1939: Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright (JF ENR) 1938: The White Stag, Kate Seredy (JF SER) Newbery 1937: Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer (JF SAW) 1936: Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink (JF BRI) Award Winners 1935: Dobry, Monica Shannon (JF SHA) 1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women, Cornelia Meigs (Young Adult Biography ALCOTT) 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth Lewis (JF LEW) 1932: Waterless Mountain, Laura Adams Armer (JF ARM) 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Coatsworth (JF COA) 1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field (JF FIE) 1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly (JF KEL) The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller, 1928: Gay-Neck, The Story of a Pigeon, Dhan Gopal Mukerji John Newbery. (JF MUK) It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, 1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse, Will James (JF JAM) a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. 1926: Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children, 2015: The Crossover, Kwame Alexander (JF ALE) Arthur Bowie Chrisman (JF CHR) 2014: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, 1925: Tales from Silver Lands, Charles Finger (398.2 FIN) Katie DeCamillo (JF DIC) 1924: The Dark Frigate, Charles Boardman Hawes (JF HAW) 2013: The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate (JF APP) 1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting (JF LOF) 2012: Dead End in Norvelt, Jack Gantos (JF GAN) 1922: The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Van Loon (909 VAN) 2011: Moon Over Manifest, Clare Vanderpool (JF VAN) 2010: When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead (JF STE) 2009: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (JF GAI) 2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, Laura Amy Schlitz (812.6 SCH) 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron (JF PAT) 2006: Criss Cross, Lynne Rae Perkins (JF PER) 2005: Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata (JF KAD) Check out the full list of winners, 2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, including honor books, at: a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/ Kate DiCamillo (JF DIC) newberymedal/newberymedal 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Avi (JF AVI) 2002: A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park (JF PAR) 2001: A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck (YA F PEC) 2000: Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis (JF CUR) 1970: Sounder, William H. Armstrong (JF ARM) 1999: Holes, Louis Sachar (JF SAC) 1969: The High King, Lloyd Alexander (YA F ALE) 1998: Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse (JF HES) 1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, 1997: The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg (JF KON) E. L. Konigsburg (JF KON) 1996: The Midwife's Apprentice, Karen Cushman (YA CUS) 1967: Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt (JF HUN) 1995: Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech (JF CRE) 1966: I, Juan de Pareja, Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (JF TRE) 1994: The Giver, Lois Lowry (JF LOW) 1965: Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska (JF WOJ) 1993: Missing May, Cynthia Rylant (JF RYL) 1964: It's Like This, Cat, Emily Neville (JF NEV) 1992: Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (JF NAY) 1963: A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (YA LEN) 1991: Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli (JF SPI) 1962: The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare (JF SPE) 1990: Number the Stars, Lois Lowry (JF LOW) 1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell (JF ODE) 1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman 1960: Onion John, Joseph Krumgold (JF KRU) (811 FLE) 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman (JF SPE) (Youth Biography LINCOLN) 1958: Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith (JF KEI) 1987: The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman (JF FLE) 1957: Miracles on Maple Hill, Virginia Sorensen (JF SOR) 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan (JF MAC) 1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham (JF LAT) 1985: The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley (JF MCK) 1955: The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong (JF DEJ) 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary (JF CLE) 1954: ...And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold (J KRU) 1983: Dicey's Song, Cynthia Voigt (JF VOI) 1953: Secret of the Andes, Ann Nolan Clark (JF CLA) 1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent 1952: Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes (JF EST) and Experienced Travelers, Nancy Willard (811.54 WIL) 1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates 1981: Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson (JF PAT) (Youth Biography FORTUNE) 1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1950: The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli (J DEA) 1830-1832, Joan W. Blos (JF BLO) 1949: King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry (JF HEN) 1979: The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin (JF RAS) 1948: The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pène du Bois (JF DUB) 1978: Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson (JF PAT) 1947: Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (JF BAI) 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor (JF TAY) 1946: Strawberry Girl, Lois Lenski (JF LEN) 1976: The Grey King, Susan Cooper (JF COO) 1945: Rabbit Hill, Robert Lawson (JF LAW) 1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great, Virginia Hamilton (JF HAM) 1944: Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes (JF FOR) 1974: The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox (JF FOX) 1943: Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Janet Gray (JF GRA) 1973: Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George (JF GEO) 1942: The Matchlock Gun, Walter D. Edmonds (JF EDM) 1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, Robert C. O'Brien 1941: Call It Courage, Armstrong Sperry (JF SPE) (JF OBR) 1940: Daniel Boone, James Daugherty (unavailable) 1971: Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byars (JF BYA)