Book prize winners

Newbery Medal winners

74 winners and 5 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

Winners

  1. 2024 Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers First edition: Random House Children's Books 2023
  2. 2023 Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson First edition: Little, Brown 2022
  3. 2022 The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera First edition: Levine Querido 2021
  4. 2021 When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller First edition: Random House Children's Books 2020
  5. 2020 New Kid by Jerry Craft First edition: Quill Tree Books 2019
  6. 2019 Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina First edition: Candlewick Press 2018
  7. 2018 Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly First edition: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins 2017
  8. 2017 The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill First edition: Algonquin Young Readers 2016
  9. 2016 Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
  10. 2015 The Crossover by Kwame Alexander First edition: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2014
  11. 2014 Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo First edition: Walker Books 2013
  12. 2013 The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate First edition: HarperCollins 2011
  13. 2012 Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
  14. 2011 Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool First edition: Delacorte Press 2010
  15. 2010 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead First edition: Wendy Lamb Books 2009
  16. 2009 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman First edition: HarperCollins 2008
  17. 2007 The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron First edition: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2006
  18. 2006 Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins First edition: Greenwillow Books 2005
  19. 2005 Kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata First edition: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2004
  20. 2004 The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo First edition: Candlewick Press 2003
  21. 2003 Crispin by Avi First edition: Hyperion Books for Children 2002
  22. 2002 A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park First edition: Clarion Books 2001
  23. 2001 A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck First edition: Hodder Children's Books 2000
  24. 2000 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis First edition: Delacorte Press 1999
  25. 1999 Holes by Louis Sachar First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
  26. 1998 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse First edition: Scholastic 1997
  27. 1997 The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg First edition: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1996
  28. 1996 The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman First edition not yet identified
  29. 1994 The Giver by Lois Lowry First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1993
  30. 1992 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor First edition: Atheneum 1991
  31. 1991 Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli First edition: Little, Brown 1990
  32. 1990 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1989
  33. 1989 Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman First edition: Harper & Row 1988
  34. 1988 Lincoln by Russell Freedman First edition: Clarion Books 1987
  35. 1987 The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman First edition: Greenwillow Books 1986
  36. 1986 Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan First edition: MacRae 1985
  37. 1985 The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley First edition: Ace Books 1984
  38. 1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary First edition: MacRae 1983
  39. 1983 Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt First edition: Atheneum 1982
  40. 1982 A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard First edition: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1981
  41. 1980 A Gathering of Days by Joan Blos First edition: Scribner 1979
  42. 1979 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin First edition: Dutton 1978
  43. 1977 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor First edition: Puffin 1976
  44. 1976 The Grey King by Susan Cooper First edition: Chatto & Windus 1975
  45. 1973 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George First edition: HarperTrophy 1972
  46. 1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Zena Bernstein First edition: McGraw-Hill 1970
  47. 1971 The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars First edition: Kestrel Bks 1970
  48. 1970 Sounder by William H. Armstrong First edition: Harper & Row 1969
  49. 1969 The High King by Lloyd Alexander First edition: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1968
  50. 1967 Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt First edition: Follett Pub. Co 1966
  51. 1966 I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño First edition: G. Bell 1965
  52. 1965 Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska First edition: Atheneum 1964
  53. 1964 It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville First edition: Harper & Row 1963
  54. 1963 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle First edition not yet identified
  55. 1962 The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1961
  56. 1960 Onion John by Joseph Krumgold First edition: Crowell 1959
  57. 1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1958
  58. 1957 Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen First edition: Harcourt, Brace 1956
  59. 1953 Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark First edition: Viking 1952
  60. 1951 Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates First edition: Puffin Newbery 1950
  61. 1948 The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois First edition: Viking 1947
  62. 1947 Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey First edition: Puffin 1946
  63. 1945 Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson First edition: Viking 1944
  64. 1944 Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes First edition: Houghton Miffin Harcourt, Chatto & Windus 1943
  65. 1942 The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds First edition: Dodd, Mead 1941
  66. 1938 The White Stag by Kate Seredy First edition: Viking 1937
  67. 1934 Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs First edition: Little, Brown 1933
  68. 1930 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field First edition: Macmillan 1929
  69. 1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly First edition: Macmillan 1928
  70. 1928 Gay-Neck by Dhan Gopal Mukerji First edition: Dutton 1927
  71. 1927 Smoky, the Cow Horse by Will James First edition: Scribner 1926
  72. 1926 Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman First edition: Dutton 1925
  73. 1924 The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes First edition: Atlantic Monthly Press 1923
  74. 1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting First edition: Fredsuperscript k A. Stokes co 1922

Shortlisted and nominated

  1. 1972 Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles First edition: Little, Brown 1971
  2. 1955 The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh First edition: Scribner 1954
  3. 1953 Charlotte's Web by E. B. White First edition: Hamish Hamilton 1952
  4. 1949 My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett First edition: Random House 1948
  5. 1939 Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater First edition: Little, Brown 1938

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