The Orange Swan Review

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Sunday, 24 August 2008

A Graphic Novel Before Its Time

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Kate Seredy's 1938 Newbery winner The White Stag tells the mythic story of the Huns and their journey from their former barren lands in...
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Sunday, 17 August 2008

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Eager Readers!

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The Newbery winner for 2008, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village came into being because its author, Laura Amy Schli...
Sunday, 10 August 2008

The Strange and Unusual Growth of Gardenias

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I was overjoyed when I first learned that Faith Sullivan had written a sequel to The Cape Ann . It had been a long time coming. The Cape Ann...
Saturday, 2 August 2008

Caddie Woodlawn and the Dangers of Unexamined Nostalgia

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I've been meaning to write a review about the Newbery award-winner for 1936, Caddie Woodlawn , but for some reason I find myself with li...
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Monday, 6 August 2007

Sarah, Plain and Tall, and a Novel, Short and Sweet

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Patricia MacLachlan’s Sarah, Plain and Tall , the Newbery Medal winner for 1986, is set on a nineteenth-century prairie farm. Anna (who narr...
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Sunday, 29 July 2007

Johnny Tremain and the Irresistible Drumbeat of War

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The Newbery medallist for 1944, Esther Forbes’ Johnny Tremain , is a historical novel about a young apprentice silversmith and is set in a B...
Sunday, 22 July 2007

The Higher Power of Lucky and of Deplorable Words

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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 ...
Sunday, 15 July 2007

A Thimble Summer and the Winter of a Reviewer’s Discontent

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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 ...
Wednesday, 11 July 2007

For the Love of Knitting and the Dislike of Reading About It

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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 ...
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Sunday, 8 July 2007

A Bridge Between Children and Adults

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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 ...
Sunday, 1 July 2007

A Minstrel of the Thirteenth Century and an Author for All Time

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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...
Sunday, 24 June 2007

A Good Song Among Many

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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...
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Saturday, 23 June 2007

Tales as Beautiful As They Are Good, Though They Are Neither One

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