Newbery Honors Winners
1922 - 1969
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Medal Winners 1922 - Present
Honor Winners 1970 - Present
Honor Winners: 1922 - 1969
Medal Winners 1922 - Present
Honor Winners 1970 - Present
Honor Winners: 1922 - 1969
1969 |
To Be a Slave | Julius Lester |
| When Shemiel Went to Warsaw | Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
1968 |
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William, McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth | E.L. Konigsburg |
| The Black Pearl | Scott O'Dell | |
| The Fearsome Inn | Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| The Egypt Game | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | |
1967 |
The King's Fifth | Scott O'Dell |
| Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| The Jazz Man | Mary Hays Weik | |
1966 |
The Black Cauldron | Lloyd Alexander |
| The Animal Family | Randall Jarrell | |
| The Noonday Friends | Mary Stoltz | |
1965 |
Across Five Aprils | Irene Hunt |
| Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era | Sterling North | |
| The Loner | Ester Wier | |
1963 |
Thistle and Thyme | Leclaire Alger |
| Men of Athens | Olivia Coolidge | |
1962 |
Frontier Living | Edwin Tunis |
| The Golden Goblet | Eloise McGrraw | |
| Belling the Tiger | Mary Stoltz | |
1961 |
America Moves Forward | Gerald Johnson |
| Old Ramon | Jack Schaefer | |
| The Cricket in Times Square | George Selden | |
1960 |
My Side of the Mountain | George Craighead |
| America is Born | Gerald Johnson | |
| The Gammage Cup | Carol Kendall |
1959 |
The Family Under the Bridge | Natalie Savage Carlson |
| Along Came a Dog | Meindert Dejong | |
| Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa | Francis Kalnay | |
| The Perilous Road | William O. Steele | |
1958 |
The Horsecatcher | Mari Sandoz |
| Gone-Away Lake | Elizabeth Enright | |
| The Great Wheel | Robert Lawson | |
| Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle | Leo Gurko | |
1957 |
Old Yeller | Fred Gipson |
| The House of Sixty Fahters | Meindert Dejong | |
| Mr. Justice Holmes | Clara Ingram Judson | |
| The Corn Grows Ripe | Dorothy Rhoads | |
| Black Fox of Lorne | Marguerite de Angeli | |
1956 |
The Secret River | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| The Golden Name Day | Jennie Lindquist | |
| Men, Microscopes, and Living Things | Katherine Shippen | |
1955 |
Courage of Sarah Noble | Alice Dagliesh |
| Banner in the Sky | James Ulman | |
1954 |
All Alone | Claire Hutchet Bishop |
| Shadrach | Meindert Dejong | |
| Hurry Home, Candy | Meindert Dejong | |
| Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot | Clara Ingram Judson | |
| Magic Maize | Mary and Conrad Buff | |
1953 |
Charlotte's Web | E.B. White |
| Moccasin Trail | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | |
| Red Sails to Capri | Ann Weil | |
| The Bears on Hemlock Mountain | Alice Dagliesh | |
| Birthdays of Freedom, Volume I | Genevieve Foster | |
1952 |
Americans Before Columbus | Elizabeth Baity |
| Minn of the Mississippi | Holling C. Holling | |
| The Defender | Nicholas Kalashnikoff | |
| The Light at Tern Rock | Julia Sauer | |
| The Apple and the Arrow | Mary and Conrad Buff | |
1951 |
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed | Mabel Leigh Hunt |
| Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword | Jeanette Eaton | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People | Clara Ingram Judson | |
| The Story of Appleby Capple | Anne Parrish | |
1950 |
Tree of Freedom | Rebecca Caudill |
| The Blue Cat of Castle Town | Catherine Coblentz | |
| Kildee House | Rutherford Montgomery | |
| George Washington | Genevieve Foster | |
| Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin | Walter and Marion Havighurst | |
1949 |
Seabird | Holling C. Holling |
| Daughter of the Mountain | Louise Rankin | |
| My Father's Dragon | Ruth Gannett | |
| Story of the Negro | Arna Bontemps | |
1948 |
Pancakes-Paris | Claire Hutchet Bishop |
| Li Lun, Lad of Courage | Carolyn Treffinger | |
| The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot | Catherine Besterman | |
| The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories | Harold Courlander | |
| Misty of Chincoteague | Marguerite Henry | |
1947 |
Wonderful Year | Nancy Barnes |
| Big Tree | Mary and Conrad Buff | |
| The Heavenly Tenants | William Maxwell | |
| The Avion My Uncle Flew | Cyrus Fisher | |
| The Hidden Treasure of Glaston | Eleanor Jewett | |
1946 |
Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Marguerite Henry |
| The Moved-Outers | Florence Crannel Means | |
| Bhisma, the Dancing Bear | Christine Weston | |
| New Found World | Katherine Shippen | |
1945 |
The Hundred Dresses | Eleanor Estes |
| The Silver Pencil | Alice Dagliesh | |
| Abraham Lincoln's World | Genevieve Foster | |
| Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams | Jeanette Eaton | |
1944 |
Those Happy Golden Years | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Fog Magic | Julia Sauer | |
| Rufus M. | Eleanor Estes | |
| Mountain Born | Elizabeth Yates | |
1943 |
The Middle Moffat | Eleanor Estes |
| Have You Seen Tom Thumb? | Mabel Leigh Hunt | |
1942 |
Little Town on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| George Washington's World | Genevieve Foster | |
| Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | Lois Lenski | |
| Down Ryton Water | Eva Roe Gaggin | |
1941 |
Blue Willow | Doris Gates |
| Young Mac of Fort Vancouver | Mary Jane Carr | |
| The Long Winter | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| Nansen | Anna Gertrude Hall | |
1940 |
The Singing Tree | Kate Seredy |
| Runner of the Mountain Tops | Mabel Robinson | |
| By the Shores of Silver Lake | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| Boy With a Pack | Stephen Meader | |
1939 |
Nino | Valenti Angelo |
| Mr. Popper's Penguins | Richard & Florence Atwater | |
| Hello the Boat! | Phyllis Crawford | |
| Leader by Destiny | Jeanette Eaton | |
| Penn | Elizabeth Janet Gray | |
1938 |
Pecos Bill | James Cloyd Bowman |
| Bright Island | Mabel Robinson | |
| On the Banks of Plum Creek | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
1937 |
Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book | Lois Lenski |
| Whistler's Van | Idwal Jones | |
| The Golden Basket | Ludwig Bemelmans | |
| Winterbound | Margery Bianco | |
| The Codfish Musket | Agnes Hewes | |
| Audubon | Constance Rourke | |
1936 |
Honk, the Moose | Phil Stong |
| The Good Master | Kate Seredy | |
| Young Walter Scott | Elizabeth Janet Gray | |
| All Sail Set | Armstrong Sperry | |
1935 |
Pageant of Chinese History | Elizabeth Seeger |
| Davy Crockett | Constance Rourke | |
| Day on Skates | Hilda Von Stockum | |
1934 |
The Forgotten Daughter | Caroline Snedeker |
| Swords of Steel | Elsie Singmaster | |
| ABC Bunny | Wanda Gag | |
| Winged Girl of Knossos |
Erik Berry | |
| New Land | Sarah Schmidt | |
| Big Tree of Bunlahy | Padraic Colum | |
| Glory of the Seas | Agnes Hewes | |
| Apprentice of Florence | Ann Kyle | |
1933 |
Swift Rivers | Cornelia Meigs |
| The Railroad to Freedom | Hildegarde Swift | |
| Children of the Soil | Nora Burglon | |
1932 |
The Fairy Circus | Dorothy Lathrop |
| Calico Bush | Rachel Field | |
| Boy of the South Seas | Eunice Tietjens | |
| Out of the Flame | Eloise Lownsbery | |
| Jane's Island | Marjorie Allee | |
| Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy | Mary Gould Davis | |
1931 |
Floating Island | Anne Parrish |
| The Dark Star of Itza | Alida Malkus | |
| Queer Person | Ralph Hubbard | |
| Mountains are Free | Julie Davis Adams | |
| Spice and the Devil's Cave | Agnes Hewes | |
| Meggy MacIntosh | Elizabeth Janet Gray | |
| Garram the Hunter | Herbert Best | |
| Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer | Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen | |
1930 |
A Daughter of the Siene | Jeanette Eaton |
| Pran of Albania | Elizabeth Miller | |
| Jumping-Off Place | Marion Hurd McNeely | |
| The Tangle-Coated Horse | Ella Young | |
| Vaino | Julia Davis Adams | |
| Little Blacknose | Hildegarde Swift | |
1929 |
Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo | John Bennett |
| Millions of Cats | Wanda Gag | |
| The Boy Who Was | Grace Hallock | |
| Clearing Weather | Cornelia Meigs | |
| Runaway Papoose | Grace Moon | |
| Tod of the Fens | Elinor Whitney | |
1928 |
The Wonder Smith and His Son | Ella Young |
| Downright Dencey | Caroline Snedeker | |
1926 |
The Voyagers | Padraic Colum |
1925 |
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story | Annie Carroll Moore |
| The Dream Coach | Anne Parrish | |
1922 |
The Great Quest | Charles Hawes |
| Cedric the Forester | Bernard Marshall | |
| The Old Tobacco Shop | William Bowen | |
| The Golden Fleece and the Other Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles | Padraic Colum | |
| The Windy Hill | Cornelia Meigs |