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The Newbery Medal recognizes the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Named after John Newbery, the famous 18th century British publisher and bookseller, the award is presented annually by the Association of Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

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1939
Medalist: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Honor: Nino by Valenti Angelo
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Hello the Boat by Phyllis Crawford
Leader By Destiny: George Washington by Jeanette Eaton
Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray

1938
Medalist: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
Honor: Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman
Bright Island by Mabel Robinson
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

1937
Medalist: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
Honor: Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski
Stokes: Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones
Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
Winterbound by Margery Bianco
The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes

1936
Medalist: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Honor: Honk, the Moose by Phil Strong
The Good Master by Kate Seresy
Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray
All Sail Set by Armstrong Sperry

1935
Medalist: Dobry by Monica Shannon
Honor: Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke
Day on Skates by Hilda Von Stockum

1934
Medalist: Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs
Honor: The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster
ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag
Winged Girl Of Knossos by Erik Berry
New Land by Sarah Schmidt
Big Tree Of Bunlahy by Padraic Colum
Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes
Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle

1933
Medalist: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Honor: Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
The Railroad To Freedom by Hildegarde Swift
Children of the Soil by Nora Burglon

1932
Medalist: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
Honor: The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop
Calico Bush by Rachel Field
Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens
Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery
Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee
Truce Of the Wolf by Mary Gould Davis

1931
Medalist: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatswirth
Honor: Floating Island by Anne Parrish
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
Mountains Are Free by Julie Davis Adams
Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
Meggy Macintosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Garram the Hunter by Herbert Best
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide and Margaret Johansen

1930
Medalist: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
Honor: Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
Vaino: A Boy of New England by Julia Davis Adams
Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift


 

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