Newberry Award Books

Keep this list of Newberry Award Books handy. I always keep a list of books in my purse so that when I make an unexpected stop at the library (which happened frequently), I know which books to look for.

Newberry Award Books, 1922-Present

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)

Honor Books

• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster)
• The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt)
• Savvy by Ingrid Law (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media)
• After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers)

2008 Newberry Award Books

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)

Honor Books

• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion)
• Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)

2007 Newberry Medal Winners

The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)

Honor Books

• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm, (Random House)
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (Delacorte Press)
• Rules by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic)

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)

Honor Books

• Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Random House)
• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons)

2005 Newberry Award Books

Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)

Honor Books

• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (G.P. Putnam's Sons/a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)
• The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

2004 Newberry Medal Winners

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, (Candlewick Press)

Honor Books

• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)

2003 Newberry Award Books

Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)

Honor Books

• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books)
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
• A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan HarperCollins)

2002 Newberry Award Books

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

Honor Books

• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)
• Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)

2001 Newberry Medal Winner

A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Dial)

Honor Books

• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
• Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)

2000 Newberry Award Books

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)

Honor Books

• Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam)
• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (Putnam)

1999 Newberry Medal Winner

Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)

Honor Book

• A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (Dial)

1998 Newberry Award Books

• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)

Honor Books

• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)
• Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)

1997 Newberry Award Books

The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)

Honor Books

• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
• Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)
• Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux)

1996 Newberry Medal Winner

The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)

Honor Books

• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
• Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)

1995 Newberry Award Books

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)

Honor Books

• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard)

1994 Newberry Medal Winner

The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)

Honor Books

• Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly (HarperCollins)
• Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins)
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)

1993 Newberry Award Books

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)

Honor Books

• What Hearts by Bruce Brooks (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins imprint)
• The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Hardcover)

1992 Newberry Medal Winner

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)

Honor Books

• Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)
• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)

1991 Newberry Award Books

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)

Honor Book

• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)

1990 Newberry Medal Winner

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)

Honor Books

• Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle (Jackson/Orchard)
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf)
• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)

1989 Newberry Award Books

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)

Honor Books

• In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers (Harper)

1988 Newberry Medal Winner

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)

Honor Books

• After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer (Morrow)
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)

1987 Newberry Award Books

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)

Honor Books

• A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant (Bradbury)
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer (Clarion)
• Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber (Bradbury)

1986 Medal Winner

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)

Honor Books

• Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg (Lothrop)
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)

1985 Newberry Award Books

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)

Honor Books

• Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes (Knopf)
• The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks (Harper)
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (Bradbury)

1984 Medal Winner

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)

Honor Books

• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
• A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
• Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan)
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain (Harper)

1983 Newberry Award Books

Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)

Honor Books

• The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
• Doctor DeSoto by William Steig (Farrar)
• Graven Images by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
• Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz (Putnam)
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)

1982 Medal Winner

A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)

Honor Books

• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
• Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)

1981 Newberry Award Books

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)

Honor Books

• The Fledgling by Jane Langton (Harper)
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)

1980 Medal Winner

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)

Honor Book

• The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian (Greenwillow)

1979 Newberry Award Books

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton) Honor Book

• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)

1978 Medal Winner

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell) Honor Books

• Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
• Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater (Lippincott)

1977 Newberry Award Books

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial) Honor Books

• Abel's Island by William Steig (Farrar)
• A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (Atheneum)

1976 Medal Winner

The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum) Honor Books

• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis (Viking)
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (Harper)

1975 Newberry Award Books

M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan) Honor Books

• Figgs and Phantoms by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier (Four Winds)
• The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Houghton)
• Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene (Dial)

1974 Medal Winner

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury) Honor Book

• The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)

1973 Newberry Award Books

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper) Honor Books

• Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss (Crowell)
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

1972 Medal Winner

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum) Honor Books

• Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert (Little, Brown)
• The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum)
• Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles (Little, Brown)
• The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

1971 Newberry Award Books

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking) Honor Books

• Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt (Farrar)
• Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Atheneum)
• Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)

1970 Medal Winner

Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper) Honor Books

• Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Pantheon)
• The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore (World)
• Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele (Viking)

1969 Newberry Award Books

The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt) Honor Books

• To Be a Slave by Julius Lester (Dial)
• When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar)

1968 Medal Winner

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum) Honor Books

• Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
• The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
• The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Scribner)
• The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

1967 Newberry Award Books

Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett) Honor Books

• The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
• Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Harper)
• The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik (Atheneum)

1966 Medal Winner

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar) Honor Books

• The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
• The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell (Pantheon)
• The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz (Harper)

1965 Newberry Award Books

Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum) Honor Book

• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (Follett)

1964 Medal Winner

It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper) Honor Books

• Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North (Dutton)
• The Loner by Ester Wier (McKay)

1963 Newberry Award Books

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar) Honor Books

• Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger) (Holt)
• Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge (Houghton)

1962 Medal Winner

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton) Honor Books

• Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis (World)
• The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
• Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz (Harper)

1961 Newberry Award Books

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton) Honor Books

• America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
• Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer (Houghton)
• The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson) (Farrar)

1960 Medal Winner

Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell) Honor Books

• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (Dutton)
• America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
• The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (Harcourt)

1959 Newberry Award Books

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton) Honor Books

• The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson (Harper)
• Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
• Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay (Harcourt)
• The Perilous Road by William O. Steele (Harcourt)

1958 Medal Winner

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell) Honor Books

• The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz (Westminster)
• Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (Harcourt)
• The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (Viking)
• Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko (Crowell)

1957 Medal Winner

Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt) Honor Books

• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (Harper)
• The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
• Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
• The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads (Viking)
• Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)

1956 Medal Winner

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton) Honor Books

• The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
• The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist (Harper)
• Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen (Viking)

1955 Medal Winner

The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper) Honor Books

• Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
• Banner In The Sky by James Ullman (Lippincott)

1954 Medal Winner

...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell) Honor Books

• All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
• Shadrach by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
• Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
• Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
• Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff (Houghton)

1953 Medal Winner

Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking) Honor Books

• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (Harper)
• Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
• Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil (Viking)
• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
• Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)

1952 Medal Winner

Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt) Honor Books

• Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity (Viking)
• Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
• The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff (Scribner)
• The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer (Viking)
• The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff (Houghton)

1951 Medal Winner

Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton) Honor Books

• Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)
• Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton (Morrow)
• Araham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
• The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish (Harper)

1950 Medal Winner

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday) Honor Books

• Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill (Viking)
• The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz (Longmans)
• Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery (Doubleday)
• George Washington by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
• Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst (Winston)

1949 Medal Winner

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally) Honor Books

• Seabird by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
• Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin (Viking)
• My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett (Random House)
• Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps (Knopf)

1948 Medal Winner

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking) Honor Books

• Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
• Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon)
• The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman (Bobbs-Merrill)
• The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander (Holt)
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

1947 Medal Winner

Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking) Honor Books

• Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes (Messner)
• Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)
• The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell (Harper)
• The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet) (Appleton)
• The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett (Viking)

1946 Medal Winner

Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott) Honor Books

• Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
• The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means (Houghton)
• Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston (Scribner)
• New Found World by Katherine Shippen (Viking)

1945 Medal Winner

Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking) Honor Books

• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
• The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
• Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
• Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton (Harcourt)

1944 Medal Winner

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton) Honor Books

• These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
• Fog Magic by Julia Sauer (Viking)
• Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
• Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates (Coward)

1943 Medal Winner

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking) Honor Books:

• The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
• Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)

1942 Medal Winner

The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd) Honor Books

• Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
• George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
• Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
• Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin (Viking)

1941 Medal Winner

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan) Honor Books

• Blue Willow by Doris Gates (Viking)
• Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr (Crowell)
• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
• Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall (Viking)

1940 Medal Winner

Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking) Honor Books

• The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (Viking)
• Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
• By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
• Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt)

1939 Medal Winner

Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart) Honor Books

• Nino by Valenti Angelo (Viking)
• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater (Little, Brown)
• Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford (Holt)
• Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton (Harcourt)
• Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)

1938 Medal Winner

The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking) Honor Books

• Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman (Little, Brown)
• Bright Island by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
• On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)

1937 Medal Winner

Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking) Honor Books

• Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski (Stokes)
• Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones (Viking)
• The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
• Winterbound by Margery Bianco (Viking)
• The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes (Doubleday)
• Audubon by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)

1936 Medal Winner

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan) Honor Books

• Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong (Dodd)
• The Good Master by Kate Seredy (Viking)
• Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
• All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry (Winston)

1935 Medal Winner

Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking) Honor Books:

• Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger (Longmans)
• Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
• Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum (Harper)

1934 Medal Winner

Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown) Honor Books

• The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
• Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster (Houghton)
• ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág (Coward)
• Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) (Appleton)
• New Land by Sarah Schmidt (McBride)
• Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
• Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
• o Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle (Houghton)

1933 Medal Winner

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston) Honor Books

• Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
• The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)
• Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon (Doubleday)

1932 Medal Winner

Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans) Honor Books

• The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop (Macmillan)
• Calico Bush by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
• Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens (Coward-McCann)
• Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery (Longmans)
• Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee (Houghton)
• Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis (Harcourt)

1931 Medal Winner

The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan) Honor Books

• Floating Island by Anne Parrish (Harper)
• The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus (Harcourt)
• Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard (Doubleday)
• Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams (Dutton)
• Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
• Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Doubleday)
• Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best (Doubleday)
• Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen (Little, Brown)

1930 Medal Winner

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan) Honor Books

• A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton (Harper)
• Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller (Doubleday)
• Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely (Longmans)
• The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young (Longmans)
• Vaino by Julia Davis Adams (Dutton)
• Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)

1929 Medal Winner

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan) Honor Books

• Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett (Longmans)
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (Coward)
• The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock (Dutton)
• Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
• Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon (Doubleday)
• Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney (Macmillan)

1928 Medal Winner

Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton) Honor Books

• The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young (Longmans)
• Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)

1927 Medal Winner

Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner) Honor Books - None recorded

1926 Medal Winner

Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)

Honor Book

• The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)

1925 Medal Winner

Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)

Honor Books

• Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore (Putnam)
• The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish (Macmillan)

1924 Medal Winner

The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown) Honor Books - None recorded

1923 Medal Winner

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Stokes) Honor Books - None recorded

1922 Medal Winner

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright) Honor Books

• The Great Quest by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
• Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall (Appleton)
• The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen (Macmillan)
• The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
• The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs (Macmillan)