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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Newbery Award"”.

  1. An Analysis of the Changing Roles of Female Characters in Newbery Award-Winning Fiction Since 1964

    … novels were selected from the list of Newbery Medal and Honor books because they dealt with contemporary themes and settings. These books have been .analyzed by categorizing each major or supporting adult female character into one of five categories of the "Occupational Prestige Rating …

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  2. Newberry Award Books of 1950-1959 and 1970-1979; Do They Reflect the Characteristics, Attitudes, and Problems of Families of these Periods?

    … purpose of this study was to determine whether Newbery Award books of 1950-59 and those of 1970-79 reflect the characteristics, attitudes, and problems of families of these periods.</p> <p>Through a detailed analysis of each book, a compilation of data, and a comparison to actual, contemporary …

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  3. Lois Lenski, A Friend to Children: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of a Children's Book Author

    … <em>Strawberry Girl</em> (1945), the 1946 Newbery award-winner and second installment in the American Regional series, and <em>High-Rise Secret</em> (1966), the eleventh installment in the Roundabout America series, focusing specifically on Lenski’s creative process. The analysis of …

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  4. Broadcasting the Profession: The American Library Association and the National Children's Radio Hour

    … (NBC), to the offer of a script created by Newbery Award winner Hendrik Van Loon, and the program's eventual demise due to political and economic pressures. It reveals parallels between librarians of the 1930s and librarians of the early 1990s, who wrestled with radio and the Internet …

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