Newbery Medal

The Newbery Medal is an American literary award given since 1922 by the Association for Library Service to Children , a subgroup of the American Library Association . Together with the Caldecott Medal , this award is the most prestigious award for children's literature in the United States. The award is named after John Newbery , an 18th century publicist and the builder of the first libraries. Before 2000 ( Michael L. Printz Award ) it included both children's and youth books.

A main prize ( Newbery Medal ) and several honorary awards ( Newbery Honor ) are awarded each year .

Award winners

1922 to 1949

1922: Hendrik Willem van Loon , The Story of Mankind ( The History of Mankind )
1923: Hugh Lofting , The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle ( Doctor Dolittle's floating island )
1924: Charles Hawes , The Dark Frigate ( The Black Frigate )
1925: Charles Finger , Tales from Silver Lands
1926: Arthur Bowie Chrisman , Shen of the Sea
1927: Will James , Smoky the Cow Horse
1928: Dhan Gopal Mukerji , Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon ( Bunthals: Die Geschichte e. Taube )
1929: Eric P. Kelly , The Trumpeter of Krakow ( The Trumpeter of Krakow: A Story from 15th Century Poland )
1930: Rachel Field , Hitty, Her First Hundred Years ( Hitty: How a piece of mountain ash became a noble doll ... )
1931: Elizabeth Coatsworth , The Cat Who Went to Heaven ( From the cat who went to heaven )
1932: Laura Adams Armer , Waterless Mountain
1933: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis , Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze ( Jung Fu becomes a coppersmith )
1934: Cornelia Meigs , Invincible Louisa ( Louisa doesn't let herself get down )
1935: Monica Shannon , Dobry
1936: Carol Ryrie Brink , Caddy Woodlawn ( Little girl, big adventure The story of settler children from the pioneering days of America )
1937: Ruth Sawyer , Roller Skates
1938: Kate Seredy , The White Stag
1939: Elizabeth Enright , Thimble Summer ( Garnet's Enchanted Summer )
1940: James Daugherty , Daniel Boone
1941: Armstrong Sperry , Call It Courage ( Mut, Mafatu ! , 1948; Alone Against Fear , 1986)
1942: Walter D. Edmonds , The Matchlock Gun
1943: Elizabeth Gray Vining , Adam of the Road ( Adam the minstrel son )
1944: Esther Forbes , Johnny Tremain ( Johnny Tremain )
1945: Robert Lawson , Rabbit Hill ( Happy Days )
1946: Lois Lenski , Strawberry Girl ( Little Florida Girl )

1947: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey , Miss Hickory

1948: William Pene du Bois , The Twenty-One Balloons ( The twenty balloons )

1949: Marguerite Henry , King of the Wind ( King of the Wind )

1950 to 1974

1950: Marguerite de Angeli , The Door in the Wall
1951: Elizabeth Yates , Amos Fortune, Free Man
1952: Eleanor Estes , Ginger Pye ( A dog named Pumpel Pye )
1953: Ann Nolan Clark , Secret of the Andes ( The Secret of the Andes )
1954: Joseph Krumgold , And Now Miguel ( Miguel or The Big Moment )
1955: Meindest DeJong , The Wheel on the School ( The Wheel on the School )
1956: Jean Lee Latham , Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
1957: Virginia Sorensen , Miracles on Maple Hill ( Die Wunder auf dem Ahornberg )
1958: Harold Keith , Rifles for Watie
1959: Elizabeth George Speare , The Witch of Blackbird Pond ( The Witch of Blackbird Pond )
1960: Joseph Krumgold , Onion John ( My Friend John )
1961: Scott O'Dell , Iceland of the Blue Dolphins ( Island of the Blue Dolphins )
1962: Elizabeth George Speare , The Bronze Bow ( The Bronze Bow )
1963: Madeleine L'Engle , A Wrinkle in Time ( Die Zeitfalte )
1964: Emily Cheney Neville , It's Like This, Cat ( Me and Me )
1965: Maia Wojciechowska , Shadow of a Bull ( The Torero's Son )
1966: Elizabeth Borton de Treviño , I, Juan de Pareja ( The Painter's Friend )
1967: Irene Hunt , Up a Road Slowly ( Unter den Birken )
1968: EL Konigsburg , From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ( Strange things from the Frankweiler Secret Archives , 1970; The Frankweiler Secret Archives: Adventures in the Metropolitan Museum , 1974; The Secret Museum Guests , 2000)
1969: Lloyd Alexander , The High King ( Taran and the Magic Sword )
1970: William H. Armstrong , Sounder ( Hunting with Sounder )
1971: Betsy Byars , Summer of the Swans ( When the Swans Came )
1972: Robert C. O'Brien , Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH ( Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH )
1973: Jean Craighead George , Julie of the Wolves ( Julie of the Wolves )
1974: Paula Fox , The Slave Dancer ( slave freight for New Orleans )

1975 to 1999

1975: Virginia Hamilton , MC Higgins, the Great ( MC Higgins, the Great )
1976: Susan Cooper , The Gray King ( The Gray King )
1977: Mildred Taylor , Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ( thunder rumble, hear my screams )
1978: Katherine Paterson , Bridge to Terabithia ( The Bridge to the Other Land )
1979: Ellen Raskin , The Westing Game
1980: Joan Blos , A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
1981: Katherine Paterson , Jacob Have I Loved ( But I loved Jacob )
1982: Nancy Willard , A Visit to William Blake's Inn
1983: Cynthia Voigt , Dicey's Song ( We Tillermans are like that )
1984: Beverly Cleary , Dear Mr. Henshaw
1985: Robin McKinley , The Hero and the Crown ( The heroes Crown )
1986: Patricia MacLachlan , Sarah, Plain and Tall ( A Sea for Sarah )
1987: Sid Fleischman The Whipping Boy ( Prinz Flegel )
1988: Russell Freedman , Lincoln: A Photobiography
1989: Paul Fleischman , Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
1990: Lois Lowry , Number the Stars ( Who Counts the Stars )
1991: Jerry Spinelli , Maniac Magee ( East End, West End, and in between Maniac Magee )
1992: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , Shiloh ( Shiloh )
1993: Cynthia Rylant , Missing May ( Forever, May )
1994: Lois Lowry , The Giver ( Keeper of Memory )
1995: Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons ( Salamanca's Journey )
1996: Karen Cushman , The Midwife's Apprentice ( Alyce and no other )
1997: EL Konigsburg , The View from Saturday ( The Clever Children's Club )
1998: Karen Hesse , Out of the Dust
1999: Louis Sachar , Holes ( . Holes Secrets of Green Lake )

Since 2000

See also Michael L. Printz Award : Youth Book Prize since 2000.

2000: Christopher Paul Curtis , Bud, Not Buddy ( Buddy's Song )
2001: Richard Peck , A Year Down Yonder
2002: Linda Sue Park , A Single Shard
2003: Avi , Crispin: The Cross of Lead ( Crispin. A bird-free life )
2004: Kate DiCamillo , The Tale of Despereaux ( Despereaux )
2005: Cynthia Kadohata , Kira-Kira ( Kira-Kira )
2006: Lynne Rae Perkins , Criss Cross
2007: Susan Patron , The Higher Power of Lucky
2008: Laura Amy Schlitz , Good Masters! Sweet ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
2009: Neil Gaiman , The Graveyard Book ( The Graveyard Book )
2010: Rebecca Stead , When You Reach Me ( you know where to find me )
2011: Clare Vanderpool , Moon Over Manifest
2012: Jack Gantos , Dead End in Norvelt
2013: Katherine Applegate , The One and Only Ivan ( The Incomparable Ivan )
2014: Kate DiCamillo , Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures ( Flora and Ulysses - The Fabulous Adventures )
2015: Kwame Alexander , The Crossover
2016: Matt de la Peña , Last Stop on Market Street
2017: Kelly Barnhill , The Girl Who Drank the Moon
2018: Erin Entrada Kelly , Hello, Universe

Web links

American Library Association - Newbery Medal (Engl.)
Your Kids Library with short summaries of the excellent books (Engl.)