The John Newbery Medal is one of many awards given out by the American Library Association annually for children's literature. John Newbery was an 18th century bookseller; the award has been given out since 1921 and is the oldest award for children literature currently existing and is probably the most prestigious children's lit award in the US.
Given in two levels: The bronze Newbery Medal is given to the winner out of all the year's nominees while the silver "Newbery Honor" seal is given to the runners-up. Both tend to get prominently displayed on book covers.
There's an observed trend for Newbery Medal books to be Tear Jerkers; see Death by Newbery Medal.
Newbery Medal Official Website
Newbery Medal and Honor books with pages on this wiki include:
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1923 Medal)
- The Cat Who Went to Heaven (1931 Medal)
- The Golden Basket (1937 Honor)
- The White Stag (1938 Medal)
- On the Banks of Plum Creek (1938 Honor)
- Mr. Popper's Penguins (1939 Honor)
- By the Shores of Silver Lake (1940 Honor)
- The Long Winter (1941 Honor)
- Little Town on the Prairie (1942 Honor)
- Adam Of The Road (1943 Medal)
- Johnny Tremain (1944 Medal)
- These Happy Golden Years (1944 Honor)
- Rabbit Hill (1945 Medal)
- The Twenty One Balloons (1948 Medal)
- King of the Wind (1949 Medal)
- My Father's Dragon (1949 Honor)
- The Door in the Wall (1950 Medal)
- Charlotte's Web (1953 Honor)
- Old Yeller (1957 Honor)
- Rifles For Watie (1958 Medal)
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1959 Medal)
- My Side of the Mountain (1960 Honor)
- The Gammage Cup (1960 Honor)
- Island of the Blue Dolphins (1961 Medal)
- The Cricket in Times Square (1961 Honor)
- The Bronze Bow (1962 Medal)
- A Wrinkle in Time (1963 Medal)
- Its Like This Cat (1965 Medal)
- The Black Cauldron (1966 Honor)
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1968 Medal)
- Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth (1968 Honor)
- The Egypt Game (1968 Honor)
- The High King (1969 Medal)
- Sounder (1970 Medal)
- Enchantress from the Stars (1971 Honor)
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1972 Medal)
- The Tombs of Atuan (1972 Honor)
- The Headless Cupid (1972 Honor)
- Julie of the Wolves (1973 Medal)
- Frog and Toad Together (1973 Honor)
- The Witches of Worm (1973 Honor)
- The Dark is Rising (1974 Honor)
- The Perilous Gard (1975 Honor)
- The Grey King (1976 Medal)
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1977 Medal)
- Abel's Island (1977 Honor)
- Bridge to Terabithia (1978 Medal)
- Ramona and Her Father (1978 Honor)
- The Westing Game (1979 Medal)
- Jacob Have I Loved (1981 Medal)
- Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1982 Honor)
- Dicey's Song (1983 Medal)
- The Blue Sword (1983 Honor)
- The Wish Giver (1984 Honor)
- A Solitary Blue (1984 Honor)
- Dear Mr. Henshaw (1984 Medal)
- The Hero and the Crown (1985 Medal)
- The Whipping Boy (1987 Medal)
- On My Honor (1987 Honor)
- Hatchet (1988 Honor)
- Number the Stars (1990 Medal)
- Afternoon of the Elves (1990 Honor)
- Maniac Magee (1991 Medal)
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1991 Honor)
- Shiloh (1992 Medal)
- The Giver (1994 Medal)
- Walk Two Moons (1995 Medal)
- Catherine, Called Birdy (1995 Honor)
- The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1995 Honor)
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 (1996 Honor)
- The Moorchild (1997 Honor)
- A Girl Named Disaster (1997 Honor)
- Out of the Dust (1998 Medal)
- Ella Enchanted (1998 Honor)
- Wringer (1998 Honor)
- Holes (1999 Medal)
- A Long Way from Chicago (1999 Honor, 2001 Medal for sequel)
- Bud, Not Buddy (2000 Medal)
- Joey Pigza Loses Control (2000 Honor)
- Because of Winn-Dixie (2001 Honor)
- Hope Was Here (2001 Honor)
- A Corner of the Universe (2003 Honor)
- Hoot (2003 Honor)
- House of the Scorpion (2003 Honor)
- Pictures of Hollis Woods (2003 Honor)
- The Tale of Despereaux (2004 Medal)
- Kira☆Kira (2005 Medal)
- Princess Academy (2006 Honor)
- Rules (2007 Honor)
- Penny From Heaven (2008 Honor)
- Elijah of Buxton (2008 Honor)
- The Wednesday Wars (2008 Honor)
- The Graveyard Book (2009 Medal)
- Savvy (2009 Honor)
- The Underneath (2009 Honor)
- When You Reach Me (2010 Medal)
- The One and Only Ivan (2013 Medal)
- El Deafo (2015 Honor)
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon (2017 Medal)
- Too Bright to See (2022 Honor)
