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Kids' Catalog | Award Winners | John Newbery Medal Winners

Established in 1922, The John 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. The award is restricted to authors who are citizens or residents of the United States. John Newbery Medal Terms and Criteria.

2007
Patron, Susan.  The Higher Power of Lucky.

Honor Books:
Holm, Jennifer L.  Penny from Heaven.
Larson, Kirby.  Hattie Big Sky. 
Lord, Cynthia.  Rules.

2006
Perkins, Lynne Rae.  Criss Cross.

Honor Books:
Armstrong, Alan.  Whittington.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.  Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow.
Hale, Shannon.  Princess Academy.
Woodson, Jacqueline.  Show Way.

2005
Kadohata, Cynthia.  Kira-Kira.

Honor Books:
Choldenko, Gennifer.  Al Capone Does My Shirts.
Freedman, Russell.  The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights.
Schmidt, Gary D.  Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.

2004
diCamillo, Kate.  The Tale of Despereaux: The Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread.

Honor Books:
Henkes, Kevin.  Olive's Ocean.
Murphy, Jim.  An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.

2003
Avi.  Crispin: The Cross of Lead.

Honor Books:
Farmer, Nancy.  The House of the Scorpion.
Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Pictures of Hollis Woods.
Hiaasen, Carl.  Hoot.
Martin, Ann M.  A Corner of the Universe.
Tolan, Stephanie S.  Surviving the Applewhites.

2002
Park, Linda Sue.  A Single Shard.

Honor Books:
Horvath, Polly.  Everything on a Waffle.
Nelson, Marilyn.  Carver: A Life in Poems.

2001
Peck, Richard.  A Year Down Yonder.

Honor Books:
Bauer, Joan.  Hope Was Here.
Creech, Sharon.  The Wanderer.
diCamillo, Kate.  Because of Winn-Dixie.
Gantos, Jack.  Joey Pigza Loses Control.

2000
Curtis, Christopher Paul.  Bud, Not Buddy.

Honor Books:
Couloumbis, Audrey.  Getting Near to Baby.
dePaola, Tomie.  26 Fairmount Avenue.
Holm, Jennifer L.  Our Only May Amelia.

1999
Sachar, Louis.  Holes.

Honor Book:
Peck, Richard.  A Long Way from Chicago.

1998
Hesse, Karen.  Out of the Dust.

Honor Books:
Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Lily's Crossing.
Levine, Gail Carson.  Ella Enchanted.
Spinelli, Jerry.  Wringer.

1997
Konigsburg, E. L.  The View from Saturday.

Honor Books:
Farmer, Nancy.  A Girl Named Disaster.
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis.  The Moorchild.
Turner, Megan Whalen.  The Thief.
White, Ruth.  Belle Prater's Boy.

1996
Cushman, Karen.  The Midwife’s Apprentice.

Honor Books:
Coman, Carolyn.  What Jamie Saw.
Curtis, Christopher Paul.  The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: A Novel.
Fenner, Carol.  Yolonda's Genius.
Murphy, Jim.  The Great Fire.

1995
Creech, Sharon.  Walk Two Moons.

Honor Books:
Cushman, Karen.  Catherine, Called Birdy.
Farmer, Nancy.  The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm: A Novel.

1994
Lowry, Lois.  The Giver.

Honor Books:
Conly, Jane Leslie.  Crazy Lady!
Freedman, Russell.  Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery.
Yep, Laurence.  Dragon's Gate.

1993
Rylant, Cynthia.  Missing May.

Honor Books:
Brooks, Bruce.  What Hearts.
McKissack, Patricia C.  The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural.
Myers, Walter Dean.  Somewhere in the Darkness.

1992
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Shiloh.

Honor Books:
Avi.  Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel.
Freedman, Russell.  The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane.

1991
Spinelli, Jerry.  Maniac Magee: A Novel.

Honor Book:
Avi.  The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.

1990
Lowry, Lois.  Number the Stars.

Honor Books:
Lisle, Janet Taylor.  Afternoon of the Elves.
Paulsen, Gary.  The Winter Room.
Staples, Suzanne Fisher.  Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind.

1989
Fleischman, Paul.  Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices.

Honor Books:
Hamilton, Virginia.  In the Beginning: Creation Stories from around the World.
Myers, Walter Dean.  Scorpions.

1988
Freedman, Russell.  Lincoln: A Photobiography.

Honor Books:
Mazer, Norma Fox.  After the Rain.
Paulsen, Gary.  Hatchet.

1987
Fleischman, Sid.  The Whipping Boy.

Honor Books:
Bauer, Marion Dane.  On My Honor.
Lauber, Patricia.  Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens.

1986
MacLachlan, Patricia.  Sarah, Plain and Tall.

Honor Books:
Blumberg, Rhonda.  Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun.
Paulsen, Gary.  Dogsong.

1985
McKinley, Robin.  The Hero and the Crown.

Honor Books:
Brooks, Bruce.  The Moves Make the Man.
Fox, Paula.  One-Eyed Cat.
Jukes, Mavis.  Like Jake and Me.

1984
Cleary, Beverly.  Dear Mr. Henshaw.

Honor Books:
Brittain, Bill.  The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree.
Lasky, Kathryn.  Sugaring Time.
Speare, Elizabeth George.  The Sign of the Beaver.
Voigt, Cynthia.  A Solitary Blue.

1983
Voigt, Cynthia.  Dicey’s Song.

Honor Books:
Fleischman, Paul.  Graven Images.
Fritz, Jean.  Homesick: My Own Story.
Hamilton, Virginia.  Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush.
McKinley, Robin.  The Blue Sword.
Steig, William.  Doctor de Soto.

1982
Willard, Nancy.  A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers.

Honor Books:
Cleary, Beverly.  Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
Siegal, Aranka.  Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944.

1981
Paterson, Katherine.  Jacob Have I Loved.

Honor Books:
Langton, Jane.  The Fledgling.
L'Engle, Madeline.  A Ring of Endless Light.

1980
Blos, Joan.  A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830–32; A Novel.

Honor Book:
Kherdian, David.  The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl.

1979
Raskin, Ellen.  The Westing Game.

Honor Book:
Paterson, Katherine.  The Great Gilly Hopkins.

1978
Paterson, Katerine.  Bridge to Terabithia.

Honor Books:
Cleary, Beverly.  Ramona and Her Father.
Highwater, Jamaka.  Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey.

1977
Taylor, Mildred D.  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

Honor Books:
Bond, Nancy.  A String in the Harp.
Steig, William.  Abel's Island.

1976
Cooper, Susan.  The Grey King.

Honor Books:
Mathis, Sharon Bell.  The Hundred Penny Box.
Yep, Laurence.  Dragonwings.

1975
Hamilton, Virginia.  M. C. Higgins, the Great.

Honor Books:
Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher.  My Brother Sam Is Dead.
Greene, Bette.  Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe.
Pope, Elizabeth Marie.  The Perilous Gard.
Raskin, Ellen.  Figgs and Phantoms.

1974
Fox, Paula.  The Slave Dancer.

Honor Book:
Cooper, Susan.  The Dark Is Rising.

1973
George, Jean Craighead.  Julie of the Wolves.

Honor Books:
Lobel, Arnold.  Frog and Toad Together.
Reiss, Johanna.  The Upstairs Room.
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.  The Witches of Worm.

1972
O’Brien, Robert C.  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

Honor Books:
Eckert, Allan W.  Incident at Hawk's Hill.
Hamilton, Virginia.  The Planet of Junior Brown.
leGuin, Ursula K.  The Tombs of Atuan.
Miles, Miska.  Annie and the Old One.
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.  The Headless Cupid.

1971
Byars, Betsy.  The Summer of the Swans.

Honor Books:
Babbitt, Natalie.  Kneeknock Rise.
Engdahl, Sylvia Louise.  Enchantress from the Stars.
O'Dell, Scott.  Sing Down the Moon.

1970
Armstrong, William H.  Sounder.

Honor Books:
Ish-Kishor, Sulamith.  Our Eddie.
Moore, Janet.  The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art.
Steele, Mary Q.  Journey Outside.

1969
Alexander, Lloyd.  The High King.

Honor Books:
Lester, Julius.  To Be a Slave.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis.  When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw, and Other Stories.

1968
Konigsburg, E. L.  From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Honor Books:
Konigsburg, E. L.  Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth.
O'Dell, Scott.  The Black Pearl.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis.  The Fearsome Inn.
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.  The Egypt Game.

1967
Hunt, Irene.  Up a Road Slowly.

Honor Books:
O'Dell, Scott.  The King's Fifth.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis.  Zlateh the Goat, and Other Stories.
Weik, Mary H.  The Jazz Man.

1966
Trevino, Elizabeth Borton de.  I, Juan de Pareja.

Honor Books:
Alexander, Lloyd.  The Black Cauldron.
Jarrell, Randall.  The Animal Family.
Stolz, Mary.  The Noonday Friends.

1965
Wojciechowska, Maia.  Shadow of a Bull.

Honor Book:
Hunt, Irene.  Across Five Aprils.

1964
Neville, Emily.  It’s Like This, Cat.

Honor Book:
North, Sterling.  Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era.
Wier, Ester.  The Loner.

1963
L’Engle, Madeleine.  A Wrinkle in Time.

Honor Books:
Coolidge, Olivia.  Men of Athens.
Leodhas, Sorche Nic.  Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland.

1962
Speare, Elizabeth George.  The Bronze Bow.

Honor Books:
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis.  The Golden Goblet.
Stolz, Mary.  Belling the Tiger.
Tunis, Edwin.  Frontier Living.

1961
O’Dell, Scott.  Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Honor Books:
Johnson, Gerald W.  America Moves Forward: A History for Peter
Schaefer, Jack.  Old Ramon.
Selden, George.  The Cricket in Times Square.

1960
Krumgold, Joseph.  Onion John.

Honor Books:
George, Jean Craighead.  My Side of the Mountain.
Johnson, Gerald W.  America Is Born: A History for Peter.
Kendall, Carol.  The Gammage Cup.

1959
Speare, Elizabeth George.  The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

Honor Books:
Carlson, Natalie Savage.  The Family under the Bridge.
de Jong, Meindert.  Along Came a Dog.
Kalnay, Francis.  Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa.
Steele, William O.  The Perilous Road.

1958
Keith, Harold.  Rifles for Watie.

Honor Books:
Enright, Elizabeth.  Gone-away Lake.
Gurko, Leo.  Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle.
Lawson, Robert.  The Great Wheel.
Sandoz, Mari.  The Horsecatcher.

1957
Sorensen, Virginia.  Miracles on Maple Hill.

Honor Books:
de Angeli, Marguerite.  Black Fox of Lorne.
de Jong, Meindert.  The House of Sixty Fathers.
Gipson, Fred.  Old Yeller.
Judson, Clara Ingram.  Mr. Justice Holmes.
Rhoads, Dorothy.  The Corn Grows Ripe.

1956
Latham, Jean Lee.  Carry on, Mr. Bowditch.

Honor Books:
Lindquist, Jennie.  The Golden Name Day.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan.  The Secret River.
Shippen, Katherine B.  Men, Microscopes, and Living Things.

1955
de Jong, Meindert.  The Wheel on the School.

Honor Books:
Dalgliesh, Alice.  The Courage of Sarah Noble.
Ullman, James.  Banner in the Sky.

1954
Krumgold, Joseph.  …And Now Miguel.

Honor Books:
Bishop, Claire Hutchet.  All Alone.
Buff, Mary and Conrad.  Magic Maize.
de Jong, Meindert.  Hurry Home, Candy.
de Jong, Meindert.  Shadrach.
Judson, Clara Ingram.  Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot.

1953
Clark, Ann Nolan.  Secret of the Andes.

Honor Books:
Dalgliesh, Alice.  The Bears on Hemlock Mountain.
Foster, Genevieve.  Birthdays of Freedom, Volume 1.
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis.  Moccasin Trail.
Weil, Ann.  Red Sails to Capri.
White, E. B.  Charlotte's Web.

1952
Estes, Eleanor.  Ginger Pye.

Honor Books:
Baity, Elizabeth.  Americans Before Columbus.
Buff, Mary and Conrad.  The Apple and the Arrow.
Holling, Holling C.  Minn of the Mississippi.
Kalashnikoff, Nicholas.  The Defender.
Sauer, Julia.  The Light at Tern Rock.

1951
Yates, Elizabeth.