I can't wait to dive into the Newbery Medal list this year. The Newbery Medal and Honor books are chosen each January by the American Library Association. The Newbery Medal is awarded to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children that year. There is one book that winst the medal and usually a few that receive the honor. Some of the other awards you might be familiar with are the Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award.
The Newbery Medal started in 1922 so there are 100 books to read off this list! Luckily, since they are children's literature they are pretty short. My plan is to read about 10 a month and then I'll have a couple months to finish up if I don't stay on track.
I also plan to do a post on Instagram to share my review of each of the books as I complete them.
Here's the list if you're interested. You've probably read a few of them!
The 1920s:
1922 Medal Winner: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)
1923 Medal Winner: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Stokes)
1924 Medal Winner: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
1925 Medal Winner: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
1926 Medal Winner: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
1927 Medal Winner: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)
1928 Medal Winner: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
1929 Medal Winner: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)
The 1930s:
1930 Medal Winner: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
1931 Medal Winner: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
1932 Medal Winner: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
1933 Medal Winner: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
1934 Medal Winner: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
1935 Medal Winner: Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)
1936 Medal Winner: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)
1937 Medal Winner: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
1938 Medal Winner: The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)
1939 Medal Winner: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
1923 Medal Winner: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Stokes)
1924 Medal Winner: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
1925 Medal Winner: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
1926 Medal Winner: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
1927 Medal Winner: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)
1928 Medal Winner: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
1929 Medal Winner: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)
The 1930s:
1930 Medal Winner: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
1931 Medal Winner: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
1932 Medal Winner: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
1933 Medal Winner: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
1934 Medal Winner: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
1935 Medal Winner: Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)
1936 Medal Winner: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)
1937 Medal Winner: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
1938 Medal Winner: The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)
1939 Medal Winner: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
The 1940s:
1940 Medal Winner: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)
1941 Medal Winner: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
1942 Medal Winner: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)
1943 Medal Winner: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
1944 Medal Winner: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton)
1945 Medal Winner: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)
1946 Medal Winner: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
1947 Medal Winner: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)
1948 Medal Winner: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
1949 Medal Winner: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
The 1950s:
1950 Medal Winner: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
1951 Medal Winner: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)
1952 Medal Winner: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
1953 Medal Winner: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
1954 Medal Winner: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1955 Medal Winner: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
1956 Medal Winner: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
1957 Medal Winner: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt)
1958 Medal Winner: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell)
1959 Medal Winner: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
The 1960s:
1960 Medal Winner: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1961 Medal Winner: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
1962 Medal Winner: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1963 Medal Winner: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
1964 Medal Winner: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)
1965 Medal Winner: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
1966 Medal Winner: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)
1967 Medal Winner: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett)
1968 Medal Winner: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
1969 Medal Winner: The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
The 1970s:
1970 Medal Winner: Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)
1971 Medal Winner: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)
1972 Medal Winner: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)
1973 Medal Winner: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)
1974 Medal Winner: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
1975 Medal Winner: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
1976 Medal Winner: The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
1977 Medal Winner: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
The 1980s:
1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
1984 Medal Winner: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
The 1990s:
1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
1994 Medal Winner: The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1999 Medal Winner: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
The 2000s:
2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Dial)
2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, (Candlewick Press)
2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
2009 Medal Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The 2010s:
2010 Medal Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
2011 Medal Winner: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
2012 Medal Winner: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
2013 Medal Winner: The One and Only Ivan by Katharine Applegate
2014 Medal Winner: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
2015 Medal Winner: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
2016 Medal Winner: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena
2017 Medal Winner: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
2018 Medal Winner: Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
2019 Medal Winner: Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
The 2020s:
2020 Medal Winner: New Kid by Jerry Craft
2021 Medal Winner: When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
2022 Medal Winner: TBD
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