Newbery Medal Recipients

Year

Author

Winning Book

1922	Hendrik Willem van Loon	The Story of Mankind
1923	Hugh Lofting	The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
1924	Charles Hawes	The Dark Frigate
1925	Charles Finger	Tales from Silver Lands
1926	Arthur Bowie Chrisman	Shen of the Sea
1927	Will James	Smoky, the Cowhorse
1928	Dhan Murkerji	Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
1929	Eric P. Kelly	The Trumpeter of Krakow
1930	Rachel Field	Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
1931	Elizabeth Coatsworth	The Cat Who Went to Heaven
1932	Laura Adams Armer	Waterless Mountain
1933	Elizabeth Lewis	Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1934	Cornelia Meigs	Invincible Louisa
1935	Monica Shannon	Dobry
1936	Carol Ryrie Brink	Caddie Woodlawn
1937	Ruth Sawyer	Roller Skates
1938	Kate Seredy	The White Stag
1939	Elizabeth Enright	Thimble Summer
1940	James Daugherty	Daniel Boone
1941	Armstrong Sperry	Call It Courage
1942	Walter Edmonds	The Matchlock Gun
1943	Elizabeth Janet Gray	Adam of the Road
1944	Esther Forbes	Johnny Tremain
1945	Robert Lawson	Rabbit Hill
1946	Lois Lenski	Strawberry Girl
1947	Carolyn Sherwin Bailey	Miss Hickory
1948	William Pène du Bois	The Twenty-One Balloons
1949	Marguerite Henry	King of the Wind
1950	Marguerite de Angeli	The Door in the Wall
1951	Elizabeth Yates	Amos Fortune, Free Man
1952	Eleanor Estes	Ginger Pye
1953	Ann Nolan Clark	Secret of the Andes
1954	Joseph Krumgold	... And Now Miguel
1955	Meindert DeJong	The Wheel on the School
1956	Jean Lee Latham	Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
1957	Virginia Sorensen	Miracles on Maple Hill
1958	Harold Keith	Rifles for Watie
1959	Elizabeth George Speare	The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1960	Joseph Krumgold	Onion John
1961	Scott O'Dell	Island of the Blue Dolphins
1962	Elizabeth George Speare	The Bronze Bow
1963	Madeleine L'Engle	A Wrinkle in Time
1964	Emily Neville	It's Like This, Cat
1965	Maia Wojciechowska	Shadow of a Bull
1966	Elizabeth Borton de Trevino	I, Juan de Pareja
1967	Irene Hunt	Up a Road Slowly
1968	E. L. Konigsburg	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1969	Lloyd Alexander	The High King
1970	William H. Armstrong	Sounder
1971	Betsy Byars	Summer of the Swans
1972	Robert C. O'Brien	Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1973	Jean Craighead George	Julie of the Wolves
1974	Paula Fox	The Slave Dancer
1975	Virginia Hamilton	M.C. Higgins, The Great
1976	Susan Cooper	The Grey King
1977	Mildred D. Taylor	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978	Katherine Paterson	Bridge to Terabithia
1979	Ellen Raskin	The Westing Game
1980	Joan W. Blos	A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
1981	Katherine Paterson	Jacob Have I Loved
1982	Nancy Willard	A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
1983	Cynthia Voigt	Dicey's Song
1984	Beverly Cleary	Dear Mr. Henshaw
1985	Robin McKinley	The Hero and the Crown
1986	Patricia MacLachlan	Sarah Plain and Tall
1987	Sid Fleischman	The Whipping Boy
1988	Russell Freedman	Lincoln: A Photobiography
1989	Paul Fleischman	Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
1990	Lois Lowry	Number the Stars
1991	Jerry Spinelli	Maniac Magee
1992	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	Shiloh
1993	Cynthia Rylant	Missing May
1994	Lois Lowry	The Giver
1995	Sharon Creech	Walk Two Moons
1996	Karen Cushman	The Midwife's Apprentice
1997	E. L. Konigsburg	The View from Saturday
1998	Karen Hesse	Out of the Dust
1999	Louis Sachar	Holes
2000	Christopher Paul Curtis	Bud, Not Buddy
2001	Richard Peck	A Year Down Yonder
2002	Linda Sue Park	A Single Shard
2003	Avi	Crispin: The Cross of Lead
2004	Kate DiCamillo	The Tale of Despereaux
2005	Cynthia Kadohata	Kira-Kira
2006	Lynne Rae Perkins	Criss Cross
2007	Susan Patron	The Higher Power of Lucky
2008	Laura Amy Schlitz	Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village