*nods* IME in the 1980s, public libraries in LA and its neighbor Orange County featured Newbery and sometimes Caldecott award/honor titles, but not Carnegie winners. Our loss.
Looking at the 1980s Carnegie winners, I knew none of the writers then. My nearest library acquired a copy of Diana Wynne Jones' A Sudden Wild Magic upon release, but my first DWJ was thus hardly her strongest; in grad school I read Westall's Blitzcat because it'd turned up used somewhere, and Crossley-Holland (as translator) and Andrew Taylor. Though I did read a bit of Robin McKinley then, I'd no idea of Peter Dickinson. 1995 is when I think the internet began cracking open the idea of "word of mouth," though I had some access from 1992 on, but TIL that Pullman won the Carnegie for Northern Lights/Golden Compass. The US paperback cover of the copy I read, late 1990s, didn't mention the award!
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Date: 2024-09-05 11:13 pm (UTC)Looking at the 1980s Carnegie winners, I knew none of the writers then. My nearest library acquired a copy of Diana Wynne Jones' A Sudden Wild Magic upon release, but my first DWJ was thus hardly her strongest; in grad school I read Westall's Blitzcat because it'd turned up used somewhere, and Crossley-Holland (as translator) and Andrew Taylor. Though I did read a bit of Robin McKinley then, I'd no idea of Peter Dickinson. 1995 is when I think the internet began cracking open the idea of "word of mouth," though I had some access from 1992 on, but TIL that Pullman won the Carnegie for Northern Lights/Golden Compass. The US paperback cover of the copy I read, late 1990s, didn't mention the award!