Books on Film: Enter the Newbery/Caldecott Wayback Machine

What’s this? A librarian at a podium holding up a physical copy of a book? We must have stumbled into the Newbery/Caldecott Wayback Machine. Before the live webcast, before social media, before the Geisel, before it was even called the Youth Media Awards, we had the “Newbery & Caldecott Medals Award Ceremony” on C-SPAN2. I’ve […]

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What’s this? A librarian at a podium holding up a physical copy of a book? We must have stumbled into the Newbery/Caldecott Wayback Machine.

Before the live webcast, before social media, before the Geisel, before it was even called the Youth Media Awards, we had the “Newbery & Caldecott Medals Award Ceremony” on C-SPAN2. I’ve located 2000, 2001, and 2002 in the past, but today we have 1999. They ran the show a little differently then.

The Newbery winner that your is my favorite middle grade novel of all time, Holes by Louis Sachar.

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And as an added bonus they throw in his acceptance speech for the National Book Award at the end.

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