The Orange Swan Review

When I first read the 1931 Newbery winner The Cat Who Went to Heaven , by Elizabeth Coatsworth, I didn't like it at first, nor even kno...

The 1929 Newbery Medal Award Winner, The Trumpeter of Krakow , by Eric P. Kelly , which (as you would expect from the title) is set in Kra...

The 2016 Newbery Medal Winner, Last Stop on Market Street , written by Matt de la Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson, is an atypica...

A Good Reads review written by Good Reads member Phil Jern says of Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon , by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, the Newbery Med...

Years ago when the movie The Red Violin came out, I read a review of it in which the reviewer complained that an inanimate object doesn...

The inside jacket text of my library copy of the Newbery medalist for 1927, Will James's Smoky the Cowhorse , says that "A cowboy...

The Newbery medal-winner for 1926, Shen of The Sea: Chinese Stories for Children, by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, is another Newbery winner that ...

In the Newbery Medal winner for 2003, Crispin: The Cross of Lead , by Avi life for Crispin, a boy of thirteen living in England in 1376 A.D...

Katherine Paterson’s Jacob Have I Loved has been sitting on my desk for quite some time, waiting for me to review it. I remember not likin...

Patricia MacLachlan’s Sarah, Plain and Tall , the Newbery Medal winner for 1986, is set on a nineteenth-century prairie farm. Anna (who narr...

Lucky Trimble, the main character of the 2007 Newbery Medal Winner, Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky , is ten years old and one ...

Elizabeth Enright’s Newbery medal-winning Thimble Summer is very much a book of its time — but please don’t take this to mean that I think ...

At one point after the movie My Girl came out, I heard a radio announcer quip that for him the movie was just so much more enjoyable after ...

The 1983 Newbery Medal Winner Cynthia Voigt’s Dicey’s Song , like Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown , is one of the Newbery award winn...