You know, I don't THINK there are any Boy Meets Submarine Newbery books, but I am so here for it if there is!
It is interesting (somewhat tangentially) to watch the age range of "children's literature" shift over the course of the Newberys: a lot of the books from the 1930s are about kids in their mid-to-late teens who are standing on their own two feet in the world for the first time. (Not always because they've Met a watercraft. Sometimes they are orphans or Mom had to chaperone a cousin to Arizona for her health.) In the recent winners, even the ones with heroes in the same age group aren't usually on their own in the same way.
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It is interesting (somewhat tangentially) to watch the age range of "children's literature" shift over the course of the Newberys: a lot of the books from the 1930s are about kids in their mid-to-late teens who are standing on their own two feet in the world for the first time. (Not always because they've Met a watercraft. Sometimes they are orphans or Mom had to chaperone a cousin to Arizona for her health.) In the recent winners, even the ones with heroes in the same age group aren't usually on their own in the same way.