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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We Dream of Space | 2021 - Honor | |
Fighting Words | 2021 - Honor | |
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom | 2021 - Honor | |
A Wish in the Dark | 2021 - Honor | |
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team | 2021 - Honor | |
When You Trap a Tiger | 2021 - Winner | |
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 | |
Medina, Meg | Merci Suárez Changes Gears | 2019 - Winner |
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert | The Book of Boy | 2019 - Honor |
Hiranandani, Veera | The Night Diary | 2019 - Honor |
Watson, Renée | Piecing Me Together | 2018 - Honor |
Reynolds, Jason | Long Way Down | 2018 - Honor |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Last Stop on Market Street | Last Stop on Market Street | 2016 - Winner |
Echo | Echo | 2016 - Honor |
Roller Girl | Roller Girl | 2016 - Honor |
Brown Girl Dreaming | Brown Girl Dreaming | 2015 - Honor |
El Deafo | El Deafo | 2015 - Honor |
The Crossover | The Crossover | 2015 - Winner |
Paperboy | Paperboy | 2014 - Honor |
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures | Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures | 2014 - Winner |
The Year of Billy Miller | The Year of Billy Miller | 2014 - Honor |
One Came Home | One Came Home | 2014 - Honor |
Doll Bones | Doll Bones | 2014 - Honor |
Three Times Lucky | Three Times Lucky | 2013 - Honor |
The One and Only Ivan | The One and Only Ivan | 2013 - Winner |
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon | Bomb | 2013 - Honor |
Splendors and Glooms | Splendors and Glooms | 2013 - Honor |
Gantos, Jack | Dead End in Norvelt | 2012 - Winner |
Yelchin, Eugene | Breaking Stalin's Nose | 2012 - Honor |
Lai, Thanhha | Inside Out & Back Again | 2012 - 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 |
Sidman, Joyce | 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 |
Lin, Grace | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | 2010 - Honor |
Stead, Rebecca | When You Reach Me | 2010 - Winner |
Hoose, Phillip | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | 2010 - Honor |
Kelly, Jacqueline | The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | 2010 - Honor |
Philbrick, Rodman | The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg | 2010 - Honor |
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 |
Bauer, Joan | Hope Was Here | 2001 - Honor |
Creech, Sharon | The Wanderer | 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 |
Carson Levine, Gail | Ella Enchanted | 1998 - Honor |
Spinelli, Jerry | Wringer | 1998 - Honor |
Hesse, Karen | Out of the Dust | 1998 - Winner |
Reilly Giff, Patricia | Lily's Crossing | 1998 - Honor |
White, Ruth | Belle Prater's Boy | 1997 - Honor |
Konigsburg, E. L. | The View from Saturday | 1997 - Winner |
Farmer, Nancy | A Girl Named Disaster | 1997 - Honor |
McGraw, Eloise | Moorchild | 1997 - Honor |
Turner, Megan Whalen | The Thief | 1997 - 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 |
Coman, Carolyn | What Jamie Saw | 1996 - Honor |
Cushman, Karen | The Midwife's Apprentice | 1996 - Winner |
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 |
Lowry, Lois | The Giver | 1994 - Winner |
Yep, Laurence | Dragon's Gate | 1994 - Honor |
Conly, Jane Leslie | Crazy Lady | 1994 - Honor |
Freedman, Russell | Eleanor Roosevelt: a Life of Discovery | 1994 - Honor |
Rylant, Cynthia | Missing May | 1993 - Winner |
Brooks, Bruce | What Hearts | 1993 - Honor |
McKissack, Patricia | The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural | 1993 - Honor |
Myers, Walter Dean | Somewhere in the Darkness | 1993 - Honor |
Reynolds Naylor, Phyllis | Shiloh | 1992 - Winner |
Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel | 1992 - Honor | |
Freedman, Russell | The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane | 1992 - Honor |
Spinelli, Jerry | Maniac Magee | 1991 - Winner |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | 1991 - Honor | |
Lowry, Lois | Number the Stars | 1990 - Winner |
Paulsen, Gary | The Winter Room | 1990 - Honor |
Fisher Staples, Suzanne | Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind | 1990 - Honor |
Taylor Lisle, Janet | Afternoon of the Elves | 1990 - Honor |
Hamilton, Virginia | In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World | 1989 - Honor |
Myers, Walter Dean | Scorpions | 1989 - Honor |
Fleischman, Paul | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | 1989 - Winner |
Freedman, Russell | Lincoln: A Photobiography | 1988 - Winner |
Fox Mazer, Norma | After The Rain | 1988 - Honor |
Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet | 1988 - Honor |
Fleischman, Sid | The Whipping Boy | 1987 - Winner |
Rylant, Cynthia | A Fine White Dust | 1987 - Honor |
Dane Baue, Marion | On My Honor | 1987 - Honor |
Lauber, Patricia | Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens | 1987 - Honor |
MacLachlan, Patricia | Sarah, Plain and Tall | 1986 - Winner |
Paulsen, Gary | Dogsong | 1986 - Honor |
Blumberg, Rhoda | Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun | 1986 - Honor |
McKinley, Robin | The Hero and the Crown | 1985 - Winner |
Jukes, Mavis | Like Jake and Me | 1985 - Honor |
Fox, Paula | One-Eyed Cat | 1985 - Honor |
Brooks, Bruce | The Moves Make the Man | 1985 - Honor |
George Speare, Elizabeth | The Sign of the Beaver | 1984 - Honor |
Voigt, Cynthia | A Solitary Blue | 1984 - Honor |
Lasky, Kathryn | Sugaring Time | 1984 - Honor |
Brittain, Bill | The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree | 1984 - Honor |
Cleary, Beverly | Dear Mr. Henshaw | 1984 - Winner |
Voigt, Cynthia | Dicey's Song | 1983 - Winner |
McKinley, Robin | The Blue Sword | 1983 - Honor |
Steig, William | Doctor DeSoto | 1983 - Honor |
Fleischman, Paul | Graven Images | 1983 - Honor |
Fritz, Jean | Homesick: My Own Story | 1983 - Honor |
Hamilton, Virginia | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | 1983 - Honor |
Cleary, Beverly | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | 1982 - Honor |
Siegal, Aranka | Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 | 1982 - Honor |
Willard, Nancy | Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers | 1982 - Winner |
Langton, Jane | The Fledgling | 1981 - Honor |
L'Engle, Madeleine | A Ring of Endless Light | 1981 - Honor |
Paterson, Katherine | Jacob Have I Loved | 1981 - Winner |
Blos, Joan W. | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 | 1980 - Winner |
Kherdian, David | The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl | 1980 - Honor |
Raskin, Ellen | The Westing Game | 1979 - Winner |
Paterson, Katherine | The Great Gilly Hopkins | 1979 - Honor |
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 |
Cooper, Susan | The Grey King | 1976 - Winner |
Bell Mathis, Sharon | The Hundred Penny Box | 1976 - Honor |
Yep, Laurence | Dragonwings | 1976 - Honor |
Greene, Bette | Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe | 1975 - Honor |
Hamilton, Virginia | M. C. Higgins, the Great | 1975 - Winner |
Collier, James Lincoln | My Brother Sam is Dead | 1975 - Honor |
Collier, Christopher | My Brother Sam is Dead | 1975 - Honor |
Pope, Elizabeth Marie | The Perilous Gard | 1975 - Honor |
Raskin, Ellen | Figgs & Phantoms | 1975 - Honor |
Fox, Paula | The Slave Dancer | 1974 - Winner |
Cooper, Susan | The Dark Is Rising | 1974 - Honor |
Craighead George, Jean | Julie of the Wolves | 1973 - Winner |
Lobel, Arnold | Frog and Toad Together | 1973 - Honor |
Reiss, Johanna | The Upstairs Room | 1973 - Honor |
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | The Witches of Worm | 1973 - Honor |
Miles, Miska | Annie and the Old One | 1972 - Honor |
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | The Headless Cupid | 1972 - Honor |
LeGuin, Ursula K. | The Tombs of Atuan | 1972 - Honor |
Eckert, Allan W. | Incident At Hawk's Hill | 1972 - Honor |
Hamilton, Virginia | The Planet of Junior Brown | 1972 - Honor |
O'Brien, Robert C. | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | 1972 - Winner |
O'Dell, Scott | Sing Down the Moon | 1971 - Honor |
Babbitt, Natalie | KneeKnock Rise | 1971 - Honor |
Engdahl, Sylvia Louise | Enchantress From the Stars | 1971 - Honor |
Byars, Betsy | Summer of the Swans | 1971 - Winner |
Armstrong, William H. | Sounder | 1970 - Winner |
Ish-Kishor, Sulamith | Our Eddie | 1970 - Honor |
Steele, Mary Q. | Journey Outside | 1970 - Honor |
Gaylord Moore, Janet | The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art | 1970 - Honor |
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 |
Konigsburg, E. L. | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | 1968 - Winner |
Konigsburg, E. L. | Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth | 1968 - Honor |
Bashevis Singer, Isaac | The Fearsome Inn | 1968 - Honor |
Keatley Snyder, Zilpha | The Egypt Game | 1968 - Honor |
O'Dell, Scott | The Black Pearl | 1968 - Honor |
Bashevis Singer, Isaac | Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories | 1967 - Honor |
Hays Weik, Mary | The Jazz Man | 1967 - Honor |
O'Dell, Scott | The King's Fifth | 1967 - Honor |
Hunt, Irene | Up a Road Slowly | 1967 - Winner |
Stolz, Mary | The Noonday Friends | 1966 - Honor |
Jarrell, Randall | The Animal Family | 1966 - Honor |
Alexander, Lloyd | The Black Cauldron | 1966 - Honor |
Borton de Trevino, Elizabeth | I, Juan de Pareja | 1966 - Winner |
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 |
L'Engle, Madeleine | A Wrinkle in Time | 1963 - Winner |
Alger A.K.A. Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud., Leclaire | Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland | 1963 - Honor |
Coolidge, Olivia | Men of Athens | 1963 - Honor |
Jarvis McGraw, Eloise | The Golden Goblet | 1962 - Honor |
George Speare, Elizabeth | The Bronze Bow | 1962 - Winner |
Tunis, Edwin | Frontier Living | 1962 - Honor |
Stolz, Mary | Belling The Tiger | 1962 - Honor |
Johnson, Gerald W. | America Moves Forward: A History for Peter | 1961 - Honor |
O'Dell, Scott | Island of the Blue Dolphins | 1961 - Winner |
Thompson A.K.A. George Selden, pseud, George | The Cricket In Times Square | 1961 - Honor |
Schaefer, Jack | Old Ramon | 1961 - Honor |
Krumgold, Joseph | Onion John | 1960 - Winner |
Craighead George, Jean | My Side of the Mountain | 1960 - Honor |
Johnson, Gerald W. | America Is Born: A History for Peter | 1960 - Honor |
Kendall, Carol | The Gammage Cup | 1960 - Honor |
Dejong, Meindert | Along Came A Dog | 1959 - Honor |
Steele, William O. | The Perilous Road | 1959 - Honor |
Kalnay, Francis | Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa | 1959 - Honor |
Savage Carlson, Natalie | The Family Under The Bridge | 1959 - Honor |
George Speare, Elizabeth | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | 1959 - Winner |
Enright, Elizabeth | Gone-Away Lake | 1958 - Honor |
Lawson, Robert | The Great Wheel | 1958 - Honor |
Gurko, Leo | Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle | 1958 - Honor |
Keith, Harold | Rifles for Watie | 1958 - Winner |
Sandoz, Mari | The Horsecatcher | 1958 - Honor |
Gipson, Fred | Old Yeller | 1957 - Honor |
DeJong, Meindert | The House of Sixty Fathers | 1957 - Honor |
Judson, Clara Ingram | Mr. Justice Holmes | 1957 - Honor |
Rhoads, Dorothy | The Corn Grows Ripe | 1957 - Honor |
de Angeli, Marguerite | Black Fox of Lorne | 1957 - Honor |
Sorensen, Virginia | Miracles on Maple Hill | 1957 - Winner |
Shippen, Katherine | Men, Microscopes, and Living Things | 1956 - Honor |
Lindquist, Jennie | The Golden Name Day | 1956 - Honor |
Kinnan Rawlings, Marjorie | The Secret River | 1956 - Honor |
Latham, Jean Lee | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | 1956 - Winner |
Ullman, James | Banner In The Sky | 1955 - Honor |
Dalgliesh, Alice | Courage of Sarah Noble | 1955 - Honor |
DeJong, Meindert | The Wheel on the School | 1955 - Winner |
Buff, Conrad | Magic Maize | 1954 - Honor |
Buff, Mary | Magic Maize | 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 |
Judson, Clara Ingram | Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot | 1954 - 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 |
Dalgliesh, Alice | The Bears on Hemlock Mountain | 1953 - Honor |
Foster, Genevieve | Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 | 1953 - Honor |
Sauer, Julia | The Light at Tern Rock | 1952 - Honor |
Buff, Mary | The Apple and the Arrow | 1952 - Honor |
Kalashnikoff, Nicholas | The Defender | 1952 - Honor |
Estes, Eleanor | Ginger Pye | 1952 - Winner |
Baity, Elizabeth | Americans Before Columbus | 1952 - Honor |
Holling, Holling C. | Minn of the Mississippi | 1952 - Honor |
Buff, Conrad | The Apple and the Arrow | 1952 - Honor |
Yates, Elizabeth | Amos Fortune, Free Man | 1951 - Winner |
Judson, Clara Ingram | Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People | 1951 - Honor |
Parrish, Anne | The Story of Appleby Capple | 1951 - Honor |
Eaton, Jeanette | Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword | 1951 - Honor |
Hunt, Mabel Leigh | Better Known as Johnny Appleseed | 1951 - Honor |
de Angeli, Marguerite | The Door in the Wall | 1950 - Winner |
Coblentz, Catherine | The Blue Cat of Castle Town | 1950 - Honor |
Foster, Genevieve | George Washington | 1950 - Honor |
Havighurst, Marion | Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin | 1950 - Honor |
Havighurst, Walter | Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin | 1950 - Honor |
Caudill, Rebecca | Tree of Freedom | 1950 - Honor |
Montgomer, Rutherford | Kildee House | 1950 - Honor |
Holling, Holling C. | Seabird | 1949 - Honor |
Henry, Marguerite | King of the Wind | 1949 - Winner |
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 |
Courlander, Harold | The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories | 1948 - Honor |
Henry, Marguerite | Misty of Chincoteague | 1948 - Honor |
Sherwin Bailey, Carolyn | Miss Hickory | 1947 - Winner |
Barnes, Nancy | Wonderful Year | 1947 - Honor |
Buff, Mary | Big Tree | 1947 - Honor |
Buff, Conrad | Big Tree | 1947 - Honor |
Maxwell, William | The Heavenly Tenants | 1947 - Honor |
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 |
Weston, Christine | Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear | 1946 - Honor |
Shippen, Katherine | New Found World | 1946 - Honor |
Lawson, Robert | Rabbit Hill | 1945 - Winner |
Estes, Eleanor | The Hundred Dresses | 1945 - Honor |
Dalgliesh, Alice | The Silver Pencil | 1945 - Honor |
Eaton, Jeanette | Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams | 1945 - Honor |
Foster, Genevieve | Abraham Lincoln's World | 1945 - Honor |
Sauer, Julia | Fog Magic | 1944 - Honor |
Yates, Elizabeth | Mountain Born | 1944 - Honor |
Forbes, Esther | Johnny Tremain | 1944 - Winner |
Ingalls Wilder, Laura | These Happy Golden Years | 1944 - Honor |
Estes, Eleanor | Rufus M. | 1944 - Honor |
Hunt, Mabel Leigh | Have You Seen Tom Thumb? | 1943 - Honor |
Estes, Eleanor | The Middle Moffat | 1943 - Honor |
Gray, Elizabeth Janet | Adam of the Road | 1943 - Winner |
Gaggin, Eva Roe | Down Ryton Water | 1942 - Honor |
Lenski, Lois | Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | 1942 - Honor |
Foster, Genevieve | George Washington's World | 1942 - Honor |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Little Town on the Prairie | 1942 - Honor |
Edmonds, Walter | The Matchlock Gun | 1942 - Winner |
Gates, Doris | Blue Willow | 1941 - Honor |
Sperry, Armstrong | Call It Courage | 1941 - Winner |
Hall, Anna Gertrude | Nansen | 1941 - Honor |
Carr, Mary Jane | Young Mac of Fort Vancouver | 1941 - Honor |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls | The Long Winter | 1941 - Honor |
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 |
Daugherty, James | Daniel Boone | 1940 - Winner |
Atwater, Richard | Mr. Popper's Penguins | 1939 - Honor |
Enright, Elizabeth | Thimble Summer | 1939 - Winner |
Angelo, Valenti | Nino | 1939 - Honor |
Gray, Elizabeth Janet | Penn | 1939 - Honor |
Crawford, Phyllis | Hello the Boat! | 1939 - Honor |
Eaton, Jeanette | Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot | 1939 - Honor |
Bowman, James Cloyd | Pecos Bill | 1938 - Honor |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls | On the Banks of Plum Creek | 1938 - Honor |
Robinson, Mabel | Bright Island | 1938 - Honor |
Seredy, Kate | The White Stag | 1938 - Winner |
Rourke, Constance | Audubon | 1937 - Honor |
Hewes, Agnes | The Codfish Musket | 1937 - Honor |
Sawyer, Ruth | Roller Skates | 1937 - Winner |
Bianco, Margery | Winterbound | 1937 - Honor |
Jones, Idwal | Whistler's Van | 1937 - Honor |
Lenski, Lois | Phebe Fairchild: Her Book | 1937 - Honor |
Bemelmans, Ludwig | The Golden Basket | 1937 - Honor |
Gray, Elizabeth Janet | Young Walter Scott | 1936 - Honor |
Brink, Carol Ryrie | Caddie Woodlawn | 1936 - Winner |
Seredy, Kate | The Good Master | 1936 - Honor |
Stong, Phil | Honk, the Moose | 1936 - Honor |
Seredy, Kate | Caddie Woodlawn | 1936 - Winner |
Sperry, Armstrong | All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud | 1936 - Honor |
Seeger, Elizabeth | Pageant of Chinese History | 1935 - Honor |
Shannon (aka Mrs. Elbert Wing), Monica | Dobry | 1935 - Winner |
Rourke, Constance | Davy Crockett | 1935 - Honor |
Von Stockum, Hilda | Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic | 1935 - Honor |
Best A.K.A. Erick Berry, pseud., Allena | Winged Girl of Knossos | 1934 - Honor |
Schmid, Sarah | New Land | 1934 - Honor |
Colum, Padraic | Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside | 1934 - Honor |
Hewes, Agnes | Glory of the Seas | 1934 - Honor |
Gág, Wanda | ABC Bunny | 1934 - Honor |
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 |
Kyle, Ann | Apprentice of Florence | 1934 - 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 |
Meigs, Cornelia | Swift Rivers | 1933 - Honor |
Armer, Laura Adams | Waterless Mountain | 1932 - Winner |
Lathrop, Dorothy P. | The Fairy Circus | 1932 - Honor |
Field, Rachel | Calico Bush | 1932 - Honor |
Tietjens, Eunice | Boy of the South Seas | 1932 - Honor |
Davis, Mary Gould | Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy | 1932 - Honor |
Lownsbery, Eloise | Out of the Flame | 1932 - Honor |
Allee, Marjorie | Jane's Island | 1932 - Honor |
Hewes, Agnes | Spice and the Devil's Cave | 1931 - Honor |
Gray, Elizabeth Janet | Meggy MacIntosh | 1931 - Honor |
Best, Herbert | Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes | 1931 - Honor |
Parrish, Anne | Floating Island | 1931 - Honor |
Johansen, Margaret | Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer | 1931 - Honor |
Lide, Alice | Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer | 1931 - Honor |
Malkus, Alida | The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess | 1931 - Honor |
Adams, Julie Davis | Mountains are Free | 1931 - Honor |
Coatsworth, Elizabeth | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | 1931 - Winner |
Ward, Lynd | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | 1931 - Winner |
Hubbard, Ralph | Queer Person | 1931 - Honor |
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 |
Lathrop, Dorothy | Hitty. Her First Hundred Years | 1930 - Winner |
Field, Rachel | Hitty. Her First Hundred Years | 1930 - Winner |
Whitney, Elinor | Tod of the Fens | 1929 - Honor |
Meigs, Cornelia | Clearing Weather | 1929 - Honor |
Hallock, Grace | The Boy Who Was | 1929 - Honor |
Moon, Grace | Runaway Papoose | 1929 - Honor |
Bennett, John | Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo | 1929 - Honor |
Gág, Wanda | Millions of Cats | 1929 - Honor |
Kelly, Eric P. | Trumpeter of Krakow | 1929 - Winner |
Snedeker, Caroline | Downright Dencey | 1928 - Honor |
Young, Ella | The Wonder Smith and His Son | 1928 - Honor |
Mukerji, Dhan Gopal | Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon | 1928 - Winner |
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 |
Parrish, Anne | The Dream Coach | 1925 - Honor |
Finger, Charles Joseph | Tales From Silver Lands | 1925 - Winner |
Moore, Annie Carroll | Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story | 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 |