HISTORY OF NEWBERY MEDAL
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.
WINNERS 1922-2004
2004:
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 Ering, (Candlewick Press)
Honor Books:
o Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
o An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
Honor Books:
o The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
o Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books)
o Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
o A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)
o Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins)
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
Honor Books:
o Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)
o Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Dial)
Honor Books:
o Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnams Sons)
o Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
o Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
o The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
Honor Books:
o Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam)
o Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)
o 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (Putnam)
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
Honor Book:
o A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (Dial)
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
Honor Books:
o Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (HarperCollins)
o Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)
o Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
Honor Books:
o A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
o Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
o The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)
o Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux)
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
Honor Books:
o What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
o The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
o Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
o The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
Honor Books:
o Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
o The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard)
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
Honor Books:
o Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly (HarperCollins)
o Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins)
o Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
Honor Books:
o What Hearts by Bruce Brooks (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins imprint)
o The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)
o Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Hardcover)
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
Honor Books:
o Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)
o The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
Honor Book:
o The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Jackson/Orchard)
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
Honor Books:
o Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle (Jackson/Orchard)
o Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf)
o The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
Honor Books:
o In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)
o Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers (Harper)
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
Honor Books:
o After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer (Morrow)
o Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
Honor Books:
o A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant (Bradbury)
o On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer (Clarion)
o Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber (Bradbury)
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
Honor Books:
o Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg (Lothrop)
o Dogsong by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
Honor Books:
o Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes (Knopf)
o The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks (Harper)
o One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
Honor Books:
o The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
o A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
o Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan)
o The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain (Harper)
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
Honor Books:
o The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
o Doctor DeSoto by William Steig (Farrar)
o Graven Images by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
o Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz (Putnam)
o Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
Honor Books:
o Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
o Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
Honor Books:
o The Fledgling by Jane Langton (Harper)
o A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
Honor Book:
o The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian (Greenwillow)
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
Honor Book:
o The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
Honor Books:
o Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
o Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater (Lippincott)
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
Honor Books:
o Abel's Island by William Steig (Farrar)
o A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (Atheneum)
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
Honor Books:
o The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis (Viking)
o Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (Harper)
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
Honor Books:
o Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
o My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (Four Winds)
o The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Houghton)
o Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene (Dial)
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
Honor Book:
o The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)
Honor Books:
o Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
o The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss (Crowell)
o The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)
Honor Books:
o Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert (Little, Brown)
o The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
o The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum)
o Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles (Little, Brown)
o The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)
Honor Books:
o Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt (Farrar)
o Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Atheneum)
o Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)
Honor Books:
o Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Pantheon)
o The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore (World)
o Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele (Viking)
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
Honor Books:
o To Be a Slave by Julius Lester (Dial)
o When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar)
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
Honor Books:
o Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
o The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
o The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Scribner)
o The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)
1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett)
Honor Books:
o The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
o Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Harper)
o The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik (Atheneum)
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)
Honor Books:
o The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
o The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell (Pantheon)
o The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz (Harper)
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
Honor Book:
o Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (Follett)
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)
Honor Books:
o Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North (Dutton)
o The Loner by Ester Wier (McKay)
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
Honor Books:
o Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger) (Holt)
o Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge (Houghton)
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
Honor Books:
o Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis (World)
o The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
o Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz (Harper)
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
Honor Books:
o America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
o Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer (Houghton)
o The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson) (Farrar)
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
Honor Books:
o My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (Dutton)
o America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
o The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (Harcourt)
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
Honor Books:
o The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson (Harper)
o Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
o Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay (Harcourt)
o The Perilous Road by William O. Steele (Harcourt)
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell)
Honor Books:
o The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz (Westminster)
o Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (Harcourt)
o The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (Viking)
o Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko (Crowell)
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson (Harcourt)
Honor Books:
o Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (Harper)
o The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
o Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
o The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads (Viking)
o Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
Honor Books:
o The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
o The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist (Harper)
o Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen (Viking)
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
Honor Books:
o Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
o Banner In The Sky by James Ullman (Lippincott)
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
Honor Books:
o All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
o Shadrach by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
o Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
o Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
o Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
Honor Books:
o Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (Harper)
o Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
o Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil (Viking)
o The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
o Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
Honor Books:
o Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity (Viking)
o Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
o The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff (Scribner)
o The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer (Viking)
o The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)
Honor Books:
o Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)
o Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton (Morrow)
o Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
o The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish (Harper)
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
Honor Books:
o Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill (Viking)
o The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz (Longmans)
o Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery (Doubleday)
o George Washington by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
o Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst (Winston)
1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
Honor Books:
o Seabird by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
o Daughter of the Mountain by Louise Rankin (Viking)
o My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett (Random House)
o Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps (Knopf)
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
Honor Books:
o Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
o Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon)
o The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman (Bobbs-Merrill)
o The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander (Holt)
o Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)
Honor Books:
o Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes (Messner)
o Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)
o The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell (Harper)
o The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet) (Appleton)
o The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett (Viking)
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
Honor Books:
o Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
o The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means (Houghton)
o Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston (Scribner)
o New Found World by Katherine Shippen (Viking)
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)
Honor Books:
o The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
o The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
o Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
o Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton (Harcourt)
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton)
Honor Books:
o These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
o Fog Magic by Julia Sauer (Viking)
o Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
o Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates (Coward)
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
Honor Books:
o The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
o Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)
Honor Books:
o Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
o George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
o Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
o Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin (Viking)
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
Honor Books:
o Blue Willow by Doris Gates (Viking)
o Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr (Crowell)
o The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
o Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall (Viking)
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)
Honor Books:
o The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (Viking)
o Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
o By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
o Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt)
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
Honor Books:
o Nino by Valenti Angelo (Viking)
o Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater (Little, Brown)
o Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford (Holt)
o Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton (Harcourt)
o Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)
Honor Books:
o Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman (Little, Brown)
o Bright Island by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
o On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
Honor Books:
o Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski (Stokes)
o Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones (Viking)
o The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
o Winterbound by Margery Bianco (Viking)
o The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes (Doubleday)
o Audubon by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)
Honor Books:
o Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong (Dodd)
o The Good Master by Kate Seredy (Viking)
o Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
o All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry (Winston)
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)
Honor Books:
o Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger (Longmans)
o Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
o Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum (Harper)
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
Honor Books:
o The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
o Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster (Houghton)
o ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág (Coward)
o Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) (Appleton)
o New Land by Sarah Schmidt (McBride)
o Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
o Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
o Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle (Houghton)
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
Honor Books:
o Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
o The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)
o Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon (Doubleday)
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
Honor Books:
o The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop (Macmillan)
o Calico Bush by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
o Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens (Coward-McCann)
o Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery (Longmans)
o Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee (Houghton)
o Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis (Harcourt)
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
Honor Books:
o Floating Island by Anne Parrish (Harper)
o The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus (Harcourt)
o Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard (Doubleday)
o Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams (Dutton)
o Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
o Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Doubleday)
o Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best (Doubleday)
o Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen (Little, Brown)
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
Honor Books:
o A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton (Harper)
o Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller (Doubleday)
o Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely (Longmans)
o The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young (Longmans)
o Vaino by Julia Davis Adams (Dutton)
o Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)
Honor Books:
o Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett (Longmans)
o Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (Coward)
o The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock (Dutton)
o Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
o Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon (Doubleday)
o Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney (Macmillan)
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
Honor Books:
o The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young (Longmans)
o Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)
Honor Books:
o [None recorded]
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
Honor Book:
o The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
Honor Books:
o Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore (Putnam)
o The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish (Macmillan)
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
Honor Books:
o [None recorded]
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Lippincott)
Honor Books:
o [None recorded]
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)
Honor Books:
o The Great Quest by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
o Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall (Appleton)
o The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen (Macmillan)
o The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
o The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs (Macmillan)
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