Newbery 1946-style

Controversy generated by children’s book awards is pretty familiar territory in recent times, but consider the courage of the judges who awarded a Newbery Honor to The Moved-Outers (Florence Crannell Means) just after the end of the Second World War in 1946.

Peter Sieruta at Collecting Children’s Books tells the story.

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