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!

We did this with our book club of adults that read kid's books. It would also work great with a parent/child group just to get a wide variety of titles.

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!

I did something similar using Caldecott Books with our third grade. Since there are so many titles we started by reading the books from the year the students were born, comparing them to the year their parents were born, then to the year that their grandparents were born.It was really a fun literacy unit. I also get parents asking me what books to give as a gifts I usually start with the Caldecott in the year the child was born.

I also do Caldecott Units with second grades and they are particularly enamored with the really old titles, like, Song of the Swallows, White Snow Bright Snow, Make Way for Ducklings, The Biggest Bear.

I do have most of the Caldecott's in our school collection.