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Click here for a complete list of Newbery Medalists, organized by year with ratings, FLAWS, and links to book reviews.

Once upon a time there was a bookseller. His name was Frederic G. Melcher, and he knew in his heart that books for children were just as important as books for adults, if not more so. Why, he wondered, are they so often ignored? He thought and thought, and decided in the end that it didn't matter why; what mattered was that he did something to change all that.

He did. In 1921, he proposed the Newbery Award to the American Library Association, a prize named for 18th-century English bookseller John Newbery to be given to the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. The Association's Executive Board approved the idea, much to the joy of children's librarians everywhere, and the first Newbery Award was given in 1922.

The express purpose of the medal was "To encourage original creative work in the field of books for children. To emphasize to the public that contributions to the literature for children deserve similar recognition to poetry, plays, or novels. To give those librarians, who make it their life work to serve children's reading interests, an opportunity to encourage good writing in this field."

Melcher's brainchild was the first children's book award in the world, and remains the measure of all the others. He went on to initiate the Caldecott Award for best illustrated children's book, and together the Newbery and the Caldecott provide an important standard for evaluating children's books in the United States and beyond.

Between 2012-2014, our friend Caleb undertook the project of reviewing ALL the medalists, which he completed (he wrote a sad summary of his journey here). While that is essentially done (we haven't managed to keep it up), we're now gathering information to compile reviews for the honor books! If you'd like to be a part of that process, we invite you to join us at the Facebook group "The Newbery Books Discussion Group."

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	Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman from J.B. Lippincott Co. Realistic Fiction for 4th-8th grade 1955 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $15.00 (1 in stock)
	Black Cauldron Prydain Chronicles #2 by Lloyd Alexander from Holt, Rinehart and Winston Fantasy for 4th-8th grade 1966 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens, illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon from Macmillan for 4th-8th grade 1932 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Boy Who Was by Grace Taber Hallock, illustrated by Harrie Wood from E.P. Dutton & Co. for 4th-8th grade 1929 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader, illustrated by Edward Shenton from Harcourt, Brace & Company for 6th-10th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Bright Island by Mabel Louise Robinson, illustrated by Lynd Ward 4th printing from Random House Books for Young Readers for 5th-8th grade 1938 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Calico Bush by Rachel Field Second Printing from Macmillan Realistic Fiction for 5th-8th grade 1932 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham, illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II from Houghton Mifflin Biography for 5th-9th grade 1956 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes, illustrated by Armstrong Sperry from Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc. for 8th-12th grade 1937 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $45.00 (1 in stock)
	Dark Star of Itza The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus, illustrated by Lowell Houser 1^st edition from Harcourt, Brace & Company for 5th-8th grade 1931 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Dobry by Monica Shannon; illustrated by Atanas Katchamakoff 15th printing 1967 from Viking Press for 4th-8th grade 1935 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $20.00 (2 in stock)
	Downright Dencey by Caroline Dale Snedeker, illustrated by Maginel Wright Barney from Doubleday & Company Realistic Fiction for 6th-9th grade 1928 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $22.00 (1 in stock)
	Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop 1969 printing from Macmillan for 5th-9th grade 1930 Newbery Medal Winner in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Knee-Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt from Farrar, Straus and Giroux for 5th-8th grade 1971 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $15.00 (1 in stock)
	Meggy MacIntosh A Highland Girl in the Carolina Colony by Elizabeth Janet Gray, illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli from Viking Press for 7th-10th grade 1931 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Moccasin Trail Puffin Newbery Library by Eloise J. McGraw 9th impression from Coward McCann Historical Fiction for 4th-8th grade 1953 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $35.00 (1 in stock)
	Mountains are Free by Julia Davis Adams from E.P. Dutton & Co. for 6th-10th grade 1931 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means, illustrated by Helen Blair for 6th-10th grade 1946 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore, illustrated by Jay Van Everen from G.P. Putnam's Sons for 5th-8th grade 1925 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen, illustrated by Raymond Lufkin from Little, Brown & Company for 4th-8th grade 1931 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo With Seventeen Other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes by John Bennett from Longmans, Green & Co. for 3rd-8th grade 1929 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller, illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham 1930s printing from Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc. for 6th-10th grade 1930 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $115.00 (1 in stock)
	Railroad to Freedom A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde H. Swift, illustrated by James Daugherty 1960 printing from Harcourt, Brace & World for 5th-8th grade 1933 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil, illustrated by C. B. Falls from Viking Press Realistic Fiction for 4th-8th grade Newbery Honor in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Valenti Angelo from Viking Press Realistic fiction for 5th-8th grade 1937 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $17.00 (1 in stock)
	Runner of the Mountain Tops The Life of Louis Agassiz Junior Literary Guild by Mabel Louise Robinson, illustrated by Lynd Ward from Random House for 7th-10th grade 1940 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Runner of the Mountain Tops The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Louise Robinson, illustrated by Lynd Ward 1st Printing from Random House for 7th-10th grade 1940 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Slave Dancer by Paula Fox, illustrated by Eros Keith from Bradbury Press Historical Fiction for 6th-10th grade 1974 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Song of the Pines A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin Land of the Free Series by Walter & Marion Havighurst, illustrated by Richard Floethe 1^st edition from John C. Winston Historical fiction for 6th-10th grade 1950 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes, illustrated by Lynd Ward from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for 7th-10th grade 1931 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	String in the Harp by Nancy Bond from Atheneum for 4th-8th grade 1977 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Tales from Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger 1971 printing from Doubleday & Company for 4th-8th grade 1925 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $10.00 (2 in stock)
	Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Kelly, illustrated by Angela Pruszynska 1965 Printing from Macmillan for 6th-9th grade 1929 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly, illustrated by Angela Pruszynska from Macmillan Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade 1929 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $25.00 (1 in stock)
	Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt from Follett Realistic Fiction for 6th-9th grade 1967 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Vaino A Boy of New Finland by Julia Davis Adams, illustrated by Lempi Ostman from E.P. Dutton & Co. for 6th-10th grade 1930 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Voyagers, The Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum, illustrated by Wilfred Jones from Macmillan for 4th-8th grade 1926 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, illustrated by Ed Young from Henry Holt and Company Realistic Fiction for 5th-8th grade 1933 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $8.00 (2 in stock)
	Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, illustrated by Ed Young 1963 Printing from Holt, Rinehart and Winston Realistic Fiction for 5th-8th grade 1933 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
	Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr, illustrated by Richard Holberg from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. for 5th-8th grade 1941 Newbery Honor Book in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $15.00 (2 in stock)

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