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Newbery Winners Of The 1990s: An Analysis

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Winning the Newbery award most definitely changes an author’s life and opens up many opportunities for author’s to share with the world a piece of children’s literature that has a lasting impact. Due to this lasting impact book sales dramatically increase and tend to stay in print for many years to come (Horning, 2014) therefore, authors especially those who may not be as well known gives them opportunities to continue to do what they love. In an article read, booksellers felt that Newbery winners during the 1990s had better sales than on more recent winners and, “According to Publishers Weekly's annual children's best sellers lists (available from 1991 to 2006), many of the best-selling Newbery winners of the 1990s-The Giver, Holes (Farrar,

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