The Orange Swan Review

The Newbery medallist for 1944, Esther Forbes’ Johnny Tremain , is a historical novel about a young apprentice silversmith and is set in a B...

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 ...

When I was at Winners last week I happened to spy a book on knitting in the bargain bin. I ran over to look at it, moth to flame-style, and ...

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 ...

Of all the Newbery-winning writers, I am definitely most knowledgeable about the author of 1943’s Adam of the Road , Elizabeth Janet Gray, o...

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...

The 1925 Newbery winner, Charles J. Finger’s Tales From Silver Lands , is a collection of nineteen folktales, gathered by Finger during his ...

Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown is one of the books on the Newbery list I have most dreaded reviewing. When it comes to qualiti...

On a recent trip to Value Village I came across a copy of Jemima J: a novel about ugly ducklings and swans , by Jane Green. I distinctly rem...

Like a lot of other Canadians I read Margaret Wente’s column in The Globe and Mail at least semi-regularly, and again as is common with man...