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Newbery Medal - Children's (Awarded by Association for Library Service to Children)

Awards List

2026

All the Blues in the Sky
(Winner)
Renee Watson

The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest
(Honor Book)
Aubrey Hartman

The Teacher of Nomad Land
(Honor Book)
Daniel Nayeri

The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli
(Honor Book)
Karina Yan Glaser

A Sea of Lemon Trees
(Honor Book)
Maria Dolores Aguila

2025

The First State of Being
(Winner)
Erin Entrada Kelly

Across So Many Seas
(Honor Book)
Ruth Behar

One Big Open Sky
(Honor Book)
Lesa Cline-Ransome

Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
(Honor Book)
Chanel Miller

The Wrong Way Home
(Honor Book)
Kate O'Shaughnessy

2024

The Eyes and the Impossible
(Winner)
Dave Eggers

Simon Sort of Says
(Honor Book)
Erin Bow

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
(Honor Book)
Daniel Nayeri

Elf Dog and Owl Head
(Honor Book)
M.T. Anderson

Mexikid
(Honor Book)
Pedro Martin

Eagle Drums
(Honor Book)
Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

2023

Freewater
(Winner)
Amina Luqman-Dawson

Maizy Chen's Last Chance
(Honor Book)
Lisa Yee

The Last Mapmaker
(Honor Book)
Christina Soontornvat

Iveliz Explains It All
(Honor Book)
Andrea Beatriz Arango

2022

The Last Cuentista
(Winner)
Donna Barba Higuera

Red, White, and Whole
(Honor Book)
Rajani LaRocca

Too Bright to See
(Honor Book)
Kyle Lukoff

Watercress
(Honor Book)
Andrea Wang

A Snake Falls to Earth
(Honor Book)
Darcie Little Badger

2021

When You Trap a Tiger
(Winner)
Tae Keller

A Wish in the Dark
(Honor Book)
Christina Soontornvat

We Dream of Space
(Honor Book)
Erin Entrada Kelly

Fighting Words
(Honor Book)
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

2020

New Kid
(Winner)
Jerry Craft

Genesis Begins Again
(Honor Book)
Alicia D. Williams

The Undefeated
(Honor Book)
Kwame Alexander

Other Words for Home
(Honor Book)
Jasmine Warga

Scary Stories for Young Foxes
(Honor Book)
Christian McKay Heidicker

2019

Merci Suarez Changes Gears
(Winner)
Meg Medina

The Book of Boy
(Honor Book)
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

The Night Diary
(Honor Book)
Veera Hiranandani

2018

Hello, Universe
(Winner)
Erin Entrada Kelly

Piecing Me Together
(Honor Book)
Renee Watson

Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
(Honor Book)
Derrick Barnes

Long Way Down
(Honor Book)
Jason Reynolds

2017

The Girl Who Drank the Moon
(Winner)
Kelly Barnhill

Wolf Hollow
(Honor Book)
Lauren Wolk

Freedom Over Me
(Honor Book)
Ashley Bryan

The Inquisitor's Tale Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
(Honor Book)
Adam Gidwitz

2016

Last Stop on Market Street
(Winner)
Matt De La Pena

The War That Saved My Life
(Honor Book)
Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

Echo
(Honor Book)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Roller Girl
(Honor Book)
Victoria Jamieson

2015

The Crossover
(Winner)
Kwame Alexander

El Deafo
(Honor Book)
Cece Bell

2014

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
(Winner)
Kate DiCamillo

One Came Home
(Honor Book)
Amy Timberlake

Doll Bones
(Honor Book)
Holly Black

Paperboy
(Honor Book)
Vince Vawter

The Year of Billy Miller
(Honor Book)
Kevin Henkes

2013

The One and Only Ivan
(Winner)
Katherine Applegate

Three Times Lucky
(Honor Book)
Sheila Turnage

Splendors and Glooms
(Honor Book)
Laura Amy Schlitz

2012

Dead End in Norvelt
(Winner)
Jack Gantos

Inside Out and Back Again
(Honor Book)
Thanhha Lai

Breaking Stalin's Nose
(Honor Book)
Eugene Yelchin

2011

Moon over Manifest
(Winner)
Clare Vanderpool

One Crazy Summer
(Honor Book)
Rita Williams-Garcia

Heart of a Samurai
(Honor Book)
Margi Preus

2010

When You Reach Me
(Winner)
Rebecca Stead

Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice
(Honor Book)
Phillip Hoose

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
(Honor Book)
Rodman Philbrick

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
(Honor Book)
Jacqueline Kelly

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
(Honor Book)
Grace Lin

2009

The Graveyard Book
(Winner)
Neil Gaiman

After Tupac and D Foster
(Honor Book)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
(Honor Book)
Margarita Engle

Savvy
(Honor Book)
Ingrid Law

The Underneath
(Honor Book)
Kathi Appelt

2008

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
(Winner)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Feathers
(Honor Book)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Wednesday Wars
(Honor Book)
Gary D. Schmidt

Elijah of Buxton
(Honor Book)
Christopher Paul Curtis

2007

The Higher Power of Lucky
(Winner)
Susan Patron

Rules
(Honor Book)
Cynthia Lord

Penny from Heaven
(Honor Book)
Jennifer L. Holm

Hattie Big Sky
(Honor Book)
Kirby Larson

2006

Criss Cross
(Winner)
Lynne Rae Perkins

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
(Honor Book)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Whittington
(Honor Book)
Alan Armstrong

Show Way
(Honor Book)
Jacqueline Woodson

Princess Academy
(Honor Book)
Shannon Hale

2005

Kira-Kira
(Winner)
Cynthia Kadohata

The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
(Honor Book)
Russell Freedman

Al Capone Does My Shirts
(Honor Book)
Gennifer Choldenko

Lizzie Bright And the Buckminster Boy
(Honor Book)
Gary D. Schmidt

2004

The Tale of Despereaux
(Winner)
Kate DiCamillo

An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
(Honor Book)
Jim Murphy

Olive's Ocean
(Honor Book)
Kevin Henkes

2003

Crispin: The Cross of Lead
(Winner)
Avi

A Corner of the Universe
(Honor Book)
Ann M. Martin

Surviving the Applewhites
(Honor Book)
Stephanie S. Tolan

Hoot
(Honor Book)
Carl Hiaasen

House of the Scorpion
(Honor Book)
Nancy Farmer

Pictures of Hollis Woods
(Honor Book)
Patricia Reilly Giff

2002

A Single Shard
(Winner)
Linda Sue Park

Carver: A Life In Poems
(Honor Book)
Marilyn Nelson

Everything on a Waffle
(Honor Book)
Polly Horvath

2001

A Year Down Yonder
(Winner)
Richard Peck

The Wanderer
(Honor Book)
Sharon Creech

Because of Winn-Dixie
(Honor Book)
Kate DiCamillo

Joey Pigza Loses Control
(Honor Book)
Jack Gantos

Hope Was Here
(Honor Book)
Joan Bauer

2000

Bud, Not Buddy
(Winner)
Christopher Paul Curtis

26 Fairmount Avenue
(Honor Book)
Tomie DePaola

Getting Near to Baby
(Honor Book)
Audrey Couloumbis

Our Only May Amelia
(Honor Book)
Jennifer L. Holm

1999

Holes
(Winner)
Louis Sachar

A Long Way from Chicago
(Honor Book)
Richard Peck

1998

Out of the Dust
(Winner)
Karen Hesse

Lily's Crossing
(Honor Book)
Patricia Reilly Giff

Wringer
(Honor Book)
Jerry Spinelli

Ella Enchanted
(Honor Book)
Gail Carson Levine

1997

The View from Saturday
(Winner)
E.L. Konigsburg

Belle Prater's Boy
(Honor Book)
Ruth White

A Girl Named Disaster
(Honor Book)
Nancy Farmer

The Moorchild
(Honor Book)
Eloise McGraw

The Thief
(Honor Book)
Megan Whalen Turner

1996

The Midwife's Apprentice
(Winner)
Karen Cushman

The Great Fire
(Honor Book)
Jim Murphy

Yolonda's Genius
(Honor Book)
Carol Fenner

The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963
(Honor Book)
Christopher Paul Curtis

What Jamie Saw
(Honor Book)
Carolyn Coman

1995

Walk Two Moons
(Winner)
Sharon Creech

The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
(Honor Book)
Nancy Farmer

Catherine, Called Birdy
(Honor Book)
Karen Cushman

1994

The Giver
(Winner)
Lois Lowry

Crazy Lady!
(Honor Book)
Jane Leslie Conly

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
(Honor Book)
Russell Freedman

Dragon's Gate
(Honor Book)
Laurence Yep

1993

Missing May
(Winner)
Cynthia Rylant

Somewhere In The Darkness
(Honor Book)
Walter Dean Myers

What Hearts
(Honor Book)
Bruce Brooks

The Dark-Thirty
(Honor Book)
Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

1992

Shiloh
(Winner)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
(Honor Book)
Russell Freedman

Nothing but the Truth
(Honor Book)
Avi

1991

Maniac Magee
(Winner)
Jerry Spinelli

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
(Honor Book)
Avi

1990

Number the Stars
(Winner)
Lois Lowry

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
(Honor Book)
Suzanne Fisher Staples

Afternoon of the Elves
(Honor Book)
Janet Taylor Lisle

The Winter Room
(Honor Book)
Gary Paulsen

1989

In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
(Honor Book)
Virginia Hamilton

Scorpions
(Honor Book)
Walter Dean Myers

1988

Lincoln: A Photobiography
(Winner)
Russell Freedman

Hatchet
(Honor Book)
Gary Paulsen

After the Rain
(Honor Book)
Norma Fox Mazer

1987

The Whipping Boy
(Winner)
Sid Fleischman

A Fine White Dust
(Honor Book)
Cynthia Rylant

On My Honor
(Honor Book)
Marion Dane Bauer

Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens
(Honor Book)
Patricia Lauber

1986

Sarah, Plain and Tall
(Winner)
Patricia MacLachlan

Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun
(Honor Book)
Rhoda Blumberg

Dogsong
(Honor Book)
Gary Paulsen

1985

The Hero and the Crown
(Winner)
Robin McKinley

One-Eyed Cat
(Honor Book)
Paula Fox

The Moves Make The Man
(Honor Book)
Bruce Brooks

Like Jake And Me
(Honor Book)
Mavis Jukes

1984

Dear Mr. Henshaw
(Winner)
Beverly Cleary

Sign of the Beaver
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth George Speare

A Solitary Blue
(Honor Book)
Cynthia Voigt

Sugaring Time
(Honor Book)
Kathryn Lasky

The Wish Giver
(Honor Book)
Bill Brittain

1983

Dicey's Song
(Winner)
Cynthia Voigt

The Blue Sword
(Honor Book)
Robin McKinley

Homesick: My Own Story
(Honor Book)
Jean Fritz

Doctor De Soto
(Honor Book)
William Steig

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
(Honor Book)
Virginia Hamilton

Graven Images
(Honor Book)
Paul Fleischman

1982

Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
(Honor Book)
Aranka Siegal

Ramona Quimby, Age 8
(Honor Book)
Beverly Cleary

The Blue Sword
(Honor Book)
Robin McKinley

1981

Jacob Have I Loved
(Winner)
Katherine Paterson

The Fledgling
(Honor Book)
Jane Langton

A Ring of Endless Light
(Honor Book)
Madeleine L'engle

1980

A Gathering of Days
(Winner)
Joan W. Blos

The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
(Honor Book)
David Kherdian

1979

The Westing Game
(Winner)
Ellen Raskin

The Great Gilly Hopkins
(Honor Book)
Katherine Paterson

1978

Bridge to Terabithia
(Winner)
Katherine Paterson

Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey
(Honor Book)
Jamake Highwater

Ramona and Her Father
(Honor Book)
Beverly Cleary

1977

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
(Winner)
Mildred D. Taylor

A String in the Harp
(Honor Book)
Nancy Bond

Abel's Island
(Honor Book)
William Steig

1976

The Grey King
(Winner)
Susan Cooper

The Hundred Penny Box
(Honor Book)
Sharon Bell Mathis

Dragonwings
(Honor Book)
Laurence Yep

1975

M.C. Higgins, the Great
(Winner)
Virginia Hamilton

Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
(Honor Book)
Bette Greene

My Brother Sam Is Dead
(Honor Book)
James Lincoln Collier

The Perilous Gard
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Marie Pope

Figgs and Phantoms
(Honor Book)
Ellen Raskin

1974

Slave Dancer
(Winner)
Paula Fox

The Dark Is Rising
(Honor Book)
Susan Cooper

1973

Julie of the Wolves
(Winner)
Jean Craighead George

Frog and Toad Together
(Honor Book)
Arnold Lobel

The Upstairs Room
(Honor Book)
Johanna Reiss

The Witches of Worm
(Honor Book)
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1972

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH // The Secret of NIMH
(Winner)
Robert C. O'Brien

Planet of Junior Brown
(Honor Book)
Virginia Hamilton
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The Tombs of Atuan
(Honor Book)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Annie and the Old One
(Honor Book)
Miska Miles

Incident at Hawk's Hill
(Honor Book)
Allan W. Eckert

The Headless Cupid
(Honor Book)
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1971

The Summer of the Swans
(Winner)
Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

Kneeknock Rise
(Honor Book)
Natalie Babbitt

Enchantress from the Stars
(Honor Book)
Sylvia Engdahl

Sing Down the Moon
(Honor Book)
Scott O'Dell

1970

Sounder
(Winner)
William Howard Armstrong

The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art
(Honor Book)
Janet Gaylord Moore

Our Eddie
(Honor Book)
Sulamith Ish-Kishor

Journey Outside
(Honor Book)
Mary Q. Steele

1969

High King
(Winner)
Lloyd Alexander

When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories
(Honor Book)
Isaac Bashevis Singer

To Be a Slave
(Honor Book)
Julius Lester

1968

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
(Winner)
E.L. Konigsburg

The Egypt Game
(Honor Book)
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Fearsome Inn
(Honor Book)
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William Mckinley, and Me, Elizabeth
(Honor Book)
E.L. Konigsburg

Black Pearl
(Honor Book)
Scott O'Dell

1967

Up a Road Slowly
(Winner)
Irene Hunt

The Jazz Man
(Honor Book)
Mary Hays Weik

Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories
(Honor Book)
Isaac Bashevis Singer

The King's Fifth
(Honor Book)
Scott O'Dell

1966

I, Juan de Pareja
(Winner)
Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

The Animal Family
(Honor Book)
Randall Jarrell

The Black Cauldron
(Honor Book)
Lloyd Alexander

The Noonday Friends
(Honor Book)
Mary Stolz

1965

Shadow of a Bull
(Winner)
Maia Wojciechowska

Across Five Aprils
(Honor Book)
Irene Hunt

1964

It's Like This, Cat
(Winner)
Emily Cheney Neville

The Loner
(Honor Book)
Ester Wier

Rascal
(Honor Book)
Sterling North

1963

A Wrinkle in Time
(Winner)
Madeleine L'engle

Men of Athens
(Honor Book)
Olivia Coolidge

Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland
(Honor Book)
Sorche Nic Leodhas

1962

Bronze Bow
(Winner)
Elizabeth George Speare

Belling The Tiger
(Honor Book)
Mary Stoltz

Frontier Living
(Honor Book)
Edwin Tunis

The Golden Goblet
(Honor Book)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw

1961

Island of the Blue Dolphins
(Winner)
Scott O'Dell

The Cricket in Times Square
(Honor Book)
George Selden

America Moves Forward: A History for Peter
(Honor Book)
Gerald W. Johnson

Old Ramon
(Honor Book)
Jack Schaefer

1960

Onion John
(Winner)
Joseph Krumgold

America Is Born: A History for Peter
(Honor Book)
Gerald W. Johnson

My Side of the Mountain
(Honor Book)
Jean Craighead George

Gammage Cup
(Honor Book)
Carol Kendall

1959

The Witch of Blackbird Pond
(Winner)
Elizabeth George Speare

Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa
(Honor Book)
Francis Kalnay

The Family Under the Bridge
(Honor Book)
Natalie Savage Carlson

The Perilous Road
(Honor Book)
William O. Steele

Along Came a Dog
(Honor Book)
Meindert De Jong

1958

Rifles for Watie
(Winner)
Harold Keith

Gone-Away Lake
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Enright

The Great Wheel
(Honor Book)
Robert Lawson

Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle
(Honor Book)
Leo Gurko

The Horsecatcher
(Honor Book)
Mari Sandoz

1957

Miracles on Maple Hill
(Winner)
Virginia Sorensen

Old Yeller
(Honor Book)
Fred Gipson

The House of Sixty Fathers
(Honor Book)
Meindert De Jong

Black Fox of Lorne
(Honor Book)
Marguerite de Angeli

Mr. Justice Holmes
(Honor Book)
Clara Ingram Judson

The Corn Grows Ripe
(Honor Book)
Dorothy Rhoads

1956

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
(Winner)
Jean Lee Latham

The Golden Name Day
(Honor Book)
Jennie Lindquist

Men, Microscopes, and Living Things
(Honor Book)
Katherine Shippen

The Secret River
(Honor Book)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1955

The Wheel on the School
(Winner)
Meindert De Jong

Banner in the Sky
(Honor Book)
James R. Ullman

The Courage of Sarah Noble
(Honor Book)
Alice Dalgliesh

1954

And Now Miguel
(Winner)
Joseph Krumgold

Hurry Home, Candy
(Honor Book)
Meindert De Jong

All Alone
(Honor Book)
Claire Huchet Bishop

Magic Maize
(Honor Book)
Mary Buff; Conrad Buff

Shadrach
(Honor Book)
Meindert De Jong

Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot
(Honor Book)
Clara Ingram Judson

1953

Secret of the Andes
(Winner)
Ann Nolan Clark

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
(Honor Book)
Alice Dalgliesh

Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1
(Honor Book)
Genevieve Foster

Moccassin Trail
(Honor Book)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Red Sails to Capri
(Honor Book)
Ann Weil

Charlotte's Web
(Honor Book)
E.B. White

1952

Ginger Pye
(Winner)
Eleanor Estes

Americans Before Columbus
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Baity

The Defender
(Honor Book)
Nicholas Kalashnikoff

Minn of the Mississippi
(Honor Book)
Holling Clancy Holling

The Light at Tern Rock
(Honor Book)
Julia L. Sauer

The Apple and the Arrow
(Honor Book)
Mary Buff; Conrad Buff

1951

Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People
(Honor Book)
Clara Ingram Judson

Better Known as Johnny Appleseed
(Honor Book)
Mabel Leigh Hunt

Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword
(Honor Book)
Jeanette Eaton

The Story of Appleby Capple
(Honor Book)
Anne Parrish

1950

The Door in the Wall
(Winner)
Marguerite de Angeli

The Blue Cat of Castle Town
(Honor Book)
Catherine Coblentz

George Washington
(Honor Book)
Genevieve Foster

Kildee House
(Honor Book)
Rutherford Montgomer

Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin
(Honor Book)
Walter & Marion Havighurst

Tree of Freedom
(Honor Book)
Rebecca Caudill

1949

King of the Wind
(Winner)
Marguerite Henry

My Father's Dragon
(Honor Book)
Ruth Stiles Gannett

Seabird
(Honor Book)
Holling Clancy Holling

Story of the Negro
(Honor Book)
Arna Bontemps

Daughter of the Mountains
(Honor Book)
Louise Rankin

1948

The Twenty-one Balloons
(Winner)
William Pene DuBois

The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories
(Honor Book)
Harold Courlander

Li Lun, Lad of Courage
(Honor Book)
Carolyn Treffinger

Misty of Chincoteague
(Honor Book)
Marguerite Henry

Pancakes-Paris
(Honor Book)
Claire Huchet Bishop

The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot
(Honor Book)
Catherine Besterman

1947

Miss Hickory
(Winner)
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

The Avion My Uncle Flew
(Honor Book)
Cyrus Fisher

Big Tree
(Honor Book)
Mary Buff; Conrad Buff

The Heavenly Tenants
(Honor Book)
William Maxwell

The Hidden Treasure of Glaston
(Honor Book)
Eleanor Jewett

Wonderful Year
(Honor Book)
Nancy Barnes

1946

Strawberry Girl
(Winner)
Lois Lenski

Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear
(Honor Book)
Christine Weston

Justin Morgan Had a Horse
(Honor Book)
Marguerite Henry

The Moved-Outers
(Honor Book)
Florence Crannell Means

New Found World
(Honor Book)
Katherine Shippen

1945

Rabbit Hill
(Winner)
Robert Lawson

Abraham Lincoln's World
(Honor Book)
Genevieve Foster

The Hundred Dresses
(Honor Book)
Eleanor Estes

Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams
(Honor Book)
Jeanette Eaton

The Silver Pencil
(Honor Book)
Alice Dalgliesh

1944

Johnny Tremain
(Winner)
Esther Forbes

Fog Magic
(Honor Book)
Julia L. Sauer

Mountain Born
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Yates

These Happy Golden Years
(Honor Book)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Rufus M.
(Honor Book)
Eleanor Estes

1943

Adam of the Road
(Winner)
Elizabeth Janet Gray

Have You Seen Tom Thumb?
(Honor Book)
MabelLeigh Hunt

The Middle Moffat
(Honor Book)
Eleanor Estes

1942

The Matchlock Gun
(Winner)
Walter D. Edmonds

Down Ryton Water
(Honor Book)
Eva Roe Gaggin

George Washington's World
(Honor Book)
Genevieve Foster

Little Town on the Prairie
(Honor Book)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Indian Captive: the Story of Mary Jemison
(Honor Book)
Lois Lenski

1941

Call It Courage
(Winner)
Armstrong Sperry

Blue Willow
(Honor Book)
Doris Gates

The Long Winter
(Honor Book)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Nansen
(Honor Book)
Anna Gertrude Hall

Young Mac of Fort Vancouver
(Honor Book)
Mary Jane Carr

1940

Boy with a Pack
(Honor Book)
Stephen W. Meader

By the Shores Of Silver Lake
(Honor Book)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz
(Honor Book)
Mabel Robinson

The Singing Tree
(Honor Book)
Kate Seredy

1939

Thimble Summer
(Winner)
Elizabeth Enright

Hello the Boat
(Honor Book)
Phyllis Crawford

Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot
(Honor Book)
Jeanette Eaton

Mr. Popper's Penguins
(Honor Book)
Richard Atwater

Nino
(Honor Book)
Valenti Angelo

Penn
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Janet Gray

1938

The White Stag
(Winner)
Kate Seredy

Bright Island
(Honor Book)
Mabel Robinson

On the Banks Of Plum Creek
(Honor Book)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time
(Honor Book)
James Cloyd Bowman

1937

Roller Skates
(Winner)
Ruth Sawyer

Audubon
(Honor Book)
Constance Rourke

The Codfish Musket
(Honor Book)
Agnes Hewes

The Golden Basket
(Honor Book)
Ludwig Bemelmans

Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book
(Honor Book)
Lois Lenski

Whistler's Van
(Honor Book)
Idwal Jones

Winterbound
(Honor Book)
Margery Williams / Margery Williams Bianco

1936

Caddie Woodlawn
(Winner)
Carol Ryrie Brink

All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud
(Honor Book)
Armstrong Sperry

Honk, the Moose
(Honor Book)
Phil Strong

Young Walter Scott
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Janet Gray

The Good Master
(Honor Book)
Kate Seredy

1935

Dobry
(Winner)
Monica Shannon; Atanas Katchamakoff

Davy Crockett
(Honor Book)
Constance Rourke

Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic
(Honor Book)
Hilda Van Stockum

Pageant of Chinese History
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Seeger

1934

Invincible Louisa
(Winner)
Cornelia Meigs

ABC Bunny
(Honor Book)
Wanda Gag

Apprentice of Florence
(Honor Book)
Ann Kyle

Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside
(Honor Book)
Padraic Colum

The Forgotten Daughter
(Honor Book)
Caroline Dale Snedeker

Glory of the Seas
(Honor Book)
Agnes Hewes

New Land
(Honor Book)
Sarah Schmidt

Swords of Steel
(Honor Book)
Eli Singmaster

Winged Girl of Knossos
(Honor Book)
Erik Berry

1933

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
(Winner)
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia
(Honor Book)
Nora Burglon

The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War
(Honor Book)
Hildegarde Swift

Swift Rivers
(Honor Book)
Cornelia Meigs

1932

Waterless Mountain
(Winner)
Laura Adams Armer

Boy of the South Seas
(Honor Book)
Eunice Tietjens

Calico Bush
(Honor Book)
Rachel Field

The Fairy Circus
(Honor Book)
Dorothy P. Lathrop

Jane's Island
(Honor Book)
Marjorie Hill Allee

Out of the Flame
(Honor Book)
Eloise Lownsbery

Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy
(Honor Book)
Mary Gould Davis

1931

The Cat Who Went to Heaven
(Winner)
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess
(Honor Book)
Alida Malkus

Floating Island
(Honor Book)
Anne Parrish

Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes
(Honor Book)
Herbert Best

Meggy MacIntosh
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Janey Gray

Mountains are Free
(Honor Book)
Julia Davis Adams

Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer
(Honor Book)
Author Unknown

Queer Person
(Honor Book)
Ralph Hubbard

Spice and the Devil's Cave
(Honor Book)
Agnes Hewes

1930

Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
(Winner)
Rachel Field

A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland
(Honor Book)
Jeanette Eaton

The Jumping-Off Place
(Honor Book)
Marian Hurd McNeely

Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer
(Honor Book)
Hildegarde Swift

Pran of Albania
(Honor Book)
Elizabeth Miller

The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales
(Honor Book)
Ella Young

Vaino, A Boy of New Finland
(Honor Book)
Julia Davis Adams

1929

The Trumpeter of Krakow
(Winner)
Eric P. Kelly

The Boy Who Was
(Honor Book)
Grace Hallock

Clearing Weather
(Honor Book)
Cornelia Meigs

The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo
(Honor Book)
John Bennett

Runaway Papoose
(Honor Book)
Grace Moon

Tod of the Fens
(Honor Book)
Elinor Whitney

Millions of Cats
(Honor Book)
Wanda Gag

1928

Gay-Neck
(Winner)
Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Downright Dencey
(Honor Book)
Caroline Dale Snedeker

The Wonder Smith and His Son
(Honor Book)
Ella Young

1927

Smoky the Cowhorse
(Winner)
Will James

1926

Shen of the Sea
(Winner)
Arthur Bowie Chrisman

The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery
(Honor Book)
Padraic Colum

1925

Tales from Silver Lands
(Winner)
Charles J. Finger

The Dream Coach
(Honor Book)
Anne Parrish

Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story
(Honor Book)
Annie Carroll Moore

1924

The Dark Frigate
(Winner)
Charles Boardman Hawes

1923

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
(Winner)
Hugh Lofting

1922

The Story of Mankind
(Winner)
Hendrik Willem van Loon

Cedric the Forester
(Honor Book)
Bernard Marshall

The Great Quest
(Honor Book)
Charles Hawes

The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure
(Honor Book)
William Bowen

The Windy Hill
(Honor Book)
Cornelia Meigs

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
(Honor Book)
Padraic Colum

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