1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman<\/p>\n
The Plot and My Thoughts — in short<\/b>
\nNo spoiler space here, because, surprise, there is no plot! This is actually a book of short poems about bugs. I believe they are intended to be read aloud by two people.<\/p>\n
I assume the fact that it’s poetry is what made it eligible for the Newbery Medal, because the length of the book (it is very very short) and the size of the pictures (they are very very large) makes me think it would have made more sense to give it a Caldecott.<\/p>\n
Those of you who know me know I have very little use for poetry, so I cannot in all rights recommend this book at all. I went back to look at the Newbery list for this year, and both 88 and 89 appear to have been the peak of the children’s literature dark ages. The winners from those years are odd indeed, and there are only two Honor books to go along with them. I cannot rate a poetry book as I would prose, so I can’t give a rating out of 10 for this one. But the target audience is not the typical Newbery audience; I don’t think anyone over the age of 8 would want this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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