From: Barthelmess, Thom <tbarthelmess_at_dom.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:09:54 +0000

That is fascinating! I tried a different search, spelling Newbery with a si ngle "r" and using "Medal" instead of "Award" for the Newbery and Caldecott and got some very different results. One could go through, too, using both "Award" and "Medal," using variant spellings, "CSK," "Michael L. Printz Aw ard," etc. I wonder to what degree we expect to see mention in books publis hed by ALA and, if so, we should expect the formal name of the prize to be used as opposed to the vernacular. So many possibilities. I could play arou nd for hours... Thom Barthelmess

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From: Charles Bayless

Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:48 AM To: 'Kathleen Horning'; 'CCBC-Net' Subject: RE:
 The Printz Award and Australian / NZ Authors This discussion about awards made me wonder about relative impact of awards over time. Google has a tool , Google Books Ngram Viewer
(http://books.google.com/ngrams/), which measures the frequency of words or phrases in the population of scanned books. If you haven't played with it, it is fascinating. Here is an article with background - s
-through-books/. As with any tool there are limitations but it provides an easily accessible grounding in measured reality for what can often otherwis e be purely speculative discussions. That said, when you enter Caldecott Award, Newberry Award, Coretta Scott King Award and Printz Award, you get the following Ngram Awa
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&corpus=0&smoothing=3) What it shows is that Caldecott, Newberry and King have all been in decline since their heyday circa, 1975-1995. In terms of the extent to which they are discussed, they are down some 60% from their peak. All awards have bee n in decline starting 2003. The data only goes to 2008. In terms of discussion generated (in books), the King award is now almost as much discussed as Newberry. The Printz Award now appears to have nearly as much circulation as the Caldecott. It is interesting to see that the major decline begins in 1995, just at the advent of the widespread adoption of the internet. Have awards become less pertinent in a world of disaggregated information sharing via the internet, dedicated children's books websites, and blogs? Does this ngram correspond with anyone else's perception? Charles

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From: Kathleen Horning

Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 1:00 PM To: CCBC-Net Subject: RE:
 The Printz Award and Australian / NZ Authors Thanks, Angela and Todd, for the additions. Australia is very well represented! Why do you think so many Printz Award winners originate in Australia? KT On 08/17/12, "Frederick, Angela (Library)" wrote: This year's honor author Craig Silvey is from Australia. I believe Christine Hinwood, also an honor author this year, is from Australia but no w resides in the UK.


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