List of Newbery Award Winners

2011 Newbery Award Winners

2011 Newbery Medal Winner

Newbery Medal Winner: Moon Over Manifest, by Clare VanderpoolMoon Over ManifestNewbery Medal Winner: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool by Clare Vanderpool (Historical fiction, ages 10-14).
“Rich in quirky characters, rich in historical mystery, MOON OVER MANIFEST is a wonderfully charming novel. Through stories, letters, and newspaper articles, a young girl pieces together a part of her past—and the town’s past. Alternately set during the Depression and World War I, it’s quite a coming-of-age story.”  Librarian’s Choices (click for complete review)

2011 Newbery Honor Books

Turtle in ParadiseNewbery Honor Book: Turtle in Paradise, by Jennifer L. Holm by Jennifer L. Holm (Historical fiction, ages 9-13).
“Turtle believes ‘the color of a person’s eyes says a lot about them. Mama has soft blue eyes, and all she sees is kittens and roses. My eyes are gray as soot, and I see things for what they are.’ After a tough transition to life in Key West, Turtle learns how to get along with her rambunctious cousins, softens her hard shell, and even discovers a hidden cache of pirate treasure.”  Librarian’s Choices (click for complete review)

Heart of a SamuraiNewbery Honor Book: Heart of a Samurai, by Margi Preus by Margi Preus (Historical fiction, ages 10-16).
“Some are born great, and some are born lowly, get shipwrecked, live in exile and brave a perilous return home to achieve greatness. Such was the astonishing true trajectory of Manjiro, a 19th-century Japanese boy whose adventures are related in “Heart of a Samurai,” a terrific biographical novel by Margi Preus.”  Wall Street Journal (click for complete review)

Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the NightNewbery Honor Book: Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, by Joyce Sidman by Joyce Sidman, ill. Rick Allen (Poetry, ages 5-9).
“This collection of poems about the forest at night—owls, moths, and porcupines—is the last in the trio of “ecosystem poetry books” that began with Song of the Water BoatmanNewbery Honor Book: Song of the Water Boatman (pond) and continued with Butterfly EyesNewbery Honor Book: Butterfly Eyes (meadow).”  Librarian’s Choices (click for complete review)

One Crazy SummerNewbery Honor Book: One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia by Rita Williams-Garcia (Historical fiction, ages 9-12).
“Narrated by Delphine, all three girls in this Coretta Scott King honor book and National Book Award finalist have strong voices and independent personalities. The revelation of racial issues of the time period is authentic and told in a way that is understandable to young readers.”  Librarian’s Choices (click for complete review)

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2010 Newbery Award Winners

2010 Newbery Medal Winner

Newbery Medal Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca SteadWhen You Reach MeNewbery Medal Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead by Rebecca Stead (Fiction, ages 9-12).
“Miranda has lost her best friend, Sal, who lives in her apartment building. One day, while the two of them were walking home from school, a neighborhood kid named Marcus punched Sal, and from that day on Sal just seemed to drift away…Not only does the book engage interesting themes bundled into a compelling mystery, but it elevates friendship and redemption, and thereby encourages the right sort of values in tweens.”  Children’s Books and Reviews (click for complete review)

2010 Newbery Honor Books

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward JusticeNewbery Honor Book: Claudette Colving: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip Hoose by  Phillip Hoose
The Evolution of Calpurnia TateNewbery Honor Book:The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelly by Jacqueline Kelly
Where the Mountain Meets the MoonNewbery Honor Book: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin by Grace Lin
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. FiggNewbery Honor Book: The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, by Rodman Philbrick by Rodman Philbrick

2009 Newbery Award Winners

2009 Newbery Medal Winner

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean

2009 Newbery Honor Books

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

2008 Newbery Award Winners

2008 Newbery Medal Winner

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

2008 Newbery Honor Books

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

2007 Newbery Award Winners

2007 Newbery Medal Winner

The Higher Power of Lucky by  Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan

2007 Newbery Honor Books

Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord

2006 Newbery Award Winners

2006 Newbery Medal Winner

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

2006 Newbery Honor Books

Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott

2005 Newbery Award Winners

2005 Newbery Medal Winner

Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

2005 Newbery Honor Books

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

2004 Newbery Award Winners

2004 Newbery Medal Winner

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering

2004 Newbery Honor Books

Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

2003 Newbery Award Winners

2003 Newbery Medal Winner

Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

2003 Newbery Honor Books

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

2002 Newbery Award Winners

2002 Newbery Medal Winner

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

2002 Newbery Honor Books

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2001 Newbery Award Winners

2001 Newbery Medal Winner

A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck

2001 Newbery Honor Books

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

2000 Newbery Award Winners

2000 Newbery Medal Winner

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

2000 Newbery Honor Books

Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

1999 Newbery Award Winners

19999 Newbery Medal Winner

Holes by Louis Sachar

1999 Newbery Honor Books

A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

1998 Newbery Award Winners

1998 Newbery Medal Winner

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

1998 Newbery Honor Books

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

1997 Newbery Award Winners

1997 Newbery Medal Winner

The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

1997 Newbery Honor Books

A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Belle Prater’s Boy by Ruth White

1996 Newbery Award Winners

1996 Newbery Medal Winner

The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman

1996 Newbery Honor Books

What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Yolonda’s Genius by Carol Fenner
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy

1995 Newbery Award Winners

1995 Newbery Medal Winner

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

1995 Newbery Honor Books

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

1994 Newbery Award Winners

1994 Newbery Medal Winner

The Giver by Lois Lowry

1994 Newbery Honor Books

Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon’s Gate by Laurence Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

1993 Newbery Award Winners

1993 Newbery Medal Winner

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

1993 Newbery Honor Books

What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

1992 Newbery Award Winners

1992 Newbery Medal Winner

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1992 Newbery Honor Books

Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

1991 Newbery Award Winners

1991 Newbery Medal Winner

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

1991 Newbery Honor Books

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1990 Newbery Award Winners

1990 Newbery Medal Winner

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

1990 Newbery Honor Books

Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen

1989 Newbery Award Winners

1989 Newbery Medal Winner

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

1989 Newbery Honor Books

In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

1988 Newbery Award Winners

1988 Newbery Medal Winner

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

1988 Newbery Honor Books

After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

1987 Newbery Award Winners

1987 Newbery Medal Winner

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

1987 Newbery Honor Books

A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber

1986 Newbery Award Winners

1986 Newbery Medal Winner

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

1986 Newbery Honor Books

Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

1985 Newbery Award Winners

1985 Newbery Medal Winner

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

1985 Newbery Honor Books

Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

1984 Newbery Award Winners

1984 Newbery Medal Winner

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

1984 Newbery Honor Books

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

1983 Newbery Award Winners

1983 Newbery Medal Winner

Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt

1983 Newbery Honor Books

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

1982 Newbery Award Winners

1982 Newbery Medal Winner

A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard

1982 Newbery Honor Books

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

1981 Newbery Award Winners

1981 Newbery Medal Winner

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

1981 Newbery Honor Books

The Fledgling by Jane Langton
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle

1980 Newbery Award Winners

1980 Newbery Medal Winner

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos

1980 Newbery Honor Books

The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian

1979 Newbery Award Winners

1979 Newbery Medal Winner

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

1979 Newbery Honor Books

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

1978 Newbery Award Winners

1978 Newbery Medal Winner

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

1978 Newbery Honor Books

Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

1977 Newbery Award Winners

1977 Newbery Medal Winner

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

1977 Newbery Honor Books

Abel’s Island by William Steig
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

1976 Newbery Award Winners

1976 Newbery Medal Winner

The Grey King by Susan Cooper

1976 Newbery Honor Books

The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

1975 Newbery Award Winners

1975 Newbery Medal Winner

M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

1975 Newbery Honor Books

Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene

1974 Newbery Award Winners

1974 Newbery Medal Winner

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

1974 Newbery Honor Books

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

1973 Newbery Award Winners

1973 Newbery Medal Winner

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

1973 Newbery Honor Books

Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1972 Newbery Award Winners

1972 Newbery Medal Winner

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien

1972 Newbery Honor Books

Incident At Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1971 Newbery Award Winners

1971 Newbery Medal Winner

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

1971 Newbery Honor Books

Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell

1970 Newbery Award Winners

1970 Newbery Medal Winner

Sounder by William H. Armstrong

1970 Newbery Honor Books

Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele

1969 Newbery Award Winners

1969 Newbery Medal Winner

The High King by Lloyd Alexander

1969 Newbery Honor Books

To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1968 Newbery Award Winners

1968 Newbery Medal Winner

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

1968 Newbery Honor Books

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg
The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell
The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1967 Newbery Award Winners

1967 Newbery Medal Winner

Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

1967 Newbery Honor Books

The King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell
Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik

1966 Newbery Award Winners

1966 Newbery Medal Winner

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

1966 Newbery Honor Books

The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

1965 Newbery Award Winners

1965 Newbery Medal Winner

Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

1965 Newbery Honor Books

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

1964 Newbery Award Winners

1964 Newbery Medal Winner

It’s Like This, Cat by Emily Neville

1964 Newbery Honor Books

Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
The Loner by Ester Wier

1963 Newbery Award Winners

1963 Newbery Medal Winner

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

1963 Newbery Honor Books

Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger)
Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

1962 Newbery Award Winners

1962 Newbery Medal Winner

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

1962 Newbery Honor Books

Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz

1961 Newbery Award Winners

1961 Newbery Medal Winner

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

1961 Newbery Honor Books

America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson)

1960 Newbery Award Winners

1960 Newbery Medal Winner

Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

1960 Newbery Honor Books

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

1959 Newbery Award Winners

1959 Newbery Medal Winner

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

1959 Newbery Honor Books

The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
The Perilous Road by William O. Steele

1958 Newbery Award Winners

1958 Newbery Medal Winner

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

1958 Newbery Honor Books

The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
Tom Paine, Freedom’s Apostle by Leo Gurko

1957 Newbery Award Winners

1957 Newbery Medal Winner

Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen

1957 Newbery Honor Books

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli

1956 Newbery Award Winners

1956 Newbery Medal Winner

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

1956 Newbery Honor Books

The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen

1955 Newbery Award Winners

1955 Newbery Medal Winner

The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

1955 Newbery Honor Books

Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

1954 Newbery Award Winners

1954 Newbery Medal Winner

…And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold

1954 Newbery Honor Books

All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
Shadrach by Meindert Dejong
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff

1953 Newbery Award Winners

1953 Newbery Medal Winner

Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

1953 Newbery Honor Books

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster

1952 Newbery Award Winners

1952 Newbery Medal Winner

Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

1952 Newbery Honor Books

Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff

1951 Newbery Award Winners

1951 Newbery Medal Winner

Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

1951 Newbery Honor Books

Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish

1950 Newbery Award Winners

1950 Newbery Medal Winner

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

1950 Newbery Honor Books

Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
George Washington by Genevieve Foster
Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst

1949 Newbery Award Winners

1949 Newbery Medal Winner

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

1949 Newbery Honor Books

Seabird by Holling C. Holling
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

1948 Newbery Award Winners

1948 Newbery Medal Winner

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois

1948 Newbery Honor Books

Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

1947 Newbery Award Winners

1947 Newbery Medal Winner

Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

1947 Newbery Honor Books

Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet)
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett

1946 Newbery Award Winners

1946 Newbery Medal Winner

Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

1946 Newbery Honor Books

Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
New Found World by Katherine Shippen

1945 Newbery Award Winners

1945 Newbery Medal Winner

Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

1945 Newbery Honor Books

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
Abraham Lincoln’s World by Genevieve Foster
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton

1944 Newbery Award Winners

1944 Newbery Medal Winner

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

1944 Newbery Honor Books

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

1943 Newbery Award Winners

1943 Newbery Medal Winner

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1943 Newbery Honor Books

The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

1942 Newbery Award Winners

1942 Newbery Medal Winner

The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds

1942 Newbery Honor Books

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
George Washington’s World by Genevieve Foster
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin

1941 Newbery Award Winners

1941 Newbery Medal Winner

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

1941 Newbery Honor Books

Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall

1940 Newbery Award Winners

1940 Newbery Medal Winner

Daniel Boone by James Daugherty

1940 Newbery Honor Books

The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader

1939 Newbery Award Winners

1939 Newbery Medal Winner

Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

1939 Newbery Honor Books

Nino by Valenti Angelo
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1938 Newbery Award Winners

1938 Newbery Medal Winner

The White Stag by Kate Seredy

1938 Newbery Honor Books

Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

1937 Newbery Award Winners

1937 Newbery Medal Winner

Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

1937 Newbery Honor Books

Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
Whistler’s Van by Idwal Jones
The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
Winterbound by Margery Bianco
The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
Audubon by Constance Rourke

1936 Newbery Award Winners

1936 Newbery Medal Winner

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

1936 Newbery Honor Books

Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry

1935 Newbery Award Winners

1935 Newbery Medal Winner

Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)

1935 Newbery Honor Books

Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum

1934 Newbery Award Winners

1934 Newbery Medal Winner

Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs

1934 Newbery Honor Books

The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág
Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best)
New Land by Sarah Schmidt
Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle

1933 Newbery Award Winners

1933 Newbery Medal Winner

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis

1933 Newbery Honor Books

Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon

1932 Newbery Award Winners

1932 Newbery Medal Winner

Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

1932 Newbery Honor Books

The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
Calico Bush by Rachel Field
Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
Jane’s Island by Marjorie Allee
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis

1931 Newbery Award Winners

1931 Newbery Medal Winner

The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth

1931 Newbery Honor Books

Floating Island by Anne Parrish
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams
Spice and the Devil’s Cave by Agnes Hewes
Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen

1930 Newbery Award Winners

1930 Newbery Medal Winner

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

1930 Newbery Honor Books

A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

1929 Newbery Award Winners

1929 Newbery Medal Winner

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

1929 Newbery Honor Books

Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney

1928 Newbery Award Winners

1928 Newbery Medal Winner

Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

1928 Newbery Honor Books

The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker

1927 Newbery Award Winners

1927 Newbery Medal Winner

Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James

1927 Newbery Honor Books

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1926 Newbery Award Winners

1926 Newbery Medal Winner

Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

1926 Newbery Honor Books

The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

1925 Newbery Award Winners

1925 Newbery Medal Winner

Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger

1925 Newbery Honor Books

Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

1924 Newbery Award Winners

1924 Newbery Medal Winner

The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes

1924 Newbery Honor Books

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1923 Newbery Award Winners

1923 Newbery Medal Winner

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

1923 Newbery Honor Books

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1922 Newbery Award Winners

1922 Newbery Medal Winner

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon

1922 Newbery Honor Books

The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs

Source: Association for Library Service to Children

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