. I was also really riveted as I wondered how the book would end and what the fate of that character would be.

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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)

By The Great Horn Spoon! By Sid Fleischman (1963)

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Remembered Books

I hated the fifth grade with a fiery hot passion. It felt like the longest school year of my life. However, the saving grace were the books we read together as a class.

One of the books I remember liking was called Harris and Me by Gary Paulson. I thought the two little boys (who I think were cousins) had a very amusing dynamic. Two things I remember about this book. 1. Since they worked on the farm they had to eat good hearty meals. 2. The main character somehow tricks Harris to pee on a wired fence. I don't think it goes well.

Since then I have had an appreciation for Gary Paulson books. I've tried reading some. After just looking him up I realized two things. 1. He wrote a lot of books. 2. He was older that I thought and died in 2021

Another book I remember reading was called By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman. Don't remember as much with that one. I remember the cover of the book more than anything.

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what if praiseworthy bythegreathornspoon was a butch

<- the vibes are there

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Artist Jane Crowther

My 2024 Booklist

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson The Color Purple by Alice Walker Maskerade by Terry Pratchet (#18 of Discworld) The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey The Great Gatzby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Coraline by Neil Gaiman The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Murder Most Royal by Jean Plaidy A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall

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Books Read In 2023

Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley (1/3/23)

East by Edith Pattou (1/4/23)

Midnight on the Moon by Mary Pope Osbourn (1/16/23)

The Lady or The Tiger?, and The Discourager of Hesitancy by Frank R. Stockton (1/17/23)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1/21/23)

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (1/22/23)

Tiger Queen by Annie Sullivan (1/22/23)

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1/26/23)

Batgirl, vol. 1: The Silent Knight (1/27/23)

Batgirl, vol. 2: To The Death (1/27/23)

Batgirl, vol. 3: Point Blank (1/28/23)

The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling (2/17/23)

Batgirl: Stephanie Brown, vol. 1 by Bryan Q. Miller (2/19/23)

Batgirl, Stephanie Brown, vol. 2 by Bryan Q. Miller (3/4/23)

Christmas in Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren (3/4/23)

The Queen’s Blade by T C Southwell (3/5/23)

Sacrifice, The Queen’s Blade #2 by T C Southwell (3/9/23)

The Invisible Assassin, The Queen’s Blade #3 by T C Southwell (3/13/23)

Mermaids by Patty Dann (3/14/23) X

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám translated by Edward FitzGerald (3/19/23)

The Mirror Visitor by Christelle Dabos (3/21/23) X

The Missing of Clairedelune by Christelle Dabos (3/22/23) X

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy (3/24/23) X

Ronia, The Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren (3/27/23)

Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono (3/30/23)

Brine and Bone by Kate Stradling (4/10/23)

Green Arrow: Quiver by Kevin Smith (4/17/23) X

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Stanley Mitchell (4/22/23)

When Patty Went to College by Jean Webster (4/23/23)

The Princess and The Pea by Hans Christian Anderson (4/23/23)

Deathmark by Kate Stradling (4/25/23)

Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco (5/5/23)

River Secrets by Shannon Hale (5/6/23)

The Fairy’s Return and Other Princess Tales by Gail Carson Levine (5/8/22)

Batman Adventures: Cat Got Your Tongue? by Steve Vance (5/14/23)

Batman Adventures: Batgirl — A League of Her Own by Paul Dini (5/17/23)

The Girl From The Other Side: Siúil a Rún, Vol. 1 by Nagabe (5/19/23)

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda. Translated by W. S. Merwin (5/26/23)

Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World by Yee-Lum Mak (6/21/23)

A Bride’s Story, vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori (6/25/23) X

La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils (7/17/2023)

Storefront Church by William Waring Cuney (7/24/23)

Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers (1941), compiled by Arnas Bontemps (7/28/23)

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (7/29/23)

Strawberry’s New Friend (Flower Fairy Friends series) by Pippa Le Quesne (7/29/23)

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (8/11/23)

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (8/18/23)

Convent Boarding School by Virginia Arville Kenny (9/05/23)

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (09/18/23)

The Betsy Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace (09/27/23)

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (09/27/23)

Skylark (Sarah, Plain and Tall #2) by Patricia MacLachlan (09/27/23)

Caleb’s Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall #3) by Patricia MacLachlan (09/27/23)

Maelyn by Anita Halle (10/06/23)

Imani All Mine by Connie Porter (10/15/23)

The Perilous Gard (10/22/23)

Enemy Brothers by Constance Savery (10/29/23)

Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr (11/19/23)

Gone By Nightfall by Dee Garretson (12/02/23)

The Dragon’s Promise by Elizabeth Lim (12/08/23)

A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla (12/10/23)

The Thirteenth Princess by Diane Zahler (12/23/23)

The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle (12/26/23

The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (12/31/23)

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Reading List - 2023

Books Read:

Abbot & Barley: A Perfect Place by Silvia Vecchini

Abnormal Occurrences by Thomas Berger

Abstract Expressionism For Beginners by Richard Klin

Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Art Styles for Kids by Various Authors

Avalanche! by Arthur Roth

Beginning x64 Assembly Programming by Jo Van Hoey

Bronze Age Swamp Thing Vol. 1

Bronze Age Swamp Thing Vol. 2

Bronze Age Swamp Thing Vol. 3

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Dada & Surrealism for Beginners by Elsa Bethanis

DCeased

DCeased: Dead Planet

DCeased: Hope at World's End

DCeased: Unkillables

DCeased: War of the Undead Gods

Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Doulgas

Doom Patrol by John Byrne

The Five Solas of the Reformation by Andy McIlree

Fowl Language: The Struggle is Real by Brian Gordon

Fowl Language: Welcome to Parenting by Brian Gordon

Fowl Language: Winging It by Brian Gordon

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

The History of the Church by Eusebius Eusebius

The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis

How do you go to the Bathroom in Space? by William R. Pogue

Introducing Op Art by John Lancaster

The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis

Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis

The Martian by Andy Weir

Op Art by Cyril Barrett

Plankton by John Wood

Pond Water Zoo by H. Peter Loewer

Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis

Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s by David S. Rubin

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis

Surrealism by Natalia Brodskaya

Swamp Thing: Tales from the Bayou

Tranny by Laura Jane Grace

Teilhardism and the New Religion by Wolfgang Smith

Venomous by Christie Wilcox

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? by Robert Bartlett

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Year's Best Fantasy by David G. Hartwell

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sid fleischman the ghost in the noonday sun

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Book Review: The Giant Rat of Sumatra

The Giant Rat of Sumatra: or Pirates Galoreby Sid Fleischman, John Hendrix (Illustrator) 3.5 out of 5 starsA pirate ship rescues a boy from a shipwreck, and he becomes their new cabin boy. Nicknamed “Shipwreck”, he has a tenuous loyalty to the pirates, because they saved his life, but he is looking for an opportunity to leave them and make his way home on a trade ship. The pirate captain…

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These are my top 10 Disney+ adaptation ideas, as I came up with ideas about NEW movies, sequels and NEW TV series for Disney. Maybe Disney would release these on Disney Plus instead of releasing them in theaters or on television. REMINDER: Star Wars, Marvel, National Geographic and future live-action remakes or photorealistic remakes are NOT on my list and without further ado, here's the list.

1. Gorwenji (my own future Disney movie) 2. DINOSAUR 2 3. Leo the Brilliant 4. The Princess and the Dinosaur 5. The White Elephant (based off the book by Sid Fleischman) 6.  Prehistoric Kingdom (based on the game by Crytivo) 7. The Lion Girl (animated sequel after the 2nd Lion King movie called "The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride" and The Lion Guard TV series) 8. Bromeo and Juliet (dinosaur version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet). 9. Son of Tarzan. 10. The Jungle Book 3.

Alright, there you go, Disney fannies. I understand this is crazy, insane or something, but I just thought that I came up with ideas about NEW movies, sequels and NEW TV series for Disney. What do you guys think? Would like to know more about these ideas that I came up with? If so, please let me know in the comments down below.

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I responded to the booklist question! I'm sure I forgot some but whew it still took forever to write.

What about you? What are some of the books youve read the most?

Good question! I finally started keeping a list, so I have something to work from. That way I won't draw a blank.

My top five or six favorite authors and series are: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, C. S. Lewis's Narnia books, Rosemary Sutcliff's Dolphin Ring series (beginning with Eagle of the Ninth), Enemy Brothers and The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery the Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner, and The Mysterious Benedict Society (original trilogy and prequel) by Trenton Lee Stewart.

There are many other books and authors I love. I listed several of my childhood influences in this post featuring my 50 favorite children's books (focusing on ones I grew up with as a young person).

Here's my list of favorite books I've read the most or ones I think are worth rereading: The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye (a delightful original fairytale about a princess who refuses to stay in her tower)

The Reluctant Godfather by Allison Tebo (romantic comedy fairytale retelling, with an emphasis on the comedy) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (adventure about a mother mouse seeking to save her family) The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (middle grade fantasy adventure)

Dragon Slippers and Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George (original fantasy in the style of fairytales) Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (fantasy adventure and coming-of-age story about a group of girls who attend school for the first time)

The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart (urban light fantasy with dystopian elements) The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (middle-grade, post-apocalyptic dystopian) The Arrival by Shaun Tan (a wordless graphic novel that conveys human experiences through surrealism)

The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (vintage contemporary about a lively family) Derwood, Inc. by Jeri Massi (modern contemporary mystery about another boisterous family) The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (quirky vintage mystery with an interesting cast of characters) Historical Fiction: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham Caddie Woodlawn, Family Grandstand, and other books by Carol Ryrie Brink Rebecca's War by Ann Finlayson Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Knight's Fee by Rosemary Sutcliff

The Lost Baron by Allen French The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman A Single Shard and Seesaw Girl by Linda Sue Park The Bronze Bow and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare The Secret Garden and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell A few books I discovered more recently that are now all-time favorites: Seventh City by Emily Hayse, The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt, Valiant by Sarah McGuire, Out of the Tomb by Ashley Stangl, the Mistmantle Chronicles by M. I. McAllister, Escape to Vindor by Emily Golus, Chase the Legend by Hannah Kaye, The Key to the Chains by Allison Tebo (sci-fi), Rebel Wave by Tor Thibeaux (undersea dystopian) Historical fiction: Listening for Lions and Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan, Courage in Her Hands by Iris Noble, Victory at Valmy and Word to Caesar by Geoffrey Trease, historical fiction Westerns and mysteries by author Elisabeth Grace Foley

Mystery/suspense: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman, The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart

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The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

1987 Newbery Medal Winner

Adapted by Campbell, Henry, and Waylon of Lloyd Harbor School (2024)

From Huntington, NY

Judges' Remarks: This was a fun twist: instead of the main character being a "whipping boy," he is the "baking boy" (with a container of whipped cream always strapped to his head for some reason). There was a very resourceful use of green screen in this movie, putting the characters in many different environments as the story demanded, and the costumes were fun and goofy, from the sunglasses, big nose, and beard of the kidnappers Cutwater and Hold-Your-Nose Billy to the paper armor of the knight in the first scene. The occasional onscreen text also helped to keep the story on track. I was a little confused at the series of scenes where everyone was walking into the frame and then immediately falling down for some reason (did that have to do with going through the portals?), but I was able to follow the plot more or less, and I liked how the climax didn't hinge around the whipping boy's knowledge of the sewers (which he used in the original book to elude and trick the kidnappers in the underground hiding-places in the city), but rather the baking boy's knowledge of baking, which he uses to defeat the kidnappers in an impromptu bakeoff! The "baking" was a little unconvincing—clunking a spoon in a bowl, or pushing around bits of paper with a spatula (have you fellas ever, uh, baked?) but that made the movie more comedic. I particularly was amused by the exchange of lines "All I have to do is add the whipped cream" "Is that necessary?" "No", followed by the "Baking Boy" dumping the contents of the weird whipped cream container that has been unaccountably strapped to his head the entire story. The judge's disgust with the kidnapper's cake was funny, and in the end this movie told a version of the story that is close enough to the original, and yet makes it new and different with this twist.

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tagged in a thing by @verecunda!! it took me ...several weeks to actually do it, but I Have been thinking about it the entire time. so.

rules: list ten books that have stayed with you in some way, don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.

The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. LeGuin - this is the book that I spent my whole life looking for, was certain existed, and well - it's real, and was exactly what I needed when I found it, and that's not something that happens often.

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson - so many of the best developments of the past few years of my life can be owed directly to this book. which is a wild thing to say, I'll admit.

Spying on Whales, Nick Pyenson - ocean's haunted! whales are full of weird goo! and other fun facts written in such a tranquil manner.

Beowulf, as translated by Seamus Heaney - it's Beowulf. what more have I to say. if you know you know.

Bonnie Dundee, Rosemary Sutcliff - that incredibly rare thing, a book that actually depicts the artistic process in a way that makes sense to me as a person who draws.

The Flight of the Heron, D.K. Broster - previously unimaginable occurrences have in fact Repeatedly Occurred because of this book. shan't elaborate as I'm sure you've seen my soupy state of being over the last year or so.

The Adventures of Robin Hood, Roger Lancelyn Green - almost positive that this was the first book I ever truly Shouted about. there's a half-written stage adaptation written by twelve-year-old em around in some folder somewhere still...

In Small Things Forgotten, James Deetz - sends me into some kind of Architectural Trance every time I read it.

Tim To The Lighthouse, Edward Ardizzone - administer this potion to your children at frequent intervals to most certainly turn them into boat-obsessed scribble artists who will never recover.

By the Great Horn Spoon, Sid Fleischman - ...actually I just realized that a lot of the way and what I write now can be traced directly to having this poured directly into me as a small child as well. hm.

and I shall tag... @sailorpants, @dxppercxdxver, @sanguinarysanguinity, @natdrinkstea, @alizuriacrow, @cytocutie, @what-even-is-sleep, @graveyardrabbit, @annabellioncourt, @cedarboots, if you'd like to share?

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Mcbroom's Zoo.

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SORRY. ACCIDENTALLY REBLOGGED INSTEAD OF SAVING A DRAFT. CAN’T FIX YET BECAUSE HUSBAND IS READING REAPER MAN, AND THAT IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT. IGNORE FOR THE NEXT HOUR, PLEASE.

This made me curious, so I went through my bookshelf and found the books I own that clearly state they’re Newbery Medal or Newbery Honor winners. I have:

Holes, by Louis Sachar - an extremely funny, weird, and heartbreaking exploration or intergenerational trauma and the incarceration state, and about as far from a tear jerker as you can get. (Like even the ‘I can fix it’ and ‘she was going to die’ lines provoke a much more passionate response than is usually associated with ‘tear jerker’.)

My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George - wilderness survivalist wish fulfillment. Kid goes into the wild and is so very smart and skillful, and tames predators to hunt with him, and his family regrets not being nice enough to him. It’s a really good version of that fantasy. No tears. (Maybe a trusty animal companion dies, but that’s not the focus.)

Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry - definitely a tear jerker! Jewish girl trying to pretend she isn’t in Nazi occupied Denmark. Probably one of the books people who want to get a Newbery try to emulate. It’s great.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien - animal adventure thriller. A mother mouse works with science experiment rats to save the life of her dying son. I found it scary and fascinating as a kid. The deaths are all heroic or horrific.

The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder - kids’ imagination gets out of hand, and they start really getting scared. I remember this book making a big impression on me when I was about 10, also struggling with the boundaries between reality and imagination. Forget how it ends, so I have no clue if it goes for cheap emotional punches.

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting - ridiculous and cute adventures of a doctor who talks to animals. The authour had to actively forget everything he knew to be able to write this nonsense, but it’s pretty fun. The depiction of Africa is … hard, though. Complete fluff.

Little House on the Pairie Series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder - books 4-9 were all given Newbery Honors. Y’all know Little House. Most of the tear jerker moments happen before book 4, if I remember correctly, but I could see someone making an argument.

Charlotte’s Web, by E. B. White - yeah yeah, definitely some emotions being played with here.

The House of Sixty Fathers, by Meindert DeJong - little Chinese boy deals with starvation and horrors before the nice American soldiers allow him to stay at their army base. This is … kind of what people are complaining about, actually. Exotic sad children, white heroes, and a bittersweet ending.

Ramona Quimby, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary - slice of life of a ‘hyperactive’ kid, back when that meant an extremely well behaved kid who sometimes had to be asked twice to sit still. Confusing for someone with ADHD, but pretty good. No sad at all.

Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson - one of my favourite books, but definitely a tear jerker. Also features a manic pixie dream girl. But the most accurate depiction of children’s imagination I’ve ever read.

The Whipping Boy, by Sid Fleischman - kind of average Prince and the Pauper-esque story, if I remember right? Didn’t make much of an impression.

The Giver, by Lois Lowry - one of the better kids social commentary sci-fi novels I’ve ever read. Kid gets chosen by his ‘utopian’ community to bear the burden of knowing the things they gave up to create their perfect world. The people who complain about Newberys probably hate this book but they’re wrong.

The Twenty-One Balloons, The Tale of Despereaux, and Jacob Have I Loved - haven’t actually read these. I think I started Jacob Have I Loved, but I don’t know how far I got. But one is early science fiction about getting trapped an island of mad scientists. The second is Tumblr beloved, about a heroic mouse. And the third is about sibling jealousy.

I don’t own Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan yet, but I immediately thought of it when you mentioned Newbery winners. It’s about kids whose father gets a mail-order bride. And about how complicated it is to start loving someone. Wonderful! Just great.

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So this list has a pretty low sad-kid ratio. And a lot of great books. But that COULD just be because I hate good taste!

I ended up checking a list of books, because I was sure there was a book about a girl’s friend getting leukaemia and dying that I should mention. Couldn’t find it, but I DID get some insight into why people might complain about the award!

The first award was issued in 1922. The first 40 years have a LOT of historical fiction (often sad or depressing), child and their animal stories (often sad and depressing), and stories about the lives of people in exotic and tragic far away places (almost ALWAYS sad). These stop dominating the list, but never die out. By the 60s and 70s we start to get a bunch of really good Sci-fi. And I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of good slice-of-life stories about normal kid events, but I can tell you nothing about their patterns. (Stories about normal kids tended to be so alienating that they made me wonder if I was real.) But the people choosing these things REALLY like stuff set in the past. And people who write things set in the past usually want to talk about how hard the past was, and how good we have it now.

People make fun of Newbury Honor books and how they’re all about making kids sad but honestly my memory of Newbury Honor books is like. Ella Enchanted aka a fucking incredible cultural treasure of a work of children’s literature about the value of disobedience. A Single Shard which I don’t know how it would hold up my current standards for literature cuz I haven’t read it since elementary school but definitely was about hope and not in a fake-ass “your dog died but it’s important to be hopeful anyway” way. And at least one Joan Bauer book, all of which that I recall were fun and thought-provoking to my growing brain, even if looking back I think I have some disagreements with the author. I’ve no doubt the medal got slapped on a lot of dumb transparent tearjerkers, but my experience was pretty positive I gotta say!