http://www.metafilter.com/tags/newbery Posts tagged with 'newbery' at MetaFilter. Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:30:27 -0800 Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:30:27 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/19593/ <a href="http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/wisauth/raskin/main.htm#bio">Who was Ellen Raskin?</a> Even if you don't recognize the name, you've probably read her <a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html">Newbery</a> <a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbpast.html#70s">Award</a><a href="http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2001/01/25/newbery/print.html ">-winning</a> YA novel <a href="http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?show=Trade%20Paper:New:0140386645:5.99">The Westing Game</a>. You might even have <a href="http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/wisauth/raskin/childs2.jpg">her illustrated edition</a> of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811203913/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">A Child's Christmas in Wales,</a> which she printed on her own as a sample to show publishers when trying to jump-start a freelance career. She listed some of her influences as "Blake, Conrad, Hawthorne, James, Nabokov, <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/piero/flagellation.jpg">Piero della Francesca</a>, Calude Lorrain, Gaugin, Matisse, Fantasia, baseball, hockey, zoos, medicine, and Spain." [more inside] tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.19593 Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:30:27 -0800 brokenlink ellenraskin newbery newberyaward raskin redshoes3