The Newbery Medal for Best Children's Book Winners, 1922-2003

2003
•Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi--Winner!
Honor Books
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
• A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin

2002
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park--Winner!
Honor Books
• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
• Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

2001
• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck--Winner!
Honor Books
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
• Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

2000
•Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis--Winner!
Honor Books
• Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm

1999
• Holes by Louis Sachar--Winner!
Honor Book
• A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

1998
• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse--Winner!
Honor Books
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly
• Giff Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

1997
• The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg--Winner!
Honor Books
• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
• The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
• The Thief by Megan Whalen
• Turner Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

1996
• The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman--Winner!
Honor Books
• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner
• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy

1995
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech--Winner!
Honor Books
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

1994
• The Giver by Lois Lowry--Winner!
Honor Books
• Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
• Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

1993
• Missing May by Cynthia Rylant--Winner!
Honor Books
• What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
• The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
• Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

1992
• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor--Winner!
Honor Books
• Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi
• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

1991
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli--Winner!
Honor Book
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1990
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry--Winner!
Honor Books
• Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher
• Staples The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen

1989
• Joyful Noise: Poems of Two Voices by Paul Fleischman--Winner!
Honor Books
• In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
• Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

1988
• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman--Winner!
Honor Books
• After the Rain by Norma Fox
• Mazer Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

1987
• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman--Winner!
Honor Books
• A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
• Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber

1986
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan--Winner!
Honor Books
• Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

1985
• The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley--Winner!
Honor Books
• Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
• The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

1984
• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
• A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt
• Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

1983
• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
• Doctor De Soto by William Steig Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
• Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

1982
• A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard--Winner!
Honor Books
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
• Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal

1981
• Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Fledgling by Jane Langton
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

1980
• A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 by Joan Blos--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Road from Home by David Kherdian

1979
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin--Winner!
Honor Book
• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

1978
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson--Winner!
Honor Books
• Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
• Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater

1977
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor--Winner!
Honor Books
• Abel's Island by William Steig
• A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond

1976
• The Grey King by Susan Cooper--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

1975
• M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton--Winner!
Honor Books
• Figgs and Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
• My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
• The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope Philip
• Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene

1974
• The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox--Winner!
Honor Book
• The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

1973
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George--Winner!
Honor Books
• Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1972
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien--Winner!
Honor Books
• Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
• The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
• The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1971
• Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars--Winner!
Honor Books
• Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
• Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
• Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

1970
• Sounder by William H. Armstrong--Winner!
Honor Books
• Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
• The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore
• Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele

1969
• The High King by Lloyd Alexander--Winner!
Honor Books
• To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
• When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1968
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg--Winner!
Honor Books
• Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg
• The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
• The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1967
• Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt--Winner!
Honor Books
• The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell
• Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik

1966
• I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
• The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
• The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

1965
• Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska--Winner!
Honor Book
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

1964
• It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville--Winner!
Honor Books
• Rascal by Sterling North
• The Loner by Ester Wier

1963
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle--Winner!
Honor Books
• Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger)
• Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge

1962
• The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare--Winner!
Honor Books
• Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
• The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
• Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz

1961
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell--Winner!
Honor Books
• America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald Johnson
• Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson)

1960
• Onion John by Joseph Krumgold--Winner!
Honor Books
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead
• George America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald Johnson
• The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

1959
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
• Along Came a Dog by Meindert DeJong
• Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay
• The Perilous Road by William O. Steele

1958
• Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz
• Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
• The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson
• Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko

1957
• Miracle on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen--Winner!
Honor Books
• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
• The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong
• Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson
• The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
• The Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli

1956
• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist
• Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen

1955
• The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong--Winner!
Honor Books
• Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
• Banner in the Sky by James Ullman

1954
• And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold--Winner!
Honor Books
• All Alone by Claire H. Bishop
• Shadrach by Meindert DeJong
• Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong
• Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
• Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff

1953
• Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark--Winner!
Honor Books
• Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
• Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
• Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil
• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
• Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster

1952
• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes--Winner!
Honor Books
• Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
• Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
• The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
• The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer
• The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff

1951
• Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates--Winner!
Honor Books
• Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt
• Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton
• Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson
• The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish

1950
• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli--Winner!
Honor Books
• Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
• The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz Kildee
• House by Rutherford Montgomery
• George Washington by Genevieve Foster
• Sound of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter and Marion Havighurst

1949
• King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry--Winner!
Honor Books
• Seabird by Holling C. Holling
• Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
• My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
• Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps

1948
• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois--Winner!
Honor Books
• Pancakes-Paris by Claire H. Bishop
• Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
• The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
• The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

1947
• Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey--Winner!
Honor Books
• Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
• Big Tree by Mary and Conrad Buff
• The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
• The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet)
• The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett

1946
• Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski--Winner!
Honor Books
• Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
• The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell
• Means Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
• New Found World by Katherine Shippen

1945
• Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
• The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
• Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
• Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Easton

1944
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes--Winner!
Honor Books
• These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Fog Magic by Julia Sauer Rufus
• M. by Eleanor Estes
• Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

1943
• Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
• Have You Seen Tom Thumb by Mabel Leigh Hunt

1942
• The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds--Winner!
Honor Books
• Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster
• Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
• Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin

1941
• Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry--Winner!
Honor Books
• Blue Willow by Doris Gates Young
• Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall

1940
• Daniel Boone by James Daugherty--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
• Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson
• By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader

1939
• Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright--Winner!
Honor Books
• Nino by Valenti Angelo
• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
• Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford
• Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton
• Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1938
• The White Stag by Kate Seredy--Winner!
Honor Books
• Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
• Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
• On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

1937
•Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer--Winner!
Honor Books
• Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski Whistler's
• Van by Idwal Jones
• The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
• Winterbound by Margery Bianco
• The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes
• Audubon by Constance Rourke

1936
•Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink--Winner!
Honor Books
• Honk, the Moose by Phil Strong
• The Good Master by Kate Seredy
• Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
• All Sail: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry

1935
• Dobry by Monica Shannon--Winner!
Honor Books
• Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
• Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
• Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda von Stockum

1934
•Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
• Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
• ABC Bunny by Wanda
• Gág Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best)
• New Land by Sarah Schmidt
• Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
• Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
• Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle

1933
• Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis--Winner!
Honor Books
• Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
• The Railroad of Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift
• Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon

1932
•Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
• Calico Bush by Rachel Field
• Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
• Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
• Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
• Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis

1931
•The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth--Winner!
Honor Books
• Floating Island by Anne Parrish
• The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
• Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
• Mountains Are Free by Julia Davis Adams
• Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
• Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
• Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
• Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide and Margaret Johansen

1930
• Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field--Winner!
Honor Books
• A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
• Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
• Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
• The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
• Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
• Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

1929
•The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly--Winner!
Honor Books
• Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
• The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
• Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
• Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
• Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney

1928
•Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
• Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker

1927
•Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James--Winner!

1926
• Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

1925
• Tales from the Silver Lands by Charles Finger--Winner!
Honor Books
• Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
• The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

1924
•The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes--Winner!

1923
• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting--Winner!

1922
•The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon--Winner!
Honor Books
• The Great Quest by Charles Hawes
• Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall
• The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen
• The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
• The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs