John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Award-Winning Books

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John Newbery Medal Winners from 1922 to the present

    

2009 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

2008 - Good Masters!  Sweet Ladies!  Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

2007 - The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

2006 - Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

2005 - Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

2004 - A Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo

2003 - Crispin:  The Cross of Lead by Avi

2002 - A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

2001 - A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

2000 - Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

1999 - Holes by Louis Sachar

1998 - Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

1997 - The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

1996 - The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

1995 - Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

1994 - The Giver by Lois Lowry

1993 - Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

1992 - Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds

1991 - Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

1990 - Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

1989 - Joyful Noise:  Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

1988 - Lincoln:  A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

1987 - The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

1986 - Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

1985 - The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

1984 - Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

1983 - Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

1982 - A Visit to William Blake's Inn:  Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard

1981 - Jacob I Have Loved by Katherine Paterson

1980 - A Gathering of Days:  A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos

1979 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

1978 - Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

1977 - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

1976 - The Grey King by Susan Cooper

1975 - M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

1974 - The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

1973 - Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

1972 - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

1971 - Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

1970 - Sounder by William H. Armstrong

1969 - The High King by Lloyd Alexander

1968 - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

1967 - Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

1966 - I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

1965 - Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

1964 - It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville

1963 - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

1962 - The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

1961 - Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

1960 - Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

1959 - The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

1958 - Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

1957 - Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson

1956 - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

1955 - The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

1954 - ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold

1953 - Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

1952 - Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

1951 - Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

1950 - The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

1949 - King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

1948 - The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois

1947 - Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

1946 - Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

1945 - Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

1944 - Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

1943 - Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1942 - The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds

1941 - Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

1940 - Daniel Boone by James Daugherty

1939 - Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

1938 - The White Stag by Kate Seredy

1937 - Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer

1936 - Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

1935 - Dobry by Monica Shannon

1934 - Invincible Louisa:  The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs

1933 - Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis

1932 - Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer

1931 - The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth

1930 - Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

1929 - The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

1928 - Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

1927 - Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James

1926 - Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman

1925 - Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger

1924 - The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes

1923 - The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

1922 - The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon

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Randolph Caldecott Medal Winners from 1938 to the present

         

(The book is illustrated by the author unless otherwise stated.)

2009 - The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson; illustrated by Beth Krommes

2008 - The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

2007 - Flotsam by David Wiesner

2006 - The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster; illustrated by Chris Raschka

2005 - Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes

2004 - The Man Who Walked Between Two Towers by Mordicai Gerstein

2003 - My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann

2002 - The Three Little Pigs by David Weisner

2001 - So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George; illustrated by David Small

2000 - Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback

1999 - Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin; illustrated by Mary Azarian

1998 - Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky

1997 - Golem by David Wisniewski

1996 - Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

1995 - Smoky Night by Eve Bunting; illustrated by David Diaz

1994 - Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

1993 - Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully

1992 - Tuesday by David Weisner

1991 - Black and White by David Macaulay

1990 - Lon Po Po:  A Red-Riding Hood Story by Ed Young

1989 - Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman; illustrated by Stephen Gammell

1988 - Owl Moon by Jane Yolen; illustrated by John Schoenherr

1987 - Hey, Al! by Arthur Yorinks; illustrated by Richard Egielski

1986 - The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

1985 - Saint George and the Dragon retold by  Margaret Hodges; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

1984 - The Glorious Flight:  Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice and Martin Provensen

1983 - Shadow by Blaise Cendrars; illustrated by Marcia Brown

1982 - Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

1981 - Fables by Arnold Lobel

1980 - Ox-Cart man by Donald Hall; illustrated by Barbara Cooney

1979 - The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble

1978 - Noah's Ark by Peter Spier

1977 - Ashanti to Zulu by Margaret Musgrove; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

1976 - Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears retold by Verna Aardema; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

1975 - Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott

1974 - Duffy and the Devil retold by Harve Zemach; illustrated by Margot Zemach

1973 - The Funny Little Woman retold by Arlene Mosel; illustrated by Blair Lent

1972 - One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian

1971 - A Story, A Story by Gail E. Haley

1970 - Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

1969 - The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship retold by Arthur Ransome; illustrated by Uri Shulevitz

1968 - Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley; illustrated by Ed Emberley

1967 - Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness

1966 - Always Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas; illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian

1965 - May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers; illustrated by Beni Montresor

1964 - Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

1963 - The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

1962 - Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown

1961 - Baboushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins; illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov

1960 - Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida

1959 - Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney

1958 - Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey

1957 - A Tree is Nice by Janice Udry; illustrated by Marc Simont

1956 - Frog Went A-Courtin' retold by John Langstaff; illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky

1955 - Cinderella retold by Marcia Brown

1954 - Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans

1953 - The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward

1952 - Finders Keepers by Will Lipkind; illustrated by Nicolas Mordvinoff

1951 - The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous

1950 - Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi

1949 - The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader

1948 - White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt; illustrated by Roger Duvoisin

1947 - The Little Island by Golden Mac Donald; illustrated by Leonard Weisgard

1946 - The Rooster Crows by Maude and Miska Petersham

1945 - Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field; illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones

1944 - Many Moons by James Thurber; illustrated by Louis Slobodkin

1943 - The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

1942 - Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

1941 - They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson

1940 - Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

1939 - Mei Li by Thomas Handforth

1938 - Animals of the Bible by Helen Dean Fish; illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop

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