Children's Literature
Newbery Medal
The winner of the Newbery medal is announced each January. It is awarded to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children in the previous year.
- Newbery Medal - ALA
American Library Association's information about the Newbery Medal - 90 Second Newbery90-Second Newbery Film Festival is an annual video contest in which young filmmakers create weird short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in about a minute and a half.
Newbery Winners 2015-Present
The First State of Being
Newbery Medal 2025
The Eyes and the Impossible
Winner 2024
Freewater
Winner 2023
The Last Cuentista
Newbery Winner 2022
When You Trap a Tiger
Winner 2021
New Kid
Winner 2020
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Winner 2019
Hello, Universe
Winner 2018
Last Stop on Market Street
Winner 2016
The Crossover
Winner 2015
Winners 2001-2014
Flora and Ulysses
Winner 2014
The One and Only Ivan
Winner 2013
Dead End in Norvelt
Winner 2012
Moon over Manifest
Winner 2011
When You Reach Me
Winner 2010
The Graveyard Book
Winner 2009
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Winner 2008
The Higher Power of Lucky
Winner 2007
Criss Cross
Winner 2006
Kira-Kira
Winner 2005
The Tale of Despereaux
Winner 2004
Crispin
Winner 2003
A Single Shard
Winner 2002
A Year down Yonder
Winner 2001
Winners 1983-2000
Bud, Not Buddy
Winner 2000
Holes
Winner 1999
Out of the Dust
Winner 1998
The View from Saturday
Winner 1997
The Midwife's Apprentice
Winner 1996
Walk Two Moons
Winner 1995
The Giver
Winner 1994
Missing May
Winner 1993
Shiloh
Winner 1992
Maniac Magee
Winner 1991
Number the Stars
Winner 1990
Joyful Noise
Winner 1989
Lincoln
Winner 1988
The Whipping Boy
Winner 1987
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Winner 1986
The Hero and the Crown
Winner 1985
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Winner 1984
Dicey's Song
Winner 1983
Winners 1963-1982
A Visit to William Blake's Inn
Winner 1982
Jacob Have I Loved
Winner 1981
A Gathering of Days
Winner 1980
The Westing Game
Winner 1979
Bridge to Terabithia
Winner 1978
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Winner 1977
The Grey King
Winner 1976
M.C. Higgins, the Great
Winner 1975
The Slave Dancer
Winner 1974
Julie of the Wolves
Winner 1973
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Winner 1972
The Summer of the Swans
Winner 1971
Sounder
Winner 1970
The High King
Winner 1969
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Winner 1968
Up a Road Slowly
Winner 1967
I, Juan de Pareja
Winner 1966
Shadow of a Bull
Winner 1965
It's Like This, Cat
Winner 1964
A Wrinkle in Time
Winner 1963
Newbery Winners 1943-1962
The Bronze Bow
Winner 1962
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Winner 1961
Onion John
Winner 1960
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Winner 1959
Rifles for Watie
Winner 1958
Miracles on Maple Hill
Winner 1957
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
Winner 1956
The Wheel on the School
Winner 1955
...And Now Miguel
Winner 1954
Secret of the Andes
Winner 1953
Ginger Pye
Winner 1952
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Winner 1951
The Door in the Wall
Winner 1950
King of the Wind
Winner 1949
The Twenty-one Balloons
Winner 1948
Miss Hickory
Winner 1947
Strawberry Girl
Winner 1946
Rabbit Hill
Winner 1945
Johnny Tremain
Winner 1944
Adam of the Road
Winner 1943
Newbery Winners 1922-1942
The Matchlock Gun
Winner 1942
Call It Courage
Winner 1941
Daniel Boone
Winner 1940
Thimble Summer
Winner 1939
The White Stag
Winner 1938
Roller Skates
Winner 1937
Caddie Woodlawn
Winner 1936
Dobry
Winner 1935
Invincible Louisa
Winner 1934
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Winner 1933
Waterless Mountain
Winner 1932
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Winner 1931
Hitty
Winner 1930
The Trumpeter of Krakow
Winner 1929
Gay Neck
Winner 1928
Smoky the Cowhorse
Winner 1927
Shen of the Sea
Winner 1926
Tales from Silver Lands
Winner 1925
The Dark Frigate
Winner 1924
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Winner 1923
The Story of Mankind
Winner 1922