The Newbery Title Frankenstein

There’s a post right up my alley over at A Fuse #8 Production today. It’s about how certain book titles sound more Newbery-ish than others. Betsy puts forth a few Newbery-sounding titles and challenges readers to do the same.

It made me wonder which words appear most often in the titles of Newbery Medal winning books.

So I decided to find out.

I entered all the titles from Newbery Medal winners into Wordle, a word cloud generator. The more appearances of a word, the larger the font.

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As you can see, there are a few words that stand out:

• King
• Road
• Cross
• Summer
• Cat
• Hill
• Mr.
• Mrs.

So, knowing that, here is my title:

Mr. and Mrs. Cross and the Cat King of Summer Hill Road

Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Cross move to a new house on Summer Hill Road and encounter a clan of feral cats with a mysterious leader.

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