The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the
Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most
distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
| 2008 |
Medal Winner:
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices
From a Medieval Village |
by Laura Amy Schlitz |
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| 2007 |
Medal Winner:
The Higher Power of Lucky |
by Susan Patron |
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| 2006 |
Medal Winner:
Criss Cross |
by Lynne Rae Perkins |
Honors Books:
- Whittington by Alan
Armstrong
- Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti -- Coming Soon
- Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
- Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
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| 2005 |
Medal Winner:
Kira-Kira |
by Cynthia Kadohata |
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| 2004 |
Medal Winner:
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a
Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread |
by Kate DiCamillo |
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| 2003 |
Medal Winner:
Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
by Avi |
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| 2002 |
Medal Winner:
A Single Shard |
by Linda Sue Park |
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| 2001 |
Medal Winner:
A Year Down Yonder |
by Richard Peck |
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| 2000 |
Medal Winner:
Bud, Not Buddy |
by Christopher Paul Curtis |
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| 1999 |
Medal Winner:
Holes |
by Louis Sachar |
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| 1998 |
Medal Winner:
Out of the Dust |
by Karen Hesse |
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| 1997 |
Medal Winner:
The View from Saturday |
by E. L. Konigsburg |
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| 1996 |
Medal Winner:
The Midwife's Apprentice |
by Karen Cushman |
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| 1995 |
Medal Winner:
Walk Two Moons |
by Sharon Creech |
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| 1994 |
Medal Winner:
The Giver |
by Lois Lowry |
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| 1993 |
Medal Winner:
Missing May |
by Cynthia Rylant |
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| 1992 |
Medal Winner:
Shiloh |
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
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| 1991 |
Medal Winner:
Maniac Magee |
by Jerry Spinelli
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| 1990 |
Medal Winner:
Number the Stars |
by Lois Lowry |
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| 1989 |
Medal Winner:
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices |
by Paul Fleischman |
Honors Books:
- In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton -- Coming
Soon
- Scorpions by Walter Dean
Myers
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| 1988 |
Medal Winner:
Lincoln: A Photobiography |
by Russell Freedman |
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| 1987 |
Medal Winner:
The Whipping Boy |
by Sid Fleischman |
Honors 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 -- Coming
Soon
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| 1986 |
Medal Winner:
Sarah, Plain and Tall |
by Patricia MacLachlan |
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| 1985 |
Medal Winner:
The Hero and the Crown |
by Robin McKinley |
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| 1984 |
Medal Winner:
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
by Beverly Cleary |
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| 1983 |
Medal Winner:
Dicey's Song |
by Cynthia Voigt |
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| 1982 |
Medal Winner:
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and
Experienced Travelers |
by Nancy Willard |
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| 1981 |
Medal Winner:
Jacob Have I Loved |
by Katherine Paterson |
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| 1980 |
Medal Winner:
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-
1832 |
by Joan W. Blos |
Honors Books:
- The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian -- Coming
Soon
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| 1979 |
Medal Winner:
The Westing Game |
by Ellen Raskin |
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| 1978 |
Medal Winner:
Bridge to Terabithia |
by Katherine Paterson |
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| 1977 |
Medal Winner:
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
by Mildred D. Taylor |
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| 1976 |
Medal Winner:
The Grey King |
by Susan Cooper |
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| 1975 |
Medal Winner:
M. C. Higgins, the Great |
by Virginia Hamilton |
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| 1974 |
Medal Winner:
The Slave Dancer |
by Paula Fox |
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| 1973 |
Medal Winner:
Julie of the Wolves |
by Jean Craighead George |
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| 1972 |
Medal Winner:
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
by Robert C. O'Brien |
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| 1971 |
Medal Winner:
Summer of the Swans |
by Betsy Byars |
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| 1970 |
Medal Winner:
Sounder |
by William H. Armstrong |
Honors Books:
- Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor -- Coming Soon
- The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
-- Coming Soon
- The Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele -- Coming Soon
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| 1969 |
Medal Winner:
The High King |
by Lloyd Alexander |
Honors Books:
- To Be a Slave by Julius
Lester
- When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Coming
Soon
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| 1968 |
Medal Winner:
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler |
by E. L. Konigsburg |
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| 1967 |
Medal Winner:
Up a Road Slowly |
by Irene Hunt |
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| 1966 |
Medal Winner:
I, Juan de Pareja |
by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino |
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| 1965 |
Medal Winner:
Shadow of a Bull |
by Maia Wojciechowska |
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| 1964 |
Medal Winner:
It's Like This, Cat |
by Emily Neville |
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| 1963 |
Medal Winner:
A Wrinkle in Time |
by Madeleine L'Engle |
Honors Books:
- Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire
Alger) -- Coming Soon
- Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge -- Coming Soon
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| 1962 |
Medal Winner:
The Bronze Bow |
by Elizabeth George Speare |
Honors Books:
- Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis -- Coming Soon
- The Golden Goblet by Eloise
Jarvis McGraw
- Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz -- Coming Soon
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| 1961 |
Medal Winner:
Island of the Blue Dolphins |
by Scott O'Dell |
Honors Books:
- America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson -- Coming
Soon
- Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer -- Coming Soon
- The Cricket In Times Square by
George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson)
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| 1960 |
Medal Winner:
Onion John |
by Joseph Krumgold |
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| 1959 |
Medal Winner:
The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
by Elizabeth George Speare |
Honors Books:
- The Family Under The Bridge by
Natalie Savage Carlson
- Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong -- Coming Soon
- Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay -- Coming Soon
- The Perilous Road by William O.
Steele
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| 1958 |
Medal Winner:
Rifles for Watie |
by Harold Keith |
Honors Books:
- The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz -- Coming Soon
- Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth
Enright
- The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson -- Coming Soon
- Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko -- Coming Soon
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| 1957 |
Medal Winner:
Miracles on Maple Hill |
by Virginia Sorenson |
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| 1956 |
Medal Winner:
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch |
by Jean Lee Latham |
Honors Books:
- The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Coming Soon
- The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist -- Coming Soon
- Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen -- Coming Soon
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| 1955 |
Medal Winner:
The Wheel on the School |
by Meindert DeJong |
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| 1954 |
Medal Winner:
...And Now Miguel |
by Joseph Krumgold |
Honors Books:
- All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
- Shadrach by Meindert Dejong -- Coming Soon
- Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong -- Coming Soon
- Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson -- Coming Soon
- Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff -- Coming Soon
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| 1953 |
Medal Winner:
Secret of the Andes |
by Ann Nolan Clark |
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| 1952 |
Medal Winner:
Ginger Pye |
by Eleanor Estes |
Honors Books:
- Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity -- Coming Soon
- Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling -- Coming Soon
- The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff -- Coming Soon
- The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
- The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff
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| 1951 |
Medal Winner:
Amos Fortune, Free Man |
by Elizabeth Yates |
Honors Books:
- Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt -- Coming Soon
- Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton -- Coming Soon
- Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson -- Coming
Soon
- The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish -- Coming Soon
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| 1950 |
Medal Winner:
The Door in the Wall |
by Marguerite de Angeli |
Honors Books:
- Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
- The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz -- Coming Soon
- Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery -- Coming Soon
- George Washington by Genevieve Foster -- Coming Soon
- Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion
Havighurst -- Coming Soon
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| 1949 |
Medal Winner:
King of the Wind |
by Marguerite Henry |
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| 1948 |
Medal Winner:
The 21 Balloons |
by William Pène du Bois |
Honors Books:
- Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop -- Coming Soon
- Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn
Treffinger
- The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman -- Coming
Soon
- The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander -- Coming
Soon
- Misty of Chincoteague by
Marguerite Henry
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| 1947 |
Medal Winner:
Miss Hickory |
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
Honors Books:
- Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes -- Coming Soon
- Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff -- Coming Soon
- The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell -- Coming Soon
- The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet) -- Coming
Soon
- The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by
Eleanor Jewett
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| 1946 |
Medal Winner:
Strawberry Girl |
by Lois Lenski |
Honors Books:
- Justin Morgan Had a Horse by
Marguerite Henry
- The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means -- Coming Soon
- Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston -- Coming Soon
- New Found World by Katherine Shippen -- Coming Soon
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| 1945 |
Medal Winner:
Rabbit Hill |
by Robert Lawson |
Honors Books:
- The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor
Estes
- The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
- Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster -- Coming Soon
- Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton -- Coming Soon
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| 1944 |
Medal Winner:
Johnny Tremain |
by Esther Forbes |
Honors Books:
- These Happy Golden Years by Laura
Ingalls Wilder
- Fog Magic by Julia L. Sauer
- Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes -- Coming Soon
- Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates -- Coming Soon
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| 1943 |
Medal Winner:
Adam of the Road |
by Elizabeth Janet Gray |
Honors Books:
- The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes -- Coming Soon
- Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt -- Coming Soon
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| 1942 |
Medal Winner:
The Matchlock Gun |
by Walter Edmonds |
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| 1941 |
Medal Winner:
Call It Courage |
by Armstrong Sperry |
Honors Books:
- Blue Willow by Doris Gates
- Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr -- Coming Soon
- The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls
Wilder
- Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall -- Coming Soon
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| 1940 |
Medal Winner:
Daniel Boone |
by James Daugherty |
Honors Books:
- The Singing Tree by Kate
Seredy
- Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson -- Coming
Soon
- By the Shores of Silver Lake by
Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader -- Coming Soon
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| 1939 |
Medal Winner:
Thimble Summer |
by Elizabeth Enright |
Honors Books:
- Nino by Valenti Angelo -- Coming Soon
- Mr. Popper's Penguins by Florence
Atwater & Richard Atwater
- Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford -- Coming Soon
- Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton -- Coming
Soon
- Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray -- Coming Soon
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| 1938 |
Medal Winner:
The White Stag |
by Kate Seredy |
Honors Books:
- Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman -- Coming Soon
- Bright Island by Mabel Robinson -- Coming Soon
- On the Banks of Plum Creek by
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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| 1937 |
Medal Winner:
Roller Skates |
by Ruth Sawyer |
Honors Books:
- Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski -- Coming Soon
- Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones -- Coming Soon
- The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans -- Coming Soon
- Winterbound by Margery Bianco -- Coming Soon
- The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes -- Coming Soon
- Audubon by Constance Rourke -- Coming Soon
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| 1936 |
Medal Winner:
Caddie Woodlawn |
by Carol Ryrie Brink |
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| 1935 |
Medal Winner:
Dobry |
by Monica Shannon |
Honors Books:
- Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger -- Coming Soon
- Davy Crockett by Constance
Rourke
- Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum -- Coming
Soon
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| 1934 |
Medal Winner:
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
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by Cornelia Meigs |
Honors Books:
- The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker -- Coming Soon
- Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster -- Coming Soon
- ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág -- Coming Soon
- New Land by Sarah Schmidt -- Coming Soon
- Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) -- Coming Soon
- Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum -- Coming
Soon
- Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes -- Coming Soon
- Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle -- Coming Soon
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| 1933 |
Medal Winner:
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze |
by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis |
Honors Books:
- Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs -- Coming Soon
- The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift -- Coming
Soon
- Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon -- Coming
Soon
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| 1932 |
Medal Winner:
Waterless Mountain |
by Laura Adams Armer |
Honors Books:
- The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop -- Coming Soon
- Calico Bush by Rachel Field
- Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens -- Coming Soon
- Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery -- Coming Soon
- Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee -- Coming Soon
- Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis -- Coming
Soon
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| 1931 |
Medal Winner:
The Cat Who Went to Heaven |
by Elizabeth Coatsworth |
Honors Books:
- Floating Island by Anne Parrish -- Coming Soon
- The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus -- Coming
Soon
- Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard -- Coming Soon
- Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams -- Coming Soon
- Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes -- Coming Soon
- Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray -- Coming Soon
- Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best -- Coming Soon
- Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen -- Coming Soon
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| 1930 |
Medal Winner:
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years |
by Rachel Field |
Honors Books:
- A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton -- Coming
Soon
- Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller -- Coming Soon
- Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely -- Coming Soon
- The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young -- Coming Soon
- Vaino by Julia Davis Adams -- Coming Soon
- Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift -- Coming Soon
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| 1929 |
Medal Winner:
The Trumpeter of Krakow |
by Eric P. Kelly |
Honors Books:
- Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett -- Coming Soon
- Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
- The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock -- Coming Soon
- Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs -- Coming Soon
- Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon -- Coming Soon
- Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney -- Coming Soon
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| 1928 |
Medal Winner:
Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon |
by Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
Honors Books:
- The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young -- Coming Soon
- Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker -- Coming Soon
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| 1927 |
Medal Winner:
Smoky the Cowhorse |
by Will James |
| 1926 |
Medal Winner:
Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for
Children |
by Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
Honors Books:
- The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum --
Coming Soon
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| 1925 |
Medal Winner:
Tales from Silver Lands |
by Charles J. Finger |
Honors Books:
- Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore -- Coming
Soon
- The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish -- Coming Soon
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| 1924 |
Medal Winner:
The Dark Frigate |
by Charles Boardman Hawes |
| 1923 |
Medal Winner:
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle |
by Hugh Lofting |
| 1922 |
Medal Winner:
The Story of Mankind |
by Hendrik Willem van Loon |
Honors Books:
- The Great Quest by Charles Hawes -- Coming Soon
- Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall -- Coming Soon
- The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by
William Bowen -- Coming Soon
- The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who
Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
- The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs -- Coming Soon
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