NEW YORK — Meg Medina, the latest recipient of the John Newbery Medal, wrote her prize-winning children’s book with a special intensity. “There are so many negative characterizations these days of ...

“The key is to tell the story with a little bit of a twist. So when my kids did it, they told the story of the Newbery Award-winning book ‘Hoot’ in the style of a Japanese Godzilla movie ...