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Coverage

There are now 28 pages in the category, all biographies. This constitutes complete coverage of the National Book Awards for children's literature during their "one annual" periods:

NBA for Children's Books (1969–1979)
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (1996–present)

In those 29 years (to 2013) we have 29 NBA awarded (never a no award or a split award), no co-authors, and one repeat winner, Katherine Paterson. The 28 writers all have biographies and all are in the category.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1970) alone remains in the parent cat National Book Award winners because he won the adult Fiction award too (1974).

From 1980 to 1983 there were 15 NBA scheduled, 17 awarded because two were two were split, 19 winners because two pairs of co-authors and no repeat winners. If I clerk correctly, 7 are redlinks and Lloyd Alexander is a repeat from the "one annual" years, so there are 11 more winner biographies to be moved here. All of those 11 bluelinks are sole authors, and writers rather than illustrators.

To be completed partly by replacing the previous paragraph and this one.
--P64 (talk) 19:42, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

1980–1983 update (in progress today)

The four winners of three Nonfiction awards (1981–1983; one pair of co-authors) are all redlinks.

The six winners of five Picture Books awards (4 scheduled, 1982–1983 hc & pb; one split; one pair of co-authors) include two redlinks.

Four writer-illustrators who won the Picture Books awards are now in the category: Cooney, Sendak, Spier, Stieg.

The nine winners of nine general and Fiction awards (8 scheduled, 1980–1983 hc & pb; one split) include one redlink. As I write we have complete coverage of these, which may be considered to continue the single 1969–1979 Children's Literature award on hc and pb tracks.

--P64 (talk) 19:28, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

39 biographies in the category constitute complete coverage of NBA winners in Children's and Young People's categories. Four won Picture Books categories in 1982 and 1983. The other 35 biographies represent complete coverage of that award which almost always goes to a children's novel, including dual hard and paper tracks 1980–1983: 38 awards thru 2013 including repeat winners Lloyd Alexander and Katherine Paterson and redlink Ouida Sebestyen.

--P64 (talk) 20:48, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]