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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.

1969
Book Title Author Illustrator Publisher
Medal Winner The High King Lloyd Alexander Holt
Honor Books TTo Be a Slave Julius Lester Crowell
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw
and Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer Farrar
1968
Book Title Author Illustrator Publisher
Medal Winner From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil
E. Frankweiler
E. L. Konigsburg Atheneum
Honor Books Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William
McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
E. L. Konigsburg Atheneum
The Black Pearl Scott O'Dell Houghton
The Fearsome Inn Isaac Bashevis Singer Scribner
The Egypt Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder Atheneum
1967
Book Title Author Illustrator Publisher
Medal Winner Up a Road Slowly Irene Hunt Follett
Honor Books The King's Fifth Scott O'Dell Houghton
Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer Harper
The Jazz Man Mary Hays Weik Atheneum
1966
Book Title Author Illustrator Publisher
Medal Winner I, Juan de Pareja Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Farrar
Honor Books The Black Cauldron Lloyd Alexander Holt
The Animal Family Randall Jarrell Pantheon
The Noonday Friends Mary Stolz Harper
1965
Book Title Author Illustrator Publisher
Medal Winner Shadow of a Bull Maia Wojciechowska Atheneum
Honor Books Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt Follett
1964
Book Title Author Illustrator Publisher
Medal Winner It's Like This, Cat Emily Neville Harper
Honor Books Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era Sterling North Dutton
The Loner Ester Wier McKay
1963
Book Title Author Illustrator Publisher
Medal Winner A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle Farrar
Honor Books Thistle and Thyme: Tales
and Legends from Scotland
Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud.
(Leclaire Alger)
Holt
Men of Athens Olivia Coolidge Houghton
1962
Book Title Author Illustrator Publisher
Medal Winner The Bronze Bow Elizabeth George Speare Houghton
Honor Books IFrontier Living Edwin Tunis World
The Golden Goblet Eloise Jarvis McGraw Coward
Belling The Tiger Mary Stolz Harper
1961
Book Title Author Illustrator Publisher
Medal Winner Island of the Blue Dolphin Scott O'Dell Houghton
Honor Books America Moves Forward: A History
for Peter
Gerald W. Johnson Morrow
Old Ramon Jack Schaefer Houghton
The Cricket In Times Square George Selden, pseud.
(George Thompson)
Farrar
1960
Book Title Author Illustrator Publisher
Medal Winner Onion John Joseph Krumgold Crowell
Honor Books My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George Dutton
America Is Born: A History for Peter Gerald W. Johnson Morrow
The Gammage Cup Carol Kendall Harcourt