John Newbery Medal

Table of Contents
Background to the Award. Award Winners and Honor Recipients. Resources.

I.  Background to the Award.

  

The John Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children ("ALSC") "to the author of the most distinguised contribution to American literature for children" (ALSC, Newbery Medal Home Page).   The award winning books are selected by the Newbery Award Selection Committee from those books that were published in the previous year, in English, in the United States.  Books for children up to and including 14 years of age will be considered for the medal. The medal is named after John Newbery, an 18th century English bookseller.  Mr. Newbery was the first person to create and market books specifically intended for children.  His success was due, in part, to the rise in the English middle class during the 18th century, with the accompanying increase in the amount of time and money that parents could spend on their children, along with society's changing attitudes toward children.  Mr. Newbery's books sought to both educate and entertain children.  His first success came in 1744, when he published A Little Pretty Pocket Book.  Children's publishing was only a portion of Mr. Newbery's business.  He published many other books intended for adults, owned newspapers, and sold patent medicines, including Dr. James' Fever Powder.  Mr. Newbery died in London, England, in 1767.  He was 54 years old.  In 1921, Frederic G. Melcher proposed the establishment of the John Newbery Medal to the American Library Association and his proposal was enthusiastically accepted.  The John Newbery Medal thus became the first children's book award in the world.  The first award was given in 1922.  From the establishment of this award until 1971, the award selection committtee could, and often did, choose "runner-up" books, although such books were not selected every year.  In 1971, the phrase "runners-up" was changed to "honor books," and books that previously had been selected as "runners-up" were retroactively referred to as "honor books."  Each year a bronze John Newbery Medal is cast, with the winner's name and date inscribed on the back.  On the top left is a picture of the John Newbery Medal seal, and on the bottom left is a picture of the John Newbery honor seal (from the ALA store website).  The award seals are gold and resemble the front of the John Newbery Medal, while the honor seals are silver and look like the back of the medal.  Publishers can affix a copy of the seals onto books that win the medal or receive an honor.  Below is a list, by year, of books that have won the John Newbery Medal or received an honor.

 

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II.  Award Winners and Honor Recipients.

 

   2008

 

• Award:
  • Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, written by Laura Amy Schlitz and illustrated by Robert Byrd (Candlewick, 2007).

 

• Honors:
  • Elijah of Buxton, written by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic Press, 2007).
  • The Wednesday Wars, written by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books, 2007).

  • Feathers, written by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam Juvenile, 2007).

     

    2007

 

• Award:
  • The Higher Power of Lucky, written by Susan Patron and illustrated by Matt Phelan (Atheneum, 2006).

 

• Honors:
  • Penny from Heaven, written by Jennifer L. Holm (Random House, 2006).
  • Hattie Big Sky, written by Kirby Larson (Delacorte, 2006).
  • Rules, written by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic Press, 2006).

 

   2006

 

•  Award:
  • Criss Cross, written by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow, 2005).

 

• Honors:
  • Whittington, written by Alan Armstrong and illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Random House, 2005).
  • Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow, written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic Nonfiction, 2005).
  • Princess Academy, written by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2005).
  • Show Way, written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by Hudson Talbott (Putnam Juvenile, 2005).

 

   2005

 

• Award:
  • Kira-Kira, written by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum, 2004).

 

• Honors:
  • Al Capone Does My Shirts, written by Gennifer Choldenko (Putnam Juvenile, 2004).
  • The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, written by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books, 2004).
  • Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, written by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books, 2004).

 

   2004

 

• Award:
  • The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, written by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Timothy B. Ering, (Candlewick, 2003).

 

• Honors:
  • Olive's Ocean, written by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow, 2003).
  • An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, written by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books, 2003).

 

   2003

 

• Award:
  • Crispin: The Cross of Lead, written by Avi (Hyperion, 2002).

 

• Honors:
  • The House of the Scorpion, written by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum, 2002).
  • Pictures of Hollis Woods, written by Patricia Reilly Giff (Wendy Lamb Books, 2002).

  • Hoot, written by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf, 2002).

  • A Corner of The Universe, written by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic Press, 2002).
  • Surviving the Applewhites, written by Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins, 2002).

 

   2002

 

• Award:
  • A Single Shard, written by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books, 2001).

 

• Honors:
  • Everything on a Waffle, written by Polly Horvath (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001).
  • Carver: A Life In Poems, written by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street, 2001).

 

   2001

 

• Award:
  • A Year Down Yonder, written by Richard Peck (Dial, 2000).

 

• Honors:
  • Hope Was Here, written by Joan Bauer (Putnam Juvenile, 2000).
  • Because of Winn-Dixie, written by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick, 2000).
  • Joey Pigza Loses Control, written by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).
  • The Wanderer, written by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins, 2000).

 

   2000

 

• Award:
  • Bud, Not Buddy, written by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte, 1999).

 

• Honors:
  • Getting Near to Baby, written by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam Juvenile, 1999).
  • Our Only May Amelia, written by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins, 1999).
  • 26 Fairmount Avenue, written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola (Putnam Juvenile, 1999).

 

   1999

 

•  Award:
  • Holes, written by Louis Sachar (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998).

 

• Honor:
  • A Long Way from Chicago, written by Richard Peck (Dial, 1998).

 

   1998

 

• Award:
  • Out of the Dust, written by Karen Hesse (Scholastic Press, 1997).

 

• Honors:
  • Ella Enchanted, written by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins, 1997).
  • Lily's Crossing, written by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte, 1997).

  • Wringer, written by Jerry Spinelli (Joanna Cotler, 1997).

     

    1997

 

• Award:
  • The View from Saturday, written by E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum, 1996).

 

• Honors:
  • A Girl Named Disaster, written by Nancy Farmer (Orchard Books, 1996).
  • The Moorchild, written by Eloise McGraw (Margaret K. McElderry, 1996).
  • The Thief, written by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow, 1996).
  • Belle Prater's Boy, written by Ruth White (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996).

 

   1996

 

• Award:
  • The Midwife's Apprentice, written by Karen Cushman (Clarion Books, 1995).

 

• Honors:
  • What Jamie Saw, written by Carolyn Coman (Front Street, 1995).
  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963, written by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte, 1995).
  • Yolonda's Genius, written by Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry, 1995).
  • The Great Fire, written by Jim Murphy (Scholastic Press, 1995).

 

   1995

 

• Award:
  • Walk Two Moons, written by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler, 1994).

 

• Honors:
  • Catherine, Called Birdy, written by Karen Cushman (Clarion Books, 1994).
  • The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, written by Nancy Farmer (Orchard Books, 1994).

 

   1994

 

• Award:
  • The Giver, written by Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin, 1993).

 

• Honors:
  • Crazy Lady, written by Jane Leslie Conly (HarperCollins, 1993).
  • Dragon's Gate, written by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins, 1993).
  • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, written by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books, 1993).

 

   1993

 

• Award:
  • Missing May, written by Cynthia Rylant (Orchard Books, 1992).

 

• Honors:
  • What Hearts, written by Bruce Brooks (HarperCollins, 1992).
  • The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural, written by Patricia McKissack (Knopf, 1992).
  • Somewhere in the Darkness, written by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic, 1992).

 

   1992

 

• Award:
  • Shiloh, written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum, 1991).

 

• Honors:
  • Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel, written by Avi (Orchard Books, 1991).
  • The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, written by Russell Freedman (Holiday House).

 

   1991

 

• Award:
  • Maniac Magee, written by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown & Company, 1990).

 

• Honor:
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, written by Avi (Orchard Books, 1990).

 

   1990

 

• Award:
  • Number the Stars, written by Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin, 1989).

 

• Honors:
  • Afternoon of the Elves, written by Janet Taylor Lisle (Orchard Books, 1989).
  • Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind, written by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf, 1989).
  • The Winter Room, written by Gary Paulsen (Orchard Books, 1989).

 

   1989

 

• Award:
  • Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, written by Paul Fleischman and illustrated by Eric Beddows (Laura Geringer, 1988).

 

• Honors:
  • In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World, written by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Barry Moser  (Harcourt, 1988).
  • Scorpions, written by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad, 1988).

 

   1988

 

•  Award:
  • Lincoln: A Photobiography, written by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books, 1987).

 

• Honors:
  • After the Rain, written by Norma Fox Mazer (HarperTeen, 1987).
  • Hatchet, written by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury, 1987).

 

   1987

 

• Award:
  • The Whipping Boy, written by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow, 1986).

 

• Honors:
  • A Fine White Dust, written by Cynthia Rylant (Atheneum, 1986).
  • On My Honor, written by Marion Dane Bauer (Clarion Books, 1986).
  • Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens, written by Patricia Lauber (Bradbury, 1986).

 

   1986

 

• Award:
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall, written by Patricia MacLachlan (Joanna Cotler, 1985).

 

•  Honors:

• Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun, written by Rhoda Blumberg (HarperCollins, 1985).
• Dogsong, written by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury Press, 1985).

 

   1985

 

• Award:
  • The Hero and the Crown, written by Robin McKinley and illustrated by David M. Johnson (Greenwillow, 1984).

 

• Honors:
  • Like Jake and Me, written by Mavis Jukes (Knopf, 1984).
  • The Moves Make the Man, written by Bruce Brooks (HarperCollins, 1984).
  • One-Eyed Cat, written by Paula Fox (Atheneum, 1984).

 

   1984

 

• Award:
  • Dear Mr. Henshaw, written by Beverly Cleary and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (Morrow, 1983).

 

•  Honors:

• The Sign of the Beaver, written by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton Mifflin, 1983).
• A Solitary Blue, written by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum, 1983).
• Sugaring Time, written by Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan, 1983).
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree, written by Bill Brittain (Harper & Row, 1983).

 

   1983

 

• Award:
  • Dicey's Song, written by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum, 1982).

 

• Honors:
  • The Blue Sword, written by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow, 1982).
  • Doctor DeSoto, written by William Steig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982).
  • Graven Images, written by Paul Fleischman (Harper & Row, 1982).
  • Homesick: My Own Story, written by Jean Fritz (Putnam Juvenile, 1982).
  • Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush, written by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel, 1982).

 

   1982

 

• Award:
  • A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, written by Nancy Willard and illustrated by Alice & Martin Provensen (Harcourt, 1981).

 

• Honors:
  • Ramona Quimby, Age 8, written by Beverly Cleary (Morrow, 1981).
  • Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944, written by Aranka Siegal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981).

 

   1981

 

• Award:
  • Jacob Have I Loved, written by Katherine Paterson (Crowell, 1980).

 

• Honors:
  • The Fledgling, written by Jane Langton (HarperCollins, 1980).
  • A Ring of Endless Light, written by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980).

 

   1980

 

• Award:
  • A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832, written by Joan W. Blos (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979).

 

• Honor:
  • The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl, written by David Kherdian (Greenwillow, 1979).

 

   1979

 

• Award:
  • The Westing Game, written by Ellen Raskin (Dutton Juvenile, 1978).

 

• Honor:
  • The Great Gilly Hopkins, written by Katherine Paterson (HarperCollins, 1978).

 

   1978

 

• Award:
  • Bridge to Terabithia, written by Katherine Paterson (HarperCollins, 1977).

 

• Honors:
  • Ramona and Her Father, written by Beverly Cleary (Morrow, 1977).
  • Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey, written by Jamake Highwater (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1977).

 

   1977

 

• Award:
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, written by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial, 1976).

 

• Honors:
  • Abel's Island, written by William Steig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976).
  • A String in the Harp, written by Nancy Bond (Atheneum, 1976).

 

   1976

 

• Award:
  • The Grey King, written by Susan Cooper (Atheneum, 1975).

 

• Honors:
  • The Hundred Penny Box, written by Sharon Bell Mathis and illustrated by Diane Dillon (Viking Juvenile, 1975).
  • Dragonwings, written by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins, 1975).

 

   1975

 

• Award:
  • M. C. Higgins, the Great, written by Virginia Hamilton (Simon & Schuster, 1974).

 

• Honors:
  • Figgs & Phantoms, written by Ellen Raskin (Dutton, 1974).
  • My Brother Sam is Dead, written by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (Four Winds, 1974).
  • The Perilous Gard, written by Elizabeth Marie Pope and illustrated by Richard Cuffari (Houghton Mifflin, 1974).
  • Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe, written by Bette Greene (Dial, 1974).

 

   1974

 

• Award:
  • The Slave Dancer, written by Paula Fox (Bradbury Press, 1973).

 

• Honor:
  • The Dark is Rising, written by Susan Cooper (Atheneum, 1973).

 

   1973

 

• Award:
  • Julie of the Wolves, written by Jean Craighead George (HarperCollins, 1972).

 

• Honors:
  • Frog and Toad Together, written by Arnold Lobel (HarperCollins, 1972).
  • The Upstairs Room, written by Johanna Reiss (Crowell, 1972).
  • The Witches of Worm, written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and illustrated by Alton Raible (Atheneum, 1972).

 

   1972

 

• Award:
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, written by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum, 1971).

 

• Honors:
  • Incident At Hawk's Hill, written by Allan W. Eckert (Little, Brown & Co., 1971).
  • The Planet of Junior Brown, written by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan Publishing, 1971).
  • The Tombs of Atuan, written by Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum, 1971).
  • Annie and the Old One, written by Miska Miles and illustrated by Peter Parnall (Little, Brown & Co., 1971).
  • The Headless Cupid, written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum, 1971).

 

   1971

 

• Award:
  • Summer of the Swans, written by Betsy Byars (Viking Juvenile, 1970).

 

• Honors:
  • Kneeknock Rise, written by Natalie Babbitt (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970).
  • Enchantress From the Stars, written by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Holiday House, 1970).
  • Sing Down the Moon, written by Scott O'Dell (Houghton Mifflin, 1970).

 

   1970

 

• Award:
  • Sounder, written by William H. Armstrong (Harper & Row, 1969).

 

• Honors:
  • Our Eddie, written by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Pantheon, 1969).
  • The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art, written by Janet Gaylord Moore (World Publishing, 1969).
  • Journey Outside, written by Mary Q. Steele (Viking Juvenile, 1969).

 

   1969

 

• Award:
  • The High King, written by Lloyd Alexander (Henry Holt & Co., 1968).

 

• Honors:
  • To Be a Slave, written by Julius Lester and illustrated by Tom Feelings (Dial, 1968).
  • When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories, written by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968).

 

   1968

 

• Award:
  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, written by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum, 1967).

 

• Honors:
  • Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, written by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum, 1967).
  • The Black Pearl, written by Scott O'Dell (Houghton Mifflin, 1967).
  • The Fearsome Inn, written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967).
  • The Egypt Game, written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum, 1967).

 

   1967

 

• Award:
  • Up a Road Slowly, written by Irene Hunt (Follett, 1966).

 

• Honors:
  • The King's Fifth, written by Scott O'Dell (Houghton Mifflin, 1966).
  • Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories, written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and illustrated by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Row, 1966).
  • The Jazz Man, written by Mary Hays Weik (Atheneum, 1966).

 

   1966

 

• Award:
  • I, Juan de Pareja, written by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965).

 

• Honors:
  • The Black Cauldron, written by Lloyd Alexander (Henry Holt & Co., 1965).
  • The Animal Family, written by Randall Jarrell and illustrated by Maurice Sendak (Pantheon, 1965).
  • The Noonday Friends, written by Mary Stolz and illustrated by Louis S. Glanzman (Harper & Row, 1965).

 

   1965

 

• Award:
  • Shadow of a Bull, written by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneumm 1964).

 

• Honor:
  • Across Five Aprils, written by Irene Hunt (Follett, 1964).

 

   1964

 

• Award:
  • It's Like This, Cat, written by Emily Neville and illustrated by Emil Weiss (Harper & Row, 1963).

 

• Honors:
  • Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, written by Sterling North (Dutton, 1963).
  • The Loner, written by Ester Wier (Random House, 1963).

 

   1963

 

• Award:
  • A Wrinkle in Time, written by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962).

 

• Honors:
  • Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland, written by Sorche Nic Leodhas (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1962).
  • Men of Athens, written by Olivia Coolidge (Houghton Mifflin, 1962).

 

   1962

 

• Award:
  • The Bronze Bow, written by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton Mifflin, 1961).

 

• Honors:
  • Frontier Living, written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis (World Publishing Co., 1961).
  • The Golden Goblet, written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward, 1960).
  • Belling The Tiger, written by Mary Stolz and illustrated by Beni Montresor (Harper & Row, 1961).

 

   1961

 

• Award:
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins, written by Scott O'Dell (Houghton Mifflin, 1960).

 

• Honors:
  • America Moves Forward: A History for Peter, written by Gerald W. Johnson (William Morrow & Co., 1960).
  • Old Ramon, written by Jack Schaefer (Houghton Mifflin, 1960).
  • The Cricket in Times Square, written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1960).

 

   1960

 

• Award:
  • Onion John, written by Joseph Krumgold and illustrated by Symeon Shimin (Crowell, 1959).

 

• Honors:
  • My Side of the Mountain, written by Jean Craighead George (Dutton, 1959).
  • America Is Born: A History for Peter, written by Gerald W. Johnson and illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher (William Morrow & Co., 1959).
  • The Gammage Cup, written by Carol Kendall (Harcourt, 1959).

 

   1959

 

• Award:
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond, written by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton Mifflin, 1958).

 

• Honors:
  • The Family Under The Bridge, written by Natalie Savage Carlson and illustrated by Garth Williams (Harper & Row, 1958).
  • Along Came A Dog, written by Meindert Dejong and illustrated by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Row, 1958).
  • Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa, written by Francis Kalnay (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1958).
  • The Perilous Road, written by William O. Steele (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1958).

 

   1958

 

• Award:
  • Rifles for Watie, written by Harold Keith (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957).

 

• Honors:
  • The Horsecatcher, written by Mari Sandoz (Westminster Press, 1956).
  • Gone-Away Lake, written by Elizabeth Enright (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1957).
  • The Great Wheel, written by Robert Lawson (Viking Press, 1957).
  • Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle, written by Leo Gurko (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957).

 

   1957

 

•   Award:

• Miracles on Maple Hill, written by Virginia Sorensen and illustrated by Joe and Beth Krush (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1956).

 

• Honors:
  • Old Yeller, written by Fred Gipson (Harper & Row, 1956).
  • The House of Sixty Fathers, written by Meindert DeJong and illustrated by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Bros., 1956).
  • Mr. Justice Holmes, written by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett Publishing Co., 1956).
  • The Corn Grows Ripe, written by Dorothy Rhoads and illustrated by Jean Charlot (Viking Press, 1956).
  • Black Fox of Lorne, written by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday, 1956).

 

   1956

 

• Award:
  • Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, written by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton Mifflin, 1955).

 

• Honors:
  • The Secret River, written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955).
  • The Golden Name Day, written by Jennie Lindquist (Harper & Row, 1955).
  • Men, Microscopes, and Living Things, written by Katherine Shippen and illustrated by Anthony Ravielli (Viking Press, 1955).

 

   1955

 

• Award:
  • The Wheel on the School, written by Meindert DeJong and illustrated by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Bros., 1954).

 

• Honors:
  • Courage of Sarah Noble, written by Alice Dalgliesh (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954).
  • Banner In The Sky, written by James Ullman (Lippincott, 1954).

 

   1954

 

• Award:
  • ...And Now Miguel, written by Joseph Krumgold (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1953).

 

• Honors:
  • All Alone, written by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky (Viking Press, 1954).
  • Shadrach, written by Meindert Dejong and illustrated by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Bros. 1953).
  • Hurry Home, Candy, written by Meindert Dejong and illustrated by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Bros., 1953).
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot, written by Clara Ingram Judson and illustrated by Lorence F. Bjorklund (Follett Publishing Co., 1953).
  • Magic Maize, written by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton Mifflin, 1953).

 

   1953

 

• Award:
  • Secret of the Andes, written by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking Press, 1952).

 

• Honors:
  • Charlotte's Web, written by E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams (Harper & Row, 1952).
  • Moccasin Trail, written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward, 1952).
  • Red Sails to Capri, written by Ann Weil and illustrated by C.B. Falls (Viking Press, 1952).
  • The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, written by Alice Dalgliesh and illustrated by  Helen Sewell (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952).
  • Birthdays of Freedom, Volume 1, written by Genevieve Foster (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952).

 

   1952

 

• Award:
  • Ginger Pye, written by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1951).

 

• Honors:
  • Americans Before Columbus, written by Elizabeth Baity (Viking Press, 1951).
  • Minn of the Mississippi, written by Holling C. Holling (Houghton Mifflin, 1951).
  • The Defender, written by Nicholas Kalashnikoff (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951).
  • The Light at Tern Rock, written by Julia Sauer (Viking Press, 1951).
  • The Apple and the Arrow, written by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton Mifflin, 1951).

 

   1951

 

• Award:
  • Amos Fortune, Free Man, written by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton, 1950).

 

• Honors:
  • Better Known as Johnny Appleseed, written by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott, 1950).
  • Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword, written by Jeanette Eaton (William Morrow & Co., 1950).
  • Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People, written by Clara Ingram Judson and illustrated by Robert Frankenberg (Follett Publishing Co., 1950).
  • The Story of Appleby Capple, written by Anne Parrish (Harper & Bros., 1950).

 

   1950

 

• Award:
  • The Door in the Wall, written by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday, 1949).

 

• Honors:
  • Tree of Freedom, written by Rebecca Caudill (Viking Press, 1949).
  • The Blue Cat of Castle Town, written by Catherine Coblentz (Longmans, Green & Co., 1949).
  • Kildee House, written by Rutherford Montgomery (Doubleday, 1949).
  • George Washington, written by Genevieve Foster (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949).
  • Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin, written by Walter and Marion Havighurst (John C. Winston, 1949).

 

   1949

 

• Award:
  • King of the Wind, written by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally, 1948).

 

• Honors:
  • Seabird, written by Holling C. Holling (Houghton Mifflin, 1948).
  • Daughter of the Mountains, written by Louise Rankin (Viking Press, 1948).
  • My Father's Dragon, written by Ruth S. Gannett (Random House, 1948).
  • Story of the Negro, written by Arna Bontemps (Knopf, 1948).

 

   1948

 

• Award:
  • The Twenty-One Balloons, written by William Pène du Bois (Viking Press, 1947).

 

• Honors:
  • Pancakes-Paris, written by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking Press, 1947).
  • Li Lun, Lad of Courage, written by Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon, 1947).
  • The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, written by Catherine Besterman (Bobbs-Merrill, 1947).
  • The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories, written by Harold Courlander (Henry Holt & Co., 1947).
  • Misty of Chincoteague, written by Marguerite Henry and illustrated by Wesley Dennis (Rand McNally, 1947).

 

   1947

 

• Award:
  • Miss Hickory, written by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and illustrated by Ruth Gannett (Viking Press, 1946).

 

• Honors:
  • Wonderful Year, written by Nancy Barnes and illustrated by Kate Seredy (Julian Messner, 1946).
  • Big Tree, written by Mary and Conrad Buff (Viking Press, 1946).
  • The Heavenly Tenants, written by William Maxwell (Harper & Bros., 1946).
  • The Avion My Uncle Flew, written by Cyrus Fisher and illustrated by Richard Floethe (Appleton, 1946).
  • The Hidden Treasure of Glaston, written by Eleanor Jewett (Viking Press, 1946).

 

   1946

 

• Award:
  • Strawberry Girl, written by Lois Lenski (J.B. Lippincott, 1945).

 

• Honors:
  • Justin Morgan Had a Horse, written by Marguerite Henry and illustrated by Wesley Dennis (Rand McNally, 1945).
  • The Moved-Outers, written by Florence Crannell Means (Houghton Mifflin, 1945).
  • Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear, written by Christine Weston (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945).
  • New Found World, written by Katherine Shippen (Viking Press, 1945).

 

   1945

 

• Award:
  • Rabbit Hill, written by Robert Lawson (Viking Press, 1944).

 

• Honors:
  • The Hundred Dresses, written by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1944).
  • The Silver Pencil, written by Alice Dalgliesh and illustrated by Katherine Milhous (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944).
  • Abraham Lincoln's World, written by Genevieve Foster (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944).
  • Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams, written by Jeanetter Eaton and illustrated by Woodi Ishmael (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1944).

 

   1944

 

• Award:
  • Johnny Tremain, written by Esther Forbes and illustrated by Lynd Ward (Houghton Mifflin, 1943).

 

• Honors:
  • These Happy Golden Years, written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and illustrated by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle (Harper & Bros., 1943).
  • Fog Magic, written by Julia Sauer (Viking Press, 1943).
  • Rufus M., written by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1943).
  • Mountain Born, written by Elizabeth Yates (Coward, 1943).

 

   1943

 

• Award:
  • Adam of the Road, written by Elizabeth Janet Gray and illustrated by Robert Lawson (Viking Press, 1942).

 

• Honors:
  • The Middle Moffat, written by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt, 1942).
  • Have You Seen Tom Thumb? written by Mabel Leigh Hunt and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg (J.B. Lippincott, 1942).

 

   1942

 

• Award:
  • The Matchlock Gun, written by Walter Edmonds and illustrated by Paul Lantz (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1941).

 

• Honors:
  • Little Town on the Prairie, written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and illustrated by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle (Harper & Bros., 1940).
  • George Washington's World, written by Genevieve Foster (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941).
  • Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison, written by Lois Lenski (J.B. Lippincott, 1941).
  • Down Ryton Water, written by Eva Roe Gaggin (Viking Press, 1941).

 

   1941

 

• Award:
  • Call It Courage, written by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan Publishing, 1940).

 

• Honors:
  • Blue Willow, written by Doris Gates and illustrated by Paul Lantz (Viking Press, 1940).
  • Young Mac of Fort Vancouver, written by Mary Jane Carr and illustrated by Richard Holberg (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1940).
  • The Long Winter, written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and illustrated by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle (Harper & Bros., 1940).
  • Nansen, written by Anna Gertrude Hall (Viking Press, 1940).

 

   1940

 

• Award:
  • Daniel Boone, written by James Daugherty (Viking Press, 1939).

 

• Honors:
  • The Singing Tree, written by Kate Seredy (Viking Press, 1939).
  • Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz, written by Mabel Robinson (Random House, 1939).
  • By the Shores of Silver Lake, written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper & Row, 1939).
  • Boy with a Pack, written by Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt, 1939).

 

   1939

 

• Award:
  • Thimble Summer, written by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart & Co., 1938).

 

• Honors:
  • Nino, written by Valenti Angelo (Viking Press, 1938).
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins, written by Richard & Florence Atwater and illustrated by Robert Lawson (Little, Brown & Co., 1938).
  • Hello, the Boat! written by Phyllis Crawford and illustrated by Edward Laning (E.M. Hale & Co., 1938).
  • Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot, written by Jeanette Eaton (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1938).
  • Penn, written by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking Press, 1938).

 

   1938

 

• Award:
  • The White Stag, written by Kate Seredy (Viking Press, 1937).

 

• Honors:
  • Pecos Bill, written by James Cloyd Bowman (Little, Brown & Co., 1937).
  • Bright Island, written by Mabel Robinson (Random House, 1937).
  • On the Banks of Plum Creek, written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and illustrated by Helen Sewell (Harper & Brothers, 1937).

 

   1937

 

• Award:
  • Roller Skates, written by Ruth Sawyer (Viking Press, 1936).

 

• Honors:
  • Phebe Fairchild: Her Book, written by Lois Lenski (Stokes, 1936).
  • Whistler's Van, written by Idwal Jones (Viking Press, 1936).
  • The Golden Basket, written by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking Press, 1936).
  • Winterbound, written by Margery Bianco (Viking Press, 1936).
  • The Codfish Musket, written by Agnes Hewes (Doubleday, 1936).
  • Audubon, written by Constance Rourke (Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1936).

 

   1936

 

• Award:
  • Caddie Woodlawn: A Frontier Story, written by Carol Ryrie Brink and illustrated by Kate Seredy (Macmillan Publishing, 1935).

 

• Honors:
  • Honk, the Moose, written by Phil Stong and illustrated by Kurt Wiese (Dodd Mead, 1935).
  • The Good Master, written by Kate Seredy (Viking Press, 1935).
  • Young Walter Scott, written by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking Press, 1935).
  • All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud, written and illustrated by Armstrong Sperry (John C. Winston Co., 1935).

 

   1935

 

• Award:
  • Dobry, written by Monica Shannon and illustrated by Atanas Katchamakoff (Viking Press, 1934).

 

• Honors:
  • Pageant of Chinese History, written by Elizabeth Seeger (Longmans, Green & Co., 1934).
  • Davy Crockett, written by Constance Rourke and illustrated by James MacDonald (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1934).
  • Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic, written by Hilda Von Stockum (Harper, 1934).

 

   1934

 

• Award:
  • Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women, written by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown & Co., 1933).

 

• Honors:
  • The Forgotten Daughter, written by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday, 1933).
  • Swords of Steel: The Story of a Gettysburg Boy, written by Elsie Singmaster (Houghton Mifflin, 1933).
  • ABC Bunny, written by Wanda Gág (Coward, 1933).
  • Winged Girl of Knossos, written by Erik Berry (D. Appleton & Co., 1933).
  • New Land: A Novel for Boys and Girls, written by Sarah Schmidt and illustrated by Frank Dobias (Robert M. McBride & Co., 1933).
  • Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside, written by Padraic Colum and illustrated by Jack Yeats (Macmillan Publishing, 1933).
  • Glory of the Seas, written by Agnes Hewes and illustrated by N.C. Wyeth (Alfred A. Knopf, 1933).
  • Apprentice of Florence, written by Ann Kyle (Houghton Mifflin, 1933).

 

   1933

 

• Award:
  • Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, written by Elizabeth Lewis (John G. Winston Co., 1932).

 

•  Honors:

• Swift Rivers, written by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown & Co. 1932).
• The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War, written by Hildegarde Swift and illustrated by James Daugherty (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1932).
• Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia, written by Nora Burglon and illustrated by E. Parin D'Aulaire (Doubleday, 1932).

 

   1932

 

• Award:
  • Waterless Mountain, written by Laura Adams Armer and illustrated by Sidney Armer (Longmans, Green & Co., 1931).

 

• Honors:
  • The Fairy Circus, written by Dorothy P. Lathrop (Macmillan Publishing, 1931).
  • Calico Bush, written by Rachel Field (Macmillan Publishing, 1931).
  • Boy of the South Seas, written by Eunice Tietjens (Coward-McCann, 1931).
  • Out of the Flame, written by Eloise Lownsbery (Longman Group, 1931).
  • Jane's Island, written by Marjorie Allee (Houghton Mifflin, 1931).
  • Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy, written by Mary Gould Davis (Harcourt, 1931).

 

   1931

 

• Award:
  • The Cat Who Went to Heaven, written by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan Publishing, 1930).

 

• Honors:
  • Floating Island, written by Anne Parrish (HarperCollins, 1930).
  • The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess, written by Alida Malkus (Harcourt, 1930).
  • Queer Person, written by Ralph Hubbard (Doubleday, 1930).
  • Mountains are Free, written by Julie Davis Adams (Dutton, 1930).
  • Spice and the Devil's Cave, written by Agnes Hewes (Knopf, 1930).
  • Meggy MacIntosh, written by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Doubleday, 1930).
  • Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes, written by Herbert Best and illustrated by Erick Berry (Doubleday, 1930).
  • Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer, written by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen and illustrated by Raymond Lufkin (Little, Brown & Co., 1930).

 

   1930

 

• Award:
  • Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, written by Rachel Field and illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop (Macmillan Publishing, 1929).

 

• Honors:
  • A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland, written by Jeanette Eaton (Harper & Brothers, 1929).
  • Pran of Albania, written by Elizabeth Miller (Doubleday, 1929).
  • The Jumping-Off Place, written by Marion Hurd McNeely (Longman Group, 1929).
  • The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales, written by Ella Young (Longman Group, 1929).
  • Vaino: A Boy of New Finland, written by Julia Davis Adams (Dutton, 1929).
  • Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer, written by Hildegarde Swift and illustrated by Lynd Ward (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1929).

 

   1929

 

• Award:
  • The Trumpeter of Krakow, written by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan Publishing, 1928).

 

• Honors:
  • Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo, written by John Bennett (Longman Group, 1928).
  • Millions of Cats, written by Wanda Gág (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1928).
  • The Boy Who Was, written by Grace Hallock (Dutton, 1928).
  • Clearing Weather, written by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown & Co., 1928).
  • The Runaway Papoose, written by Grace Moon (Doubleday, 1928).
  • Tod of the Fens, written by Elinor Whitney (Macmillan Publishing, 1928).

 

   1928

 

• Award:
  • Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, written by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton, 1927).

 

• Honors:
  • The Wonder Smith and His Son, written by Ella Young (Longmans, Green & Co., 1927).
  • Downright Dencey, a Story of Old Nantucket, written by Caroline Snedeker and illustrated by Maginel Wright Barney (Doubleday, 1927). 
   

   1927

 

• Award:
  • Smoky, the Cowhorse, written by Will James (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926).

 

• Honors:
  • No honors given.

 

   1926

 

• Award:
  • Shen of the Sea, written by Arthur Bowie Chrisman and illustrated by Elsie Hasselriis (Dutton, 1925).

 

• Honor:
  • The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery, written by Padraic Colum (Macmillan Publishing, 1925).

 

   1925

 

• Award:
  • Tales from Silver Lands, written by Charles Finger (Doubleday, 1924).

 

• Honors:
  • Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story, written by Annie Carroll Moore (Putnam, 1924).
  • The Dream Coach, written by Anne Parrish (Macmillan Publishing, 1924).

 

   1924

 

• Award:
  • The Dark Frigate, written by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown, 1923).

 

• Honors:
  • No honors given.

 

   1923

 

• Award:
  • The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, written by Hugh Lofting (Stokes, 1922).

 

• Honors:
  • No honors given.

 

   1922

 

• Award:
  • The Story of Mankind, written by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright, 1921).

 

• Honors:

• The Great Quest, written by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown, 1921).
• Cedric the Forester, written by Bernard Marshall (Appleton, 1921).

• The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, written by Padraic Colum (Macmillan Publishing, 1921).

• The Windy Hill, written by Cornelia Meigs (Macmillan Publishing, 1921).
• The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure, written by William Bowen (Macmillan Publishing, 1921).

   

(List adapted from ALSC, Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present).

 

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III.  Resources.

 

Association for Library Service to Children.  (n.d.).  The John Newbery Medal.  Retrieved on March 22, 2008 from:

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/aboutnewbery/aboutnewbery.cfm

 

Association for Library Service to Children.  (n.d.).  John Newbery Medal Terms and Criteria.  Retrieved on March 22, 2008 from:

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberyterms/newberyterms.cfm

 

Association for Library Service to Children.  (n.d.).  Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-present.  Retrieved on March 22, 2008 from:

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal.cfm

 

Association for Library Service to Children.  (n.d.).  Welcome to the John Newbery Medal Homepage!  Retrieved on March 22, 2008 from:

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberymedal.cfm

 

Encyclopedia of World Biography.  (2005-06).  John Newbery.  Retrieved on March 22, 2008 from:

http://www.bookrags.com/biography/john-newbery/

 

Marks, Diana F.  (2006).  Children's Book Award Handbook.  Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.

 

Roberts, Russell.  (2003).  John Newbery and the Story of the Newbery Medal.  Bear, DE: Mitchell Lane.

 

The Horn Book & Association of Library Service to Children.  (2001).  The Newbery & Caldecott Medal Books 1986-2000: A Comprehensive Guide to the Winners.  Chicago, IL: American Library Association.

 

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