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Newbery List
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. This is a complete list of Newbery medal and honor books from 1922 to present.
| 1939 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Thimble Summer | Elizabeth Enright | Rinehart | |||||
| Honor Books | Nino | Valenti Angelo | Viking | |||||
| Mr. Popper's Penguins | Richard & Florence Atwater | Little, Brown | ||||||
| Hello the Boat! | Phyllis Crawford | Holt | ||||||
| Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot |
Jeanette Eaton | Harcourt | ||||||
| Penn | Elizabeth Janet Gray | Viking | ||||||
| 1938 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | The White Stag | Kate Seredy | Viking | |||||
| Honor Books | Pecos Bill | James Cloyd Bowman | Little, Brown | |||||
| Bright Island | Mabel Robinson | Random House | ||||||
| On the Banks of Plum Creek | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Harper | ||||||
| 1937 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Roller Skates | Ruth Sawyer | Viking | |||||
| Honor Books | Phebe Fairchild: Her Book | Lois Lenski | Stokes | |||||
| Whistler's Van | Idwal Jones | Viking | ||||||
| The Golden Basket | Ludwig Bemelmans | Viking | ||||||
| Winterbound | Margery Bianco | Viking | ||||||
| The Codfish Musket | Agnes Hewes | Doubleday | ||||||
| Audubon | Constance Rourke | Harcourt | ||||||
| 1936 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink | Macmillan | |||||
| Honor Books | Honk, the Moose | Phil Stong | Dodd | |||||
| The Good Master | Kate Seredy | Viking | ||||||
| Young Walter Scott | Elizabeth Janet Gray | Viking | ||||||
| All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud | Armstrong Sperry | Winston | ||||||
| 1935 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Dobry | Monica Shannon | Viking | |||||
| Honor Books | Pageant of Chinese History | Elizabeth Seeger | Longmans | |||||
| Davy Crockett | Constance Rourke | Harcourt | ||||||
| Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic | Hilda Von Stockum | Harper | ||||||
| 1934 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women |
Cornelia Meigs | Little, Brown | |||||
| Honor Books | The Forgotten Daughter | Caroline Snedeker | Doubleday | |||||
| Swords of Steel | Elsie Singmaster | Houghton | ||||||
| ABC Bunny | Wanda Gag | Coward | ||||||
| Winged Girl of Knossos | Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) |
Appleton | ||||||
| New Land | Sarah Schmidt | McBride | ||||||
| Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside |
Padraic Colum | Macmillan | ||||||
| Glory of the Seas | Agnes Hewes | Knopf | ||||||
| Apprentice of Florence | Ann Kyle | Houghton | ||||||
| 1933 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Elizabeth Lewis | Winston | |||||
| Honor Books | Swift Rivers | Cornelia Meigs | Little, Brown | |||||
| The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War |
Hildegarde Swift | Harcourtv | ||||||
| Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia | Nora Burglon | Doubleday | ||||||
| 1932 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Waterless Mountain | Laura Adams Armer | Longmans | |||||
| Honor Books | The Fairy Circus | Dorothy P. Lathrop | Macmillan | |||||
| Little Town on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Harper | ||||||
| Calico Bush | Rachel Field | Macmillan | ||||||
| Boy of the South Seas | Eunice Tietjens | Coward-McCann | ||||||
| Out of the Flame | Eloise Lownsbery | Longmans | ||||||
| Jane's Island | Marjorie Allee | Houghton | ||||||
| Houghton | Mary Gould Davis | Harcourt | ||||||
| 1931 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | Elizabeth Coatsworth | Macmillan | |||||
| Honor Books | Floating Island | Anne Parrish | Harper | |||||
| The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess |
Alida Malkus | Alida Malkus | ||||||
| Queer Person | Ralph Hubbard | Doubleday | ||||||
| Mountains are Free | Julie Davis Adams | Dutton | ||||||
| Spice and the Devil's Cave | Agnes Hewes | Knopf | ||||||
| Meggy MacIntosh | Elizabeth Janet Gray | Doubleday/td> | ||||||
| Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes | Herbert Best | Doubleday | ||||||
| Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer | Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen |
Little, Brown | ||||||
| 1930 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher | |||||
| Medal Winner | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | Rachel Field | Macmillan | |||||
| Honor Books | A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland |
Jeanette Eaton | Harper | |||||
| Pran of Albania | Elizabeth Miller | Doubleday | ||||||
| Jumping-Off Place | Marion Hurd McNeely | Longmans | ||||||
| The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales | Ella Young | Longmans | ||||||
| Vaino | Julia Davis Adams | Dutton | ||||||
| Little Blacknose | Hildegarde Swift | Harcourt | ||||||
