Newbery Medal

American Library Association, Association for Library Service to Children

Established 1922. A medal presented annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in the United States in the preceding year. The recipient must be a citizen or resident of the United States. The winner is announced at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting (January/February), and the award is presented at the ALA summer conference.

2003 - Winner - Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Honor - The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Honor - Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Honor - Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Honor - A Corner of the Universe by Ann. M. Martin
Honor - Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan

2002 - Winner - A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Honor - Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Honor - Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2001 - Winner - A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Honor - Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Honor - Because of Winn-Dixie by kate DiCamillo
Honor - Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
Honor - The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

2000 - Winner - Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor - Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
Honor - Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
Honor - 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola

1999 - Winner - Holes by Louis Sachar
Honor - A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

1998 - Winner - Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Honor - Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Honor - Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Honor - Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

1997 - Winner - The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
Honor - A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
Honor - Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
Honor - The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Honor - Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

1996 - Winner - The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Honor - What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
Honor - The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor - Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
Honor - The Great Fire by Jim Murphy

1995 - Winner - Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Honor - Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Honor - The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

1994 - Winner - The Giver by Lois Lowry
Honor - Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
Honor - Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
Honor - Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

1993 - Winner - Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Honor - What Hearts by Bruce Books
Honor - The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
Honor - Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

1992 - Winner - Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Honor - Nothing But The Truth by Avi
Honor - The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

1991 - Winner - Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Honor - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1990 - Winner - Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Honor - Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
Honor - Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Honor - The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen

1989 - Winner - Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Honor - In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
Honor - Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

1988 - Winner - Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Honor - After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Honor - Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

1987 - Winner - The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Honor - A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
Honor - On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Honor - Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber

1986 - Winner - Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Honor - Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
Honor - Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

1985 - Winner - The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Honor - Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
Honor - The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
Honor - One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

1984 - Winner - Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Honor - The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Honor - A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
Honor - Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
Honor - The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

1983 - Winner - Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
Honor - The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Honor - Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
Honor - Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
Honor - Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Honor - Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

1982 - Winner - A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
Honor - Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Honor - Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

1981 - Winner - Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Honor - The Fledgling by Jane Langton
Honor - A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

1980 - Winner - A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
Honor - The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian

1979 - Winner - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Honor - The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

1978 - Winner - Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Honor - Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
Honor - Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

1977 - Winner - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Honor - Abel's Island by William Steig
Honor - A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

1976 - Winner - The Grey King by Susan Cooper
Honor - The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Honor - Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

1975 - Winner - M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Honor - Figgs and Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
Honor - My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Honor - The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Honor - Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene

1974 - Winner - The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
Honor - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Copper

1973 - Winner - Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Honor - Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
Honor - The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
Honor - The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1972 - Winner - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Honor - Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
Honor - The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
Honor - The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
Honor - Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
Honor - The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1971 - Winner - Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
Honor - Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
Honor - Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Honor - Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

1970 - Winner - Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Honor - Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
Honor - The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
Honor - Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele

1969 - Winner - The High King by Lloyd Alexander
Honor - To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
Honor - When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1968 - Winner - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
Honor - Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg
Honor - The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
Honor - The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Honor - The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1967 - Winner - Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
Honor - The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
Honor - Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Snyder
Honor - The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik

1966 - Winner - I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Honor - The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
Honor - The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
Honor - The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

1965 - Winner - Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
Honor - Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

1964 - Winner - It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
Honor - Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
Honor - The Loner by Ester Wier

1963 - Winner - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Honor - Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud.
Honor - Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

1962 - Winner - The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Honor - Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
Honor - The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Honor - Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz

1961 - Winner - The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Honor - America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
Honor - Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
Honor - The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud.

1960 - Winner - Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
Honor - My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Honor - America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
Honor - The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

1959 - Winner - The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Honor - The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlosn
Honor - Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong
Honor - Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
Honor - The Perilous Road by William O. Steele

1958 - Winner - Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
Honor - The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
Honor - Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Honor - The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
Honor - Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko

1957 - Winner - Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
Honor - Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Honor - The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
Honor - Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
Honor - The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
Honor - Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli

1956 - Winner - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Honor - The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Honor - The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
Honor - Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen

1955 - Winner - The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
Honor - Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Honor - Banner In The Sky by James Ullman

1954 - Winner - . . . And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
Honor - All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
Honor - Shadrah by Meindert DeJong
Honor - Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong
Honor - Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
Honor - Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff

1953 - Winner - Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Honor - Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Honor - Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Honor - Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
Honor - The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
Honor - Birthdays of Freedom, Volume One by Genevieve Foster

1952 - Winner - Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Honor - Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
Honor - Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
Honor - The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Honor - The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
Honor - The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff

1951 - Winner - Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Honor - Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
Honor - Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
Honor - Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
Honor - The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish

1950 - Winner - The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Honor - Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
Honor - The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
Honor - Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery
Honor - George Washington by Genevieve Foster
Honor - Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter and Marion Havighurst

1949 - Winner - King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
Honor - Seabird by Holling C Holling
Honor - Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin
Honor - My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Honor - Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

1948 - Winner - The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
Honor - Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
Honor - Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
Honor - The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
Honor - The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
Honor - Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

1947 - Winner - Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Honor - Wonder Year by Nancy Barnes
Honor - Big Tree by Mary and Conrad Buff
Honor - The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
Honor - The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud.
Honor - The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett

1946 - Winner - Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Honor - Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
Honor - The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
Honor - Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
Honor - New Found World by Katherine Shippen

1945 - Winner - Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Honor - The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Honor - The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
Honor - Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
Honor - Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton

1944 - Winner - Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Honor - These Happy Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Honor - Fog Magic by Julia Sauer
Honor - Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
Honor - Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

1943 - Winner - Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Honor - The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
Honor - Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt

1942 - Winner - The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
Honor - Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Honor - George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
Honor - Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
Honor - Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin

1941 - Winner - Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Honor - Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Honor - Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
Honor - The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Honor - Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall

1940 - Winner - Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
Honor - The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Honor - Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson
Honor - By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Honor - Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader

1939 - Winner - Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Honor - Nino by Valenti Angelo
Honor - Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Honor - Hello the Boat! by Phyliis Crawford
Honor - Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
Honor - Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1938 - Winner - The White Stag by Kate Seredy
Honor - Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
Honor - Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
Honor - On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

1937 - Winner - Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
Honor - Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
Honor - Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
Honor - The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
Honor - Winterbound by Margery Bianco
Honor - The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
Honor - Audubon by Constance Rourke

1936 - Winner - Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Honor - Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
Honor - The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Honor - Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Honor - All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry

1935 - Winner - Dobry by Monica Shannon
Honor - Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
Honor - Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
Honor - Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Republic by Hilda Von Stockum

1934 - Winner - Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
Honor - The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
Honor - Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
Honor - ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag
Honor - Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud.
Honor - New Land by Sarah Schmidt
Honor - Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
Honor - Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
Honor - Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle

1933 - Winner - Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
Honor - Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
Honor - The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hidegarde Swift
Honor - Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon

1932 - Winner - Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
Honor - The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
Honor - Calico Bush by Rachel Field
Honor - Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
Honor - Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
Honor - Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
Honor - Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis

1931 - Winner - The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Honor - Floating Island by Anne Parrish
Honor - The Dark Star of Itza: the Story of a Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
Honor - Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
Honor - Mountains Are Free by Julie Davis Admas
Honor - Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
Honor - Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Honor - Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
Honor - Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide and Margaret Johansen

1930 - Winner - Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
Honor - A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
Honor - Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
Honor - Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
Honor - The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
Honor - Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
Honor - Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

1929 - Winner - The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Honor - Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
Honor - Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
Honor - The Boy Who Was by Grace Halock
Honor - Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
Honor - Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
Honor - Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney

1928 - Winner - Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Honor - The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
Honor - Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker

1927 - Winner - Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James

1926 - Winner - Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowle Chrisman
Honor - The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

1925 - Winner - Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
Honor - Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
Honor - The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

1924 - Winner - The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes

1923 - Winner - The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting

1922 - Winner - The Story of Mankind
by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Honor - The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
Honor - Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
Honor - The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by Wiliam Bowen
Honor - The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
Honor - The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs