Podcast
The Newbery Report
Hosted by CitizenRacecar · EN
Two New York improv actors discussing all-time great children's literature: every winner of the Newbery Medal, year by year and decade by decade. We promise that it's your new favorite book club!
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2002 – A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park
Oct 4, 201800:55:15Tap to summarizeTree Ear wants to make pots, Carolyn wants Kerry to like this book, and special guest Gina Jung wants some peace and tranquility. Only robbers, social stigma, the correct method for stacking firewood stand in their way! Rest assured, no ceramic cranes were harmed in the making of this episode.
Transcribe →2001 – A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck
Sep 6, 201800:35:18Tap to summarizeMary Alice (...was that her name?) isn't having the best time at her Grandmother's house, and let's be frank - Kerry and Carolyn didn't have the best time reading about it, either.
Transcribe →2000 – Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis
Jul 31, 201800:41:07Tap to summarizeNew Season! New Decade! And some important new rules, including #365: this book is awesome(!!!!!) and #28: crying at the end is allowed.
Transcribe →1979 – The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
Jun 19, 201800:43:05Tap to summarizeWe wrap up the 1970's with a total crowd pleaser (and Carolyn's all-time fave), The Westing Game. Can our intrepid literary detectives put the clues together in time? Tune in to our remote broadcast from unit 4D of the world's strangest apartment building to help solve the case!
Transcribe →1978 – Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
Jun 6, 201800:40:16Tap to summarizeAnd here it is folks... (drumroll)... the book that inspired us to begin with the 1970's. Grab that rope swing and let's dive in!
Transcribe →1977- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Tayor
May 22, 201800:42:02Tap to summarizeSpecial guest Ashley Wilson joins for yet another visit to some of the less savory vistas in American history. Can she and Kerry convince Carolyn that this sojourn in the Jim Crow south is worth the trip?
Transcribe →1976 – The Grey King, by Susan Cooper
Jan 24, 201800:39:27Tap to summarizeLet's face it, Kerry's had it up to here with superheroics, children of destiny, and other forms of pseudo-mythological hooey. Can Carolyn convince her to lift the magic harp and join the battle against the darkness (despite the ever-increasing trail of dead dogs)? Gadewch i ni ddarganfod!
Transcribe →1975: M.C. Higgins, The Great, by Virginia Hamilton
Jan 9, 201800:33:47Tap to summarizeHigh-stakes musicology, puppy love at knifepoint, and a six-toed collector of live snakes - join us at the top of our 40-foot pole for a truly weird little Appalachian sojourn.
Transcribe →1974: The Slave Dancer, by Paula Fox
Dec 12, 201700:30:00Tap to summarizeGather ‘round, children, for a laugh-a-minute romp through the middle passage! Kidnapping, forced servitude, torture, and seasickness – what could be more fun?
Transcribe →1973: Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
Nov 28, 201700:38:01Tap to summarizeWhich is going to prove to be the biggest problem for our favorite Inuit teenager: the Alaskan wilderness, white people, puberty, or her father? And could it be that Kerry and Carolyn actually agree about a book? Go north, listeners!
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