I think I've read every one of the Newberys before the mid-sixties, when several stinkers in a row made me suspicious. And despite Lloyd Alexander winning, and Robin McKinley later, I liked very few of them afterward. (I dutifully put most on the shelves for my students, but they didn't care for them either, and for much the same reasons: they felt they were written for grownups, not for kids.)
I've read fewer Carnegies. Again, it seems a lot of those are aimed at adult readers, not kids.
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I think I've read every one of the Newberys before the mid-sixties, when several stinkers in a row made me suspicious. And despite Lloyd Alexander winning, and Robin McKinley later, I liked very few of them afterward. (I dutifully put most on the shelves for my students, but they didn't care for them either, and for much the same reasons: they felt they were written for grownups, not for kids.)
I've read fewer Carnegies. Again, it seems a lot of those are aimed at adult readers, not kids.