Award Winning Books for Kids

The Newbery Medal Winners

2008 - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
2007 - The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan
2006 - Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
2005 - Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
2004 - The 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 Naylor
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 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
1981 - Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
1980 - A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 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 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 C. George
1972 - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
1971 - Summer of the Swans by Betsy C. Byars
1970 - Sounder by William 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 B. de Trevi
1965 - Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
1964 - It's Like This, Cat by Emily C. Neville
1963- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
1962 - The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth G. 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 G. Speare
1958 - Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
1957 - Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
1956 - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean L. Latham
1955 - The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong
1954 - And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
1953 - Secret of the Andes by Ann N. Clark
1952 - Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
1951 - Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
1950 - The Door in the Wall: Story of Medieval London 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 S. Bailey
1946 - Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
1945 - Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
1944 - Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes
1943 - Adam of the Road by Elizabeth J. Gray
1942 - The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. 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 R. Brink
1935 - Dobry by Monica Shannon
1934 - Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs
1933 - Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth F. Lewis
1932 - Waterless Mountain by Laura A. 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 G. Mukerji
1927 - Smoky, the Cow Horse by Will James
1926 - Shen of the Sea by Arthur B. Chrisman
1925 - Tales from Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger
1924 - The Dark Frigate by Charles B. Hawes
1923 - The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922 -The Story of Mankind by Hendrik W. Van Loon

The Caldecott Medal Winner

2008 - The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
2007 - Flotsam by David Wiesner
2006 - The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated by Chris Raschka and written by Norton Juster
2005 - Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
2004 - The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
2003 - My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
2002 - The Three Little Pigs by David Wiesner
2001 - So You Want to Be President? by David Small
2000 - Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
1999 - Snowflake Bentley 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 David Diaz
1994 - Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
1993 - Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
1992 - Tuesday by David Wiesner
1991 - Black and White by David Macaulay
1990 - Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
1989 - Song and Dance Man by Stephen Gammell
1988 - Owl Moon by John Schoenherr
1987 - Hey, Al! by Richard Egielski
1986 - The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
1985 - St. George and the Dragon by Trina S. Hyman
1984 - The Glorious Flight by Alice & Martin Provensen
1983 - Shadow by Marcia Brown
1982 - Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
1981 - Fables by Arnold Lobel
1980 - Ox-Cart Man by Barbara Cooney
1979 - The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
1978 - Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
1977 - Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Leo Dillon
1976 - Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Leo Dillon
1975 - Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald McDermott
1974 - Duffy and the Devil by Margot Zemach
1973 - The Funny Little Woman 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 by Uri Shulevitz
1968 - Drummer Hoff by Ed Emberley
1967 - Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness
1966 - Always Room for One More by Nonny Hogrogian
1965 - May I Bring a Friend? by Beni Montresor
1964 - Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
1963 - The Snowy Day by Ezra J. Keats
1962 - Once a Mouse. . . by Marcia Brown
1961 - B"boushka and the Three Kings by Nicholas Sidjakov
1960 - Nine Days to Christmas by Maria H. Ets
1959 - Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney
1958 - Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
1957 - A Tree Is Nice by Marc Simont
1956 - Frog Went A-Courtin' by Feodor Rojankovsky
1955 - Cinderella by Marcia Brown
1954 - Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
1953 - The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
1952 - Finders Keepers by Nicolas Mordvinoff
1951 - The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
1950 - Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
1949 - The Big Snow by Berta Hader
1948 - White Snow, Bright Snow by Roger Duvoisin
1947 - The Little Island by Leonard Weisgard
1946 - The Rooster Crows by Maud Petersham
1945 - Prayer for a Child by Elizabeth O. Jones
1944 - Many Moons by Louis Slobodkin
1943 - The Little House by Virginia L. Burton
1942 - Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
1941 - They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson
1940 - Abraham Lincoln by Ingri d'Aulaire
1939 - Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
1938 - Animals of the Bible by Dorothy Lathrop