Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal | |
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Awarded for | "The most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association |
First awarded | 1922 |
Website | ala.org/alsc/newbery |
The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The award is given to the author of "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."[1] Named for John Newbery, an 18th-century English publisher of juvenile books, the Newbery was proposed by Frederic G. Melcher in 1921, making it the first children's book award in the world.[2]:1 The medal was designed by Rene Paul Chambellan and depicts an author giving his work (a book) to a boy and a girl to read.
The Newbery and the Caldecott Medal are considered the two most prestigious awards for children's literature in the United States. Many bookstores and libraries have Newbery sections; popular television shows interview the winners; textbooks include lists of Newbery winners, and many master's and doctoral theses are written about them.[3]
Beside the Newbery Medal, the committee awards a variable number of citations to leading contenders, called Newbery Honors or Newbery Honor Books. Runners-up had been identified annually from the start, with a few exceptions only during the 1920s; all those runners-up were named Newbery Honor Books retroactively, when the "Honor" was introduced 1971, and may display the Newbery Honor Seal.[4]
As few as zero and as many as eight have been named, but from 1938 the number of Honors or runners-up has been one to five. The Honor Books must be a subset of the runners-up on the final ballot, either the leading runners-up on that ballot or the leaders on one further ballot that excludes the winner.[5]:37
Every book considered must be written by a United States citizen or resident and must be published first or simultaneously in the United States in English during the preceding year.[6]
Contents
1 History
2 Selection process
3 Controversy
4 Recipients
5 Multiple awards
5.1 Newbery Medals
5.2 Medal and Honor
5.3 Multiple honor books
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
9 External links
History
The Newbery Medal was established on June 22, 1921, at the annual conference of the American Library Association. Proposed by Publishers Weekly editor Frederick Melcher, the idea was enthusiastically received by the children's librarians present. The award was administered by the ALA from the start, but Melcher provided much needed funds that paid for the design and production of the medal. The Newbery Medal was inaugurated in 1922, considering books published in 1921.[2]:9–11 In retrospect it is officially dated 1922 and that convention is followed here.
According to The Newbery and Caldecott Awards—the official guide, updated annually—Melcher and the ALA Board agreed to establish the award for several reasons that related to children's librarians. They wanted to encourage quality, creative children's books and to demonstrate to the public that children's books deserve recognition and praise.[2]:1 In 1932 the committee felt it was important to encourage new writers in the field, so a rule was made that an author would win a second Newbery only if the vote was unanimous. The rule was in place until 1958 and Joseph Krumgold became the first winner of two Newberys in 1960. Another change, in 1963, made it clear that joint authors of a book were eligible for the award. Several more revisions and clarifications were added in the 1970s and 1980s.[2]:2–3
Selection process
As Barbara Elleman explained in The Newbery and Caldecott Awards, the original Newbery was based on votes by a selected jury of Children's Librarian Section officers. Books were first nominated by any librarian, then the jury voted for one favorite. Hendrik van Loon's non-fiction history book The Story of Mankind won with 163 votes out of 212.[2]:11 In 1924 the process was changed, and instead of using popular vote it was decided that a special award committee would be formed to select the winner. The award committee was made up of the Children's Librarian Section executive board, their book evaluation committee and three members at large. In 1929 it was changed again to the four officers, the chairs of the standing committees and the ex president. Nominations were still taken from members at large.[2]:13
In 1937 the American Library Association added the Caldecott Award, for "the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published in the United States".[7] That year an award committee selected the medal and honor books for both awards.[5]:7 In 1978 the rules were changed and two committees were formed of fifteen people each, one for each award. A new committee is formed every year,with "eight elected, six appointed, and one appointed Chair".[2]:7 Committee members are chosen to represent a wide variety of libraries, teachers and book reviewers. They read the books on their own time, then meet twice a year for closed discussions. Any book that qualifies is eligible; it does not have to have been nominated. Newbery winners are announced at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association, held in January or February. The results of the committee vote are kept secret, and winners are notified by phone shortly before the award is announced.[2]:8
Controversy
In October 2008, Anita Silvey, a children's literary expert, published an article in the School Library Journal criticizing the committee for choosing books that are too difficult for children.[3][8] Lucy Calkins, of the Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University's Teachers College, agreed with Silvey: "I can't help but believe that thousands, even millions, more children would grow up reading if the Newbery committee aimed to spotlight books that are deep and beautiful and irresistible to kids".[3] But Pat Scales said, "The criterion has never been popularity. It is about literary quality. How many adults have read all the Pulitzer-prize-winning books and ... liked every one?"[3]
John Beach, associate professor of literacy education at St. John's University in New York, compared the books that adults choose for children with the books that children choose for themselves and found that in the past 30 years there is only a 5% overlap between the Children's Choice Awards (International Reading Association) and the Notable Children's Books list (American Library Association).[3] He has also stated that "the Newbery has probably done far more to turn kids off to reading than any other book award in children's publishing."[3]
Erica Perl responded that "For starters, the real reasons kids don't read doesn't have anything to do with the Newbery medal—or any award. It has to do with the declining role of the book in our streaming-media culture and with socioeconomic realities."[9]
Recipients
Year | Author | Book | Citation |
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1922 | Hendrik Willem van Loon | The Story of Mankind | Winner |
1922 | Charles Boardman Hawes | The Great Quest | Honor |
1922 | Bernard Marshall | Cedric the Forester | Honor |
1922 | William Bowen | The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure | Honor |
1922 | Padraic Colum | The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles | Honor |
1922 | Cornelia Meigs | The Windy Hill | Honor |
1923 | Hugh Lofting | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | Winner |
1924 | Charles Boardman Hawes | The Dark Frigate | Winner |
1925 | Charles Finger | Tales from Silver Lands | Winner |
1925 | Annie Carroll Moore | Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story | Honor |
1925 | Anne Parrish & Dillwyn Parrish[a] | The Dream Coach | Honor |
1926 | Arthur Bowie Chrisman | Shen of the Sea | Winner |
1926 | Padraic Colum | The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery | Honor |
1927 | Will James | Smoky the Cow Horse | Winner |
1928 | Dhan Gopal Mukerji | Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon | Winner |
1928 | Ella Young | The Wonder Smith and His Son | Honor |
1928 | Caroline Snedeker | Downright Dencey | Honor |
1929 | Eric P. Kelly | The Trumpeter of Krakow | Winner |
1929 | John Bennett | The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo with Seventeen Other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes | Honor |
1929 | Wanda Gág | Millions of Cats | Honor |
1929 | Grace Hallock | The Boy Who Was | Honor |
1929 | Cornelia Meigs | Clearing Weather | Honor |
1929 | Grace Moon | Runaway Papoose | Honor |
1929 | Elinor Whitney Field | Tod of the Fens | Honor |
1930 | Rachel Field | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | Winner |
1930 | Jeanette Eaton | A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland | Honor |
1930 | Elizabeth Miller | Pran of Albania | Honor |
1930 | Marian Hurd McNeely | The Jumping-Off Place | Honor |
1930 | Ella Young | The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales | Honor |
1930 | Julia Davis Adams | Vaino, A Boy of New Finland | Honor |
1930 | Hildegarde Swift | Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer | Honor |
1931 | Elizabeth Coatsworth | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | Winner |
1931 | Anne Parrish | Floating Island | Honor |
1931 | Alida Malkus | The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess | Honor |
1931 | Ralph Hubbard | Queer Person | Honor |
1931 | Julia Davis Adams | Mountains are Free | Honor |
1931 | Agnes Hewes | Spice and the Devil's Cave | Honor |
1931 | Elizabeth Janet Gray | Meggy MacIntosh | Honor |
1931 | Herbert Best | Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes | Honor |
1931 | Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Alison Johansen | Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer | Honor |
1932 | Laura Adams Armer | Waterless Mountain | Winner |
1932 | Dorothy P. Lathrop | The Fairy Circus | Honor |
1932 | Rachel Field | Calico Bush | Honor |
1932 | Eunice Tietjens | Boy of the South Seas | Honor |
1932 | Eloise Lownsbery | Out of the Flame | Honor |
1932 | Marjorie Hill Allee | Jane's Island | Honor |
1932 | Mary Gould Davis | Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy | Honor |
1933 | Elizabeth Foreman Lewis | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Winner |
1933 | Cornelia Meigs | Swift Rivers | Honor |
1933 | Hildegarde Swift | The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War | Honor |
1933 | Nora Burglon | Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia | Honor |
1934 | Cornelia Meigs | Invincible Louisa | Winner |
1934 | Caroline Snedeker | The Forgotten Daughter | Honor |
1934 | Elsie Singmaster | Swords of Steel | Honor |
1934 | Wanda Gág | ABC Bunny | Honor |
1934 | Erick Berry | Winged Girl of Knossos | Honor |
1934 | Sarah Lindsay Schmidt | New Land[11] | Honor |
1934 | Padraic Colum | The Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside | Honor |
1934 | Agnes Hewes | Glory of the Seas | Honor |
1934 | Ann Kyle | Apprentice of Florence | Honor |
1935 | Monica Shannon | Dobry | Winner |
1935 | Elizabeth Seeger | Pageant of Chinese History | Honor |
1935 | Constance Rourke | Davy Crockett | Honor |
1935 | Hilda van Stockum | A Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic | Honor |
1936 | Carol Ryrie Brink | Caddie Woodlawn | Winner |
1936 | Phil Stong | Honk, the Moose | Honor |
1936 | Kate Seredy | The Good Master | Honor |
1936 | Elizabeth Janet Gray | Young Walter Scott | Honor |
1936 | Armstrong Sperry | All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud | Honor |
1937 | Ruth Sawyer | Roller Skates | Winner |
1937 | Lois Lenski | Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book | Honor |
1937 | Idwal Jones | Whistler's Van | Honor |
1937 | Ludwig Bemelmans | The Golden Basket | Honor |
1937 | Margery Williams | Winterbound | Honor |
1937 | Constance Rourke | Audubon | Honor |
1937 | Agnes Hewes | The Codfish Musket | Honor |
1938 | Kate Seredy | The White Stag | Winner |
1938 | James Cloyd Bowman | Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time | Honor |
1938 | Mabel Robinson | Bright Island | Honor |
1938 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | On the Banks of Plum Creek | Honor |
1939 | Elizabeth Enright | Thimble Summer | Winner |
1939 | Valenti Angelo | Nino | Honor |
1939 | Richard & Florence Atwater | Mr. Popper's Penguins | Honor |
1939 | Phyllis Crawford | Hello the Boat! | Honor |
1939 | Jeanette Eaton | Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot | Honor |
1939 | Elizabeth Janet Gray | Penn | Honor |
1940 | James Daugherty | Daniel Boone | Winner |
1940 | Kate Seredy | The Singing Tree | Honor |
1940 | Mabel Robinson | Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz | Honor |
1940 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | By the Shores of Silver Lake | Honor |
1940 | Stephen W. Meader | Boy with a Pack | Honor |
1941 | Armstrong Sperry | Call It Courage | Winner |
1941 | Doris Gates | Blue Willow | Honor |
1941 | Mary Jane Carr | Young Mac of Fort Vancouver | Honor |
1941 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | The Long Winter | Honor |
1941 | Anna Gertrude Hall | Nansen | Honor |
1942 | Walter D. Edmonds | The Matchlock Gun | Winner |
1942 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Little Town on the Prairie | Honor |
1942 | Genevieve Foster | George Washington's World | Honor |
1942 | Lois Lenski | Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | Honor |
1942 | Eva Roe Gaggin | Down Ryton Water | Honor |
1943 | Elizabeth Janet Gray | Adam of the Road | Winner |
1943 | Eleanor Estes | The Middle Moffat | Honor |
1943 | Mabel Leigh Hunt | Have You Seen Tom Thumb? | Honor |
1944 | Esther Forbes | Johnny Tremain | Winner |
1944 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | These Happy Golden Years | Honor |
1944 | Julia Sauer | Fog Magic | Honor |
1944 | Eleanor Estes | Rufus M. | Honor |
1944 | Elizabeth Yates | Mountain Born | Honor |
1945 | Robert Lawson | Rabbit Hill | Winner |
1945 | Eleanor Estes | The Hundred Dresses | Honor |
1945 | Alice Dalgliesh | The Silver Pencil | Honor |
1945 | Genevieve Foster | Abraham Lincoln's World | Honor |
1945 | Jeanette Eaton | Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams | Honor |
1946 | Lois Lenski | Strawberry Girl | Winner |
1946 | Marguerite Henry | Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Honor |
1946 | Florence Crannell Means | The Moved-Outers | Honor |
1946 | Christine Weston | Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear | Honor |
1946 | Katherine Shippen | New Found World | Honor |
1947 | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | Miss Hickory | Winner |
1947 | Nancy Barnes | The Wonderful Year | Honor |
1947 | Mary & Conrad Buff | Big Tree | Honor |
1947 | William Maxwell | The Heavenly Tenants | Honor |
1947 | Cyrus Fisher | The Avion My Uncle Flew | Honor |
1947 | Eleanore M. Jewett | The Hidden Treasure of Glaston | Honor |
1948 | William Pène du Bois | The Twenty-One Balloons | Winner |
1948 | Claire Huchet Bishop | Pancakes-Paris | Honor |
1948 | Carolyn Treffinger | Li Lun, Lad of Courage | Honor |
1948 | Catherine Besterman | The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot | Honor |
1948 | Harold Courlander | The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories | Honor |
1948 | Marguerite Henry | Misty of Chincoteague | Honor |
1949 | Marguerite Henry | King of the Wind | Winner |
1949 | Holling C. Holling | Seabird | Honor |
1949 | Louise Rankin | Daughter of the Mountains | Honor |
1949 | Ruth S. Gannett | My Father's Dragon | Honor |
1949 | Arna Bontemps | Story of the Negro | Honor |
1950 | Marguerite de Angeli | The Door in the Wall | Winner |
1950 | Rebecca Caudill | Tree of Freedom | Honor |
1950 | Catherine Coblentz | The Blue Cat of Castle Town | Honor |
1950 | Rutherford George Montgomery | Kildee House | Honor |
1950 | Genevieve Foster | George Washington | Honor |
1950 | Walter & Marion Havighurst | Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin | Honor |
1951 | Elizabeth Yates | Amos Fortune, Free Man | Winner |
1951 | Mabel Leigh Hunt | Better Known as Johnny Appleseed | Honor |
1951 | Jeanette Eaton | Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword | Honor |
1951 | Clara Ingram Judson | Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People | Honor |
1951 | Anne Parrish[a] | The Story of Appleby Capple | Honor |
1952 | Eleanor Estes | Ginger Pye | Winner |
1952 | Elizabeth Baity | Americans Before Columbus | Honor |
1952 | Holling C. Holling | Minn of the Mississippi | Honor |
1952 | Nicholas Kalashnikoff | The Defender | Honor |
1952 | Julia Sauer | The Light at Tern Rock | Honor |
1952 | Mary & Conrad Buff | The Apple and the Arrow | Honor |
1953 | Ann Nolan Clark | Secret of the Andes | Winner |
1953 | E. B. White | Charlotte's Web | Honor |
1953 | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | Moccasin Trail | Honor |
1953 | Ann Weil | Red Sails to Capri | Honor |
1953 | Alice Dalgliesh | The Bears on Hemlock Mountain | Honor |
1953 | Genevieve Foster | Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 | Honor |
1954 | Joseph Krumgold | ...And Now Miguel | Winner |
1954 | Claire Huchet Bishop | All Alone | Honor |
1954 | Meindert DeJong | Shadrach | Honor |
1954 | Meindert DeJong | Hurry Home, Candy | Honor |
1954 | Clara Ingram Judson | Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot | Honor |
1954 | Mary & Conrad Buff | Magic Maize | Honor |
1955 | Meindert DeJong | The Wheel on the School | Winner |
1955 | Alice Dalgliesh | The Courage of Sarah Noble | Honor |
1955 | James Ullman | Banner in the Sky | Honor |
1956 | Jean Lee Latham | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | Winner |
1956 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Secret River | Honor |
1956 | Jennie Lindquist | The Golden Name Day | Honor |
1956 | Katherine Shippen | Men, Microscopes, and Living Things | Honor |
1957 | Virginia Sorensen | Miracles on Maple Hill | Winner |
1957 | Fred Gipson | Old Yeller | Honor |
1957 | Meindert DeJong | The House of Sixty Fathers | Honor |
1957 | Clara Ingram Judson | Mr. Justice Holmes | Honor |
1957 | Dorothy Rhoads | The Corn Grows Ripe | Honor |
1957 | Marguerite de Angeli | Black Fox of Lorne | Honor |
1958 | Harold Keith | Rifles for Watie | Winner |
1958 | Mari Sandoz | The Horsecatcher | Honor |
1958 | Elizabeth Enright | Gone-Away Lake | Honor |
1958 | Robert Lawson | The Great Wheel | Honor |
1958 | Leo Gurko | Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle | Honor |
1959 | Elizabeth George Speare | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Winner |
1959 | Natalie Savage Carlson | The Family Under the Bridge | Honor |
1959 | Meindert DeJong | Along Came a Dog | Honor |
1959 | Francis Kalnay | Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa | Honor |
1959 | William O. Steele | The Perilous Road | Honor |
1960 | Joseph Krumgold | Onion John | Winner |
1960 | Jean Craighead George | My Side of the Mountain | Honor |
1960 | Gerald W. Johnson | America Is Born: A History for Peter | Honor |
1960 | Carol Kendall | The Gammage Cup | Honor |
1961 | Scott O'Dell | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Winner |
1961 | Gerald W. Johnson | America Moves Forward: A History for Peter | Honor |
1961 | Jack Schaefer | Old Ramon | Honor |
1961 | George Selden | The Cricket in Times Square | Honor |
1962 | Elizabeth George Speare | The Bronze Bow | Winner |
1962 | Edwin Tunis | Frontier Living | Honor |
1962 | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | The Golden Goblet | Honor |
1962 | Mary Stolz | Belling The Tiger | Honor |
1963 | Madeleine L'Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | Winner |
1963 | Sorche Nic Leodhas | Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland | Honor |
1963 | Olivia Coolidge | Men of Athens | Honor |
1964 | Emily Cheney Neville | It's Like This, Cat | Winner |
1964 | Sterling North | Rascal | Honor |
1964 | Ester Wier | The Loner | Honor |
1965 | Maia Wojciechowska | Shadow of a Bull | Winner |
1965 | Irene Hunt | Across Five Aprils | Honor |
1966 | Elizabeth Borton de Treviño | I, Juan de Pareja | Winner |
1966 | Lloyd Alexander | The Black Cauldron | Honor |
1966 | Randall Jarrell | The Animal Family | Honor |
1966 | Mary Stolz | The Noonday Friends | Honor |
1967 | Irene Hunt | Up a Road Slowly | Winner |
1967 | Scott O'Dell | The King's Fifth | Honor |
1967 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories | Honor |
1967 | Mary Hays Weik | The Jazz Man | Honor |
1968 | E. L. Konigsburg | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Winner |
1968 | E. L. Konigsburg | Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth | Honor |
1968 | Scott O'Dell | The Black Pearl | Honor |
1968 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | The Fearsome Inn | Honor |
1968 | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | The Egypt Game | Honor |
1969 | Lloyd Alexander | The High King | Winner |
1969 | Julius Lester | To Be a Slave | Honor |
1969 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories | Honor |
1970 | William H. Armstrong | Sounder | Winner |
1970 | Sulamith Ish-kishor | Our Eddie | Honor |
1970 | Janet Gaylord Moore | The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art | Honor |
1970 | Mary Q. Steele | Journey Outside | Honor |
1971 | Betsy Byars | Summer of the Swans | Winner |
1971 | Natalie Babbitt | Knee-Knock Rise | Honor |
1971 | Sylvia Engdahl | Enchantress from the Stars | Honor |
1971 | Scott O'Dell | Sing Down the Moon | Honor |
1972 | Robert C. O'Brien | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Winner |
1972 | Allan W. Eckert | Incident at Hawk's Hill | Honor |
1972 | Virginia Hamilton | The Planet of Junior Brown | Honor |
1972 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Tombs of Atuan | Honor |
1972 | Miska Miles | Annie and the Old One | Honor |
1972 | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | The Headless Cupid | Honor |
1973 | Jean Craighead George | Julie of the Wolves | Winner |
1973 | Arnold Lobel | Frog and Toad Together | Honor |
1973 | Johanna Reiss | The Upstairs Room | Honor |
1973 | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | The Witches of Worm | Honor |
1974 | Paula Fox | The Slave Dancer | Winner |
1974 | Susan Cooper | The Dark Is Rising | Honor |
1975 | Virginia Hamilton | M. C. Higgins, the Great | Winner |
1975 | Ellen Raskin | Figgs & Phantoms | Honor |
1975 | James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier | My Brother Sam Is Dead | Honor |
1975 | Elizabeth Marie Pope | The Perilous Gard | Honor |
1975 | Bette Greene | Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe | Honor |
1976 | Susan Cooper | The Grey King | Winner |
1976 | Sharon Bell Mathis | The Hundred Penny Box | Honor |
1976 | Laurence Yep | Dragonwings | Honor |
1977 | Mildred Taylor | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Winner |
1977 | William Steig | Abel's Island | Honor |
1977 | Nancy Bond | A String in the Harp | Honor |
1978 | Katherine Paterson | Bridge to Terabithia | Winner |
1978 | Beverly Cleary | Ramona and Her Father | Honor |
1978 | Jamake Highwater | Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey | Honor |
1979 | Ellen Raskin | The Westing Game | Winner |
1979 | Katherine Paterson | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Honor |
1980 | Joan Blos | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal | Winner |
1980 | David Kherdian | The Road from Home | Honor |
1981 | Katherine Paterson | Jacob Have I Loved | Winner |
1981 | Jane Langton | The Fledgling | Honor |
1981 | Madeleine L'Engle | A Ring of Endless Light | Honor |
1982 | Nancy Willard | A Visit to William Blake's Inn | Winner |
1982 | Beverly Cleary | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Honor |
1982 | Aranka Siegal | Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944 | Honor |
1983 | Cynthia Voigt | Dicey's Song | Winner |
1983 | Robin McKinley | The Blue Sword | Honor |
1983 | William Steig | Doctor De Soto | Honor |
1983 | Paul Fleischman | Graven Images | Honor |
1983 | Jean Fritz | Homesick: My Own Story | Honor |
1983 | Virginia Hamilton | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Honor |
1984 | Beverly Cleary | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Winner |
1984 | Elizabeth George Speare | The Sign of the Beaver | Honor |
1984 | Cynthia Voigt | A Solitary Blue | Honor |
1984 | Kathryn Lasky | Sugaring Time | Honor |
1984 | Bill Brittain | The Wish Giver | Honor |
1985 | Robin McKinley | The Hero and the Crown | Winner |
1985 | Mavis Jukes | Like Jake and Me | Honor |
1985 | Bruce Brooks | The Moves Make the Man | Honor |
1985 | Paula Fox | One-Eyed Cat | Honor |
1986 | Patricia MacLachlan | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Winner |
1986 | Rhoda Blumberg | Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun | Honor |
1986 | Gary Paulsen | Dogsong | Honor |
1987 | Sid Fleischman | The Whipping Boy | Winner |
1987 | Cynthia Rylant | A Fine White Dust | Honor |
1987 | Marion Dane Bauer | On My Honor | Honor |
1987 | Patricia Lauber | Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens | Honor |
1988 | Russell Freedman | Lincoln: A Photobiography | Winner |
1988 | Norma Fox Mazer | After the Rain | Honor |
1988 | Gary Paulsen | Hatchet | Honor |
1989 | Paul Fleischman | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Winner |
1989 | Virginia Hamilton | In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World | Honor |
1989 | Walter Dean Myers | Scorpions | Honor |
1990 | Lois Lowry | Number the Stars | Winner |
1990 | Janet Taylor Lisle | Afternoon of the Elves | Honor |
1990 | Suzanne Fisher Staples | Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind | Honor |
1990 | Gary Paulsen | The Winter Room | Honor |
1991 | Jerry Spinelli | Maniac Magee | Winner |
1991 | Avi | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Honor |
1992 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Shiloh | Winner |
1992 | Avi | Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel | Honor |
1992 | Russell Freedman | The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane | Honor |
1993 | Cynthia Rylant | Missing May | Winner |
1993 | Bruce Brooks | What Hearts | Honor |
1993 | Patricia McKissack | The Dark-Thirty | Honor |
1993 | Walter Dean Myers | Somewhere in the Darkness | Honor |
1994 | Lois Lowry | The Giver | Winner |
1994 | Jane Leslie Conly | Crazy Lady! | Honor |
1994 | Laurence Yep | Dragon's Gate | Honor |
1994 | Russell Freedman | Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | Honor |
1995 | Sharon Creech | Walk Two Moons | Winner |
1995 | Karen Cushman | Catherine, Called Birdy | Honor |
1995 | Nancy Farmer | The Ear, the Eye and the Arm | Honor |
1996 | Karen Cushman | The Midwife's Apprentice | Winner |
1996 | Carolyn Coman | What Jamie Saw | Honor |
1996 | Christopher Paul Curtis | The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 | Honor |
1996 | Carol Fenner | Yolonda's Genius | Honor |
1996 | Jim Murphy | The Great Fire | Honor |
1997 | E. L. Konigsburg | The View from Saturday | Winner |
1997 | Nancy Farmer | A Girl Named Disaster | Honor |
1997 | Eloise McGraw | The Moorchild | Honor |
1997 | Megan Whalen Turner | The Thief | Honor |
1997 | Ruth White | Belle Prater's Boy | Honor |
1998 | Karen Hesse | Out of the Dust | Winner |
1998 | Gail Carson Levine | Ella Enchanted | Honor |
1998 | Patricia Reilly Giff | Lily's Crossing | Honor |
1998 | Jerry Spinelli | Wringer | Honor |
1999 | Louis Sachar | Holes | Winner |
1999 | Richard Peck | A Long Way from Chicago | Honor |
2000 | Christopher Paul Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy | Winner |
2000 | Audrey Couloumbis | Getting Near to Baby | Honor |
2000 | Jennifer L. Holm | Our Only May Amelia | Honor |
2000 | Tomie dePaola | 26 Fairmount Avenue | Honor |
2001 | Richard Peck | A Year Down Yonder | Winner |
2001 | Joan Bauer | Hope Was Here | Honor |
2001 | Kate DiCamillo | Because of Winn-Dixie | Honor |
2001 | Jack Gantos | Joey Pigza Loses Control | Honor |
2001 | Sharon Creech | The Wanderer | Honor |
2002 | Linda Sue Park | A Single Shard | Winner |
2002 | Polly Horvath | Everything on a Waffle | Honor |
2002 | Marilyn Nelson | Carver: A Life in Poems | Honor |
2003 | Avi | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Winner |
2003 | Nancy Farmer | The House of the Scorpion | Honor |
2003 | Patricia Reilly Giff | Pictures of Hollis Woods | Honor |
2003 | Carl Hiaasen | Hoot | Honor |
2003 | Ann M. Martin | A Corner of the Universe | Honor |
2003 | Stephanie S. Tolan | Surviving the Applewhites | Honor |
2004 | Kate DiCamillo | The Tale of Despereaux | Winner |
2004 | Kevin Henkes | Olive's Ocean | Honor |
2004 | Jim Murphy | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Honor |
2005 | Cynthia Kadohata | Kira-Kira | Winner |
2005 | Gennifer Choldenko | Al Capone Does My Shirts | Honor |
2005 | Russell Freedman | The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights | Honor |
2005 | Gary D. Schmidt | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | Honor |
2006 | Lynne Rae Perkins | Criss Cross | Winner |
2006 | Alan Armstrong | Whittington | Honor |
2006 | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | Honor |
2006 | Shannon Hale | Princess Academy | Honor |
2006 | Jacqueline Woodson | Show Way | Honor |
2007 | Susan Patron | The Higher Power of Lucky | Winner |
2007 | Jennifer L. Holm | Penny from Heaven | Honor |
2007 | Kirby Larson | Hattie Big Sky | Honor |
2007 | Cynthia Lord | Rules | Honor |
2008 | Laura Amy Schlitz | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | Winner |
2008 | Christopher Paul Curtis | Elijah of Buxton | Honor |
2008 | Gary D. Schmidt | The Wednesday Wars | Honor |
2008 | Jacqueline Woodson | Feathers | Honor |
2009 | Neil Gaiman | The Graveyard Book | Winner |
2009 | Kathi Appelt | The Underneath | Honor |
2009 | Margarita Engle | The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom | Honor |
2009 | Ingrid Law | Savvy | Honor |
2009 | Jacqueline Woodson | After Tupac and D Foster | Honor |
2010 | Rebecca Stead | When You Reach Me | Winner |
2010 | Phillip Hoose | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Honor |
2010 | Jacqueline Kelly | The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | Honor |
2010 | Grace Lin | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Honor |
2010 | Rodman Philbrick | The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg | Honor |
2011 | Clare Vanderpool | Moon Over Manifest | Winner |
2011 | Jennifer L. Holm | Turtle in Paradise | Honor |
2011 | Margi Preus | Heart of a Samurai | Honor |
2011 | Joyce Sidman | Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night | Honor |
2011 | Rita Williams-Garcia | One Crazy Summer | Honor |
2012 | Jack Gantos | Dead End in Norvelt | Winner |
2012 | Thanhha Lai | Inside Out & Back Again | Honor |
2012 | Eugene Yelchin | Breaking Stalin's Nose | Honor |
2013 | Katherine Applegate | The One and Only Ivan | Winner |
2013 | Laura Amy Schlitz | Splendors and Glooms | Honor |
2013 | Steve Sheinkin | Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon | Honor |
2013 | Sheila Turnage | Three Times Lucky | Honor |
2014 | Kate DiCamillo | Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures | Winner |
2014 | Holly Black | Doll Bones | Honor |
2014 | Kevin Henkes | The Year of Billy Miller | Honor |
2014 | Amy Timberlake | One Came Home | Honor |
2014 | Vince Vawter | Paperboy | Honor |
2015 | Kwame Alexander | The Crossover | Winner |
2015 | Cece Bell | El Deafo | Honor |
2015 | Jacqueline Woodson | Brown Girl Dreaming | Honor |
2016 | Matt de la Peña | Last Stop on Market Street | Winner |
2016 | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | The War That Saved My Life | Honor |
2016 | Victoria Jamieson | Roller Girl | Honor |
2016 | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Echo | Honor |
2017 | Kelly Barnhill | The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Winner |
2017 | Ashley Bryan | Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan | Honor |
2017 | Adam Gidwitz | The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Honor |
2017 | Lauren Wolk | Wolf Hollow | Honor |
2018 | Erin Entrada Kelly | Hello, Universe | Winner |
2018 | Derrick Barnes | Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut | Honor |
2018 | Jason Reynolds | Long Way Down | Honor |
2018 | Renée Watson | Piecing Me Together | Honor |
Multiple awards
Robert Lawson alone has won both a Newbery Medal and a Caldecott Medal. Sharon Creech and Neil Gaiman have won both a Newbery Medal and a Carnegie Medal, the equivalent British award. Scott O'Dell and Jean Craighead George have won both a Newbery Medal and a Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the equivalent German award.
Newbery Medals
Six authors have won two Newbery Medals.
Kate DiCamillo, 2004, 2014
E.L. Konigsburg, 1968, 1997
Joseph Krumgold, 1954, 1960
Lois Lowry, 1990, 1994
Katherine Paterson, 1978, 1981
Elizabeth George Speare, 1959, 1962
Medal and Honor
Many authors have won both the Newbery Medal and the Honor.
- Lloyd Alexander
- Avi
- Beverly Cleary
- Susan Cooper
- Sharon Creech
- Christopher Paul Curtis
- Karen Cushman
- Marguerite de Angeli
- Meindert DeJong
- Kate DiCamillo
- Eleanor Estes
- Elizabeth Enright
- Rachel Field
- Paul Fleischman
- Paula Fox
- Russell Freedman
- Jack Gantos
- Jean Craighead George
- Elizabeth Janet Gray
- Virginia Hamilton
- Charles Hawes
- Marguerite Henry
- Irene Hunt
- E. L. Konigsburg
- Robert Lawson
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Lois Lenski
- Robin McKinley
- Cornelia Meigs
- Scott O'Dell
- Katherine Paterson
- Richard Peck
- Ellen Raskin
- Cynthia Rylant
- Laura Amy Schlitz
- Kate Seredy
- Elizabeth George Speare
- Armstrong Sperry
- Jerry Spinelli
- Cynthia Voigt
- Elizabeth Yates
Multiple honor books
Five Honors
Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1938 to 1944
Four Honors
Meindert DeJong, 1954 to 1957
Jeanette Eaton, 1930 to 1951
Genevieve Foster, 1942 to 1953
Jacqueline Woodson, 2006 to 2015
Three Honors
- Mary & Conrad Buff
- Padraic Colum
- Alice Dalgliesh
- Eleanor Estes
- Nancy Farmer
- Russell Freedman
- Elizabeth Janet Gray
- Virginia Hamilton
- Agnes Hewes
- Jennifer L. Holm
- Clara Ingram Judson
- Eloise Jarvis McGraw
- Cornelia Meigs
- Scott O'Dell
- Anne Parrish
- Gary Paulsen
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Two Honors
- Julia Davis Adams
- Avi
- Claire Huchet Bishop
- Bruce Brooks
- [Beverly Cleary]]
- Christopher Paul Curtis
- Wanda Gág
- Patricia Reilly Giff
- Kevin Henkes
- Marguerite Henry
- Holling C. Holling
- Mabel Leigh Hunt
- Gerald W. Johnson
- Lois Lenski
- Jim Murphy
- Walter Dean Myers
- Mabel Robinson
- Constance Rourke
- Julia Sauer
- Gary D. Schmidt
- Kate Seredy
- Katherine Shippen
- Caroline Snedeker
- William Steig
- Mary Stolz
- Hildegarde Swift
- Laurence Yep
- Ella Young
See also
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Carnegie Medal for a children's or young-adult book published in the U.K.
Michael L. Printz Award for a young-adult book published in the U.S.
Caldecott Medal for illustration of an American children's picture book
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for lifetime contribution to American children's literature
Hans Christian Andersen Award for lasting contribution to children's literature
Notes
^ ab Anne and Dillwyn Parrish jointly created The Dream Coach, one of two runners-up in 1925. But the title page of the first edition clearly states (all capitals except 'by'): "By Anne and Dillwyn Parrish * * With Pictures & A Map by The Authors".[12]
Anne is better known as a writer, Dillwyn as an artist and illustrator, and some sources credit them as writer and illustrator respectively. As of May 2016 the official list of Newbery Medal winners and runners-up cites Anne Parrish alone as the writer.[10] (It cites no illustrator, and thus does not mention Dillwyn, because the Newbery is a literary award.)
Anne Parrish alone wrote and illustrated Floating Island and The Story of Appleby Capple, Newbery runners-up in 1931 and 1951. Regarding the latter, Delaware book collector John P. Reid notes: "A juvenile, dedicated to her deceased younger brother Dillwyn and based on an alphabet game he and Anne had played as children." Reid briefly reviews their two jointly written and illustrated children's books, as well as Appleby Capple.[13]
References
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"Welcome to the Newbery Medal Home Page!". Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). American Library Association (ALA). Retrieved 2013-05-05.
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This book is updated annually from 1991. See also the ALA Editions webpage for the current edition ("Web Extra"): evidently an archive of "distinctive essays" from previous editions.
^ abcdef Strauss, Valerie (December 16, 2008). "Critics Say Newbery-Winning Books Are Too Challenging for Young Readers". The Washington Post. p. C01. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
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"The John Newbery Medal". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
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"John Newbery Medal Committee Manual" (PDF). ALSC. ALA. October 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2013-05-04.
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"Newbery Medal terms and criteria". ALSC. ALA. January 1978; Midwinter 1987; Annual 2008. Retrieved 2013-05-04.
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"The Randolph Caldecott Medal". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
^ Silvey, Anita (October 1, 2008). "Has the Newbery Lost Its Way?". School Library Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
^ Erica S. Perl (December 19, 2008). "Captain Underpants Doesn't Need a Newbery Medal: In defense of the premier award in children's literature". Slate.
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"Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
^ "New land, a novel for boys and girls". WorldCat. Retrieved 2015-12-14.
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The Dream Coach (title page targeted). New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Electronic reproduction. [S.l.]: HathiTrust Digital Library (hdl.handle.net), 2011.
OCLC 765763078. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
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"Anne Parrish". John P. Reid. Collecting Delaware Books (jnjreid.com/cdb). Retrieved 2016-06-01.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Newbery Medal winners. |
- Online editions of Newbery Honor Books and Medal Winners by Women, 1922–1964
The Newbery Video (Part 2), written by Mona Kerby and funded by the International Reading Association highlights favorite Newbery Award books and authors.- Choices Booklists: Children’s Choices
- Interview with Newbery Judge, on Beyond the Margins
- Newbery Medal Winners and Honor Books (including cover art) at smallfrybooks
Lindsay, Nina. "More on the Newbery nomination process". Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog. School Library Journal. Retrieved 30 July 2012.