| Newbery Medal Winners And Honor Books |
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Since 1922, the Newbery Medal has been awarded to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.
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| 2008 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schllitz |
| Honor Books: |
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt |
| 2007 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron |
| Honor Books: |
Penny From Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Rules by Cynthia Lord |
| 2006 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins |
| Honor Books: |
Whittington by Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale |
| 2005 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata |
| Honor Books: |
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman |
| 2004 |
| Medal Winner: |
| 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 |
| Honor Books: |
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, An by Jim Murphy |
| 2003 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi |
| Honor Books: |
Hoot by Carl Hiassen
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
A Corner of the Universe by Anne M. Martin
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan |
| 2002 |
| Medal Winner: |
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson |
| Honor Books: |
| Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath |
| 2001 |
| Medal Winner: |
| A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck |
| Honor Books: |
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Related Title: Available on DVD)
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech |
| 2000 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis |
| Honor Books: |
Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm |
| 1999 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Holes by Louis Sacher |
| Honor Books: |
| A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck |
| 1998 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse |
| Honor Books: |
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (Related Title: A Talk With Gail Carson Levine)
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli |
| 1997 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg |
| Honor Books: |
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
Moonchild by Eloise McGraw
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White |
| 1996 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech |
| Honor Books: |
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer |
| 1994 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Giver by Lois Lowry |
| Honor Books: |
Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon's Gate by Lawrence Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman |
| 1993 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Missing May by Cynthia Rylant |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| Honor Books: |
Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman |
| 1991 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli |
| Honor Books: |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi |
| 1990 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Number the Stars by Lois Lowry |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman |
| Honor Books: |
In the Beginning: Creation Stories From Around the World by Virginia Hamilton
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers |
| 1988 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman |
| Honor Books: |
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen |
| 1987 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan |
| Honor Books: |
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen |
| 1985 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley |
| Honor Books: |
Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox |
| 1984 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary |
| Honor Books: |
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Related Title: Keeping the Promise)
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voight
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain |
| 1983 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt |
| Honor Books: |
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Doctor DeSoto by William Steig (Related Title: Getting to Know William Steig)
Graven Images by Paul Fleischman
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton |
| 1982 |
| Medal Winner: |
| A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Related Title: A Talk With Nancy Willard) |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Related Title: A Talk With Katherine Paterson) (Related Title: Available on DVD) |
| Honor Books: |
The Fledgling by Jane Langton
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle |
| 1980 |
| Medal Winner: |
| A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos |
| Honor Books: |
| The Road From Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian |
| 1979 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Related Title: Get a Clue!) |
| Honor Books: |
| The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (Related Title: A Talk With Katherine Paterson) |
| 1978 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Related Title: A Talk With Katherine Paterson) (Related Title: Available on DVD) |
| Honor Books: |
Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater |
| 1977 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D.Taylor |
| Honor Books: |
Abel's Island by William Steig (Related Title: Getting to Know William Steig)
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond |
| 1976 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Grey King by Susan Cooper |
| Honor Books: |
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep |
| 1975 |
| Medal Winner: |
| M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton |
| Honor Books: |
Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene |
| 1974 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox |
| Honor Books: |
| The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper |
| 1973 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George |
| Honor Books: |
Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| 1972 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien |
| 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. LeGuin
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| 1971 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Sounder by William H. Armstrong |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The High King by Lloyd Alexander |
| Honor Books: |
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 1968 |
| Medal Winner: |
| From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg |
| Honor Books: |
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg (Available on audiocassette)
The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| 1967 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino |
| Honor Books: |
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander (Related Title: Available on DVD)
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz |
| 1965 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska |
| Honor Books: |
| Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt |
| 1964 |
| Medal Winner: |
| It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville |
| Honor Books: |
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
The Loner by Ester Wier |
| 1963 |
| Medal Winner: |
| A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle |
| Honor Books: |
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud.
Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge |
| 1962 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare |
| Honor Books: |
Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz |
| 1961 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell |
| Honor Books: |
America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, pseud. |
| 1960 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Onion John by Joseph Krumgold |
| Honor Books: |
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (Related Title: Available on DVD)
America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson
The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall |
| 1959 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson |
| 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
Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli |
| 1956 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong |
| Honor Books: |
Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner in the Sky by James Ullman |
| 1954 |
| Medal Winner: |
| ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold |
| Honor Books: |
All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop
Shadrach by Meindert Dejong
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson
Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff |
| 1953 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes |
| 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 & Conrad Buff |
| 1951 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli |
| 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
Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst |
| 1949 |
| Medal Winner: |
| King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry |
| Honor Books: |
Seabird by Holling C. Holling
Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin
My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps |
| 1948 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois |
| Honor Books: |
Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
| Honor Books: |
Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud.
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett |
| 1946 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson |
| 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 Eaton |
| 1944 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Related Title: Available on DVD) |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray |
| Honor Books: |
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt |
| 1942 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Daniel Boone by James Daugherty |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright |
| Honor Books: |
Nino by Valenti Angelo
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The White Stag by Kate Seredy |
| Honor Books: |
Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| 1937 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer |
| Honor Books: |
Phoebe 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink |
| Honor Books: |
Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry |
| 1935 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Dobry by Monica Shannon |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs |
| 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.
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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis |
| Honor Books: |
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon |
| 1932 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth |
| 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 Julie 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 & Margaret Johansen |
| 1930 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly |
| 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 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
| Honor Books: |
The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker |
| 1927 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James |
| Honor Books: |
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| 1926 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
| Honor Books: |
| The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum |
| 1925 |
| Medal Winner: |
| Tales From Silver Lands by Charles Finger |
| Honor Books: |
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish |
| 1924 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes |
| Honor Books: |
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| 1923 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting |
| Honor Books: |
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| 1922 |
| Medal Winner: |
| The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon |
| 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 |
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