Newbery Award Winners
When I wrote this as a goal, I didn’t realize there were so many Newbery Award winners! Yikes. Well, here’s the list, and see if I can finish it…
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik William Van Loon.
1923: The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting. This is a book I read when I was a child. I remember it being entertaining and well-written, but a little naive in the way it addressed issues of diversity. We’ll see when I reread it, how it comes across to my educated, adult mind.
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes.
1925: Tales from the Silver Lands by Charles Finger.
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman.
1927: Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James.
1928: Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji.
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Erik P. Kelly.
1930: Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field. I started reading this book when I was younger, but never quite got going in it. We’ll see how it reads now that I’m really, really going to read it again.
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth.
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer.
1933: Young Foo of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis.
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs. Another book from my childhood. I don’t remember it that well. I had to read it, because I had to read a biography for every novel I read. So here I was, reading this book because I had to read a biography. Not a very good attitude to be reading it with, to be sure…so I’ll see how it turns out with an open mind, right?
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon.
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink. Have read this one. And re-read it. I loved it, and hopefully I’ll read it to my kids when they are of the age to be read to.
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer. Another book I’ve already read.
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy. Here’s another I’ve read. I have read all three books in this trilogy by Kate Seredy and loved the 2nd and the 3rd more than the first.
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright.
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty.
1941: Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry.
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds.
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Grey. I think my 6th grade teacher read this aloud to us.
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes.
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson.
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski. I first noticed this book because “LENS” is near “LENG” on the library shelf. I read so much Madeleine L’Engle and knew right where the L’Engle books were in the library, and so was familiar with the L shelf. This was a favorite of mine, but I haven’t read it since I was about 10.
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey.
1948: The Twenty-one Balloons by William Paene du Bois.
1949: King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian by Marguerite Henry.
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli. Another book my 6th grade teacher read us.
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates. I’m sure I read this one, but I can’t remember. Maybe I didn’t. I’ll remember as soon as I begin reading it.
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes. Another one I can’t quite remember if I read.
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark.
1954: …And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold.
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert de Jong. Didn’t I read this? Something about a school and a stork and the wheel is for the stork’s nest? Can’t wait to re-ead this one!
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham.
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Eggertson Sorensen.
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith.
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. Yay, one of my very favorites. I’m sure that one of my teachers at some point read this one aloud to us, but then I read it again (and again and again) on my own.
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold.
1961: Island of the Blue Dophins by Scott O’Dell. Ick. Not looking forward to reading this one again. I really didn’t like it, and I wish I knew why. Reading it again will help decipher that question.
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare.
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Truly, a favorite book from a favorite author.
1964: It’s Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville.
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maja Wojciechowska.
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino.
1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt.
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg. Have read this book already.
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander.
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong.
1971: The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Cromer Byars. Have read this. Remember learning the word ‘puce’ from this book.
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien. Have I read this book? Have I read this book? I nearly wrote my Bachelor’s Thesis on this book and its treatment of Marxism. Yes, I have read this book.
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George. Have read this one as well.
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox. Have read this one.
1975: M. C. Higgins, The Great by Virginia Hamilton.
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper.
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. I read this as well in my childhood.
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. I’ve read this. I’ve researched the author. I read it to my own students when I taught elementary school. I know this book.
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin.
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32 by Joan W. Blos.
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson. Read this one. (Remember, I researched this author.) Resarched this book in college and taught a unit based on this book when I taught middle school English. Love it, love it, love it.
1982: A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
1983: Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt.
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary. Yep, read this one in my childhood. I do not remember it all that well, though.
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley.
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. I have read this book, and I love the movie version. However, it will be a good exercise to read the book for the book’s sake.
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman. Check. Read this one.
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman.
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman.
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Another book I’ve read a-plenty. I first discovered it because it was on the L shelf in the library. A good book.
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli.
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant.
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry. Oh, so many times read and reread.
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. I have read this, and I taught it to fifth graders as well.
1996: The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman. I did read this one, way back when it came out, and I didn’t get it so I didn’t like it. It’ll be interesting to read it again and see what we shall see.
1997: The View from Saturday by EL Konigsburg.
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse.
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar. Yes, I read this. Yes, I saw the movie. I thought the movie was every bit as good as the book.
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.
2001: A Year Down Under by Richard Peck.
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park.
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi.
2004: The Tale of Desperaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread by Kate Di Camillo.
2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata.
2006: Criss-Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins.
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron.
