The 2024 Newbery Medal Winner and Honor Books

In an interview with NPR's "All Things Considered" during 2023, this year's Newbery winner, Dave Eggers, said that writing from the voice of a stray dog, as he does in The Eyes and the Impossible, was "the most sort of liberating and joyful kind of writing I've ever done." The book follows the dog Johannes whose job is to be the Eyes of the park where he lives, reporting all that he sees to the bison elders in order to help protect the area's delicate equilibrium.