John Newbery Medal
In 1921 Frederic G.Melcher had the Newbery Medal designed by René Paul Chambellan. The bronze medal has the winner's name and the date engraved on the back. The American Library Association Executive Board in 1922 delegated to the Children's Librarians' Section the responsibility for selecting the book to receive the Newbery Medal.
The inscription on the Newbery Medal still reads "Children's Librarians' Section," although the section has changed its name four times and its membership now includes both school and public library children's librarians in contrast to the years 1922-58, when the section, under three different names, included only public library children's librarians. Today the Medal is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of ALA.
How the Newbery Medal Came to Be
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. On June 22, 1921, Frederic G. Melcher proposed the award to the American Library Association meeting of the Children's Librarians' Section and suggested that it be named for the eighteenth-century English bookseller John Newbery. The idea was enthusiastically accepted by the children's librarians, and Melcher's official proposal was approved by the ALA Executive Board in 1922. In Melcher's formal agreement with the board, the purpose of the Newbery Medal was stated as follows: "To encourage original creative work in the field of books for children. To emphasize to the public that contributions to the literature for children deserve similar recognition to poetry, plays, or novels. To give those librarians, who make it their life work to serve children's reading interests, an opportunity to encourage good writing in this field."
The Newbery Award thus became the first children's book award in the world. Its terms, as well as its long history, continue to make it the best known and most discussed children's book award in this country.
From the beginning of the awarding of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, committees could, and usually did, cite other books as worthy of attention. Such books were referred to as Newbery or Caldecott "runners-up." In 1971 the term "runners-up" was changed to "honor books." The new terminology was made retroactive so that all former runners-up are now referred to as Newbery or Caldecott Honor Books.
Name | Title | Year |
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Maizy Chen’s Last Chance | Maizy Chen’s Last Chance | 2023 - Honor |
The Last Mapmaker | The Last Mapmaker | 2023 - Honor |
Iveliz Explains It All | Iveliz Explains It All | 2023 - Honor |
Freewater | Freewater | 2023 - Winner |
Watercress | 2022 - Honor | |
Too Bright to See | 2022 - Honor | |
A Snake Falls to Earth | 2022 - Honor | |
Red, White, and Whole | 2022 - Honor | |
The Last Cuentista | 2022 - Winner | |
A Wish in the Dark | 2021 - Honor | |
When You Trap a Tiger | 2021 - Winner | |
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team | 2021 - Honor | |
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom | 2021 - Honor | |
Fighting Words | 2021 - Honor | |
We Dream of Space | 2021 - Honor | |
The Undefeated | 2020 - Honor | |
Scary Stories for Young Foxes | 2020 - Honor | |
Other Words for Home | 2020 - Honor | |
Genesis Begins Again | 2020 - Honor | |
New Kid | 2020 - Winner | |
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert | The Book of Boy | 2019 - Honor |
Hiranandani, Veera | The Night Diary | 2019 - Honor |
Medina, Meg | Merci Suárez Changes Gears | 2019 - Winner |
James, Gordon C. | Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut | 2018 - Honor |
Barnes, Derrick | Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut | 2018 - Honor |
Kelly, Erin Entrada | Hello, Universe | 2018 - Winner |
Reynolds, Jason | Long Way Down | 2018 - Honor |
Watson, Renée | Piecing Me Together | 2018 - Honor |
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan | Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan | 2017 - Honor |
Wolf Hollow | Wolf Hollow | 2017 - Honor |
The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | 2017 - Honor |
The Girl Who Drank the Moon | The Girl Who Drank the Moon | 2017 - Winner |
The War that Saved my Life | The War that Saved my Life | 2016 - Honor |
Roller Girl | Roller Girl | 2016 - Honor |
Echo | Echo | 2016 - Honor |
Last Stop on Market Street | Last Stop on Market Street | 2016 - Winner |
Brown Girl Dreaming | Brown Girl Dreaming | 2015 - Honor |
El Deafo | El Deafo | 2015 - Honor |
The Crossover | The Crossover | 2015 - Winner |
One Came Home | One Came Home | 2014 - Honor |
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures | Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures | 2014 - Winner |
Paperboy | Paperboy | 2014 - Honor |
The Year of Billy Miller | The Year of Billy Miller | 2014 - Honor |
Doll Bones | Doll Bones | 2014 - Honor |
The One and Only Ivan | The One and Only Ivan | 2013 - Winner |
Splendors and Glooms | Splendors and Glooms | 2013 - Honor |
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon | Bomb | 2013 - Honor |
Three Times Lucky | Three Times Lucky | 2013 - Honor |
Yelchin, Eugene | Breaking Stalin's Nose | 2012 - Honor |
Lai, Thanhha | Inside Out & Back Again | 2012 - Honor |
Gantos, Jack | Dead End in Norvelt | 2012 - Winner |
Sidman, Joyce | Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night | 2011 - Honor |
Holm, Jennifer L. | Turtle in Paradise | 2011 - Honor |
Preus, Margi | Heart of a Samurai | 2011 - Honor |
Allen, Rick | Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night | 2011 - Honor |
Williams-Garcia, Rita | One Crazy Summer | 2011 - Honor |
Vanderpool, Clare | Moon Over Manifest | 2011 - Winner |
Philbrick, Rodman | The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg | 2010 - Honor |
Lin, Grace | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | 2010 - Honor |
Kelly, Jacqueline | The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | 2010 - Honor |
Hoose, Phillip | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | 2010 - Honor |
Stead, Rebecca | When You Reach Me | 2010 - Winner |
McKean, Dave | The Graveyard Book | 2009 - Winner |
Gaiman, Neil | The Graveyard Book | 2009 - Winner |
Appelt, Kathi | The Underneath | 2009 - Honor |
Small, David | The Underneath | 2009 - Honor |
Engle, Margarita | The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom | 2009 - Honor |
Law, Ingrid | Savvy | 2009 - Honor |
Woodson, Jacqueline | After Tupac & D Foster | 2009 - Honor |
Schlitz, Laura Amy | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | 2008 - Winner |
Byrd, Robert | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | 2008 - Winner |
Curtis, Christopher Paul | Elijah of Buxton | 2008 - Honor |
Schmidt, Gary D. | The Wednesday Wars | 2008 - Honor |
Woodson, Jacqueline | Feathers | 2008 - Honor |
Lord, Cynthia | Rules | 2007 - Honor |
Holm, Jennifer L. | Penny from Heaven | 2007 - Honor |
Larson, Kirby | Hattie Big Sky | 2007 - Honor |
Patron, Susan | The Higher Power of Lucky | 2007 - Winner |
Phelan, Matt | The Higher Power of Lucky | 2007 - Winner |
Perkins, Lynne Rae | Criss Cross | 2006 - Winner |
Armstrong, Alan | Whittington | 2006 - Honor |
Schindler, S.D. | Whittington | 2006 - Honor |
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | 2006 - Honor |
Hale, Shannon | Princess Academy | 2006 - Honor |
Woodson, Jacqueline | Show Way | 2006 - Honor |
Kadohata, Cynthia | Kira-Kira | 2005 - Winner |
Choldenko, Gennifer | Al Capone Does My Shirts | 2005 - Honor |
Freedman, Russell | The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights | 2005 - Honor |
Schmidt, Gary D. | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | 2005 - Honor |
Henkes, Kevin | Olive's Ocean | 2004 - Honor |
Murphy, Jim | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | 2004 - Honor |
DiCamillo, Kate | The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread | 2004 - Winner |
Ering, Timothy Basil | The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread | 2004 - Winner |
Reilly Giff, Patricia | Pictures of Hollis Woods | 2003 - Honor |
Tolan, Stephanie S. | Surviving the Applewhites | 2003 - Honor |
Hiaasen, Carl | Hoot | 2003 - Honor |
Martin, Ann M. | A Corner of the Universe | 2003 - Honor |
Farmer, Nancy | The House of the Scorpion | 2003 - Honor |
Crispin: The Cross of Lead | 2003 - Winner | |
Park, Linda Sue | A Single Shard | 2002 - Winner |
Horvath, Polly | Everything on a Waffle | 2002 - Honor |
Nelson, Marilyn | Carver: A Life in Poems | 2002 - Honor |
Creech, Sharon | The Wanderer | 2001 - Honor |
Bauer, Joan | Hope Was Here | 2001 - Honor |
Peck, Richard | A Year Down Yonder | 2001 - Winner |
DiCamillo, Kate | Because of Winn-Dixie | 2001 - Honor |
Gantos, Jack | Joey Pigza Loses Control | 2001 - Honor |
Couloumbis, Audrey | Getting Near to Baby | 2000 - Honor |
Curtis, Christopher Paul | Bud, Not Buddy | 2000 - Winner |
Holm, Jennifer L. | Our Only May Amelia | 2000 - Honor |
dePaola, Tomie | 26 Fairmount Avenue | 2000 - Honor |
Sachar, Louis | Holes | 1999 - Winner |
Peck, Richard | A Long Way from Chicago | 1999 - Honor |
Spinelli, Jerry | Wringer | 1998 - Honor |
Hesse, Karen | Out of the Dust | 1998 - Winner |
Carson Levine, Gail | Ella Enchanted | 1998 - Honor |
Reilly Giff, Patricia | Lily's Crossing | 1998 - Honor |
Farmer, Nancy | A Girl Named Disaster | 1997 - Honor |
McGraw, Eloise | Moorchild | 1997 - Honor |
Turner, Megan Whalen | The Thief | 1997 - Honor |
Konigsburg, E. L. | The View from Saturday | 1997 - Winner |
White, Ruth | Belle Prater's Boy | 1997 - Honor |
Cushman, Karen | The Midwife's Apprentice | 1996 - Winner |
Coman, Carolyn | What Jamie Saw | 1996 - Honor |
Murphy, Jim | The Great Fire | 1996 - Honor |
Fenner, Carol | Yolonda's Genius | 1996 - Honor |
Curtiz, Christopher Paul | The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 | 1996 - Honor |
Farmer, Nancy | The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm | 1995 - Honor |
Cushman, Karen | Catherine, Called Birdy | 1995 - Honor |
Creech, Sharon | Walk Two Moons | 1995 - Winner |
Yep, Laurence | Dragon's Gate | 1994 - Honor |
Freedman, Russell | Eleanor Roosevelt: a Life of Discovery | 1994 - Honor |
Conly, Jane Leslie | Crazy Lady | 1994 - Honor |
Lowry, Lois | The Giver | 1994 - Winner |
Myers, Walter Dean | Somewhere in the Darkness | 1993 - Honor |
McKissack, Patricia | The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural | 1993 - Honor |
Rylant, Cynthia | Missing May | 1993 - Winner |
Brooks, Bruce | What Hearts | 1993 - Honor |
Reynolds Naylor, Phyllis | Shiloh | 1992 - Winner |
Freedman, Russell | The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane | 1992 - Honor |
Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel | 1992 - Honor | |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | 1991 - Honor | |
Spinelli, Jerry | Maniac Magee | 1991 - Winner |
Lowry, Lois | Number the Stars | 1990 - Winner |
Taylor Lisle, Janet | Afternoon of the Elves | 1990 - Honor |
Fisher Staples, Suzanne | Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind | 1990 - Honor |
Paulsen, Gary | The Winter Room | 1990 - Honor |
Fleischman, Paul | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | 1989 - Winner |
Hamilton, Virginia | In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World | 1989 - Honor |
Myers, Walter Dean | Scorpions | 1989 - Honor |
Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet | 1988 - Honor |
Freedman, Russell | Lincoln: A Photobiography | 1988 - Winner |
Fox Mazer, Norma | After The Rain | 1988 - Honor |
Fleischman, Sid | The Whipping Boy | 1987 - Winner |
Rylant, Cynthia | A Fine White Dust | 1987 - Honor |
Lauber, Patricia | Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens | 1987 - Honor |
Dane Baue, Marion | On My Honor | 1987 - Honor |
MacLachlan, Patricia | Sarah, Plain and Tall | 1986 - Winner |
Blumberg, Rhoda | Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun | 1986 - Honor |
Paulsen, Gary | Dogsong | 1986 - Honor |
Fox, Paula | One-Eyed Cat | 1985 - Honor |
McKinley, Robin | The Hero and the Crown | 1985 - Winner |
Jukes, Mavis | Like Jake and Me | 1985 - Honor |
Brooks, Bruce | The Moves Make the Man | 1985 - Honor |
Cleary, Beverly | Dear Mr. Henshaw | 1984 - Winner |
Lasky, Kathryn | Sugaring Time | 1984 - Honor |
Brittain, Bill | The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree | 1984 - Honor |
Voigt, Cynthia | A Solitary Blue | 1984 - Honor |
George Speare, Elizabeth | The Sign of the Beaver | 1984 - Honor |
Hamilton, Virginia | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | 1983 - Honor |
Fritz, Jean | Homesick: My Own Story | 1983 - Honor |
Steig, William | Doctor DeSoto | 1983 - Honor |
McKinley, Robin | The Blue Sword | 1983 - Honor |
Voigt, Cynthia | Dicey's Song | 1983 - Winner |
Fleischman, Paul | Graven Images | 1983 - Honor |
Siegal, Aranka | Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 | 1982 - Honor |
Cleary, Beverly | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | 1982 - Honor |
Willard, Nancy | Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers | 1982 - Winner |
Paterson, Katherine | Jacob Have I Loved | 1981 - Winner |
Langton, Jane | The Fledgling | 1981 - Honor |
L'Engle, Madeleine | A Ring of Endless Light | 1981 - Honor |
Kherdian, David | The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl | 1980 - Honor |
Blos, Joan W. | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 | 1980 - Winner |
Paterson, Katherine | The Great Gilly Hopkins | 1979 - Honor |
Raskin, Ellen | The Westing Game | 1979 - Winner |
Paterso, Katherine | Bridge to Terabithia | 1978 - Winner |
Cleary, Beverly | Ramona and Her Father | 1978 - Honor |
Highwater, Jamake | Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey | 1978 - Honor |
Taylor, Mildred D. | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | 1977 - Winner |
Steig, William | Abel's Island | 1977 - Honor |
Bond, Nancy | A String in the Harp | 1977 - Honor |
Bell Mathis, Sharon | The Hundred Penny Box | 1976 - Honor |
Yep, Laurence | Dragonwings | 1976 - Honor |
Cooper, Susan | The Grey King | 1976 - Winner |
Hamilton, Virginia | M. C. Higgins, the Great | 1975 - Winner |
Raskin, Ellen | Figgs & Phantoms | 1975 - Honor |
Collier, Christopher | My Brother Sam is Dead | 1975 - Honor |
Collier, James Lincoln | My Brother Sam is Dead | 1975 - Honor |
Pope, Elizabeth Marie | The Perilous Gard | 1975 - Honor |
Greene, Bette | Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe | 1975 - Honor |
Fox, Paula | The Slave Dancer | 1974 - Winner |
Cooper, Susan | The Dark Is Rising | 1974 - Honor |
Reiss, Johanna | The Upstairs Room | 1973 - Honor |
Lobel, Arnold | Frog and Toad Together | 1973 - Honor |
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | The Witches of Worm | 1973 - Honor |
Craighead George, Jean | Julie of the Wolves | 1973 - Winner |
Miles, Miska | Annie and the Old One | 1972 - Honor |
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | The Headless Cupid | 1972 - Honor |
Hamilton, Virginia | The Planet of Junior Brown | 1972 - Honor |
Eckert, Allan W. | Incident At Hawk's Hill | 1972 - Honor |
O'Brien, Robert C. | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | 1972 - Winner |
LeGuin, Ursula K. | The Tombs of Atuan | 1972 - Honor |
Babbitt, Natalie | KneeKnock Rise | 1971 - Honor |
Engdahl, Sylvia Louise | Enchantress From the Stars | 1971 - Honor |
Byars, Betsy | Summer of the Swans | 1971 - Winner |
O'Dell, Scott | Sing Down the Moon | 1971 - Honor |
Ish-Kishor, Sulamith | Our Eddie | 1970 - Honor |
Gaylord Moore, Janet | The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art | 1970 - Honor |
Steele, Mary Q. | Journey Outside | 1970 - Honor |
Armstrong, William H. | Sounder | 1970 - Winner |
Alexander, Lloyd | The High King | 1969 - Winner |
Lester, Julius | To Be a Slave | 1969 - Honor |
Bashevis Singer, Isaac | When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories | 1969 - Honor |
O'Dell, Scott | The Black Pearl | 1968 - Honor |
Keatley Snyder, Zilpha | The Egypt Game | 1968 - Honor |
Bashevis Singer, Isaac | The Fearsome Inn | 1968 - Honor |
Konigsburg, E. L. | Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth | 1968 - Honor |
Konigsburg, E. L. | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | 1968 - Winner |
O'Dell, Scott | The King's Fifth | 1967 - Honor |
Bashevis Singer, Isaac | Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories | 1967 - Honor |
Hays Weik, Mary | The Jazz Man | 1967 - Honor |
Hunt, Irene | Up a Road Slowly | 1967 - Winner |
Borton de Trevino, Elizabeth | I, Juan de Pareja | 1966 - Winner |
Alexander, Lloyd | The Black Cauldron | 1966 - Honor |
Stolz, Mary | The Noonday Friends | 1966 - Honor |
Jarrell, Randall | The Animal Family | 1966 - Honor |
Hunt, Irene | Across Five Aprils | 1965 - Honor |
Wojciechowska, Maia | Shadow of a Bull | 1965 - Winner |
Neville, Emily | It's Like This, Cat | 1964 - Winner |
North, Sterling | Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era | 1964 - Honor |
Wier, Ester | The Loner | 1964 - Honor |
Coolidge, Olivia | Men of Athens | 1963 - Honor |
Alger A.K.A. Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud., Leclaire | Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland | 1963 - Honor |
L'Engle, Madeleine | A Wrinkle in Time | 1963 - Winner |
Tunis, Edwin | Frontier Living | 1962 - Honor |
Jarvis McGraw, Eloise | The Golden Goblet | 1962 - Honor |
George Speare, Elizabeth | The Bronze Bow | 1962 - Winner |
Stolz, Mary | Belling The Tiger | 1962 - Honor |
Thompson A.K.A. George Selden, pseud, George | The Cricket In Times Square | 1961 - Honor |
Schaefer, Jack | Old Ramon | 1961 - Honor |
Johnson, Gerald W. | America Moves Forward: A History for Peter | 1961 - Honor |
O'Dell, Scott | Island of the Blue Dolphins | 1961 - Winner |
Krumgold, Joseph | Onion John | 1960 - Winner |
Johnson, Gerald W. | America Is Born: A History for Peter | 1960 - Honor |
Kendall, Carol | The Gammage Cup | 1960 - Honor |
Craighead George, Jean | My Side of the Mountain | 1960 - Honor |
George Speare, Elizabeth | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | 1959 - Winner |
Savage Carlson, Natalie | The Family Under The Bridge | 1959 - Honor |
Dejong, Meindert | Along Came A Dog | 1959 - Honor |
Kalnay, Francis | Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa | 1959 - Honor |
Steele, William O. | The Perilous Road | 1959 - Honor |
Lawson, Robert | The Great Wheel | 1958 - Honor |
Enright, Elizabeth | Gone-Away Lake | 1958 - Honor |
Keith, Harold | Rifles for Watie | 1958 - Winner |
Gurko, Leo | Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle | 1958 - Honor |
Sandoz, Mari | The Horsecatcher | 1958 - Honor |
Judson, Clara Ingram | Mr. Justice Holmes | 1957 - Honor |
de Angeli, Marguerite | Black Fox of Lorne | 1957 - Honor |
Rhoads, Dorothy | The Corn Grows Ripe | 1957 - Honor |
Sorensen, Virginia | Miracles on Maple Hill | 1957 - Winner |
Gipson, Fred | Old Yeller | 1957 - Honor |
DeJong, Meindert | The House of Sixty Fathers | 1957 - Honor |
Latham, Jean Lee | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | 1956 - Winner |
Kinnan Rawlings, Marjorie | The Secret River | 1956 - Honor |
Lindquist, Jennie | The Golden Name Day | 1956 - Honor |
Shippen, Katherine | Men, Microscopes, and Living Things | 1956 - Honor |
DeJong, Meindert | The Wheel on the School | 1955 - Winner |
Dalgliesh, Alice | Courage of Sarah Noble | 1955 - Honor |
Ullman, James | Banner In The Sky | 1955 - Honor |
Buff, Conrad | Magic Maize | 1954 - Honor |
Judson, Clara Ingram | Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot | 1954 - Honor |
Krumgold, Joseph | ...And Now Miguel | 1954 - Winner |
Huchet Bishop, Claire | All Alone | 1954 - Honor |
Dejong, Meindert | Shadrach | 1954 - Honor |
Dejong, Meindert | Hurry Home, Candy | 1954 - Honor |
Buff, Mary | Magic Maize | 1954 - Honor |
Dalgliesh, Alice | The Bears on Hemlock Mountain | 1953 - Honor |
Foster, Genevieve | Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 | 1953 - Honor |
Nolan Clark, Ann | Secret of the Andes | 1953 - Winner |
White, E. B. | Charlotte's Web | 1953 - Honor |
Jarvis McGraw, Eloise | Moccasin Trail | 1953 - Honor |
Weil, Ann | Red Sails to Capri | 1953 - Honor |
Holling, Holling C. | Minn of the Mississippi | 1952 - Honor |
Baity, Elizabeth | Americans Before Columbus | 1952 - Honor |
Estes, Eleanor | Ginger Pye | 1952 - Winner |
Kalashnikoff, Nicholas | The Defender | 1952 - Honor |
Sauer, Julia | The Light at Tern Rock | 1952 - Honor |
Buff, Mary | The Apple and the Arrow | 1952 - Honor |
Buff, Conrad | The Apple and the Arrow | 1952 - Honor |
Yates, Elizabeth | Amos Fortune, Free Man | 1951 - Winner |
Hunt, Mabel Leigh | Better Known as Johnny Appleseed | 1951 - Honor |
Eaton, Jeanette | Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword | 1951 - Honor |
Judson, Clara Ingram | Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People | 1951 - Honor |
Parrish, Anne | The Story of Appleby Capple | 1951 - Honor |
Foster, Genevieve | George Washington | 1950 - Honor |
Havighurst, Walter | Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin | 1950 - Honor |
Havighurst, Marion | Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin | 1950 - Honor |
Montgomer, Rutherford | Kildee House | 1950 - Honor |
Caudill, Rebecca | Tree of Freedom | 1950 - Honor |
de Angeli, Marguerite | The Door in the Wall | 1950 - Winner |
Coblentz, Catherine | The Blue Cat of Castle Town | 1950 - Honor |
Henry, Marguerite | King of the Wind | 1949 - Winner |
Holling, Holling C. | Seabird | 1949 - Honor |
Rankin, Louise | Daughter of the Mountains | 1949 - Honor |
Gannett, Ruth S. | My Father's Dragon | 1949 - Honor |
Bontemps, Arna | Story of the Negro | 1949 - Honor |
Pène du Bois, William | The Twenty-One Balloons | 1948 - Winner |
Huchet Bishop, Claire | Pancakes-Paris | 1948 - Honor |
Treffinger, Carolyn | Li Lun, Lad of Courage | 1948 - Honor |
Besterman, Catherine | The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot | 1948 - Honor |
Henry, Marguerite | Misty of Chincoteague | 1948 - Honor |
Courlander, Harold | The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories | 1948 - Honor |
Buff, Mary | Big Tree | 1947 - Honor |
Maxwell, William | The Heavenly Tenants | 1947 - Honor |
Buff, Conrad | Big Tree | 1947 - Honor |
Barnes, Nancy | Wonderful Year | 1947 - Honor |
Sherwin Bailey, Carolyn | Miss Hickory | 1947 - Winner |
Teilhet A.K.A. Cyrus Fisher, pseud., Darwin L. | The Avion My Uncle Flew | 1947 - Honor |
Jewett, Eleanor | The Hidden Treasure of Glaston | 1947 - Honor |
Lenski, Lois | Strawberry Girl | 1946 - Winner |
Henry, Marguerite | Justin Morgan Had a Horse | 1946 - Honor |
Crannell Means, Florence | The Moved-Outers | 1946 - Honor |
Shippen, Katherine | New Found World | 1946 - Honor |
Weston, Christine | Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear | 1946 - Honor |
Eaton, Jeanette | Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams | 1945 - Honor |
Lawson, Robert | Rabbit Hill | 1945 - Winner |
Foster, Genevieve | Abraham Lincoln's World | 1945 - Honor |
Dalgliesh, Alice | The Silver Pencil | 1945 - Honor |
Estes, Eleanor | The Hundred Dresses | 1945 - Honor |
Forbes, Esther | Johnny Tremain | 1944 - Winner |
Ingalls Wilder, Laura | These Happy Golden Years | 1944 - Honor |
Estes, Eleanor | Rufus M. | 1944 - Honor |
Sauer, Julia | Fog Magic | 1944 - Honor |
Yates, Elizabeth | Mountain Born | 1944 - Honor |
Gray, Elizabeth Janet | Adam of the Road | 1943 - Winner |
Estes, Eleanor | The Middle Moffat | 1943 - Honor |
Hunt, Mabel Leigh | Have You Seen Tom Thumb? | 1943 - Honor |
Edmonds, Walter | The Matchlock Gun | 1942 - Winner |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Little Town on the Prairie | 1942 - Honor |
Foster, Genevieve | George Washington's World | 1942 - Honor |
Lenski, Lois | Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | 1942 - Honor |
Gaggin, Eva Roe | Down Ryton Water | 1942 - Honor |
Hall, Anna Gertrude | Nansen | 1941 - Honor |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls | The Long Winter | 1941 - Honor |
Carr, Mary Jane | Young Mac of Fort Vancouver | 1941 - Honor |
Sperry, Armstrong | Call It Courage | 1941 - Winner |
Gates, Doris | Blue Willow | 1941 - Honor |
Daugherty, James | Daniel Boone | 1940 - Winner |
Meader, Stephen W. | Boy with a Pack | 1940 - Honor |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls | By the Shores of Silver Lake | 1940 - Honor |
Robinson, Mabel | Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz | 1940 - Honor |
Seredy, Kate | The Singing Tree | 1940 - Honor |
Enright, Elizabeth | Thimble Summer | 1939 - Winner |
Gray, Elizabeth Janet | Penn | 1939 - Honor |
Crawford, Phyllis | Hello the Boat! | 1939 - Honor |
Atwater, Richard | Mr. Popper's Penguins | 1939 - Honor |
Angelo, Valenti | Nino | 1939 - Honor |
Eaton, Jeanette | Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot | 1939 - Honor |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls | On the Banks of Plum Creek | 1938 - Honor |
Bowman, James Cloyd | Pecos Bill | 1938 - Honor |
Seredy, Kate | The White Stag | 1938 - Winner |
Robinson, Mabel | Bright Island | 1938 - Honor |
Lenski, Lois | Phebe Fairchild: Her Book | 1937 - Honor |
Bianco, Margery | Winterbound | 1937 - Honor |
Bemelmans, Ludwig | The Golden Basket | 1937 - Honor |
Jones, Idwal | Whistler's Van | 1937 - Honor |
Hewes, Agnes | The Codfish Musket | 1937 - Honor |
Rourke, Constance | Audubon | 1937 - Honor |
Sawyer, Ruth | Roller Skates | 1937 - Winner |
Sperry, Armstrong | All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud | 1936 - Honor |
Seredy, Kate | Caddie Woodlawn | 1936 - Winner |
Gray, Elizabeth Janet | Young Walter Scott | 1936 - Honor |
Seredy, Kate | The Good Master | 1936 - Honor |
Stong, Phil | Honk, the Moose | 1936 - Honor |
Brink, Carol Ryrie | Caddie Woodlawn | 1936 - Winner |
Von Stockum, Hilda | Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic | 1935 - Honor |
Rourke, Constance | Davy Crockett | 1935 - Honor |
Seeger, Elizabeth | Pageant of Chinese History | 1935 - Honor |
Shannon (aka Mrs. Elbert Wing), Monica | Dobry | 1935 - Winner |
Singmaster, Elsie | Swords of Steel | 1934 - Honor |
Snedeker, Caroline | The Forgotten Daughter | 1934 - Honor |
Meigs, Cornelia | The Story of the Author of Little Women: Invincible Louisa | 1934 - Winner |
Gág, Wanda | ABC Bunny | 1934 - Honor |
Best A.K.A. Erick Berry, pseud., Allena | Winged Girl of Knossos | 1934 - Honor |
Kyle, Ann | Apprentice of Florence | 1934 - Honor |
Hewes, Agnes | Glory of the Seas | 1934 - Honor |
Colum, Padraic | Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside | 1934 - Honor |
Schmid, Sarah | New Land | 1934 - Honor |
Meigs, Cornelia | Swift Rivers | 1933 - Honor |
Wiese, Kurt | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | 1933 - Winner |
Burglon, Nora | Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia | 1933 - Honor |
Swift, Hildegarde | The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War | 1933 - Honor |
Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | 1933 - Winner |
Davis, Mary Gould | Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy | 1932 - Honor |
Allee, Marjorie | Jane's Island | 1932 - Honor |
Lownsbery, Eloise | Out of the Flame | 1932 - Honor |
Tietjens, Eunice | Boy of the South Seas | 1932 - Honor |
Field, Rachel | Calico Bush | 1932 - Honor |
Lathrop, Dorothy P. | The Fairy Circus | 1932 - Honor |
Armer, Laura Adams | Waterless Mountain | 1932 - Winner |
Lide, Alice | Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer | 1931 - Honor |
Best, Herbert | Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes | 1931 - Honor |
Johansen, Margaret | Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer | 1931 - Honor |
Gray, Elizabeth Janet | Meggy MacIntosh | 1931 - Honor |
Hewes, Agnes | Spice and the Devil's Cave | 1931 - Honor |
Adams, Julie Davis | Mountains are Free | 1931 - Honor |
Hubbard, Ralph | Queer Person | 1931 - Honor |
Malkus, Alida | The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess | 1931 - Honor |
Parrish, Anne | Floating Island | 1931 - Honor |
Coatsworth, Elizabeth | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | 1931 - Winner |
Ward, Lynd | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | 1931 - Winner |
Swift, Hildegarde | Little Blacknose | 1930 - Honor |
Adams, Julia Davis | Vaino | 1930 - Honor |
Young, Ella Young | The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales | 1930 - Honor |
McNeely, Marion Hurd | Jumping-Off Place | 1930 - Honor |
Miller, Elizabeth | Pran of Albania | 1930 - Honor |
Eaton, Jeanette | A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland | 1930 - Honor |
Field, Rachel | Hitty. Her First Hundred Years | 1930 - Winner |
Lathrop, Dorothy | Hitty. Her First Hundred Years | 1930 - Winner |
Bennett, John | Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo | 1929 - Honor |
Whitney, Elinor | Tod of the Fens | 1929 - Honor |
Moon, Grace | Runaway Papoose | 1929 - Honor |
Meigs, Cornelia | Clearing Weather | 1929 - Honor |
Hallock, Grace | The Boy Who Was | 1929 - Honor |
Gág, Wanda | Millions of Cats | 1929 - Honor |
Kelly, Eric P. | Trumpeter of Krakow | 1929 - Winner |
Young, Ella | The Wonder Smith and His Son | 1928 - Honor |
Mukerji, Dhan Gopal | Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon | 1928 - Winner |
Snedeker, Caroline | Downright Dencey | 1928 - Honor |
James, Will | Smoky, the Cowhorse | 1927 - Winner |
Chrisman, Arthur B. | Shen of the Sea | 1926 - Winner |
Colum, Padraic | The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery | 1926 - Honor |
Moore, Annie Carroll | Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story | 1925 - Honor |
Finger, Charles Joseph | Tales From Silver Lands | 1925 - Winner |
Parrish, Anne | The Dream Coach | 1925 - Honor |
Hawes, Charles Boardman | The Dark Frigate | 1924 - Winner |
Lofting, Hugh | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | 1923 - Winner |
Hawes, Charles | The Great Quest | 1922 - Honor |
The Windy Hill | 1922 - Honor | |
Meigs, Cornelia | The Windy Hill | 1922 - Honor |
Colum, Padraic | The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles | 1922 - Honor |
Bowen, William | The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure | 1922 - Honor |
Marshall, Bernard | Cedric the Forester | 1922 - Honor |
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem | Story of Mankind | 1922 - Winner |