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Newbery Award 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.
For more information see: The Newbery Medal Home Page
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| Year | Title | Author |
| 2012 Medal Winner | Dead End in Norvelt | Jack Gantos |
| Honor Books | Inside Out and Back Again | Thanhha Lai |
| Breaking Stalin's Nose | Eugene Yelchin | |
| 2011 Medal Winner | Moon over Manifest | Clare Vanderpool |
| Honor Books | Turtle in Paradise | Jennifer L. Holm |
| Heart of a Samurai | Margi Preus | |
| Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night | Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen | |
| One Crazy Summer | Rita Williams-Garcia | |
| 2010 Medal Winner | When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead |
| Honor Books | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Phillip Hoose |
| The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | Jacqueline Kelly | |
| Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Grace Lin | |
| The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg | Rodman Philbrick | |
| 2009 Medal Winner | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman |
| Honor Books | The Underneath | Kathi Appelt |
| The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom | Margarita Engle | |
| Savvy | Ingrid Law | |
| After Tupac & D Foster | Jacqueline Woodson | |
| 2008 Medal Winner | Good Masters, Sweet Ladies | Laura Amy Schlitz and Robert Byrd |
| Honor Books | Wednesday Wars | Gary Schmidt |
| Elijah of Buxton | Christopher Paul Curtis | |
| Feathers | Jacqueline Woodson | |
| 2007 Medal Winner | The Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron |
| Honor Books | Penny from Heaven | Jennifer L. Holm |
| Hattie Big Sky | Kirby Larson | |
| Rules | Cynthia Lord | |
| 2006 Medal Winner | Criss Cross | Lynne Rae Perkins |
| Honor Books | Whittington | Alan Armstrong |
| Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | |
| Princess Academy | Shannon Hale | |
| Show Way | Jacqueline Woodson | |
| 2005 Medal Winner | Kira-Kira | Cynthia Kadohata |
| Honor Books | Al Capone Does My Shirts | Gennifer Choldenko |
| The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights | Russell Freedman | |
| Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | Gary D. Schmidt | |
| 2004 Medal Winner | The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread | Kate DiCamillo |
| Honor Books | Olive's Ocean | Kevin Henkes |
| An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Jim Murphy | |
| 2003 Medal Winner | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi |
| Honor Books | The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer |
| Pictures of Hollis Woods | Patricia Reilly Giff | |
| Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | |
| A Corner of The Universe | Ann M. Martin | |
| Surviving the Applewhites | Stephanie S. Tolan | |
| 2002 Medal Winner | A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park |
| Honor Books | Everything on a Waffle | Polly Horvath |
| Carver: A Life In Poems | Marilyn Nelson | |
| 2001 Medal Winner | A Year Down Yonder | Richard Peck |
| Honor Books | Hope Was Here | Joan Bauer |
| Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo | |
| Joey Pigza Loses Control | Jack Gantos | |
| The Wanderer | Sharon Creech | |
| 2000 Medal Winner | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| Honor Books | Getting Near to Baby | Audrey Couloumbis |
| Our Only May Amelia | Jennifer L. Holm | |
| 26 Fairmount Avenue | Tomie dePaola | |
| 1999 Medal Winner | Holes | Louis Sachar |
| Honor Books | A Long Way from Chicago | Richard Peck |
| 1998 Medal Winner | Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse |
| Honor Books | Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine |
| Lily's Crossing | Patricia Reilly Giff | |
| Wringer | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 1997 Medal Winner | The View from Saturday | E.L. Konigsburg |
| Honor Books | A Girl Named Disaster | Nancy Farmer |
| Moorchild | Eloise McGraw | |
| The Thief | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| Belle Prater's Boy | Ruth White | |
| 1996 Medal Winner | The Midwife's Apprentice | Karen Cushman |
| Honor Books | What Jamie Saw | Carolyn Coman |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis | |
| Yolonda's Genius | Carol Fenner | |
| The Great Fire | Jim Murphy | |
| 1995 Medal Winner | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech |
| Honor Books | Catherine, Called Birdy | Karen Cushman |
| The Ear, the Eye and the Arm | Nancy Farmer | |
| 1994 Medal Winner | The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| Honor Books | Crazy Lady | Jane Leslie Conly |
| Dragon's Gate | Laurence Yep | |
| Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | Russell Freedman | |
| 1993 Medal Winner | Missing May | Cynthia Rylant |
| Honor Books | What Hearts | Bruce Brooks |
| The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural | Patricia McKissack | |
| Somewhere in the Darkness | Walter Dean Myers | |
| 1992 Medal Winner | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| Honor Books | Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel | Avi |
| The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane | Russell Freedman | |
| 1991 Medal Winner | Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli |
| Honor Books | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi |
| 1990 Medal Winner | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry |
| Honor Books | Afternoon of the Elves | Janet Taylor Lisle |
| Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind | Suzanne Fisher Staples | |
| The Winter Room | Gary Paulsen | |
| 1989 Medal Winner | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman |
| Honor Books | In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World | Virginia Hamilton |
| Scorpions | Walter Dean Myers | |
| 1988 Medal Winner | Lincoln: A Photobiography | Russell Freedman |
| Honor Books | After The Rain | Norma Fox Mazer |
| Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | |
| 1987 Medal Winner | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman |
| Honor Books | A Fine White Dust | Cynthia Rylant |
| On My Honor | Marion Dane Bauer | |
| Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens | Patricia Lauber | |
| 1986 Medal Winner | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan |
| Honor Books | Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun | Rhoda Blumberg |
| Dogsong | Gary Paulsen | |
| 1985 Medal Winner | The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley |
| Honor Books | Like Jake and Me | Mavis Jukes |
| The Moves Make the Man | Bruce Brooks | |
| One-Eyed Cat | Paula Fox | |
| 1984 Medal Winner | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary |
| Honor Books | The Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare |
| A Solitary Blue | Cynthia Voigt | |
| Sugaring Time | Kathryn Lasky | |
| The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree | Bill Brittain | |
| 1983 Medal Winner | Dicey's Song | Cynthia Voigt |
| Honor Books | The Blue Sword | Robin McKinley |
| Doctor DeSoto | William Steig | |
| Graven Images | Paul Fleischman | |
| Homesick: My Own Story | Jean Fritz | |
| Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Virginia Hamilton | |
| 1982 Medal Winner | A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers | Nancy Willard |
| Honor Books | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Beverly Cleary |
| Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 | Aranka Siegal | |
| 1981 Medal Winner | Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson |
| Honor Books | The Fledgling | Jane Langton |
| A Ring of Endless Light | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 1980 Medal Winner | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 | Joan W. Blos |
| Honor Books | The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl | David Kherdian |
| 1979 Medal Winner | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin |
| Honor Books | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Paterson |
| 1978 Medal Winner | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
| Honor Books | Ramona and Her Father | Beverly Cleary |
| Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey | Jamake Highwater | |
| 1977 Medal Winner | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor |
| Honor Books | Abel's Island | William Steig |
| A String in the Harp | Nancy Bond | |
| 1976 Medal Winner | The Grey King | Susan Cooper |
| Honor Books | The Hundred Penny Box | Sharon Bell Mathis |
| Dragonwings | Laurence Yep | |
| 1975 Medal Winner | M. C. Higgins, the Great | Virginia Hamilton |
| Honor Books | Figgs & Phantoms | Ellen Raskin |
| My Brother Sam is Dead | James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier | |
| The Perilous Gard | Elizabeth Marie Pope | |
| Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe | Bette Greene | |
| 1974 Medal Winner | The Slave Dancer | Paula Fox |
| Honor Books | The Dark Is Rising | Susan Cooper |
| 1973 Medal Winner | Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George |
| Honor Books | Frog and Toad Together | Arnold Lobel |
| The Upstairs Room | Johanna Reiss | |
| The Witches of Worm | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | |
| 1972 Medal Winner | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien |
| Honor Books | Incident At Hawk's Hill | Allan W. Eckert |
| The Planet of Junior Brown | Virginia Hamilton | |
| The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| Annie and the Old One | Miska Miles | |
| The Headless Cupid | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | |
| 1971 Medal Winner | Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars |
| Honor Books | Knee Knock Rise | Natalie Babbitt |
| Enchantress From the Stars | Sylvia Louise Engdahl | |
| Sing Down the Moon | Scott O'Dell | |
| 1970 Medal Winner | Sounder | William H. Armstrong |
| Honor Books | Our Eddie | Sulamith Ish-Kishor |
| The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art | Janet Gaylord Moore | |
| Journey Outside | Mary Q. Steele | |
| 1969 Medal Winner | The High King | Lloyd Alexander |
| Honor Books | To Be a Slave | Julius Lester |
| When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| 1968 Medal Winner | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E. L. Konigsburg |
| Honor Books | Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth | E. L. Konigsburg |
| The Black Pearl | Scott O'Dell | |
| The Fearsome Inn | Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| The Egypt Game | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | |
| 1967 Medal Winner | Up a Road Slowly | Irene Hunt |
| Honor Books | The King's Fifth | Scott O'Dell |
| Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| The Jazz Man | Mary Hays Weik | |
| 1966 Medal Winner | I, Juan de Pareja | Elizabeth Borton de Trevino |
| Honor Books | The Black Cauldron | Lloyd Alexander |
| The Animal Family | Randall Jarrell | |
| The Noonday Friends | Mary Stolz | |
| 1965 Medal Winner | Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska |
| Across Five Aprils | Irene Hunt | |
| 1964 Medal Winner | It's Like This, Cat | Emily Neville |
| Honor Books | Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era | Sterling North |
| The Loner | Ester Wier | |
| 1963 Medal Winner | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Honor Books | Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland | "Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. " |
| Men of Athens | Olivia Coolidge | |
| 1962 Medal Winner | The Bronze Bow | Elizabeth George Speare |
| Honor Books | Frontier Living | Edwin Tunis |
| The Golden Goblet | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | |
| Belling The Tiger | Mary Stolz | |
| 1961 Medal Winner | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell |
| Honor Books | America Moves Forward: A History for Peter | Gerald W. Johnson |
| Old Ramon | Jack Schaefer | |
| The Cricket In Times Square | George Selden | |
| 1960 Medal Winner | Onion John | Joseph Krumgold |
| Honor Books | My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George |
| America Is Born: A History for Peter | Gerald W. Johnson | |
| The Gammage Cup | Carol Kendall | |
| 1959 Medal Winner | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare |
| Honor Books | The Family Under The Bridge | Natalie Savage Carlson |
| Along Came A Dog | Meindert Dejong | |
| Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa | Francis Kalnay | |
| The Perilous Road | William O. Steele | |
| 1958 Medal Winner | Rifles for Watie | Harold Keith |
| Honor Books | The Horsecatcher | Mari Sandoz |
| Gone-Away Lake | Elizabeth Enright | |
| The Great Wheel | Robert Lawson | |
| Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle | Leo Gurko | |
| 1957 Medal Winner | Miracles on Maple Hill | Virginia Sorensen |
| Honor Books | Old Yeller | Fred Gipson |
| The House of Sixty Fathers | Meindert DeJong | |
| Mr. Justice Holmes | Clara Ingram Judson | |
| The Corn Grows Ripe | Dorothy Rhoads | |
| Black Fox of Lorne | Marguerite de Angeli | |
| 1956 Medal Winner | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | Jean Lee Latham |
| Honor Books | The Secret River | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| The Golden Name Day | Jennie Lindquist | |
| Men, Microscopes, and Living Things | Katherine Shippen | |
| 1955 Medal Winner | The Wheel on the School | Meindert DeJong |
| Honor Books | Courage of Sarah Noble | Alice Dalgliesh |
| Banner In The Sky | James Ullman | |
| 1954 Medal Winner | ...And Now Miguel | Joseph Krumgold |
| Honor Books | All Alone | Claire Huchet Bishop |
| Shadrach | Meindert Dejong | |
| Hurry Home, Candy | Meindert Dejong | |
| Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot | Clara Ingram Judson | |
| Magic Maize | Mary & Conrad Buff | |
| 1953 Medal Winner | Secret of the Andes | Ann Nolan Clark |
| Honor Books | Charlotte's Web | E. B. White |
| Moccasin Trail | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | |
| Red Sails to Capri | Ann Weil | |
| The Bears on Hemlock Mountain | Alice Dalgliesh | |
| Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 | Genevieve Foster | |
| 1952 Medal Winner | Ginger Pye | Eleanor Estes |
| Honor Books | Americans Before Columbus | Elizabeth Baity |
| Minn of the Mississippi | Holling C. Holling | |
| The Defender | Nicholas Kalashnikoff | |
| The Light at Tern Rock | Julia Sauer | |
| The Apple and the Arrow | Mary & Conrad Buff | |
| 1951 Medal Winner | Amos Fortune, Free Man | Elizabeth Yates |
| Honor Books | Better Known as Johnny Appleseed | Mabel Leigh Hunt |
| Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword | Jeanette Eaton | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People | Clara Ingram Judson | |
| The Story of Appleby Capple | Anne Parrish | |
| 1950 Medal Winner | The Door in the Wall | Marguerite de Angeli |
| Honor Books | Tree of Freedom | Rebecca Caudill |
| The Blue Cat of Castle Town | Catherine Coblentz | |
| Kildee House | Rutherford Montgomery | |
| George Washington | Genevieve Foster | |
| Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin | Walter & Marion Havighurst | |
| 1949 Medal Winner | King of the Wind | Marguerite Henry |
| Honor Books | Seabird | Holling C. Holling |
| Daughter of the Mountains | Louise Rankin | |
| My Father's Dragon | Ruth S. Gannett | |
| Story of the Negro | Arna Bontemps | |
| 1948 Medal Winner | The Twenty-One Balloons | William Pène du Bois |
| Honor Books | Pancakes-Paris | Claire Huchet Bishop |
| Li Lun, Lad of Courage | Carolyn Treffinger | |
| The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot | Catherine Besterman | |
| The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories | Harold Courlander | |
| Misty of Chincoteague | Marguerite Henry | |
| 1947 Medal Winner | Miss Hickory | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey |
| Honor Books | Wonderful Year | Nancy Barnes |
| Big Tree | Mary & Conrad Buff | |
| The Heavenly Tenants | William Maxwell | |
| The Avion My Uncle Flew | Cyrus Fisher | |
| The Hidden Treasure of Glaston | Eleanor Jewett | |
| 1946 Medal Winner | Strawberry Girl | Lois Lenski |
| Honor Books | Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Marguerite Henry |
| The Moved-Outers | Florence Crannell Means | |
| Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear | Christine Weston | |
| New Found World | Katherine Shippen | |
| 1945 Medal Winner | Rabbit Hill | Robert Lawson |
| Honor Books | The Hundred Dresses | Eleanor Estes |
| The Silver Pencil | Alice Dalgliesh | |
| Abraham Lincoln's World | Genevieve Foster | |
| Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams | Jeanetter Eaton | |
| 1944 Medal Winner | Johnny Tremain | Esther Forbes |
| Honor Books | These Happy Golden Years | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Fog Magic | Julia Sauer | |
| Rufus M. | Eleanor Estes | |
| Mountain Born | Elizabeth Yates | |
| 1943 Medal Winner | Adam of the Road | Elizabeth Janet Gray |
| Honor Books | The Middle Moffat | Eleanor Estes |
| Have You Seen Tom Thumb? | Mabel Leigh Hunt | |
| 1942 Medal Winner | The Matchlock Gun | Walter Edmonds |
| Honor Books | Little Town on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| George Washington's World | Genevieve Foster | |
| Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | Lois Lenski | |
| Down Ryton Water | Eva Roe Gaggin | |
| 1941 Medal Winner | Call It Courage | Armstrong Sperry |
| Honor Books | Blue Willow | Doris Gates |
| Young Mac of Fort Vancouver | Mary Jane Carr | |
| The Long Winter | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| Nansen | Anna Gertrude Hall | |
| 1940 Medal Winner | Daniel Boone | James Daugherty |
| Honor Books | The Singing Tree | Kate Seredy |
| Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz | Mabel Robinson | |
| By the Shores of Silver Lake | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| Boy with a Pack | Stephen W. Meader | |
| 1939 Medal Winner | Thimble Summer | Elizabeth Enright |
| Honor Books | Nino | Valenti Angelo |
| Mr. Popper's Penguins | Richard & Florence Atwater | |
| Hello the Boat! | Phyllis Crawford | |
| Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot | Jeanette Eaton | |
| Penn | Elizabeth Janet Gray | |
| 1938 Medal Winner | The White Stag | Kate Seredy |
| Honor Books | Pecos Bill | James Cloyd Bowman |
| Bright Island | Mabel Robinson | |
| On the Banks of Plum Creek | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| 1937 Medal Winner | Roller Skates | Ruth Sawyer |
| Honor Books | Phebe Fairchild: Her Book | Lois Lenski |
| Whistler's Van | Idwal Jones | |
| The Golden Basket | Ludwig Bemelmans | |
| Winterbound | Margery Bianco | |
| The Codfish Musket | Agnes Hewes | |
| Audubon | Constance Rourke | |
| 1936 Medal Winner | Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink |
| Honor Books | Honk, the Moose | Phil Stong |
| The Good Master | Kate Seredy | |
| Young Walter Scott | Elizabeth Janet Gray | |
| All Sails Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud | Armstrong Sperry | |
| 1935 Medal Winner | Dobry | Monica Shannon |
| Honor Books | Pageant of Chinese History | Elizabeth Seeger |
| Davy Crockett | Constance Rourke | |
| Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic | Hilda Von Stockum | |
| 1934 Medal Winner | Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women | Cornelia Meigs |
| Honor Books | The Forgotten Daughter | Caroline Snedeker |
| Swords of Steel | Elsie Singmaster | |
| ABC Bunny | Wanda Gág | |
| Winged Girl of Knossos | Erik Berry, pseud. | |
| New Land | Sarah Schmidt | |
| Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside | Padraic Colum | |
| Glory of the Seas | Agnes Hewes | |
| Apprentice of Florence | Ann Kyle | |
| 1933 Medal Winner | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Elizabeth Lewis |
| Honor Books | Swift Rivers | Cornelia Meigs |
| The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War | Hildegarde Swift | |
| Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia | Nora Burglon | |
| 1932 Medal Winner | Waterless Mountain | Laura Adams Armer |
| Honor Books | The Fairy Circus | Dorothy P. Lathrop |
| Calico Bush | Rachel Field | |
| Boy of the South Seas | Eunice Tietjens | |
| Out of the Flame | Eloise Lownsbery | |
| Jane's Island | Marjorie Allee | |
| Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy | Mary Gould Davis | |
| 1931 Medal Winner | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | Elizabeth Coatsworth |
| Honor Books | Floating Island | Anne Parrish |
| The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess | Alida Malkus | |
| Queer Person | Ralph Hubbard | |
| Mountains are Free | Julie Davis Adams | |
| Spice and the Devil's Cave | Agnes Hewes | |
| Meggy MacIntosh | Elizabeth Janet Gray | |
| Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes | Herbert Best | |
| Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer | Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen | |
| 1930 Medal Winner | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | Rachel Field |
| Honor Books | A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland | Jeanette Eaton |
| Pran of Albania | Elizabeth Miller | |
| Jumping-Off Place | Marion Hurd McNeely | |
| The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales | Ella Young | |
| Vaino | Julia Davis Adams | |
| Little Blacknose | Hildegarde Swift | |
| 1929 Medal Winner | The Trumpeter of Krakow | Eric P. Kelly |
| Honor Books | Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo | John Bennett |
| Millions of Cats | Wanda Gág | |
| The Boy Who Was | Grace Hallock | |
| Clearing Weather | Cornelia Meigs | |
| Runaway Papoose | Grace Moon | |
| Tod of the Fens | Elinor Whitney | |
| 1928 Medal Winner | Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon | Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
| Honor Books | The Wonder Smith and His Son | Ella Young |
| Downright Dencey | Caroline Snedeker | |
| 1927 Medal Winner | Smoky, the Cowhorse | Will James |
| Honor Books | None recorded | |
| 1926 Medal Winner | Shen of the Sea | Arthur Bowie Chrisman |
| The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery | Padraic Colum | |
| 1925 Medal Winner | Tales from Silver Lands | Charles Finger |
| Honor Books | Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story | Annie Carroll Moore |
| The Dream Coach | Anne Parrish | |
| 1924 Medal Winner | The Dark Frigate | Charles Hawes |
| Honor Books | None recorded | |
| 1923 Medal Winner | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | Hugh Lofting |
| Honor Books | None recorded | |
| 1922 Medal Winner | The Story of Mankind | Hendrik Willem van Loon |
| Honor Books | The Great Quest | Charles Hawes |
| Cedric the Forester | Bernard Marshall | |
| The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure | William Bowen | |
| The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles | Padraic Colum | |
| The Windy Hill | Cornelia Meigs |