Newbery Honors and Awards

Awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished
American children's book published the previous year

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2012

Award:

• Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (F Gan)

Honor Books:

• Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin (On Order)
• Inside Out& Back Again by Thanhha Lai (F Lai)

2011

Award:

• Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (F Van)

Honor Books:

• Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Nightby Joyce Sidman (811.54 Sid)
• Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (F Pre)
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (F Wil)
• Turtle in Paradiseby Jennifer L Holm (F Hol

2010

Award:

• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (F Ste)

Honor Books:

• Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice by Philip Hoose (323.092 Hoo)
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (F Kel)
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P Figg by Rodman Philbrick (F Phi)
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (F Lin)

2009

Award:

• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (F Gai)

Honor Books:

• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (F App)
• The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle (811.54 Eng)
• Savvy by Ingrid Law (F Law)
• After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson(F Woo)

2008

Award:

• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Ann Schlitz (812.6 Sch)

Honor Books:

• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (F Cur)
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt (F Sch)
• Feathers by Jacqueline Woods (F Woo)

2007

Award:

• The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (P Pat)

Honor Books:

• Penny From Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm (F Hol)
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (F Lar)
• Rules by Cynthia Lord (F Lor)

2006

Award:

• Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (F Per)

Honor Books:

• Whittington by Alan Armstrong (F Arm)
• Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (942.0860835 Bar)
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (F Hal)
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson (P Woo)

2005

Award:

• Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (F Kad)

Honor Books:

• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (F Cho)
• The Voice that Challenged a Nation by Russell Freedman (782.1092 Fre)
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (F Sch)

2004

Award:

• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (F Dic)

Honor Books:

• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (F Hen)
• An American Plague by Jim Murphy (614.541097481109033 Mur)

2003

Award:

• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (F Avi)

Honor Books:

• House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (F Far)
• Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly (F Gif)
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (F Hia)
• A Corner of the Universe by Ann Martin (F Mar)
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan (F Tol)

2002

Award:

• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (F Par)

Honor Books:

• Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (F Hor)
• Carver, A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (811.54 Nel)

2001

Award:

• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (F Pec)

Honor Books:

• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (F DiC)
• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (F Bau)
• Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (F Gan)
• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (F Cre)

2000

Award:

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (F Cur)

Honor Books:

• Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbus (F Cou)
• 26 Fairmont Avenue by Tomie de Paola (F DeP)
• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm (F Hol)

1999

Award:

• Holes by Louis Sachar (F Sac)

Honor Book:

• A long way from Chicago by Richard Peck (F Pec)

1998

Award:

• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (F Hes)

Honor Books:

• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (F Lev)
• Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (F Gif)
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (F Spi)

1997

Award:

• The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (F Kon)

Honor Books:

• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (F Far)
• Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (F McG)
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (F Tur)
• Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (F Whi)

1996

Award:

• The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (F Cus)

Honor Books:

• What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (F Com)
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (F Cur)
• Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner (F Fen)
• The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (977.311 Mur)

1995

Award:

• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (F Cre)

Honor Books:

• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (F Cus)
• The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer (F Far)

1994

Award:

• The Giver by Lois Lowry (F Low)

Honor Books:

• Crazy Lady by Jane Conly (F Con)
• Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (F Yep)
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman (B Roosevelt)

1993

Award:

• Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (F Ryl)

Honor Books:

• What Hearts by Bruce Brooks (F Bro)
• Dark Thirty by Patricia McKissack (F McK)
• Somewhere in Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (F Mye)

1992

Award:

• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (P Nay)

Honor Books:

• Nothing But The Truth by Avi (F Avi)
• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman (Not in CMC)

1991

Award:

• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (F Spi)

Honor Book:

• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (F Avi)

1990

Award:

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (F Low)

Honor Books:

• Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Lisle (Not in CMC)
• Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Staples (F Sta)
• Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (Not in CMC)

1989

Award:

• Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman (808.81 Fle)

Honor Books:

• In the Beginning by Virginia Hamilton (291.24 Int)
• Scorpions by Walter Myers (F Mye)

1988

Award:

• Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (B Lincoln)

Honor Books:

• After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer (F Maz)
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (F Pau)

1987

Award:

• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (F Fle)

Honor Books:

• A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant (F Ryl)
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer (F Bau)
• Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber (551.2 Lau)

1986

Award:

• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (F Mac)

Honor Books:

• Commodore Perry in the Land of Shogun by Rhonda Blumberg (952.025 Blu)
• Dogsong by Gary Paulsen (F Pau)

1985

Award:

• The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (F McK)

Honor Books:

• Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes (F Juk)
• The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks (F Bro)
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (F Fox)

1984

Award:

• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (F Cle)

Honor Books:

• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (F Spe)
• A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voight (F Voi)
• Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky (633.6 Las)
• The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain (F Bri)

1983

Award:

• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight (F Voi)

Honor Books:

• The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (F McK)
• Doctor DeSoto by William Steig (P Ste)
• Graven Images by Paul Fleischman (F Fle)
• My Own Story by Jean Fritz (F Fri)
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (F Ham)

1982

Award:

• A Visit To William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard (811.54 Wil)

Honor Books:

• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (F Cle)
• Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary by Aranka Siegal (B Sie)

1981

Award:

• Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (F Pat)

Honor Books:

• The Fledgling by Jane Langton (F Lan)
• A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle (F LEn)

1980

Award:

• A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 by Joan Blos (F Blo)

Honor Book:

• The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian (F Khe)

1979

Award:

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (F Ras)

Honor Book:

• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (F Pat)

1978

Award:

• Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (F Pat)

Honor Books:

• Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary (F Cle)
• Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater (398.2 Hig)

1977

Award:

• Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor (F Tay)

Honor Books:

• Abel's Island by William Steig (F Ste)
• A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (F Bon)

1976

Award:

• The Grey King by Susan Cooper (F Coo)

Honor Books:

• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis (F Mat)
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (F Yep

1975

Award:

• M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (F Ham)

Honor Books:

• Figgs and Phantoms by Ellen Raskin (F Ras)
• My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier (F Col)
• The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (F Pop)
• Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Green (F Gre)

1974

Award:

• The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (F Fox)

Honor Book:

• The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (F Coo)

1973

Award:

• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (F Geo)

Honor Books:

• Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel (P Lob)
• The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss (F Rei)
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (F Sny)

1972

Award:

• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (F Obr)

Honor Books:

• Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert (F Eck)
• The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton (F Ham)
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin (F LeG)
• Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles (P Mil)
• The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (F Sny)

1971

Award:

• Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (F Bya)

Honor Books

• Kneeknock Rise by Natalie Babbitt (F Bab)
• Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (F Eng)
• Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell (F Ode)

1970

Award:

• Sounder by William H. Armstrong (F Arm)

Honor Books:

• Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (F Ish)
• The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction To The Pleasures of Art by Janet Moore (707 Moo)
• Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele (F Ste)

1969

Award:

• The High King by Lloyd Alexander (F Ale)

Honor Books:

• To Be A Slave by Julius Lester (326.0973 Les)
• When Shlemiel Went To Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (398.2 Sin)

1968

Award:

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (F Kon)

Honor Books:

• Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg (F Kon)
• The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell (F Ode)
• The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer (F Sin)
• The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (F Sny)

1967

Award:

• Up A Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (F Hun)

Honor Books:

• The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell (F Ode)
• Zlateh the Goat by Isaac Bashevis Singer (808.83 Sin)
• The Jazz Man by Mary H. Wei (F Wei)

1966

Award:

• I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borten de Trevino (F deT)

Honor Books:

• The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander (F Ale)
• The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell (F Jar)
• The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz (F Sto)

1965

Award:

• Shadow of A Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (F Woj)

Honor Book:

• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (F Hun)

1964

Award:

• It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville (F Nev)

Honor Books:

• Rascal by Sterling North (F Nor)
• The Loner by Ester Weir (Not in CMC)

1963

Award:

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle (F LEn)

Honor Books:

• Thistle and Thyme by Sorche Nic Leodhas (Not in CMC)
• Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge (Not in CMC)

1962

Award:

• The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (F Spe)

Honor Books:

• Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis (917.8 Tun)
• The Golden Goblet by Eloise McGraw (F McG)
• Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz (Not in CMC)

1961

Award:

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (F Ode)

Honor Books:

• America Moves Forward by Gerald W. Johnson (Not in CMC)
• Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer (F Sch)
• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (F Sel

1960

Award:

• Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (F Kru)

Honor Books:

• My Side of the Mountain by Jean George (F Geo)
• America Is Born by Gerald W. Johnson (973 Joh)
• The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (F Ken)

1959

Award:

• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (F Spe)

Honor Books:

• The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson (F Car)
• Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong (F DeJ)
• Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampas by Francis Kalnay (Not in CMC)
• The Perilous Road by William O. Steele (F Ste)

1958

Award:

• Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (F Kei)

Honor Books:

• The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz (F San)
• Goneaway Lake by Elizabeth Enright (F Enr)
• The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (F Law)
• Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko (Not in CMC)

1957

Award:

• Miracles On Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson (F Sor)

Honor Books:

• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (F Gip)
• The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong (F DeJ)
• Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson (B Hol)
• The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads (Not in CMC)
• Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli (F DeA)

1956

Award:

• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (F Lat)

Honor Books:

• The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (P Raw)
• The Golden Name Day by Jennie Linquist (Not in CMC)
• Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen (Not in CMC)

1955

Award:

• The Wheel On the School by Meindert Dejong (F DeJ)

Honor Books:

• The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (F Dal)
• Banner in the Sky by James Ullman (F Ull)

1954

Award:

• And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (F Kru)

Honor Books:

• All Alone by Claire Hutchet Bishop (Not in CMC)
• Shadrach by Meindert Dejong (F DeJ)
• Hurry Home Candy by Meindert Dejong (F DeJ)
• Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson (Not in CMC)
• Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff (Not in CMC)

1953

Award:

• Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (F Cla)

Honor Books:

• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (F Whi)
• Moccasin Trail by Eloise McGraw (F McG)
• Red Sails To Capri by Ann Weil (Not in CMC)
• The Bears On Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh (F Dal)
• Birthdays of Freedom, Volume 1 by Genevieve Foster (Not in CMC)

1952

Award:

• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (F Est)

Honor Books:

• Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity (Main Library E58.B18 1961)
• Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling (F Hol)
• The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff (Not in CMC)
• The Light At Tern Rock by Julia Sauer (F Sau)
• The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff (F Buf)

1951

Award:

• Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (B Fortune)

Honor Books:

• As Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt (398.2 Hun)
• Gandhi, Fighter Without A Sword by Jeanette Eaton (Not in CMC)
• Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson (Not in CMC)
• Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish (Not in CMC)

1950

Award:

• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (F deA)

Honor Books:

• Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill (F Cau)
• The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz (Not in CMC)
• Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery (F Mon)
• George Washington by Genevieve Foste (Not in CMC)
• Song of the Pines by Walter and Marion Havighurst (Not in CMC)

1949

Award:

• King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (F Hen)

Honor Books:

• Seabird by Holling C. Holling (F Hol)
• Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin (F Ran)
• My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett (F Gan)
• Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps (Main Library E29.N3B6 1964)

1948

Award:

• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois (F DuB)

Honor Books:

• Pancakes-Paris by Claire Hutchet Bishop (F Bis)
• Le Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (Not in CMC)
• The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman (Not in CMC)
• The Cow-Tail Switch by Harold Courlander (Main Library GR350. C6383 1947)
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (F Hen)

1947

Award:

• Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (F Bai)

Honor Books:

• Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes (Not in CMC)
• Big Tree by Mary and Conrad Buff (Not in CMC)
• The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell (Not in CMC)
• The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher (Not in CMC)
• The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore Jewett (Not in CMC)

1946

Award:

• Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (F Len)

Honor Books:

• Justin Morgan Had A Horse by Marguerite Henry (F Hen)
• The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means (Not in CMC)
• Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston (Not in CMC)
• New Found World by Katherine Shippen (Not in CMC)

1945

Award:

• Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (F Law)

Honor Books:

• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (F Est)
• The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh (Not in CMC)
• Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster (Not in CMC)
• Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton (Not in CMC)

1944

Award:

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (F For)

Honor Books:

• The Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (F Wil)
• Fog Magic by Julia Sauer (F Sau)
• Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes (F Est)
• Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yeats (Not in CMC)

1943

Award:

• Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (F Gra)

Honor Books:

• The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes (F Est)
• Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Not in CMC)

1942

Award:

• The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds (F Edm)

Honor Books:

• Little Town On the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (F Wil)
• George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster (Not in CMC)
• Indian Captive by Lois Lenski (F Len)
• Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin (Not in CMC)

1941

Award:

• Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry (398.2 Spe)

Honor Books:

• Blue Willow by Doris Gates (F Gat)
• Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr (Not in CMC)
• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (F Wil)
• Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall (Not in CMC)

1940

Award:

• Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Not in CMC)

Honor Books:

• The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (F Ser)
• Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson (Not in CMC)
• By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (F Wil)
• Boy With A Pack by Stephen W. Meader (F Mea)

1939

Award:

• Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (F Enr)

Honor Books:

• Nino by Valenti Angelo (Not in CMC)
• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater (F Atw)
• Hello the Boat by Phyllis Crawford (Not in CMC)
• Leader By Destiny: George Washington by Jeanette Eaton (Not in CMC)
• Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Not in CMC)

1938

Award:

• The White Stag by Kate Seredy (F Ser)

Honor Books:

• Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman (398.2 Bow)
• Bright Island by Mabel Robinson (Not in CMC)
• On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (F Wil)

1937

Award:

• Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (F Saw)

Honor Books

• Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski ( F Len)
• Stokes: Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones (Not in CMC)
• Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans (Not in CMC)
• Winterbound by Margery Bianco (Not in CMC)
• The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes (Not in CMC)

1936

Award:

• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (F Bri)

Honor Books:

• Honk, the Moose by Phil Strong (P Sto)
• The Good Master by Kate Seredy (F Ser)
• Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Not in CMC)
• All Sails Set by Armstrong Sperry (Not in CMC)

1935

Award:

• Dobry by Monica Shannon (F Sha)

Honor Books:

• Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger (Not in CMC)
• Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke (Not in CMC)
• Day on Skates by Hilda Von Stockum (Not in CMC)

1934

Award:

• Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs (B Alcott)

Honor Books:

• The ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag (P Gag)
• The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker (Not in CMC)
• Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster (Not in CMC)
• Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry (Not in CMC)
• New Land by Sarah Schmidt (Not in CMC)
• Big Tree of Bunlahy by Padraic Colum (Not in CMC)
• Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes (Not in CMC)
• Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle (Not in CMC)

1933

Award:

• Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (F Lew)

Honor Books:

• Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs (Not in CMC)
• The Railroad to Freedom by Hildegarde Swift (Not in CMC)
• Children of the Soil by Nora Burglon (Not in CMC)

1932

Award:

• Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (F Arm)

Honor Books:

• The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop (Not in CMC)
• Calico Bush by Rachel Field (F Fie)
• Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens (Not in CMC)
• Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery (Not in CMC)
• Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee (Not in CMC)
• Truce of the Wolf by Mary Gould Davis (Not in CMC)

1931

Award:

• The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (F Coa)

Honor Books:

• Floating Island by Anne Parrish (Not in CMC)
• The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus (Not in CMC)
• Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard (Not in CMC)
• Mountains Are Free by Julie Davis Adams (Not in CMC)
• Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes (Not in CMC)
• Meggy Macintosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Not in CMC)
• Garram the Hunter by Herbert Best (Not in CMC)
• Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide and Margaret Johansen (Not in CMC)

1930

Award:

• Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (F Fie)

Honor Books:

• Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton (Not in CMC)
• Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller (Not in CMC)
• Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely (Not in CMC)
• Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young (Not in CMC)
• Vaino: A Boy of New England by Julia Davis Adams (Not in CMC)
• Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift (Not in CMC)

1929

Award:

• The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (F Kel)

Honor Books:

• Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett (Not in CMC)
• Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag (P Gag)
• The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock (Not in CMC)
• Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs (Not in CMC)
• Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon (Not in CMC)
• Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney (Not in CMC)

1928

Award:

• Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (F Muk)

Honor Books:

• The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young (Not in CMC)
• Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker (Not in CMC)

1927

Award:

• Smoky, the Cow Horse by Will James (F Jam)

Honor Books:

• None

1926

Award:

• Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (398.2 Chr)

Honor Book:

• Voyagers by Padraic Colum (Not in CMC)

1925

Award:

• Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (398.2 Fin)

Honor Books:

• Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Anne Carroll Moore (Not in CMC)
• Dream Coach by Anne Parrish (Not in CMC)

1924

Award

• The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (F Haw)

Honor Books:

• None

1923

Award:

• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (F Lof)

Honor Books:

• None

1922

Award:

• The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (909 Van)

Honor Books:

• The Great Quest by Charles Hawes (Not in CMC)
• Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall (Not in CMC)
• The Old Tobacco Shop by William Bowen (Not in CMC)
• The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum (F Col)
• Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs (Not in CMC)