Yeah, I noticed multiple later books on the 1923 list. I think that might be a special case, though? Because under USian copyright law, at least as I've seen it noted on Project Gutenberg, books from 1923 and earlier are usually "in public domain" / out of copyright -- so somebody might have chosen to fake that copyright date onto certain later books Because Reasons. 1924 doesn't have any similarly backdated books, though it does have a couple Sherlock Holmes stories I know to be reprints rather than original copyright date.
(1924 has so many books I've read. O_O 1923 has nothing I could put on the Mock Newberys list, but '24 has the Boxcar Children and When We Were Very Young - not American, but cool anyway - and even a Paul Bunyan collection I had when I was a kid. Maybe '23 is skewed because of the copyright thing and I just can't find out what-all was actually published then, or MAYBE it really was a horrible year for kidlit and "The Dark Frigate" was the best thing going. ;P I'd say they might better have taken a page from England's future Carnegie Medal and just not awarded the medal if there were no worthy books eligible, but the three years the Carnegie did that were after it was well established, not in its very second year of existence....)
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(1924 has so many books I've read. O_O 1923 has nothing I could put on the Mock Newberys list, but '24 has the Boxcar Children and When We Were Very Young - not American, but cool anyway - and even a Paul Bunyan collection I had when I was a kid. Maybe '23 is skewed because of the copyright thing and I just can't find out what-all was actually published then, or MAYBE it really was a horrible year for kidlit and "The Dark Frigate" was the best thing going. ;P I'd say they might better have taken a page from England's future Carnegie Medal and just not awarded the medal if there were no worthy books eligible, but the three years the Carnegie did that were after it was well established, not in its very second year of existence....)