Award-Winning Children's Books

California Young Reader Award

Caldecott Medal

Coretta Scott King Award

John & Patricia Beatty Award

Michael L. Printz Award

Newbery Award

Pura Belpré Award

Newbery Medal Winners

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 children.

2010s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s | 1960s | 1950s | 1940s | 1930s | 1920s

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2010s

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Year of Award: 2013

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

Year of Award: 2012

Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

Year of Award: 2011

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Year of Award: 2010

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2000s

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Year of Award: 2009

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

Year of Award: 2008

The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

Year of Award: 2007

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

Year of Award: 2006

Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Year of Award: 2005

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate Dicamillo

Year of Award: 2004

Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

Year of Award: 2003

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Year of Award: 2002

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

Year of Award: 2001

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Year of Award: 2000

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1990s

Holes by Louis Sachar

Year of Award: 1999

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Year of Award: 1998

The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Year of Award: 1997

The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

Year of Award: 1996

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Year of Award: 1995

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Year of Award: 1994

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

Year of Award: 1993

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds

Year of Award: 1992

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Year of Award: 1991

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Year of Award: 1990

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1980s

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

Year of Award: 1989

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

Year of Award: 1988

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

Year of Award: 1987

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Year of Award: 1986

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

Year of Award: 1985

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Year of Award: 1984

Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

Year of Award: 1983

A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard

Year of Award: 1982

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Year of Award: 1981

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos

Year of Award: 1980

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1970s

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Year of Award: 1979

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Year of Award: 1978

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Year of Award: 1977

The Grey King by Susan Cooper

Year of Award: 1976

M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

Year of Award: 1975

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

Year of Award: 1974

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Year of Award: 1973

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Year of Award: 1972

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

Year of Award: 1971

Sounder  by William H. Armstrong

Year of Award: 1970

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1960s

The High King by Lloyd Alexander

Year of Award: 1969

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Year of Award: 1968

Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

Year of Award: 1967

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Year of Award: 1966

Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

Year of Award: 1965

It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville

Year of Award: 1964

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Year of Award: 1963

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

Year of Award: 1962

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Year of Award: 1961

Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

Year of Award: 1960

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1950s

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Year of Award: 1959

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

Year of Award: 1958

Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson

Year of Award: 1957

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Year of Award: 1956

The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

Year of Award: 1955

…And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold

Year of Award: 1954

Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

Year of Award: 1953

Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

Year of Award: 1952

Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

Year of Award: 1951

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Year of Award: 1950

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1940s

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

Year of Award: 1949

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Péne du Bois

Year of Award: 1948

Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Year of Award: 1947

Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

Year of Award: 1946

Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

Year of Award: 1945

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Year of Award: 1944

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Year of Award: 1943

The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds

Year of Award: 1942

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

Year of Award: 1941

 

Daniel Boone by James Daugherty

Year of Award: 1940

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1930s

Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

Year of Award: 1939

The White Stag by Kate Seredy

Year of Award: 1938

Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

Year of Award: 1937

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

Year of Award: 1936

 

Dobry by Monica Shannon

Year of Award: 1935

Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs

Year of Award: 1934

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis

Year of Award: 1933

 

Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

Year of Award: 1932

The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Year of Award: 1931

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

Year of Award: 1930

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1920s

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

Year of Award: 1929

Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Year of Award: 1928

Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James

Year of Award: 1927

Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

Year of Award: 1926

Tales from Silver Lands by Chrarles Finger

Year of Award: 1925

The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes

Year of Award: 1924

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Year of Award: 1923

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon

Year of Award: 1922

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