The Highest Hit and Other Selections by Newbery Authors

by Greenberg, Martin Harry; Waugh, Charles G.

• ISBN13: 9780836828566
• ISBN10: 0836828569
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub

Summary

The Newbery Award was created by the American Library Association (ALA) in 1922. Its mission was "to recognize authors and individual stories that contribute to the literature of children" and further "to give librarians an opportunity to encourage good writing." Gareth Stevens Publishing is pleased to support the aims of the ALA with The Newbery Authors Collection, an anthology series featuring selections from the lifework of winners and honorees. A portion of all proceeds will be given to the ALA.

From fantasy stories by such twentieth century greats as Madeleine L'Engle and Robin McKinley to real-world stories from the likes of Jean Craighead George, Walter D. Edmonds, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Richard Peck, the tales that fill these volumes contain abundant evidence of the many themes, characters, and writing skills that blossomed among Newbery winners. As a reference series, an introduction to great writers, or "just good reading, " these volumes offer representative stories from award-winning authors. They also offer biographies and more at an intere

Table of Contents

The Highest Hit	7	(33)
Nancy Willard
A Boy Who Went Whaling	33	(19)
Charles Boardman Hawes
The Christmas Fake	52	(13)
Lois Lenski
The Haste-Me-Well Quilt	65	(9)
Elizabeth Yates
Old Whirlwind	74	(25)
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Woodrow Kennington Works Practically a Miracle	99	(14)
Katherine Paterson
The Race in the Wilderness	113	(18)
Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Wounded Wolf	131	(5)
Jean Craighead George
On the Drift	136	(10)
Will James
Author Biographies	146	(5)
Newbery Award-Winning Books	151