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Newbery Medal

Annual

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Association for Library Service to Children at the American Library Association
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Instituted in 1922, this is the most important American award given annually for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published during the previous year. It is named after John Newbery (1713-1767), a London bookseller and first British publisher of children's books. It is announced in January/February.

Most Recent Winner (2006)

Susan Patron, The higher power of Lucky

Past Winners

2005 Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira

2004 Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
(Candlewick Press)

2003 Avi Crispin:The Cross of Lead (Hyperion Books for Children)

2002 Linda Sue Park A Single Shard (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)

2001 Richard Peck A Year Down Yonder (Dial Books for Young Readers)

2000 Christopher Paul Curtis Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte)

1999 Louis Sacher Holes (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (UK Publisher, Bloomsbury)

1998 Karen Hesse Out of the Dust (Scholastic Press)

1997 E.L. Konigsburg The View from Saturday (Atheneum)

1996 Karen Cushman The Midwife’s Apprentice (Clarion Books)

1995 Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons (HarperCollins)

1994 Lois Lowry The Giver (Houghton Mifflin)

1993 Cynthia Rylant Missing May (Jackson/Orchard)

1992 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Shiloh (Atheneum)

1991 Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee (Little, Brown)

1990 Lois Lowry Number the Stars (Houghton)

1989 Paul Fleischman Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (Harper)

1988 Russell Freedman Lincoln: A Photobiography (Clarion)

1987 Sid Fleischman The Whipping Boy (Greenwillow)

1986 Patricia McLachlan Sarah, Plain and Tall (Harper)

1985 Robin McKinley The Hero and the Crown (Greenwillow)

1984 Beverly Cleary Dear Mr Henshaw (Morrow)

1983 Cynthia Voight Dicey's Song (Atheneum)

1982 Nancy Willard A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travellers (Harcourt)

1981 Katherine Paterson Jacob Have I Loved (Crowell)

1980 Joan W Blos A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 (Scribner)

1979 Ellen Raskin The Westing Game (Dutton)

1978 Katherine Paterson Bridge to Terabithia (Crowell)

1977 Mildred D Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Dial)

1976 Susan Cooper The Grey King (Atheneum)

1975 Virginia Hamilton M C Higgins, the Great (Macmillan)

1974 Paula Fox The Slave Dancer (Bradbury)

1973 Jean Craighead George Julie of the Wolves (Harper)

1972 Robert C O'Brien Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Atheneum)

1971 Betsy Byars Summer of the Swans (Viking)

1970 William H Armstrong Sounder (Harper)

1969 Lloyd Alexander The High King (Holt)

1968 Elaine Konigsburg From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler (Atheneum)

1967 Irene Hunt Up a Road Slowly (Follett)

1966 Elizabeth Borton de Trevino I, Juan de Pareja (Farrar)

1965 Maia Wojciechowska Shadow of a Bull (Atheneum)

1964 Emily Neville It's Like this, Cat (Harper)

1963 Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar)

1962 Elizabeth George Speare The Bronze Bow (Houghton)

1961 Scott O'Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins (Houghton)

1960 Joseph Krumgod Onion John (Crowell)

1959 Elizabeth George Speare The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Houghton)

1958 Harold Keith Rifles for Watie(Crowell)

1957 Virginia Sorenson Miracles on Maple Hill (Harcourt)

1956 Jean Lee Latham Carry On, Mr Bowditch (Houghton)

1955 Meindert DeJong The Wheel on the School (Harper)

1954 Joseph Krumgod ...And Now Miguel (Crowell)

1953 Ann Nolan Clark Secret of the Andes (Viking)

1952 Eleanor Estes Ginger Pye (Harcourt)

1951 Elizabeth Yates Amos Fortune, Free Man (Dutton)

1950 Marguerite de Angeli The Door in the Wall (Doubleday)

1949 Marguerite Henry King of the Wind (Rand McNally)

1948 William Pene du Bois The Twenty-One Balloons (Viking)

1947 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Miss Hickory (Viking)

1946 Lois Lenski Strawberry Girl (Lippincott)

1945 Robert Lawson Rabbit Hill (Viking)

1944 Esther Forbes Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Old and Young (Houghton)

1943 Elizabeth Janet Gray Adam of the Road (Viking)

1942 Walter D Edmonds The Matchlock Gun (Dodd)

1941 Armstrong Sperry Call it Courage (Macmillan)

1940 James Daugherty Daniel Boone (Viking)

1939 Elizabeth Enright Thimble Summer (Rinehart)

1938 Kate Seredy The White Stag (Viking)

1937 Ruth Sawyer Roller Skates (Viking)

1936 Carol Ryrie Brink Caddle Woodlawn (Macmillan)

1935 Monica Shannon Dobry (Viking)

1934 Cornelia Meigs Invincible Louisa: the Story of the Author of Little Women (Little, Brown)

1933 Elizabeth Foreman Lewis Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (Winston)

1932 Laura Adams Armer Waterless Mountain (Longmans)

1931 Elizabeth Coatsworth The Cat Who Went to Heaven (Macmillan)

1930 Rachel Field Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (Macmillan)

1929 Eric P Kelly The Trumpeter of Krakow, a Tale of the Fifteenth Century (Macmillan)

1928 Dham Gopal Mukerji Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon (Dutton)

1927 Will James Smoky, the Cowhorse (Scribner)

1926 Arthur Bowie Chrisman Shen of the Sea (Dutton)

1925 Charles J Finger Tales from Silver Lands (Doubleday)

1924 Charles Boardman Hawes The Dark Frigate (Atlantic/Little)

1923 Hugh Loftin The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Lippincott)

1922 Hendrik Willem Van Loon The Story of Mankind (Liveright)