Children's Book Prize Archive
Newbery Medal
Annual
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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.
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Most Recent Winner
2011Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Delacorte Press)
Previous Winners
2010When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
2009The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
2008Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, Laura Amy Schlitz
2007The higher power of Lucky, Susan Patron
2006Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins
2005Kira-Kir, Cynthia Kadohataa
2004The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread, Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
2003Crispin:The Cross of Lead, Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
2002A Single Shard , Linda Sue Park (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)
2001A Year Down Yonder , Richard Peck (Dial Books for Young Readers)
2000Bud, Not Buddy , Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
1999Holes, Louis Sacher (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (UK Publisher, Bloomsbury)
1998Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse (Scholastic Press)
1997The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
1996The Midwife's Apprentice, Karen Cushman (Clarion Books)
1995Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1994The Giver, Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin)
1993Missing May, Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
1992Naylor Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds (Atheneum)
1991Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
1990Number the Stars, Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1989Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman (Harper)
1988Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman (Clarion)
1987The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1986Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia McLachlan (Harper)
1985The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
1984Dear Mr Henshaw, Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1983Dicey's Song, Cynthia Voight (Atheneum)
1982A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travellers, Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
1981Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1980A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832, Joan W Blos (Scribner)
1979The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
1978Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1977Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D Taylor (Dial)
1976The Grey King, Susan Cooper (Atheneum)
1975M C Higgins, the Great, Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
1974The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox (Bradbury)
1973George Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead (Harper)
1972Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, Robert C O'Brien (Atheneum)
1971Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byars (Viking)
1970Sounder, William H Armstrong (Harper)
1969The High King, Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
1968From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler, Elaine Konigsburg (Atheneum)
1967Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt (Follett)
1966I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)
1965Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
1964It's Like this, Cat, Emily Neville (Harper)
1963A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
1962The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1961Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
1960Onion John, Joseph Krumgod (Crowell)
1959The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1958Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith (Crowell)
1957Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Sorenson (Harcourt)
1956Carry On, Mr Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
1955The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong (Harper)
1954...And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgod (Crowell)
1953Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
1952Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
1951Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)
1950The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
1949King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
1948The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois (Viking)
1947Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)
1946Strawberry Girl, Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
1945Rabbit Hill, Robert Lawson (Viking)
1944Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Old and Young, Esther Forbes (Houghton)
1943Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
1942The Matchlock Gun, Walter D Edmonds (Dodd)
1941Call it Courage, Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
1940Daniel Boone, James Daugherty (Viking)
1939Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
1938The White Stag, Kate Seredy (Viking)
1937Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
1936Brink Caddle Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie (Macmillan)
1935Dobry, Monica Shannon (Viking)
1934Invincible Louisa: the Story of the Author of Little Women, Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
1933Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (Winston)
1932Waterless Mountain, Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
1931The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
1930Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field Hitty (Macmillan)
1929The Trumpeter of Krakow, a Tale of the Fifteenth Century, Eric P Kelly (Macmillan)
1928the Story of a Pigeon, Dham Gopal Mukerji Gay-Neck (Dutton)
1927the Cowhorse, Will James Smoky (Scribner)
1926Chrisman Shen of the Sea, Arthur Bowie (Dutton)
1925Tales from Silver Lands, Charles J Finger (Doubleday)
1924The Dark Frigate, Charles Boardman Hawes (Atlantic/Little)
1923The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Loftin (Lippincott)
1922The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon (Liveright)
