# Dobry

**Author:** Monica Shannon
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–12
**First published:** 1934
**Page count:** 176
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780670275137`
**ISBN-10:** `0670275131`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/dobry
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Dobry is a book by Monica Shannon first published in 1934 that won the Newbery Medal for most distinguished contribution to American literature for children in 1935. Bulgarian-born sculptor Atanas Katchamakoff illustrated the book.

## Themes

- farm life
- artists
- peasants in literature
- folk art

## Where this book is assigned

### Newbery Medal

- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1935 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1935 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1935 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1935 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)

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