Annal:1982 Newbery Medal
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Newbery Medal in the year 1982. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
Nancy Willard, Alice Provensen, Martin Provensen
- 1982 Horn Book-picture winner
- 1982 Newbery winner
- 1981 Golden Kite-fiction honor
- Score: 26.32
Inspired by William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of poetry for children brings to life Blake’s imaginary inn and its unusual guests.
- 1982 Newbery honor
- Score: 6.32
Ramona Quimby, one of the most loved characters in children’s fiction, has now reached third grade. At school, she acquires a new teacher, Mrs. Whaley, who addresses the class as “you guys.” At home, she helps the family “squeak by” as her father returns to college to become an art teacher.
All the Quimbys have their ups and downs, but none feels them more intensely than Ramona. Her low point is undoubtedly reached the day she throws up in class and Mrs. Whaley instructs the children to hold their noses and file into the hall. But three days later Ramona…
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944
- 1982 Horn Book-nonfiction winner
- 1982 Newbery honor
- Score: 16.32
Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
