I would like to undertake a project to read all the Newbery Award and Honor books dating back to 1923. Since one fiction book for children is chosen each year to win the Newbery Medal, and the committee also chooses anywhere from zero to six Honor books, I’m estimating that there are about 83 x 4 books on the list–or a total of 332 books. I’ve already read about fifty to a hundred of them, but I’ll have to re-read them for this project because I’d like to review the books here.

So Book 1 of this project is one I reviewed earlier this week:

Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs Newbery Honor 1933

I also wrote about the Newbery Award here and highlighted the Newbery Medal books that I have read. I just counted, and I’ve read fifty-eight of the Medal books. It looks as if I’ve another book list to prevent me from becoming bored with life–as if eight children couldn’t handle that little task.

I wonder: Are any of the Newbery books also Christmas stories? If so, I should probably start with a Christmas book. If anyone knows, please leave a comment. Otherwise, I’ll just look through the titles and see what I can figure out.