John Newbery Medal Winners

The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The award has been given since 1922, and was the first children’s literary award in the world. It is named for John Newbery, an 18th century English publisher of juvenile books.

In addition to the Newbery medal, the committee awards additional citations referred to as the Newbery Honor to worthy runners-up. (See Wikipedia for full list of runners-up.)

John Newbery Medal Winners 1922-2014

Alphabetical Listing

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Alexander, Kwame – The Crossover
Alexander, Lloyd – The High King
Applegate, Katherine – The One and Only Ivan
Armer, Laura Adams – Waterless Mountain
Armstrong, William H. – Sounder
Avi – Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin – Miss Hickory
Barnhill, Kelly – The Girl who Drank the Moon
Blos, Joan W. – A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832
Brink, Carol Ryrie – Caddie Woodlawn
Byars, Betsy – Summer of the Swans
Chrisman, Arthur Bowie – Shen of the Sea
Clarke, Ann Nolan – Secret of the Andes
Cleary, Beverly – Dear Mr. Henshaw
Coatsworth, Elizabeth – The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Cooper, Susan – The Grey King
Craft, Jerry – New Kid
Creech, Sharon – Walk Two Moons
Curtis, Christopher Paul – Bud, Not Buddy
Cushman, Karen – The Midwife’s Apprentice
Daugherty, James – Daniel Boone
de Angeli, Marguerite – The Door in the Wall
de la Peña, Matt – Last Stop on Market Street
de Trevino, Elizabeth Borton – I, Juan de Pareja
DeJong, Meindert – The Wheel on the School
DiCamillo, Kate – The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
du Bois, William Pène – The Twenty-One Balloons
Edmonds, Walter – The Matchlock Gun
Enright, Elizabeth – Thimble Summer
Estes, Eleanor – Ginger Pye
Field, Rachel – Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
Finger, Charles – Tales from Silver Lands
Fleischman, Paul – Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Fleischman, Sid – The Whipping Boy
Forbes, Esther – Johnny Tremain
Fox, Paula – The Slave Dancer
Freedman, Russell – Lincoln: A Photobiography
Gaiman, Neil – The Graveyard Book
Gantos, Jack – Dead End in Norvelt
George, Jean Craighead – Julie of the Wolves
Gray, Elizabeth Janet – Adam of the Road
Hamilton, Virginia – M.C. Higgins, the Great
Hawes, Charles – The Dark Frigate
Henry, Marguerite – King of the Wind
Hesse, Karen – Out of the Dust
Hunt, Irene – Up a Road Slowly
James, Will – Smoky, the Cowhorse
Kadohata, Cynthia – Kira-Kira
Keith, Harold – Rifles for Watie
Keller, Tae – When You Trap a Tiger
Kelly, Eric P. – The Trumpeter of Krakow
Kelly, Erin Entrada – Hello, Universe
Konigsberg, E.L. – The View from Saturday ; From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Krumgold, Joseph – Onion John ; …And Now Miguel
Latham, Jean Lee – Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Lawson, Robert – Rabbit Hill
L’Engle, Madeleine – A Wrinkle in Time
Lenski, Lois – Strawberry Girl
Lewis, Elizabeth – Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Lofting, Hugh – The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Lowry, Lois – The Giver ; Number the Stars
MacLachlan, Patricia – Sarah, Plain and Tall
McKinley, Robin – The Hero and the Crown
Medina, Meg – Merci Suárex Changes Gears
Meigs, Cornelia – Invincible Louisa
Mukerji, Dhan Gopal – Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds – Shiloh
Neville, Emily – It’s Like This, Cat
O’Brien, Robert C. – Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O’Dell, Scott – Island of the Blue Dolphins
Park, Linda Sue – A Single Shard
Paterson, Katherine – Jacob Have I Loved ; Bridge to Terabithia
Patron, Susan – The Higher Power of Lucky
Peck, Richard – A Year Down Yonder
Perkins, Lynne Rae – Criss Cross
Raskin, Ellen – The Westing Game
Rylant, Cynthia – Missing May
Sachar, Louis – Holes
Sawyer, Ruth – Roller Skates
Schlitz, Laura Amy – Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Seredy, Kate – The White Stag
Shannon, Monica – Dobry
Sorensen, Virginia – Miracles on Maple Hill
Speare, Elizabeth George – The Bronze Bow ; The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Sperry, Armstrong – Call it Courage
Spinelli, Jerry – Maniac Magee
Stead, Rebecca – When You Reach Me
Taylor, Mildred D. – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
van Loon, Hendrik Willem – The Story of Mankind
Vanderpool, Clare – Moon Over Manifest
Voigt, Cynthia – Dicey’s Song
Willard, Nancy – A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
Wojciechowska, Maia – Shadow of a Bull
Yates, Elizabeth – Amos Fortune, Free Man