John Newbery Medal

American Library Association, 50 E Huron St
Chicago, IL 70711-2795, USA

The John Newbery Medal is awarded for the most distinguished contribution to American Literature for Children. Established 1922.

See the Newbery Medal homepage for more information.

2009

Medalist: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean
Honors: The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

2008

Medalist: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz
Honors: Elijah of Buxton Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt
FeathersJacqueline Woodson

2007

Medalist: The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron,illustrated by Matt Phelan
Honors: Penny from Heaven Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big SkyKirby Larson
RulesCynthia Lord

2006

Medalist: Criss Cross Lynne Rae Perkins
Honors: WhittingtonAlan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's ShadowSusan Campbell Bartoletti
Princess AcademyShannon Hale
Show Way Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott

2005

Medalist: Kira-Kira Cynthia Kadohata
Honors: Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko; The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights Russell Freedman
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Gary D. Schmidt

2004

Medalist - The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering
Honors
- Olive's Ocean Kevin Henkes
- An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Jim Murphy

2003

Medalist - Crispin: The Cross of Lead Avi
Honors
- The House of the scorpion Nancy Farmer
- Pictures of Hollis Woods Patricia Reilly Giff
- Hoot Carl Hiaasen
- A Corner of the universe Anne M. Martin
- Surviving the Applewhites Stephanie S. Tolan

2002

Medalist

A Single shard Linda Sue Park

Honors
- Everything on a waffle Polly Horvath
- Carver: A Life in poems Marilyn Nelson

2001

Medalist
- A Year down yonder Richard Peck
Honors
- Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo
- Hope was here Joan Bauer
- Joey Pigza loses control Jack Gantos
- The Wanderer Sharon Creech

2000

Medalist
- Bud, not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
Honors
- Getting near to Baby Audrey Couloumbis
- Our only May Amelia Jennifer L Holm
- 26 Fairmount Avenue Tomie de Paola

1999

Medalist
- Holes Louis Sachar
Honors
- A Long way from Chicago Richard Peck

1998

Medalist
- Out of the dust Karen Hesse
Honors
- Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine
- Lily's Crossing Patricia Reilly Giff
- Wringer Jerry Spinelli

1997

Medalist
- The View from Saturday E.L. Konigsburg
Honors
- A Girl named Disaster Nancy Farmer
- Moorchild Eloise McGraw
- The Thief Megan Whalen Turner
- Belle Prater's boy Ruth White

1996

Medalist
- The Midwife’s apprentice Karen Cushman
Honors
- What Jamie saw Carolyn Coman
- The Watsons go to Birmingham - 1963 Christopher Paul Curtis
- Yolanda’s genius Carol Fenner
- The Great Fire Jim Murphy

1995

Medalist
- Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech
Honors
- Catherine, called Birdy Karen Cushman
- The Ear, the eye and the arm Nancy Farmer

1994

Medalist
- The Giver Lois Lowry
Honors
- Crazy Lady J. Conly
- Dragon’s Gate L. Yep
- Eleanor Roosevelt R. Freedman

1993

Medalist
- Missing May Cynthia Rylant
Honors
- What Hearts Bruce Brooks
- Dark Thirty Patricia McKissack
- Somewhere in darkness Walter Dean Myers

1992

Medalist
- Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Honors
- Nothing but the truth Avi
- Wright Brothers R. Freeman

1991

Medalist
- Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli
Honors
- True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi

1990

Medalist
- Number the stars Lois Lowry
Honors
- Afternoon of Elves Janet Lisle
- Shabanu, Daughter of the wind Suzanne Staples
- Winter room Gary Paulsen

1989

Medalist
- Joyful Noise Paul Fleischman
Honors
- In the beginning Virginia Hamilton
- Scorpions Walter Myers

1988

Medalist
- Lincoln Photobiography R. Freedman
Honors
- After the rain N. Mazer
- Hatchet Gary Paulsen

1987

Medalist
- The Whipping boy Sid Fleischman
Honors
- A Fine white dust Cynthia Rylant
- On my honor Marion Dane Bauer
- Volcano: The Eruption and healing of Mount St. Helens Patricia Lauber

1986

Medalist
- Sarah, plain and tall Patricia MacLachlan
Honors
- Commodore Perry in the land of Shogun Rhonda Blumberg
- Dogsong Gary Paulsen

1985

Medalist
- The Hero and the crown Robin McKinley
Honors
- Like Jake and me Mavis Jukes
- The Moves make the man Bruce Brooks
- One-Eyed cat Paula Fox

1984

Medalist
- Dear Mr Henshaw Beverly Cleary
Honors
- The Sign of the beaver Elizabeth George Speare
- A Solitary glue Cynthia Voight
- The Wish Giver Bill Brittain

1983

Medalist
- Dicey’s Song Cynthia Voight
Honors
- Blue Sword Robin McKinley
- Dr DeSoto William Steig
- Graven images Paul Fleischman
- My own story Jean Fritz
- Sweet Whisper, Brother Rush Virginia Hamilton

1982

Medalist
- A Visit to William Blake’s inn Nancy Willard
Honors
- Ramona Quimby, age 8 Beverly Cleary
- Upon the head of the goat: A Childhood in Hungary Aranka Siegal

1981

Medalist
- Jacob have I loved Katherine Paterson
Honors
- The Fledgling Jane Langton
- A Ring of endless light Madeline L’Engle

1980

Medalist
- A Gathering of days: A New England girl’s journal 1830-32 Joan Blos
Honors
- The Road from home: The Story of an Armenian girl David Kherdian

1979

Medalist
- The Westing Game Ellen Raskin
Honors
- The Great Gilly Hopkins Katherine Paterson

1978

Medalist
- Bridge To Terabithia Katherine Paterson
Honors
- Ramona and her father Beverly Cleary
- Anpao: An American Indian odyssey Jamake Highwater

1977

Medalist
- Roll of thunder, hear my cry Mildred Taylor
Honors
- Abel’s Island William Steig
- A String in the harp Nancy Bond

1976

Medalist
- The Grey King Susan Cooper
Honors
- The Hundred penny box Sharon Bell Mathis
- Dragonwings Lawrence Yep

1975

Medalist
- M.C. Higgins, the Great Virginia Hamilton
Honors
- Figgs and phantoms Ellen Raskin
- My Brother Sam is dead James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
- The Perilous Gard Elizabeth Marie Pope
- Philip Hall likes me, I reckon maybe Bette Green

1974

Medalist
- The Slave Dancer Paula Fox
Honors
- The Dark is rising Susan Cooper

1973

Medalist
- Julie of the wolves Jean Craighead George
Honors
- Frog and Toad together Arnold Lobel
- The Upstairs room Johanna Weiss
- The Witches of Worm Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1972

Medalist
- Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMH Robert C. O’Brien
Honors
- Incident at Hawk’s Hill Allan W. Eckert
- The Planet of Junior Brown Virginia Hamilton
- The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin
- Annie and the old one Miska Miles
- The Headless Cupid Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1971

Medalist
- Summer of the swans Betsy Byars
Honors
- Kneeknock Rise Natalie Babbitt
- Enchantress from the stars Sylvia Louise Engdahl
- Sing down the moon Scott O’Dell

1970

Medalist
- Sounder William H. Armstrong
Honors
- Our Eddie Sulamith Ish-Kishor
- The Many ways of seeing: An Introduction to the pleasures of art Janet Moore
- Journey outside Mary Q. Steele

1969

Medalist
- The High King Lloyd Alexander
Honors
- To be a slave Julius Lester
- When Shlemiel went to Warsaw and other stories Isaac Bashevis Singer

1968

Medalist
- From the mixed-up files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler E. L. Konigsburg
Honors
- Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and me, Elizabeth E. L. Konigsburg
- The Black pearl Scott O’Dell
- The Fearsome Inn Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Egypt Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1967

Medalist
- Up a road slowly Irene Hunt
Honors
- The King’s Fifth Scott O’Dell
- Zlateh the Goat Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Jazz Man Mary H. Weik

1966

Medalist
- I, Juan de Pareja Elizabeth Borten de Trevino
Honors
- The Black Cauldron Lloyd Alexander
- The Animal family Randall Jarrell
- The Noonday friends Mary Stolz

1965

Medalist
- Shadow of a bull Maia Wojciechowska
Honors
- Across five Aprils Irene Hunt

1964

Medalist
- It’s like this, cat Emily Cheney Neville
Honors
- Rascal Sterling North
- The Loner Ester Weir

1963

Medalist
- A Wrinkle in time Madeline L’Engle
Honors
- Thistle and thyme Sorche Nic Leodhas
- Men of Athens Olivia Coolidge

1962

Medalist
- The Bronze Bow Elizabeth George Speare
Honors
- Frontier living Edwin Tunis
- The Golden goblet Eloise McGraw
- Belling the tiger Mary Stolz

1961

Medalist
- Island of the blue dolphins Scott O’Dell
Honors
- America moves forward Gerald W. Johnson
- Old Ramon Jack Schaefer
- The Cricket in Times Square George Selden

1960

Medalist
- Onion John Joseph Krumgold
Honors
- My Side of the mountain Jean George
- America is born Gerald W. Johnson
- The Gammage Cup Carol Kendall

1959

Medalist
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare
Honors
- The Family under the bridge Natalie Savage Carlson
- Along came a dog Meindert Dejong
- Chucaro: Wild pony of the Pampa Francis Kalnay
- The Perilous Road William O. Steele

1958

Medalist
- Rifles for Watie Harold Keith
Honors
- The Horsecatcher Mari Sandoz
- Goneaway Lake Elizabeth Enright
- The Great wheel Robert Lawson
- Tom Paine, Freedom’s apostle Leo Gurko

1957

Medalist
- Miracles on Maple Hill Virginia Sorenson
Honors
- Old Yeller Fred Gipson
- The House of Sixty Fathers Meindert Dejong
- Mr Justice Holmes Clara Ingram Judson
- The Corn grows ripe Dorothy Rhoads
- Black Fox of Lorne Marguerite de Angeli

1956

Medalist
- Carry on, Mr Bowditch Jean Lee Latham
Honors
- The Secret river Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- The Golden name day Jennie Linquist
- Men, microscopes, and living things Katherine Shippen

1955

Medalist
- The Wheel on the school Meindert Dejong
Honors
- The Courage of Sarah Noble Alice Dalgliesh
- Banner in the sky James Ullman

1954

Medalist
- And now Miguel Joseph Krumgold
Honors
- All alone Claire Hutchet Bishop
- Shadrach Meindert Dejong
- Hurry home Candy Meindert Dejong
- Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting patriot Clara Ingram Judson
- Magic Maize Mary and Conrad Buff

1953

Medalist
- Secret of the Andes Ann Nolan Clark
Honors
- Charlotte’s Web E. B. White
- Moccasin Trail Eloise McGraw
- Red sails to Capri Ann Weil
- The Bears on Hemlock Mountain Alice Dalgliesh
- Birthdays of freedom Vol. 1 Genevieve Foster

1952

Medalist
- Ginger Pye Eleanor Estes
Honors
- Americans before Columbus Elizabeth Baity
- Minn of the Mississippi Holling C Holling
- The Defender Nicholas Kalashnikoff
- The Light at Tern Rock Julia Sauer
- The Apple and the arrow Mary and Conrad Buff

1951

Medalist
- Amos Fortune, free man Elizabeth Yates
Honors
- Better known as Johnny Appleseed Mabel Leigh Hunt
- Gandhi, Fighter without a sword Jeanette Eaton
- Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the people Clara Ingram Judson
- Appleby Capple Anne Parrish

1950

Medalist
- The Door in the wall Marguerite de Angeli
Honors
- Tree of Freedom Rebecca Caudill
- The Blue cat of Castle Town Catherine Coblentz
- Kildee House Rutherford Montgomery
- George Washington Genevieve Foster
- Song of the pines Walter and Marion Havighurst

1949

Medalist
- King of the wind Marguerite Henry
Honors
- Seabird Holling C. Holling
- Daughter of the mountains Louise Rankin
- My Father’s dragon Ruth S. Gannett
- Story of the Negro Arna Bontemps

1948

Medalist
- The Twenty-One balloons William Pene du Bois
Honors
- Pancakes-Paris Claire Hutchet Bishop
- Le Lun, Lad of courage Carolyn Treffinger
- The Quaint and curious quest of Johnny Longfoot Catherine Besterman
- The Cow-Tail Switch Harold Courlander
- Misty of Chincoteague Marguerit Henry

1947

Medalist
- Miss Hickory Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Honors
- Wonderful year Nancy Barnes
- Big Tree Mary and Conrad Buff
- The Heavenly tenants William Maxwell
- The Avion my uncle flew Cyrus Fisher
- The Hidden treasure of Glaston Eleanor Jewett

1946

Medalist
- Strawberry Girl Lois Lensky
Honors
- Justin Morgan had a horse Marguerite Henry
- The Moved-Outers Florence Crannell Means
- Bhimsa, The dancing bear Christine Weston
- New found world Katherine Shippen

1945

Medalist
- Rabbit Hill Robert Lawson
Honors
- The Hundred dresses Eleanor Estes
- The Silver pencil Alice Dalgliesh
- Abraham Lincoln’s world Genevieve Foster
- Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams Jeanetter Eaton

1944

Medalist
- Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes
Honors
- The Happy golden years Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Fog Magic Julia Sauer
- Rufus M. Eleanor Estes
- Mountain born Elizabeth Yeates

1943

Medalist
- Adam of the road Elizabeth Janet Gray
Honors
- The Middle Moffat Eleanore Estes
- Have you seen Tom Thumb? Mabel Leigh Hunt

1942

Medalist
- The Matchlock gun Walter D. Edmonds
Honors
- Little Town on the prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder
- George Washington’s world Genevieve Foster
- Indian captive Lois Lenski
- Down Ryton Water Eva Roe Gaggin

1941

Medalist
- Call it courage Armstrong Sperry
Honors
- Blue Willow Doris Gates
- Young Mac of Fort Vancouver Mary Jane Carr
- The Long winter Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Nansen Anna Gertrude Hall

1940

Medalist
- Daniel Boone James Daugherty
Honors
- The Singing tree Kate Seredy
- Runner of the mountain tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz Mabel Robinson
- By the shores of Silver Lake Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Boy with a pack Stephen W. Meader

1939

Medalist
- Thimble summer Elizabeth Enright
Honors
- Nino Valenti Angelo
- Mr Popper’s penguins Richard and Florence Atwater
- Hello the boat Phyllis Crawford
- Leader by destiny: George Washington Jeanette Eaton
- Penn Elizabeth Janet Gray

1938

Medalist
- The White stag Kate Seredy
Honors
- Pecos Bill James Cloyd Bowman
- Bright Island Mabel Robinson
- On the banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder

1937

Medalist
- Roller skates Ruth Sawyer
Honors
- Phoebe Fairchild: Her book Lois Lenski
- Stokes: Whistler’s van Idwal Jones
- Golden basket Ludwig Bemelmans
- Winterbound Margery Bianco
- The Codfish musket Agnes Hewes

1936

Medalist
- Caddie Woodlawn Carol Ryrie Brink
Honors
- Honk, the moose Phil Strong
- The Good master Kate Seresy
- Young Walter Scott Elizabeth Janet Gray
- All sail set Armstrong Sperry

1935

Medalist
- Dobry Monica Shannon
Honors
- Pageant of Chinese history Elizabeth Seeger
- Davy Crockett Constance Rourke
- Day on skates Hilda Von Stockum

1934

Medalist
- Invincible Louisa Cornelia Meigs
Honors
- The Forgotten daughter Caroline Snedeker
- Swords of steel Elsie Singmaster
- ABC Bunny Wanda Gag
- Winged girl of Knossos Erik Berry
- New Land Sarah Schmidt
- Big Tree of Bunlahy Padraic Colum
- Glory of the seas Agnes Hewes
- Apprentice of Florence Ann Kyle

1933

Medalist
- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Honors
- Swift rivers Cornelia Meigs
- The Railroad to freedom Hildegarde Swift
- Children of the soil Nora Burglon

1932

Medalist
- Waterless Mountain Laura Adams Armer
Honors
- The Fairy Circus Dorothy P. Lathrop
- Calico Bush Rachel Field
- Boy of the South Seas Eunice Tietjens
- Out of the flame Eloise Lownsbery
- Jane’s Island Marjorie Allee
- Truce of the wolf Mary Gould Davis

1931

Medalist
- The Cat who went to heaven Elizabeth Coatswirth
Honors
- Floating Island Anne Parrish
- The Dark Star of Itza: the Story of a pagan princess Alida Malkus
- Queer person Ralph Hubbard
- Mountains are free Julie Davis Adams
- Spice and the Devil’s Cave Agnes Hewes
- Meggy Macintosh Elizabeth Janet Gray
- Garram the Hunter Herbert Best
- Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer Alice Lide and Margaret Johansen

1930

Medalist
- Hitty, Her first hundred years Rachel Field
Honors
- Daughter of the Seine: the Life of Madame Roland Jeanette Eaton
- Pran of Albania Elizabeth Miller
- Jumping-off place Marion Hurd McNeely
- Tangle-Coated Horse and other tales Ella Young
- Vaino: A Boy of New England Julia Davis Adams
- Little Blacknose Hildegarde Swift

1929

Medalist
- The Trumpeter of Krakow Eric P. Kelly
Honors
- Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo John Bennett
- Millions of cats Wanda Gag
- The Boy who was Grace Hallock
- Clearing Weather Cornelia Meigs
- Runaway Papoose Grace Moon
- Tod of the Fens Elinor Whitney

1928

Medalist
- Gayneck, the Story of a pigeon Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Honors
- The Wonder Smith and his son Ella Young
- Downright Dencey Caroline Snedeker

1927

Medalist
- Smoky, the Cow Horse Will James
Honors
- No Record

1926

Medalist
- Shen of the Sea Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Honors
- Voyagers Padraic Colum

1925

Medalist
- Tales from the silver lands Charles Finger
Honors
- Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas story Anne Carroll Moore
- Dream Coach Anne Parrish

1924

Medalist
- The Dark Frigate Charles Hawes
Honors
- No Record

1923

Medalist
- The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle Hugh Lofting
Honors
- No Record

1922

Medalist
- The Story of mankind Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Honors
- The Great Quest Charles Hawes
- Cedric the forester Bernard Marshall
- The Old Tobacco shop William Bowen
- The Golden Fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles Padraic Colum
- Windy Hill Cornelia Meigs