I explain the Newbery Challenge in the following video:
Take a look at the Newbery Medal winners - 1922 - Present:
Click here to download a Newbery Challenge badge.
Colby Sharp is co-hosting this challenge. Thank you, Colby!
If you are participating in the Newbery Medal Challenge, you may link your Goodreads shelf or blog using the widget below:
Grateful for the "stress free" element! Thanks, Mr. Schu and Mr. Sharp!
ReplyDeleteYes, stress-free all the way! :)
ReplyDeleteWonderful idea! I'm there!
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This has always been a lifetime goal of mine. A fun idea, and your video made me very happy. Brought back many book memories.
ReplyDeleteLove the part about taking four years or more! We'll see how I do.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be fun and stress-free. Thanks for organizing this.
ReplyDeleteI will participate. I may not be as motivated to read them in order as you, but I will read, tag, and post reviews of the ones I do read.
ReplyDeleteI am going to write a post on my blog about this ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC newbery challenge and then link it above!! :)
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be so much fun!!
I have a random question-your picture on your profile-where was that taken?
Shannon
http://extremereadingandwriting.wordpress.com/
I like a challenge self imposed and as a group...I plan on reading every one that I haven't read (and ones that I liked previously).
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! Love it!!! :)
ReplyDeleteI have decided this year to improve my reading of middle grade books mainly. So this challenge will give some incentive. Have read a few, Maniac Magee I have read a couple of times aloud to my class over the years. I am going to take the stress free number of years approach, and read in any order I like!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a fun challenge and I LOVE that it is Stress Free!
ReplyDeleteSounds likes it will be fun and informative. Not too sure about the older titles - they may be hard to find but I am going to give it a shot. Would love to do this with my students too.
ReplyDeleteI'm in - can't wait to start.
ReplyDeleteI definitely like this idea, but to add to the "stress-free" aspect of it, perhaps you can be lenient on us and we can read them in any order as long as they still get read? :)
ReplyDeleteWow! I have read more winners than I realized. Loved the animoto. Excited to join in...just not sure how I will be doing it. Maybe I will start with present and work my way backwards. HaHa!
ReplyDeleteLike Alyson above, I think I want to go present to past or even alternate as was mentioned on twitter. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't make it. Will use my abandoned after so many pages rule though and spread out over a number of years!
ReplyDeleteI have had this as a goal for the last two years - so it's about time I set an end date, 2012 it is! Not sure how many I've read (to myself or to my kids) so I'll have to let you know.
ReplyDeleteMy teenager wants to read "They Story of Mankind" also, so I am going to challenge him to put that on his list this year. Thanks for the incentive :)
John, thanks for organizing! I will be doing it at a tortoise's pace, but I'm happy to have a challenge to focus my reading. I think I will be reading backwards.
ReplyDeleteI love this challenge - especially the fact that we are encouraged to tailor it to our reading lives. In order to keep up with new books AND go for this challenge I am going to try to read all the Newberys that were written by women authors. If time permits I will read the the ones written by men.
ReplyDeleteI have taken KT Horning's online ALSC Newbery course twice. It's a six-week course in which all enrolled read one Newbery winner from each decade and share thoughts. I still have quite a few to read - more than 50!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the inspiration, and the stress-free atmosphere. I'm going for the 2 year plan!
ReplyDeleteLove this. Love it. I was looking through the list and realized that I want to re-read ones already read, also hoping my budget could handle buying them, maybe a couple each month. How cool it would be to have them in my personal library (the hubby's building it even as I type, yay!)...
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, enough yacking from me. Thanks for leading the stress free charge and Happy New Year and enjoy being at the announcement for this years winner!!
What a great idea! Thanks
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to go back to work and get my hands on Dr. Dolittle and getting The Story of Mandkind from the Carnegie. I'm amending my initial reading challenge - now I'm going to read ALL the Newbery books!
ReplyDeleteIt only took me all day and all my patience to get to this point with the blog. I should have it figured out by the 10th or 20th book! I'll begin with most recent... just got it in the mail yesterday and the 1922 book is slowing me down!
ReplyDeleteWonderful stress-free challenge. This is something that I have always wanted to do, and now I have a real excuse - not that I really needed one!
ReplyDeleteThank you for signing up for this challenge. I finished book #1, The Story of Mankind. :)
ReplyDeleteI am so excited to start this challenge. I just finished reading "The Book Whisperer" by Donalyn Miller. I thought I was reading enough throughout the year. Turns out I am not so I am ready to get started! I am not sure how I will read these. I might start with the ones that I already have in my classroom library.
ReplyDeleteThis will be a great kick start to my 2012 reading, and I appreciate the zero stress factor!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the challenge! It's just what I needed to amp up my reading which has been stilted by a lack of focus. My house looks like Hoarders - the Bibliophile. I'm so excited to get back and share my 2012 reading goals with my 7th graders. (Well, this might be a multi-year, as I have hundreds of other books here to read, but nonetheless!)
ReplyDeleteI have never participated in a reading challenge before and being rather competitive, I cannot wait to try this one. I am reading them in reverse order, however, starting with the newest ones first.
ReplyDeleteAwesome challenge! I'm going to take the STRESS FREE part to heart and challenge myself to read one Newbery winner from each decade this year. I've read lots from the more recent decades, but this will motivate me to check out the earlier ones. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI also love that this is a stress-free challenge. (Otherwise, I wouldn't have signed up for it!) Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteI have THE STORY OF MANKIND right now. . .on my way. . .
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I am very excited about this challenge. I, of course, have a difficult time doing things the same way as everyone else. So, I will be starting my #Nerdbery with Moon Over Manifest (2011) and then going back in time. I'll meet you all somewhere in the middle!
ReplyDeleteI've been working on this goal for some time. Hopefully this will give me the extra incentive to read some of the older winners.
ReplyDeleteSo glad to have this challenge to motivate me to check out some books I may not have chosen otherwise - and to revisit some old favorites!
ReplyDeleteMaybe this will get me inspired to finish the 9 or so I haven't read yet, and review them here: http://newberryproject.blogspot.com/search/label/Sandy%20D.%27s%20Posts
ReplyDeleteHi! We're also joining in this challenge. We are hosting our very own Award-Winning-Books Reading Challenge in our website, and we thought that it would most likely build a greater sense of kidlit love and community if we also join in this one. After all, the challenges do overlap. :) Good luck to us!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if my earlier message went through. But let me rewrite, just in case it didn't. :) We'd love to join the challenge since it overlaps with our very own Award-Winning-Books Reading Challenge that we're hosting in our website. We feel that it'd foster a much lovelier sense of community among kidlit/YA enthusiasts to have all these reading challenges in the blogosphere. Best of luck to all of us.
ReplyDeleteI started reading Newberry's when my son was little, but we didn't get through them all. Now is the time!
ReplyDeleteI think I'll start this challenge on January 23rd when they announce the latest Newbery. I love reading challenges. I'm excited to have found this blog!
ReplyDeleteShamefacedly, I must say that the Newbery sticker usually causes me to put a book back on the shelf. I love checking things off a list (such a feeling of accomplishment!), so hopefully this will make me pick up those books and give them a chance.
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