Never heard of this either, but it sounds like fun. It seems like you would still have kids of relatively the same age reading the books, so likely they would be reading the same few titles.

However, this inspired me to look up what the Newbery winner was the year I was born and I am thrilled to discover that it is one of my favorites, Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary, the '84 winner!

No experience, but WOW what a great idea! I love it and I think I will read one from my birth year this weekend if I can.

Awsome, I just had to check and the winner of my year of birth was A wrinkle in time! One of my all-time favorites:-)

This would proably make a wonderful all family project where even grandparents can participate.

I think this is great and I got Shadow of a Bull. Hmmmm. My 9 year old son and I actually had this conversation but with the Caldecott award -- he liked looking at my poster and connecting people with their Caldecott birth year -- that could be another fun family activity!