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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 2000
Page
21
Christopher Paul Curtis receives the John Newbery Medal for Bad, Not Buddy, also earning the Coretta Scott King Award. His prior book The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 was a 1996 Newbery Honor title about Kenny and his family visiting their Birmingham grandma amid a church bombing.
A compact reflection urges youths to write daily and seek elder stories. It emphasizes that everyone finds their own path, while valuing the history carried by experienced voices, even if they seem dull at first.
The subject held diverse jobs from hanging car doors at a factory to mowing, customer service, census work, a Michigan campaign stint, and loading trucks. He did not intend to write but his wife admired his journals and letters and urged him to take a year off to write a book.
A nurse, Kaysandra, lives in Windsor Ontario with her son 21 and daughter 8. The brief notes her family setup and residence without additional details.
Christopher Paul Curtis describes his writing process using longhand at the library then typing on a computer. He says the method slows him down and helps him enjoy writing, noting it takes about a year to complete a book. He is drafting Bucking the Sarge about a 15 year old boy and his con artist mother.
An informal list highlights preferences in food with Indian dishes, musical taste leaning toward jazz and blues, and reading habits. It also notes basketball as a sport to play and a morning couch reading routine.
A ten year old boy searches for the man he believes is his father, a famous bandleader, in this heartfelt journey of identity and family. The quest unfolds through towns and encounters that test his resolve and reveal hidden truths.
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