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