Newbery Medal Winners

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.

2005 -- Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

2004 -- 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.

2003 -- Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Hardcover

2002 -- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette

2001 -- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette

2000 -- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette | Microsoft e-book

1999 -- Holes by Louis Sachar
Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette | Audio CD

1998 -- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1997 -- The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1996 -- The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1995 -- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette

1994 -- The Giver by Lois Lowry
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Audio CD

1993 -- Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1992 -- Shilohby Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | DVD | VHS

1991 -- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1990 -- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print

1989 -- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Hardcover | Paperback

1988 -- Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Hardcover | Paperback

1987 -- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Hardcover | Paperback

1985 -- The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Hardcover | Paperback

1984 -- Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Hardcover | Paperback

1982 -- A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
Hardcover | Paperback

1981 -- Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Lesson Plans on CD

1980 -- A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
Hardcover | Paperback

1979 -- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Hardcover | Paperback

1978 -- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Lesson Plans on CD

1977 -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Lesson Plans on CD

1976 -- The Grey King by Susan Cooper
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Microsoft e-book | Adobe e-book

1975 -- M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Hardcover | Paperback | Microsoft e-book | Adobe e-book

1974 -- The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Lesson Plans on CD | Study Guides

1973 -- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

1972 -- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien

1971 -- Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

1970 -- Sounder by William H. Armstrong

1969 -- The High King by Lloyd Alexander

1968 -- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1967 -- Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
Out of Print

1966 -- I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1965 -- Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1964 -- It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1963 -- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Hardcover | Paperback

1962 -- The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1961 -- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1960 -- Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1959 -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1958 -- Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
Hardcover | Paperback

1957 -- Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1956 -- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Hardcover | Paperback

1955 -- The Wheel on The School by Meindert DeJong
Hardcover | Paperback; illustrated by Maurice Sendak

1954 -- And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
Hardcover | Paperback

1953 -- Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Hardcover | Paperback

1952 -- Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Hardcover | Paperback

1951 -- Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Hardcover | Paperback

1950 -- The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1949 -- King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1948 -- The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
Hardcover | Paperback

1947 -- Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Hardcover | Paperback

1946 -- Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Hardcover | Paperback

1945 -- Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Hardcover | Paperback

1944 -- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Audio CD

1943 -- Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Hardcover | Paperback

1942 -- The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
Hardcover | Paperback

1941 -- Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1940 -- Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
Out of Print

1939 -- Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1938 -- The White Stag by Kate Seredy
Paperback

1937 -- Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
Hardcover | Paperback

1936 -- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Hardcover | Paperback

1935 -- Dobry by Monica Shannon
Out of Print

1934 -- Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
Hardcover | Paperback

1933 -- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
Hardcover | Paperback

1932 -- Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
Out of Print

1931 -- The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Hardcover | Paperback

1930 -- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
Hardcover | Paperback

1929 -- The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Hardcover | Paperback

1928 -- Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Hardcover

1927 -- Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
Hardcover | Paperback

1926 -- Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Hardcover

1925 -- Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
Out of Print

1924 -- The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette

1922 -- The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Hardcover | Paperback

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