Newbery Medal

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.

Newbery Medal History and Criteria

List of Newbery Honor and Medal Books

• 1999 - Louis Sachar, Holes
• 1998 - Karen Hesse. Out of the Dust
• 1997 - E.L. Konigsburg. The View From Saturday
• 1996 - Karen Cushman. The Midwife's Apprentice
• 1995 - Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons
• 1994 - Lois Lowry. The Giver
• 1993 - Cynthia Rylant. Missing May
• 1992 - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Shiloh
• 1991 - Jerry Spinelli. Maniac Magee
• 1990 - Lois Lowry. Number the Stars
• 1989 - Paul Fleischman. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
• 1988 - Russell Freedman. Lincoln: A Photobiography
• 1987 - Sid Fleischman. The Whipping Boy
• 1986 - Patricia MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall
• 1985 - Robin McKinley. The Hero and the Crown
• 1984 - Beverly Cleary. Dear Mr. Henshaw
• 1983 - Cynthia Voigt. Dicey's Song
• 1982 - Nancy Willard. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
• 1981 - Katherine Paterson. Jacob Have I Loved
• 1980 - Joan Blos. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
• 1979 - Ellen Raskin. The Westing Game
• 1978 - Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia
• 1977 - Mildred D. Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• 1976 - Susan Cooper. The Grey King
• 1975 - Virginia Hamilton. M.C. Higgins, the Great
• 1974 - Paula Fox. The Slave Dancer
• 1973 - Jean Craighead George. Julie of the Wolves
• 1972 - Robert C. O'Brien. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• 1971 - Betsy Byars. The Summer of the Swans
• 1970 - William H. Armstrong. Sounder
• 1969 - Lloyd Alexander. The High King
• 1968 - E.L. Konigsburg. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• 1967 - Irene Hunt. Up a Road Slowly
• 1966 - Elizabeth Borton de Treviño. I, Juan de Pareja
• 1965 - Maia Wojciechowska. Shadow of a Bull
• 1964 - Emily C. Neville. It's Like This, Cat
• 1963 - Madeleine L'Engle. A Wrinkle in Time
• 1962 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Bronze Bow
• 1961 - Scott O'Dell. Island of the Blue Dolphins
• 1960 - John Krumgold. Onion John
• 1959 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• 1958 - Harold V. Keith. Rifles for Watie
• 1957 - Virginia Sorensen. Miracles on Maple Hill
• 1956 - Jean Lee Latham. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
• 1955 - Meindert DeJong. The Wheel on the School
• 1954 - John Krumgold. ... And Now Miguel
• 1953 - Ann Nolan Clark. Secret of the Andes
• 1952 - Eleanor Estes. Ginger Pye
• 1951 - Elizabeth Yates. Amos Fortune, Free Man
• 1950 - Marguerite de Angeli. The Door in the Wall
• 1949 - Marguerite Henry. King of the Wind
• 1948 - William Pène du Bois. The Twenty-One Balloons
• 1947 - Carolyn S. Bailey. Miss Hickory
• 1946 - Lois Lenski. Strawberry Girl
• 1945 - Robert Lawson. Rabbit Hill
• 1944 - Esther Forbes. Johnny Tremain
• 1943 - Elizabeth Janet Gray. Adam of the Road
• 1942 - Walter D. Edmonds. The Matchlock Gun
• 1941 - Armstrong Sperry. Call It Courage
• 1940 - James Daugherty. Daniel Boone
• 1939 - Elizabeth Enright. Thimble Summer
• 1938 - Kate Seredy. The White Stag
• 1937 - Ruth Sawyer. Roller Skates
• 1936 - Carol Ryrie Brink. Caddie Woodlawn
• 1935 - Monica Shannon. Dobry
• 1934 - Cornelia Meigs. Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
• 1933 - Elizabeth Lewis. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
• 1932 - Laura Adams Armer. Waterless Mountain
• 1931 - Elizabeth Coatsworth. The Cat Who Went to Heaven
• 1930 - Rachel Field. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
• 1929 - Eric P Kelly. The Trumpeter of Krakow: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century
• 1928 - Dhan Mukerji. Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
• 1927 - Will James. Smoky, the Cow Horse
• 1926 - Arthur Chrisman. Shen of the Sea
• 1925 - Charles Finger. Tales from Silver Lands
• 1924 - Charles Hawes. The Dark Frigate
• 1923 - Hugh Lofting. The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
• 1922 - Hendrik Van Loon. The Story of Mankind