The Newbery Medal

One of my projects this year is to gather a complete collection of all the Caldecott and Newbery Medal winning books for our school. Today I looked through our chapter books to find the Newbery winners. We had only about a dozen! So that is definitely a goal requiring swift action.

I had someone contact me to say that they were starting up a new school and what were my suggestions for books? I have to say that you can't do better than beginning with the Caldecott and Newbery medal winners and honor books. Powell's Books, an outstanding online used bookstore with a physical presence in Portland Oregon, has special sections on their website where you can shop for Newbery medal winners and Caldecott medal winners. Build your collection at a reduced price! At our school, we ask parents who donate used books to the local used bookstore to ask for the credit to be placed on our account instead of theirs. This allows the teachers to go in every once and a while and shop at no cost to the school. This has allowed us to grow our library very quickly and whoever first suggested the idea is, to my mind, a genius!

The Newbery Medal is awarded to the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The medal is presented by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. The ALSC website (Association for Library Service to Children) also has lists of winners of other distinguished medals including Batchelder, Carnegie, Geisel, Odyssey, Wilder, et al.

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Balderdash! John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books
by Michelle Markel

2024 Medal Winner: The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children’s Books/Penguin Random House and McSweeney’s)

Honor Books:
* Eagle Drums by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson (Roaring Book Press/Holtzbrinck)
* Elf Dog and Owl Head by M.T. Anderson, illus. by Junyi Wu (Candlewick)
* Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín (Dial Books/Penguin Random House)
* Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow (Disney-Hyperion/Buena Vista Books)
* The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri, illus. by Daniel Miyares (Arthur A. Levine/Levine Querido)

2023 Medal Winner: Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson (JIMMY Patterson/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Honor Books:
* Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango (Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House)
* The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press)
* Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee (Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House)

2022 Medal Winner: The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera (Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido)

Honor Books:
* Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca (Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
* A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger (Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido)
* Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff (Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House)
* Watercress by Andrea Wang, illus. by Jason Chin (Neal Porter Books/Holiday House)

2021 Medal Winner: When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House)

Honor Books:
* All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press)
* BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, illus. by Michele Wood (Candlewick Press)
* Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
* We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly, illus. by Erin Entrada Kelly and Celia Krampien (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
* A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press)

2020 Medal Winner: New Kid, written and illus. by Jerry Craft (HarperCollins)

Honor Books:
* The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illus. by Kadir Nelson (Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker, illus. by Junyi Wu (Holt/Macmillan)
* Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins)
* Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster/a Caitlyn Dlouhy Book)

2019 Medal Winner: Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina (Candlewick)

Honor Books:
* The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani (Kokila/Penguin)
* The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, illus. by Ian Schoenherr (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)

2018 Medal Winner: Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)

Honor Books:
* Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes, illus.by Gordon C. James (Bolden/Agate)
* Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster Children’s)
* Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson (Bloomsbury)

2017 Medal Winner: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin Young Readers/Workman)

Honor Books:
* Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life written and illus. by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)
* The Inquisitor’s Tale Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz, illus. by Hatem Aly (Dutton/Penguin Random House)
* Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk (Dutton/Penguin Random House)

2016 Medal Winner: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña (G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin)

Honor Books:
* The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin)
* Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson (Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin)
* Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Scholastic Press/Scholastic Inc.)

2015 Medal Winner: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Honor Books:
* El Deafo by Cece Bell (Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS)
* Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group LLC)

2014 Medal Winner: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)

Honor Books:
* Doll Bones by Holly Black (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
* The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
* One Came Home by Amy Timberlake (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books)
* Paperboy by Vince Vawter (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books)

2013 Medal Winner: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (HarperCollins Children's Books)

Honor Books:
* Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick Press)
* Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press)
* Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (Dial/Penguin Young Readers Group)

2012 Medal Winner: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux)

Honor Books:
* Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers)
* Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin (Henry Holt and Company, LLC)

2011 Medal Winner: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)

Honor Books:
* Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (Random House Children's Books)
* Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams)
* Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illus. by Rick Allen (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins)

2010 Medal Winner: When You Reach Meby Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)

Honor Books:
* Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justiceby Phillip Hoose (Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
* The Evolution of Calpurnia Tateby Jacqueline Kelly (Henry Holt)
* Where the Mountain Meets the Moonby Grace Lin (Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers)
* Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figgby Rodman Philbrick (The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.)


2009 Medal Winner: The Graveyard Bookby Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)

Honor Books:
* The Underneathby Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster)
* The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedomby Margarita Engle (Henry Holt)
* Savvyby Ingrid Law (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media)
* After Tupac and D Fosterby Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers)


2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Villageby Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)

Honor Books:
* Elijah Of Buxtonby Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
* The Wednesday Warsby Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
* Feathersby Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)


2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Luckyby Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)

Honor Books:
* Penny from Heavenby Jennifer L. Holm, (Random House)
* Hattie Big Skyby Kirby Larson (Delacorte Press)
* Rulesby Cynthia Lord (Scholastic)


2006 Medal Winner: Criss Crossby Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)

Honor Books:
* Whittingtonby Alan Armstrong, illus. by S.D. Schindler (Random House)
* Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadowby Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)
* Princess Academyby Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
* Show Wayby Jacqueline Woodson, illus. by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons)


2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kiraby Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)

Honor Books:
* Al Capone Does My Shirtsby Gennifer Choldenko (G.P. Putnam's Sons/a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)
* The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rightsby Russell Freedman (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
* Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boyby Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)


2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Threadby Kate DiCamillo, illus. by Timothy Basil Ering, (Candlewick Press)

Honor Books:
* Olive's Oceanby Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
* An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)


2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Leadby Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)

Honor Books:
* The House of the Scorpionby Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
* Pictures of Hollis Woodsby Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books)
* Hootby Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
* A Corner Of The Universeby Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)
* Surviving the Applewhitesby Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins)


2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shardby Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

Honor Books:
* Everything on a Waffleby Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)
* Carver: A Life in Poemsby Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)


2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonderby by Richard Peck (Dial)

Honor Books:
* Hope Was Hereby Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
* Because of Winn-Dixieby Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
* Joey Pigza Loses Controlby Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
* The Wandererby Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)


2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddyby Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)

Honor Books:
* Getting Near to Babyby by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam)
* Our Only May Ameliaby Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)
* 26 Fairmount Avenueby Tomie dePaola (Putnam)


1999 Medal Winner: Holesby Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)

Honor Book:
* A Long Way From Chicagoby Richard Peck (Dial)


1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dustby Karen Hesse (Scholastic)

Honor Books:
* Ella Enchantedby Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)
* Lily's Crossingby Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)
* Wringerby Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)


1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturdayby E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)

Honor Books:
* A Girl Named Disasterby Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
* The Moorchildby Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
* The Thiefby Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)
* Belle Prater's Boyby Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux)


1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprenticeby Karen Cushman (Clarion)

Honor Books:
* What Jamie Sawby Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
* The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
* Yolonda's Geniusby Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
* The Great Fireby Jim Murphy (Scholastic)


1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moonsby Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)

Honor Books:
* Catherine, Called Birdyby Karen Cushman (Clarion)
* The Ear, the Eye and the Armby Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard)


1994 Medal Winner: The Giverby Lois Lowry (Houghton)

Honor Books:
* Crazy Lady!by Jane Leslie Conly (HarperCollins)
* Dragon's Gateby Laurence Yep (HarperCollins)
* Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discoveryby Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)


1993 Medal Winner: Missing Mayby Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)

Honor Books:
* What Heartsby Bruce Brooks (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins imprint)
* The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernaturalby Patricia McKissack (Knopf)
* Somewhere In The Darknessby Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Hardcover)


1992 Medal Winner: Shilohby Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)

Honor Books:
* Nothing But The Truthby Avi (Jackson/Orchard)
* The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplaneby Russell Freedman (Holiday House)


1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Mageeby Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)

Honor Book:
* The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyleby Avi (Jackson/Orchard)


1990 Medal Winner: Number the Starsby Lois Lowry (Houghton)

Honor Books:
* Afternoon of the Elvesby Janet Taylor Lisle (Jackson/Orchard)
* Shabanu: Daughter of the Windby Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf)
* The Winter Roomby Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)


1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voicesby Paul Fleischman (Harper)

Honor Books:
* In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the Worldby Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)
* Scorpionsby Walter Dean Myers (Harper)


1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A Photobiographyby Russell Freedman (Clarion)

Honor Books:
* After the Rainby Norma Fox Mazer (Morrow)
* Hatchetby Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)


1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boyby Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)

Honor Books:
* A Fine White Dustby Cynthia Rylant (Bradbury)
* On My Honorby Marion Dane Bauer (Clarion)
* Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helensby Patricia Lauber (Bradbury)


1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tallby Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)

Honor Books:
* Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogunby Rhoda Blumberg (Lothrop)
* Dogsongby Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)


1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the Crownby Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)

Honor Books:
* Like Jake and Meby Mavis Jukes (Knopf)
* The Moves Make the Manby Bruce Brooks (Harper)
* One-Eyed Catby Paula Fox (Bradbury)


1984 Medal Winner: Dear Mr. Henshawby Beverly Cleary (Morrow)

Honor Books:
* The Sign of the Beaverby Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
* A Solitary Blueby Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
* Sugaring Timeby Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan)
* The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Treeby Bill Brittain (Harper)


1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Songby Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)

Honor Books:
* The Blue Swordby Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
* Doctor De Sotoby William Steig (Farrar)
* Graven Imagesby Paul Fleischman (Harper)
* Homesick: My Own Storyby Jean Fritz (Putnam)
* Sweet Whispers, Brother Rushby Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)


1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelersby Nancy Willard (Harcourt)

Honor Books:
* Ramona Quimby, Age 8by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
* Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)


1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Lovedby Katherine Paterson (Crowell)

Honor Books:
* The Fledglingby Jane Langton (Harper)
* A Ring of Endless Lightby Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)


1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)

Honor Book:
* The Road From Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival and Hopeby David Kherdian (Greenwillow)


1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Gameby Ellen Raskin (Dutton)

Honor Book:
* The Great Gilly Hopkinsby Katherine Paterson (Crowell)


1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithiaby Katherine Paterson (Crowell)

Honor Books:
* Ramona and Her Fatherby Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
* Anpao: An American Indian Odysseyby Jamake Highwater (Lippincott)


1977 Medal Winner: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)

Honor Books:
* Abel's Islandby William Steig (Farrar)
* A String in the Harpby Nancy Bond (Atheneum)


1976 Medal Winner: The Grey Kingby Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)

Honor Books:
* The Hundred Penny Boxby Sharon Bell Mathis (Viking)
* Dragonwingsby Laurence Yep (Harper)


1975 Medal Winner: M.C. Higgins, the Greatby Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)

Honor Books:
* Figgs & Phantomsby Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
* My Brother Sam Is Deadby James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (Four Winds)
* The Perilous Gardby Elizabeth Marie Pope (Houghton)
* Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybeby Bette Greene (Dial)


1974 Medal Winner: The Slave Dancerby Paula Fox (Bradbury)

Honor Book:
* The Dark Is Risingby Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)


1973 Medal Winner: Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead George (Harper)

Honor Books:
* Frog and Toad Togetherby Arnold Lobel (Harper)
* The Upstairs Roomby Johanna Reiss (Crowell)
* The Witches of Wormby Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)


1972 Medal Winner: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMHby Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)

Honor Books:
* Incident at Hawk's Hillby Allan W. Eckert (Little, Brown)
* The Planet of Junior Brownby Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
* The Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum)
* Annie and the Old Oneby Miska Miles (Little, Brown)
* The Headless Cupidby Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)


1971 Medal Winner: The Summer of the Swansby Betsy Byars (Viking)

Honor Books:
* Knee Knock Riseby Natalie Babbitt (Farrar)
* Enchantress from the Starsby Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Atheneum)
* Sing Down the Moonby Scott O'Dell (Houghton)


1970 Medal Winner: Sounderby William H. Armstrong (Harper)

Honor Books:
* Our Eddieby Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Pantheon)
* The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Artby Janet Gaylord Moore (World)
* Journey Outsideby Mary Q. Steele (Viking)


1969 Medal Winner: The High Kingby Lloyd Alexander (Holt)

Honor Books:
* To Be a Slave
by Julius Lester (Dial)
* When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw: and Other Storiesby Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar)


1968 Medal Winner: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerby E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)

Honor Books:
* Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabethby E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
* The Black Pearlby Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
* The Fearsome Innby Isaac Bashevis Singer (Scribner)
* The Egypt Gameby Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)


1967 Medal Winner: Up a Road Slowlyby Irene Hunt (Follett)

Honor Books:
* The King's Fifthby Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
* Zlateh the Goat and Other Storiesby Isaac Bashevis Singer (Harper)
* The Jazz Manby Mary Hays Weik (Atheneum)


1966 Medal Winner: I, Juan de Parejaby Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)

Honor Books:
* The Black Cauldronby Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
* The Animal Familyby Randall Jarrell (Pantheon)
* The Noonday Friendsby Mary Stolz (Harper)


1965 Medal Winner: Shadow of a Bullby Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)

Honor Book:
* Across Five Aprilsby Irene Hunt (Follett)


1964 Medal Winner: It's Like This, Catby Emily Neville (Harper)

Honor Books:
* Rascalby Sterling North (Dutton)
* The Lonerby Ester Wier (McKay)


1963 Medal Winner: A Wrinkle in Timeby Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)

Honor Books:
* Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotlandby Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger) (Holt)
* Men of Athensby Olivia Coolidge (Houghton)


1962 Medal Winner: The Bronze Bowby Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)

Honor Books:
* Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in Americaby Edwin Tunis (World)
* The Golden Gobletby Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
* Belling The Tigerby Mary Stolz (Harper)


1961 Medal Winner: Island of the Blue Dolphinsby Scott O'Dell (Houghton)

Honor Books:
* America Moves Forward: A History for Peterby Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
* Old Ramonby Jack Schaefer (Houghton)
* The Cricket in Times Squareby George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson) (Farrar)


1960 Medal Winner: Onion Johnby Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)

Honor Books:
* My Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead George (Dutton)
* America Is Born: A History for Peterby Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
* The Gammage Cup: A Novel of the Minnipinsby Carol Kendall (Harcourt)


1959 Medal Winner: The Witch of Blackbird Pondby Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)

Honor Books:
* The Family Under the Bridgeby Natalie Savage Carlson (Harper)
* Along Came a Dogby Meindert Dejong (Harper)
* Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampaby Francis Kalnay (Harcourt)
* The Perilous Roadby William O. Steele (Harcourt)


1958 Medal Winner: Rifles for Watieby Harold Keith (Crowell)

Honor Books:
* The Horsecatcherby Mari Sandoz (Westminster)
* Gone-Away Lakeby Elizabeth Enright (Harcourt)
* The Great Wheelby Robert Lawson (Viking)
* Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostleby Leo Gurko (Crowell)


1957 Medal Winner: Miracles on Maple Hillby Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt)

Honor Books:
* Old Yellerby Fred Gipson (Harper)
* The House of Sixty Fathersby Meindert DeJong (Harper)
* Mr Justice Holmesby Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
* The Corn Grows Ripeby Dorothy Rhoads (Viking)
* Black Fox of Lorneby Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)


1956 Medal Winner: Carry On, Mr. Bowditchby Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)

Honor Books:
* The Secret Riverby Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
* The Golden Name Dayby Jennie Lindquist (Harper)
* Men, Microscopes, and Living Thingsby Katherine Shippen (Viking)


1955 Medal Winner:The Wheel on the Schoolby Meindert DeJong (Harper)

Honor Books:
* The Courage of Sarah Nobleby Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
* Banner in the Skyby James Ullman (Lippincott)


1954 Medal Winner: ...And Now Miguelby Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)

Honor Books:
* All Aloneby Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
* Shadrachby Meindert Dejong (Harper)
* Hurry Home, Candyby Meindert Dejong (Harper)
* Theodore Roosevelt: Fighting Patriotby Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
* Magic Maizeby Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)


1953 Medal Winner: Secret of the Andesby Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)

Honor Books:
* Charlotte's Webby E. B. White (Harper)
* Moccasin Trailby Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
* Red Sails to Capriby Ann Weil (Viking)
* The Bears on Hemlock Mountainby Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
* Birthdays of Freedom: From Early Man to July 4, 1776by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)


1952 Medal Winner: Ginger Pyeby Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)

Honor Books:
* Americans Before Columbusby Elizabeth Baity (Viking)
* Minn of the Mississippiby Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
* The Defenderby Nicholas Kalashnikoff (Scribner)
* The Light at Tern Rockby Julia Sauer (Viking)
* The Apple and the Arrowby Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)


1951 Medal Winner: Amos Fortune, Free Manby Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)

Honor Books:
* Better Known As Johnny Appleseedby Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)
* Gandhi Fighter Without a Swordby Jeanette Eaton (Morrow)
* Abraham Lincoln: Friend of the Peopleby Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
* The Story of Appleby Cappleby Anne Parrish (Harper)


1950 Medal Winner: The Door in the Wallby Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)

Honor Books:
* Tree of Freedomby Rebecca Caudill (Viking)
* The Blue Cat of Castle Townby Catherine Coblentz (Longmans)
* Kildee Houseby Rutherford Montgomery (Doubleday)
* George Washingtonby Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
* Song Of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsinby Walter & Marion Havighurst (Winston)


1949 Medal Winner: King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabianby Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

Honor Books:
* Seabirdby Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
* Daughter of the Mountainsby Louise Rankin (Viking)
* My Father's Dragonby Ruth S. Gannett (Random House)
* Story of the Negroby Arna Bontemps (Knopf)


1948 Medal Winner: The Twenty-One Balloonsby William Pène du Bois (Viking)

Honor Books:
* Pancakes-Parisby Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
* Li Lun, Lad of Courageby Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon)
* The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe-King's Sonby Catherine Besterman (Bobbs-Merrill)
* The Cow-Tail Switch: And Other West African Storiesby Harold Courlander (Holt)
* Misty of Chincoteagueby Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)


1947 Medal Winner: Miss Hickoryby Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)

Honor Books:
* Wonderful Yearby Nancy Barnes (Messner)
* Big Treeby Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)
* The Heavenly Tenantsby William Maxwell (Harper)
* The Avion My Uncle Flewby Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet) (Appleton)
* The Hidden Treasure of Glastonby Eleanor Jewett (Viking)


1946 Medal Winner: Strawberry Girlby Lois Lenski (Lippincott)

Honor Books:
* Justin Morgan Had a Horseby Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
* The Moved-Outersby Florence Crannell Means (Houghton)
* Bhimsa, the Dancing Bearby Christine Weston (Scribner)
* New Found Worldby Katherine Shippen (Viking)


1945 Medal Winner: Rabbit Hillby Robert Lawson (Viking)

Honor Books:
* The Hundred Dressesby Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
* The Silver Pencilby Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
* Abraham Lincoln's World: 1809-1865by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
* Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williamsby Jeanetter Eaton (Harcourt)


1944 Medal Winner: Johnny Tremainby Esther Forbes (Houghton)

Honor Books:
* These Happy Golden Yearsby Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
* Fog Magicby Julia Sauer (Viking)
* Rufus M.by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
* Mountain Bornby Elizabeth Yates (Coward)


1943 Medal Winner: Adam of the Roadby Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)

Honor Books:
* The Middle Moffatby Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
* Have You Seen Tom Thumb?by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)


1942 Medal Winner: The Matchlock Gunby Walter Edmonds (Dodd)

Honor Books:
* Little Town on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
* George Washington's Worldby Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
* Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemisonby Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
* Down Ryton Waterby Eva Roe Gaggin (Viking)


1941 Medal Winner: Call It Courageby Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)

Honor Books:
* Blue Willowby Doris Gates (Viking)
* Young Mac of Fort Vancouverby Mary Jane Carr (Crowell)
* The Long Winterby Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
* Nansenby Anna Gertrude Hall (Viking)


1940 Medal Winner: Daniel Booneby James Daugherty (Viking)

Honor Books:
* The Singing Treeby Kate Seredy (Viking)
* Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassizby Mabel Robinson (Random House)
* By the Shores of Silver Lakeby Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
* Boy with a Packby Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt)


1939 Medal Winner: Thimble Summerby Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)

Honor Books:
* Ninoby Valenti Angelo (Viking)
* Mr. Popper's Penguinsby Richard & Florence Atwater (Little, Brown)
* Hello the Boat!by Phyllis Crawford (Holt)
* Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriotby Jeanette Eaton (Harcourt)
* Pennby Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)


1938 Medal Winner: The White Stagby Kate Seredy (Viking)

Honor Books:
* Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Timeby James Cloyd Bowman (Little, Brown)
* Bright Islandby Mabel Robinson (Random House)
* On the Banks of Plum Creekby Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)


1937 Medal Winner: Roller Skatesby Ruth Sawyer (Viking)

Honor Books:
* Phebe Fairchild: Her Bookby Lois Lenski (Stokes)
* The Golden Basketby Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
* Winterboundby Margery Bianco (Viking)
* The Codfish Musketby Agnes Hewes (Doubleday)
* Audubonby Constance Rourke (Harcourt)


1936 Medal Winner: Caddie Woodlawnby Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)

Honor Books:
* Honk The Mooseby Phil Stong (Dodd)
* The Good Masterby Kate Seredy (Viking)
* Young Walter Scottby Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
* All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloudby Armstrong Sperry (Winston)


1935 Medal Winner: Dobryby Monica Shannon (Viking)

Honor Books:
* The Pageant of Chinese Historyby Elizabeth Seeger (Longmans)
* Davy Crockettby Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
* A Day On Skatesby Hilda Von Stockum (Harper)


1934 Medal Winner: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Womenby Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)

Honor Books:
* The Forgotten Daughterby Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
* Swords of Steel: The Story of a Gettysburg Boyby Elsie Singmaster (Houghton)
* The ABC Bunnyby Wanda Gág (Coward)
* The Winged Girl of Knossosby Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) (Appleton)
* New Land: A Novel for Boys and Girlsby Sarah Schmidt (McBride)
* The Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countrysideby Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
* Glory of the Seasby Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
* The Apprentice of Florenceby Ann Kyle (Houghton)


1933 Medal Winner: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtzeby Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)

Honor Books:
* Swift Riversby Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
* The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil Warby Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)
* Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinaviaby Nora Burglon (Doubleday)


1932 Medal Winner: Waterless Mountainby Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)

Honor Books:
* The Fairy Circusby Dorothy P. Lathrop (Macmillan)
* Calico Bushby Rachel Field (Macmillan)
* Boy of the South Seasby Eunice Tietjens (Coward-McCann)
* Out of the Flameby Eloise Lownsbery (Longmans)
* Jane's Islandby Marjorie Allee (Houghton)
* The Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italyby Mary Gould Davis (Harcourt)


1931 Medal Winner: The Cat Who Went to Heavenby Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)

Honor Books:
* Floating Islandby Anne Parrish (Harper)
* The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princessby Alida Malkus (Harcourt)
* Queer Personby Ralph Hubbard (Doubleday)
* Mountains Are Freeby Julie Davis Adams (Dutton)
* Spice and the Devil's Caveby Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
* Meggy MacIntoshby Elizabeth Janet Gray (Doubleday)
* Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribesby Herbert Best (Doubleday)
* Ood-Le-Uk the Wandererby Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen (Little, Brown)


1930 Medal Winner: Hitty Her First Hundred Yearsby Rachel Field (Macmillan)

Honor Books:
* A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Rolandby Jeanette Eaton (Harper)
* Pran of Albaniaby Elizabeth Miller (Doubleday)
* The Jumping-Off Placeby Marion Hurd McNeely (Longmans)
* The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales: Episodes from the Fionn Sagaby Ella Young (Longmans)
* Vaino: A Boy of New Finland by Julia Davis Adams (Dutton)
* Little Blacknose - The Story of a Pioneerby Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)


1929 Medal Winner: The Trumpeter of Krakowby Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)

Honor Books:
* The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Looby John Bennett (Longmans)
* Millions of Catsby Wanda Gág (Coward)
* The Boy Who Wasby Grace Hallock (Dutton)
* Clearing Weatherby Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
* The Runaway Papooseby Grace Moon (Doubleday)
* Tod of the Fensby Elinor Whitney (Macmillan)


1928 Medal Winner: Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeonby Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)

Honor Books:
* Wonder Smith and His Sonby Ella Young (Longmans)
* Downright Denceyby Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)


1927 Medal Winner: Smoky the Cowhorseby Will James (Scribner)

Honor Books:
[None recorded]


1926 Medal Winner: Shen Of The Sea: Chinese Stories for Childrenby Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)

Honor Book:
* The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discoveryby Padraic Colum (Macmillan)


1925 Medal Winner: Tales from Silver Landsby Charles Finger (Doubleday)

Honor Books:
* Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Storyby Annie Carroll Moore (Putnam)
* The Dream Coachby Anne Parrish (Macmillan)


1924 Medal Winner: The Dark Frigateby Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)

Honor Books:
[None recorded]


1923 Medal Winner: Voyages Of Doctor Dolittleby Hugh Lofting (Stokes)

Honor Books:
[None recorded]


1922 Medal Winner: The Story of Mankindby Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)

Honor Books:
* The Great Quest: A Romance of 1826, Wherein are Recorded the Experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of Those Others With Whom He Sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
* Cedric, the Foresterby Bernard Marshall (Appleton)
* The Old Tobacco Shop - A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventureby William Bowen (Macmillan)
* The Golden Fleece: And the Heroes Who Lived Before Achillesby Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
* The Windy Hillby Cornelia Meigs (Macmillan)