# Newbery Medal

The John Newbery Medal, frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to the author of "the most distinguished contributions to American literature for children". The Newbery and the Caldecott Medal are considered the two most prestigious awards for children's literature in the United States. Books selected are widely carried by bookstores and libraries, the authors are interviewed on television, and master's theses and doctoral dissertations are written on them. Named for John Newbery, an 18th-century English publisher of juvenile books, the winner of the Newbery is selected at the ALA's Midwinter Conference by a fifteen-person committee. The Newbery was proposed by Frederic G. Melcher in 1921, making it the first children's book award in the world.$^{:1}$ The physical bronze medal was designed by Rene Paul Chambellan and is given to the winning author at the next ALA annual conference. Since its founding there have been several changes to the composition of the selection committee, while the physical medal remains the same.
Besides the Newbery Medal, the committee awards a variable number of citations to leading contenders, called Newbery Honors or Newbery Honor Books; until 1971, these books were called runners-up. As few as zero and as many as eight have been named, but from 1938 the number of Honors or runners-up has been one to five. To be eligible, a book must be written by a United States citizen or resident and must be published first or simultaneously in the United States in English during the preceding year. Six authors have won two Newbery Medals each, several have won both a Medal and Honor, while a larger number of authors have won multiple Honors, with Laura Ingalls Wilder having won five Honors without ever winning the Medal.

## History

The Newbery Medal was established on June 22, 1921, at the annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA). Proposed by Publishers Weekly editor Frederic G. Melcher, the proposal was well received by the children's librarians present and then approved by the ALA Executive Board. The award was administered by the ALA from the start, but Melcher provided funds that paid for the design and production of the medal.$^{:59}$ The Newbery Medal was inaugurated in 1922, considering books published in 1921.$^{:1}$ According to The Newbery and Caldecott Awards Melcher and the ALA Board agreed to establish the award for several reasons that related to children's librarians. They wanted to encourage quality, creative children's books and to demonstrate to the public that children's books deserve recognition and praise.$^{:1}$ In 1932 the committee felt it was important to encourage new writers in the field, so a rule was made that an author would win a second Newbery only if the vote was unanimous. The rule was in place until 1958.$^{:2}$ Joseph Krumgold became the first winner of a second Newbery in 1960. Another change, in 1963, made it clear that joint authors of a book were eligible for the award.$^{:2}$ Several more revisions and clarifications were added in the 1970s and 1980s.$^{:2–3}$ Significantly in 1971, the term Newbery Honor was introduced. Runners-up had been identified annually from the start, with a few exceptions only during the 1920s; all those runners-up were named Newbery Honor Books retroactively.$^{:2}$

### Medal

The physical medal was designed by Rene Paul Chambellan and depicts an author giving his work (a book) to a boy and a girl to read on one side and on the other side the inscription, "For the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".$^{:3,8}$ The bronze medal retains the name "Children's Librarians' Section", the original group responsible for awarding the medal, despite the sponsoring committee having changed names four times and now including both school and public librarians.$^{:3}$ Each winning author gets their own copy of the medal with their name engraved on it. Currently the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is responsible for the award.

### Committee

As Barbara Elleman explained in The Newbery and Caldecott Awards, the original Newbery was based on votes by a selected jury of Children's Librarian Section officers. Books were first nominated by any librarian, then the jury voted for one favorite. Hendrik van Loon's non-fiction history book The Story of Mankind won with 163 votes out of 212.$^{:11}$ In 1924 the process was changed, and instead of using popular vote it was decided that a special award committee would be formed to select the winner. The award committee was made up of the Children's Librarian Section executive board, their book evaluation committee and three members at large. In 1929 it was changed again to the four officers, the chairs of the standing committees and the ex-president. Nominations were still taken from members at large.$^{:13}$
In 1937 the American Library Association added the Caldecott Award, for "the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published in the United States". That year an award committee selected the Medal and Honor books for both awards.$^{:7}$ In 1978 the rules were changed and two committees were formed of fifteen people each, one for each award. A new committee is formed every year, with "eight elected, six appointed, and one appointed Chair".$^{:7}$ The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

## Selection process

Committee members are chosen to represent a wide variety of libraries, teachers and book reviewers. They read the books on their own time, then meet twice a year for closed discussions. Any book that qualifies is eligible; it does not have to have been nominated. The Newbery is given to the "author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published by an American publisher in the United States in English during the preceding year." $^{:4}$ Newbery winners are announced at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association, held in January or February.$^{:8}$ The Honor Books must be a subset of the runners-up on the final ballot, either the leading runners-up on that ballot or the leaders on one further ballot that excludes the winner.$^{:37}$ The results of the committee vote are kept secret, and winners are notified by phone shortly before the award is announced.$^{:8}$ In 2015, K. T. Horning of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Cooperative Children's Book Center proposed to ALSC that old discussions of the Newbery and Caldecott be made public in the service of researchers and historians. This proposal was met with both support and criticism by former committee members and recognized authors.

## Criticism

In October 2008, Anita Silvey, a children's literary expert, published an article in the School Library Journal criticizing the committee for choosing books that are too difficult for children. Lucy Calkins, of the Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University's Teachers College, agreed with Silvey: "I can't help but believe that thousands, even millions, more children would grow up reading if the Newbery committee aimed to spotlight books that are deep and beautiful and irresistible to kids". Then-ALSC President Pat Scales responded, "the criterion has never been popularity. It is about literary quality. How many adults have read all the Pulitzer Prize-winning books and... liked every one?" John Beach, associate professor of literacy education at St. John's University in New York, compared the books that adults choose for children with the books that children choose for themselves and found that in the 30 years before 2008 there was only a five percent overlap between the Children's Choice Awards (International Reading Association) and the Notable Children's Books list (American Library Association). He has also stated that "the Newbery has probably done far more to turn kids off to reading than any other book award in children's publishing."

## Recipients

Winners and Honor Books :
| Year | Author | Book | Award |
| 1922 | Hendrik Willem van Loon | The Story of Mankind | Winner |
| 1922 | William Bowen | The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure | Honor |
| 1922 | Padraic Colum | The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles | Honor |
| 1922 | Charles Boardman Hawes | The Great Quest | Honor |
| 1922 | Bernard Marshall | Cedric the Forester | Honor |
| 1922 | Cornelia Meigs | The Windy Hill | Honor |
| 1923 | Hugh Lofting | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | Winner |
| 1924 | Charles Boardman Hawes | The Dark Frigate | Winner |
| 1925 | Charles Finger | Tales from Silver Lands | Winner |
| 1925 | Anne Carroll Moore | Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story | Honor |
| 1925 | Anne Parrish & Dillwyn Parrish | The Dream Coach | Honor |
| 1926 | Arthur Bowie Chrisman | Shen of the Sea | Winner |
| 1926 | Padraic Colum | The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery | Honor |
| 1927 | Will James | Smoky the Cowhorse | Winner |
| 1928 | Dhan Gopal Mukerji | Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon | Winner |
| 1928 | Caroline Snedeker | Downright Dencey | Honor |
| 1928 | Ella Young | The Wonder Smith and His Son | Honor |
| 1929 | Eric P. Kelly | The Trumpeter of Krakow | Winner |
| 1929 | John Bennett | The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo with Seventeen Other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes | Honor |
| 1929 | Wanda Gág | Millions of Cats | Honor |
| 1929 | Grace Hallock | The Boy Who Was | Honor |
| 1929 | Cornelia Meigs | Clearing Weather | Honor |
| 1929 | Grace Moon | Runaway Papoose | Honor |
| 1929 | Elinor Whitney Field | Tod of the Fens | Honor |
| 1930 | Rachel Field | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | Winner |
| 1930 | Julia Davis Adams | Vaino, A Boy of New Finland | Honor |
| 1930 | Jeanette Eaton | A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland | Honor |
| 1930 | Marian Hurd McNeely | The Jumping-Off Place | Honor |
| 1930 | Elizabeth Cleveland Miller | Pran of Albania | Honor |
| 1930 | Hildegarde Swift | Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer | Honor |
| 1930 | Ella Young | The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales | Honor |
| 1931 | Elizabeth Coatsworth | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | Winner |
| 1931 | Julia Davis Adams | Mountains Are Free | Honor |
| 1931 | Herbert Best | Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes | Honor |
| 1931 | Agnes Hewes | Spice and the Devil's Cave | Honor |
| 1931 | Ralph Hubbard | Queer Person | Honor |
| 1931 | Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Alison Johansen | Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer | Honor |
| 1931 | Alida Malkus | The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess | Honor |
| 1931 | Anne Parrish | Floating Island | Honor |
| 1931 | Elizabeth Gray Vining | Meggy MacIntosh | Honor |
| 1932 | Laura Adams Armer | Waterless Mountain | Winner |
| 1932 | Marjorie Hill Allee | Jane's Island | Honor |
| 1932 | Mary Gould Davis | Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy | Honor |
| 1932 | Rachel Field | Calico Bush | Honor |
| 1932 | Dorothy P. Lathrop | The Fairy Circus | Honor |
| 1932 | Eloise Lownsbery | Out of the Flame | Honor |
| 1932 | Eunice Tietjens | Boy of the South Seas | Honor |
| 1933 | Elizabeth Foreman Lewis | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Winner |
| 1933 | Nora Burglon | Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia | Honor |
| 1933 | Cornelia Meigs | Swift Rivers | Honor |
| 1933 | Hildegarde Swift | The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War | Honor |
| 1934 | Cornelia Meigs | Invincible Louisa | Winner |
| 1934 | Erick Berry | Winged Girl of Knossos | Honor |
| 1934 | Padraic Colum | The Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside | Honor |
| 1934 | Wanda Gág | The ABC Bunny | Honor |
| 1934 | Agnes Hewes | Glory of the Seas | Honor |
| 1934 | Anne Dempster Kyle | Apprentice of Florence | Honor |
| 1934 | Sarah Lindsay Schmidt | New Land | Honor |
| 1934 | Elsie Singmaster | Swords of Steel | Honor |
| 1934 | Caroline Snedeker | The Forgotten Daughter | Honor |
| 1935 | Monica Shannon | Dobry | Winner |
| 1935 | Constance Rourke | Davy Crockett | Honor |
| 1935 | Elizabeth Seeger | Pageant of Chinese History | Honor |
| 1935 | Hilda van Stockum | A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic | Honor |
| 1936 | Carol Ryrie Brink | Caddie Woodlawn | Winner |
| 1936 | Kate Seredy | The Good Master | Honor |
| 1936 | Armstrong Sperry | All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud | Honor |
| 1936 | Phil Stong | Honk, the Moose | Honor |
| 1936 | Elizabeth Gray Vining | Young Walter Scott | Honor |
| 1937 | Ruth Sawyer | Roller Skates | Winner |
| 1937 | Ludwig Bemelmans | The Golden Basket | Honor |
| 1937 | Agnes Hewes | The Codfish Musket | Honor |
| 1937 | Idwal Jones | Whistler's Van | Honor |
| 1937 | Lois Lenski | Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book | Honor |
| 1937 | Constance Rourke | Audubon | Honor |
| 1937 | Margery Williams | Winterbound | Honor |
| 1938 | Kate Seredy | The White Stag | Winner |
| 1938 | James Cloyd Bowman | Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time | Honor |
| 1938 | Mabel Robinson | Bright Island | Honor |
| 1938 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | On the Banks of Plum Creek | Honor |
| 1939 | Elizabeth Enright | Thimble Summer | Winner |
| 1939 | Valenti Angelo | Nino | Honor |
| 1939 | Richard and Florence Atwater | Mr. Popper's Penguins | Honor |
| 1939 | Phyllis Crawford | Hello the Boat! | Honor |
| 1939 | Jeanette Eaton | Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot | Honor |
| 1939 | Elizabeth Gray Vining | Penn | Honor |
| 1940 | James Daugherty | Daniel Boone | Winner |
| 1940 | Stephen W. Meader | Boy with a Pack | Honor |
| 1940 | Mabel Robinson | Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz | Honor |
| 1940 | Kate Seredy | The Singing Tree | Honor |
| 1940 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | By the Shores of Silver Lake | Honor |
| 1941 | Armstrong Sperry | Call It Courage | Winner |
| 1941 | Mary Jane Carr | Young Mac of Fort Vancouver | Honor |
| 1941 | Doris Gates | Blue Willow | Honor |
| 1941 | Anna Gertrude Hall | Nansen | Honor |
| 1941 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | The Long Winter | Honor |
| 1942 | Walter D. Edmonds | The Matchlock Gun | Winner |
| 1942 | Genevieve Foster | George Washington's World | Honor |
| 1942 | Eva Roe Gaggin | Down Ryton Water | Honor |
| 1942 | Lois Lenski | Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | Honor |
| 1942 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Little Town on the Prairie | Honor |
| 1943 | Elizabeth Gray Vining | Adam of the Road | Winner |
| 1943 | Eleanor Estes | The Middle Moffat | Honor |
| 1943 | Mabel Leigh Hunt | Have You Seen Tom Thumb? | Honor |
| 1944 | Esther Forbes | Johnny Tremain | Winner |
| 1944 | Eleanor Estes | Rufus M. | Honor |
| 1944 | Julia Sauer | Fog Magic | Honor |
| 1944 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | These Happy Golden Years | Honor |
| 1944 | Elizabeth Yates | Mountain Born | Honor |
| 1945 | Robert Lawson | Rabbit Hill | Winner |
| 1945 | Alice Dalgliesh | The Silver Pencil | Honor |
| 1945 | Jeanette Eaton | Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams | Honor |
| 1945 | Eleanor Estes | The Hundred Dresses | Honor |
| 1945 | Genevieve Foster | Abraham Lincoln's World | Honor |
| 1946 | Lois Lenski | Strawberry Girl | Winner |
| 1946 | Marguerite Henry | Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Honor |
| 1946 | Florence Crannell Means | The Moved-Outers | Honor |
| 1946 | Katherine Shippen | New Found World | Honor |
| 1946 | Christine Weston | Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear | Honor |
| 1947 | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | Miss Hickory | Winner |
| 1947 | Nancy Barnes | The Wonderful Year | Honor |
| 1947 | Mary & Conrad Buff | Big Tree | Honor |
| 1947 | Cyrus Fisher | The Avion My Uncle Flew | Honor |
| 1947 | Eleanore M. Jewett | The Hidden Treasure of Glaston | Honor |
| 1947 | William Maxwell | The Heavenly Tenants | Honor |
| 1948 | William Pène du Bois | The Twenty-One Balloons | Winner |
| 1948 | Catherine Besterman | The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot | Honor |
| 1948 | Claire Huchet Bishop | Pancakes-Paris | Honor |
| 1948 | Harold Courlander | The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories | Honor |
| 1948 | Marguerite Henry | Misty of Chincoteague | Honor |
| 1948 | Carolyn Treffinger | Li Lun, Lad of Courage | Honor |
| 1949 | Marguerite Henry | King of the Wind | Winner |
| 1949 | Arna Bontemps | Story of the Negro | Honor |
| 1949 | Ruth S. Gannett | My Father's Dragon | Honor |
| 1949 | Holling C. Holling | Seabird | Honor |
| 1949 | Louise Rankin | Daughter of the Mountains | Honor |
| 1950 | Marguerite de Angeli | The Door in the Wall | Winner |
| 1950 | Rebecca Caudill | Tree of Freedom | Honor |
| 1950 | Catherine Coblentz | The Blue Cat of Castle Town | Honor |
| 1950 | Genevieve Foster | George Washington | Honor |
| 1950 | Walter & Marion Havighurst | Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin | Honor |
| 1950 | Rutherford George Montgomery | Kildee House | Honor |
| 1951 | Elizabeth Yates | Amos Fortune, Free Man | Winner |
| 1951 | Jeanette Eaton | Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword | Honor |
| 1951 | Mabel Leigh Hunt | Better Known as Johnny Appleseed | Honor |
| 1951 | Clara Ingram Judson | Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People | Honor |
| 1951 | Anne Parrish | The Story of Appleby Capple | Honor |
| 1952 | Eleanor Estes | Ginger Pye | Winner |
| 1952 | Elizabeth Baity | Americans Before Columbus | Honor |
| 1952 | Mary & Conrad Buff | The Apple and the Arrow | Honor |
| 1952 | Holling C. Holling | Minn of the Mississippi | Honor |
| 1952 | Nicholas Kalashnikoff | The Defender | Honor |
| 1952 | Julia Sauer | The Light at Tern Rock | Honor |
| 1953 | Ann Nolan Clark | Secret of the Andes | Winner |
| 1953 | Alice Dalgliesh | The Bears on Hemlock Mountain | Honor |
| 1953 | Genevieve Foster | Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 | Honor |
| 1953 | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | Moccasin Trail | Honor |
| 1953 | Ann Weil | Red Sails to Capri | Honor |
| 1953 | E. B. White | Charlotte's Web | Honor |
| 1954 | Joseph Krumgold | ...And Now Miguel | Winner |
| 1954 | Claire Huchet Bishop | All Alone | Honor |
| 1954 | Mary & Conrad Buff | Magic Maize | Honor |
| 1954 | Meindert DeJong | Hurry Home, Candy | Honor |
| 1954 | Meindert DeJong | Shadrach | Honor |
| 1954 | Clara Ingram Judson | Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot | Honor |
| 1955 | Meindert DeJong | The Wheel on the School | Winner |
| 1955 | Alice Dalgliesh | The Courage of Sarah Noble | Honor |
| 1955 | James Ullman | Banner in the Sky | Honor |
| 1956 | Jean Lee Latham | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | Winner |
| 1956 | Jennie Lindquist | The Golden Name Day | Honor |
| 1956 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Secret River | Honor |
| 1956 | Katherine Shippen | Men, Microscopes, and Living Things | Honor |
| 1957 | Virginia Sorensen | Miracles on Maple Hill | Winner |
| 1957 | Marguerite de Angeli | Black Fox of Lorne | Honor |
| 1957 | Meindert DeJong | The House of Sixty Fathers | Honor |
| 1957 | Fred Gipson | Old Yeller | Honor |
| 1957 | Clara Ingram Judson | Mr. Justice Holmes | Honor |
| 1957 | Dorothy Rhoads | The Corn Grows Ripe | Honor |
| 1958 | Harold Keith | Rifles for Watie | Winner |
| 1958 | Elizabeth Enright | Gone-Away Lake | Honor |
| 1958 | Leo Gurko | Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle | Honor |
| 1958 | Robert Lawson | The Great Wheel | Honor |
| 1958 | Mari Sandoz | The Horsecatcher | Honor |
| 1959 | Elizabeth George Speare | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Winner |
| 1959 | Natalie Savage Carlson | The Family Under the Bridge | Honor |
| 1959 | Meindert DeJong | Along Came a Dog | Honor |
| 1959 | Francis Kalnay | Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa | Honor |
| 1959 | William O. Steele | The Perilous Road | Honor |
| 1960 | Joseph Krumgold | Onion John | Winner |
| 1960 | Jean Craighead George | My Side of the Mountain | Honor |
| 1960 | Gerald W. Johnson | America Is Born: A History for Peter | Honor |
| 1960 | Carol Kendall | The Gammage Cup | Honor |
| 1961 | Scott O'Dell | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Winner |
| 1961 | Gerald W. Johnson | America Moves Forward: A History for Peter | Honor |
| 1961 | Jack Schaefer | Old Ramon | Honor |
| 1961 | George Selden | The Cricket in Times Square | Honor |
| 1962 | Elizabeth George Speare | The Bronze Bow | Winner |
| 1962 | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | The Golden Goblet | Honor |
| 1962 | Mary Stolz | Belling The Tiger | Honor |
| 1962 | Edwin Tunis | Frontier Living | Honor |
| 1963 | Madeleine L'Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | Winner |
| 1963 | Olivia Coolidge | Men of Athens | Honor |
| 1963 | Sorche Nic Leodhas | Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland | Honor |
| 1964 | Emily Cheney Neville | It's Like This, Cat | Winner |
| 1964 | Sterling North | Rascal | Honor |
| 1964 | Ester Wier | The Loner | Honor |
| 1965 | Maia Wojciechowska | Shadow of a Bull | Winner |
| 1965 | Irene Hunt | Across Five Aprils | Honor |
| 1966 | Elizabeth Borton de Treviño | I, Juan de Pareja | Winner |
| 1966 | Lloyd Alexander | The Black Cauldron | Honor |
| 1966 | Randall Jarrell | The Animal Family | Honor |
| 1966 | Mary Stolz | The Noonday Friends | Honor |
| 1967 | Irene Hunt | Up a Road Slowly | Winner |
| 1967 | Scott O'Dell | The King's Fifth | Honor |
| 1967 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories | Honor |
| 1967 | Mary Hays Weik | The Jazz Man | Honor |
| 1968 | E. L. Konigsburg | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Winner |
| 1968 | E. L. Konigsburg | Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth | Honor |
| 1968 | Scott O'Dell | The Black Pearl | Honor |
| 1968 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | The Fearsome Inn | Honor |
| 1968 | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | The Egypt Game | Honor |
| 1969 | Lloyd Alexander | The High King | Winner |
| 1969 | Julius Lester | To Be a Slave | Honor |
| 1969 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories | Honor |
| 1970 | William H. Armstrong | Sounder | Winner |
| 1970 | Sulamith Ish-kishor | Our Eddie | Honor |
| 1970 | Janet Gaylord Moore | The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art | Honor |
| 1970 | Mary Q. Steele | Journey Outside | Honor |
| 1971 | Betsy Byars | Summer of the Swans | Winner |
| 1971 | Natalie Babbitt | Knee-Knock Rise | Honor |
| 1971 | Sylvia Engdahl | Enchantress from the Stars | Honor |
| 1971 | Scott O'Dell | Sing Down the Moon | Honor |
| 1972 | Robert C. O'Brien | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Winner |
| 1972 | Allan W. Eckert | Incident at Hawk's Hill | Honor |
| 1972 | Virginia Hamilton | The Planet of Junior Brown | Honor |
| 1972 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Tombs of Atuan | Honor |
| 1972 | Miska Miles | Annie and the Old One | Honor |
| 1972 | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | The Headless Cupid | Honor |
| 1973 | Jean Craighead George | Julie of the Wolves | Winner |
| 1973 | Arnold Lobel | Frog and Toad Together | Honor |
| 1973 | Johanna Reiss | The Upstairs Room | Honor |
| 1973 | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | The Witches of Worm | Honor |
| 1974 | Paula Fox | The Slave Dancer | Winner |
| 1974 | Susan Cooper | The Dark Is Rising | Honor |
| 1975 | Virginia Hamilton | M. C. Higgins, the Great | Winner |
| 1975 | James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier | My Brother Sam Is Dead | Honor |
| 1975 | Bette Greene | Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe | Honor |
| 1975 | Elizabeth Marie Pope | The Perilous Gard | Honor |
| 1975 | Ellen Raskin | Figgs & Phantoms | Honor |
| 1976 | Susan Cooper | The Grey King | Winner |
| 1976 | Sharon Bell Mathis | The Hundred Penny Box | Honor |
| 1976 | Laurence Yep | Dragonwings | Honor |
| 1977 | Mildred D. Taylor | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Winner |
| 1977 | Nancy Bond | A String in the Harp | Honor |
| 1977 | William Steig | Abel's Island | Honor |
| 1978 | Katherine Paterson | Bridge to Terabithia | Winner |
| 1978 | Beverly Cleary | Ramona and Her Father | Honor |
| 1978 | Jamake Highwater | Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey | Honor |
| 1979 | Ellen Raskin | The Westing Game | Winner |
| 1979 | Katherine Paterson | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Honor |
| 1980 | Joan Blos | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal | Winner |
| 1980 | David Kherdian | The Road from Home | Honor |
| 1981 | Katherine Paterson | Jacob Have I Loved | Winner |
| 1981 | Jane Langton | The Fledgling | Honor |
| 1981 | Madeleine L'Engle | A Ring of Endless Light | Honor |
| 1982 | Nancy Willard | A Visit to William Blake's Inn | Winner |
| 1982 | Beverly Cleary | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Honor |
| 1982 | Aranka Siegal | Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939–1944 | Honor |
| 1983 | Cynthia Voigt | Dicey's Song | Winner |
| 1983 | Paul Fleischman | Graven Images | Honor |
| 1983 | Jean Fritz | Homesick: My Own Story | Honor |
| 1983 | Virginia Hamilton | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Honor |
| 1983 | Robin McKinley | The Blue Sword | Honor |
| 1983 | William Steig | Doctor De Soto | Honor |
| 1984 | Beverly Cleary | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Winner |
| 1984 | Bill Brittain | The Wish Giver | Honor |
| 1984 | Kathryn Lasky | Sugaring Time | Honor |
| 1984 | Elizabeth George Speare | The Sign of the Beaver | Honor |
| 1984 | Cynthia Voigt | A Solitary Blue | Honor |
| 1985 | Robin McKinley | The Hero and the Crown | Winner |
| 1985 | Bruce Brooks | The Moves Make the Man | Honor |
| 1985 | Paula Fox | One-Eyed Cat | Honor |
| 1985 | Mavis Jukes | Like Jake and Me | Honor |
| 1986 | Patricia MacLachlan | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Winner |
| 1986 | Rhoda Blumberg | Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun | Honor |
| 1986 | Gary Paulsen | Dogsong | Honor |
| 1987 | Sid Fleischman | The Whipping Boy | Winner |
| 1987 | Marion Dane Bauer | On My Honor | Honor |
| 1987 | Patricia Lauber | Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens | Honor |
| 1987 | Cynthia Rylant | A Fine White Dust | Honor |
| 1988 | Russell Freedman | Lincoln: A Photobiography | Winner |
| 1988 | Norma Fox Mazer | After the Rain | Honor |
| 1988 | Gary Paulsen | Hatchet | Honor |
| 1989 | Paul Fleischman | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Winner |
| 1989 | Virginia Hamilton | In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World | Honor |
| 1989 | Walter Dean Myers | Scorpions | Honor |
| 1990 | Lois Lowry | Number the Stars | Winner |
| 1990 | Janet Taylor Lisle | Afternoon of the Elves | Honor |
| 1990 | Gary Paulsen | The Winter Room | Honor |
| 1990 | Suzanne Fisher Staples | Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind | Honor |
| 1991 | Jerry Spinelli | Maniac Magee | Winner |
| 1991 | Avi | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Honor |
| 1992 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Shiloh | Winner |
| 1992 | Avi | Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel | Honor |
| 1992 | Russell Freedman | The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane | Honor |
| 1993 | Cynthia Rylant | Missing May | Winner |
| 1993 | Bruce Brooks | What Hearts | Honor |
| 1993 | Patricia McKissack | The Dark-Thirty | Honor |
| 1993 | Walter Dean Myers | Somewhere in the Darkness | Honor |
| 1994 | Lois Lowry | The Giver | Winner |
| 1994 | Jane Leslie Conly | Crazy Lady! | Honor |
| 1994 | Russell Freedman | Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | Honor |
| 1994 | Laurence Yep | Dragon's Gate | Honor |
| 1995 | Sharon Creech | Walk Two Moons | Winner |
| 1995 | Karen Cushman | Catherine, Called Birdy | Honor |
| 1995 | Nancy Farmer | The Ear, the Eye and the Arm | Honor |
| 1996 | Karen Cushman | The Midwife's Apprentice | Winner |
| 1996 | Carolyn Coman | What Jamie Saw | Honor |
| 1996 | Christopher Paul Curtis | The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 | Honor |
| 1996 | Carol Fenner | Yolonda's Genius | Honor |
| 1996 | Jim Murphy | The Great Fire | Honor |
| 1997 | E. L. Konigsburg | The View from Saturday | Winner |
| 1997 | Nancy Farmer | A Girl Named Disaster | Honor |
| 1997 | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | The Moorchild | Honor |
| 1997 | Megan Whalen Turner | The Thief | Honor |
| 1997 | Ruth White | Belle Prater's Boy | Honor |
| 1998 | Karen Hesse | Out of the Dust | Winner |
| 1998 | Patricia Reilly Giff | Lily's Crossing | Honor |
| 1998 | Gail Carson Levine | Ella Enchanted | Honor |
| 1998 | Jerry Spinelli | Wringer | Honor |
| 1999 | Louis Sachar | Holes | Winner |
| 1999 | Richard Peck | A Long Way from Chicago | Honor |
| 2000 | Christopher Paul Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy | Winner |
| 2000 | Audrey Couloumbis | Getting Near to Baby | Honor |
| 2000 | Jennifer L. Holm | Our Only May Amelia | Honor |
| 2000 | Tomie dePaola | 26 Fairmount Avenue | Honor |
| 2001 | Richard Peck | A Year Down Yonder | Winner |
| 2001 | Joan Bauer | Hope Was Here | Honor |
| 2001 | Sharon Creech | The Wanderer | Honor |
| 2001 | Kate DiCamillo | Because of Winn-Dixie | Honor |
| 2001 | Jack Gantos | Joey Pigza Loses Control | Honor |
| 2002 | Linda Sue Park | A Single Shard | Winner |
| 2002 | Polly Horvath | Everything on a Waffle | Honor |
| 2002 | Marilyn Nelson | Carver: A Life in Poems | Honor |
| 2003 | Avi | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Winner |
| 2003 | Nancy Farmer | The House of the Scorpion | Honor |
| 2003 | Patricia Reilly Giff | Pictures of Hollis Woods | Honor |
| 2003 | Carl Hiaasen | Hoot | Honor |
| 2003 | Ann M. Martin | A Corner of the Universe | Honor |
| 2003 | Stephanie S. Tolan | Surviving the Applewhites | Honor |
| 2004 | Kate DiCamillo | The Tale of Despereaux | Winner |
| 2004 | Kevin Henkes | Olive's Ocean | Honor |
| 2004 | Jim Murphy | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Honor |
| 2005 | Cynthia Kadohata | Kira-Kira | Winner |
| 2005 | Gennifer Choldenko | Al Capone Does My Shirts | Honor |
| 2005 | Russell Freedman | The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights | Honor |
| 2005 | Gary D. Schmidt | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | Honor |
| 2006 | Lynne Rae Perkins | Criss Cross | Winner |
| 2006 | Alan Armstrong | Whittington | Honor |
| 2006 | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | Honor |
| 2006 | Shannon Hale | Princess Academy | Honor |
| 2006 | Jacqueline Woodson | Show Way | Honor |
| 2007 | Susan Patron | The Higher Power of Lucky | Winner |
| 2007 | Jennifer L. Holm | Penny from Heaven | Honor |
| 2007 | Kirby Larson | Hattie Big Sky | Honor |
| 2007 | Cynthia Lord | Rules | Honor |
| 2008 | Laura Amy Schlitz | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | Winner |
| 2008 | Christopher Paul Curtis | Elijah of Buxton | Honor |
| 2008 | Gary D. Schmidt | The Wednesday Wars | Honor |
| 2008 | Jacqueline Woodson | Feathers | Honor |
| 2009 | Neil Gaiman | The Graveyard Book | Winner |
| 2009 | Kathi Appelt | The Underneath | Honor |
| 2009 | Margarita Engle | The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom | Honor |
| 2009 | Ingrid Law | Savvy | Honor |
| 2009 | Jacqueline Woodson | After Tupac and D Foster | Honor |
| 2010 | Rebecca Stead | When You Reach Me | Winner |
| 2010 | Phillip Hoose | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Honor |
| 2010 | Jacqueline Kelly | The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | Honor |
| 2010 | Grace Lin | Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Honor |
| 2010 | Rodman Philbrick | The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg | Honor |
| 2011 | Clare Vanderpool | Moon Over Manifest | Winner |
| 2011 | Jennifer L. Holm | Turtle in Paradise | Honor |
| 2011 | Margi Preus | Heart of a Samurai | Honor |
| 2011 | Joyce Sidman | Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night | Honor |
| 2011 | Rita Williams-Garcia | One Crazy Summer | Honor |
| 2012 | Jack Gantos | Dead End in Norvelt | Winner |
| 2012 | Thanhha Lai | Inside Out & Back Again | Honor |
| 2012 | Eugene Yelchin | Breaking Stalin's Nose | Honor |
| 2013 | Katherine Applegate | The One and Only Ivan | Winner |
| 2013 | Laura Amy Schlitz | Splendors and Glooms | Honor |
| 2013 | Steve Sheinkin | Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon | Honor |
| 2013 | Sheila Turnage | Three Times Lucky | Honor |
| 2014 | Kate DiCamillo | Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures | Winner |
| 2014 | Holly Black | Doll Bones | Honor |
| 2014 | Kevin Henkes | The Year of Billy Miller | Honor |
| 2014 | Amy Timberlake | One Came Home | Honor |
| 2014 | Vince Vawter | Paperboy | Honor |
| 2015 | Kwame Alexander | The Crossover | Winner |
| 2015 | Cece Bell | El Deafo | Honor |
| 2015 | Jacqueline Woodson | Brown Girl Dreaming | Honor |
| 2016 | Matt de la Peña | Last Stop on Market Street | Winner |
| 2016 | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | The War That Saved My Life | Honor |
| 2016 | Victoria Jamieson | Roller Girl | Honor |
| 2016 | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Echo | Honor |
| 2017 | Kelly Barnhill | The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Winner |
| 2017 | Ashley Bryan | Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan | Honor |
| 2017 | Adam Gidwitz | The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Honor |
| 2017 | Lauren Wolk | Wolf Hollow | Honor |
| 2018 | Erin Entrada Kelly | Hello, Universe | Winner |
| 2018 | Derrick Barnes | Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut | Honor |
| 2018 | Jason Reynolds | Long Way Down | Honor |
| 2018 | Renée Watson | Piecing Me Together | Honor |
| 2019 | Meg Medina | Merci Suárez Changes Gears | Winner |
| 2019 | Veera Hiranandani | The Night Diary | Honor |
| 2019 | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | The Book of Boy | Honor |
| 2020 | Jerry Craft | New Kid | Winner |
| 2020 | Kwame Alexander | The Undefeated | Honor |
| 2020 | Christian McKay Heidicker | Scary Stories for Young Foxes | Honor |
| 2020 | Jasmine Warga | Other Words for Home | Honor |
| 2020 | Alicia D. Williams | Genesis Begins Again | Honor |
| 2021 | Tae Keller | When You Trap a Tiger | Winner |
| 2021 | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | Fighting Words | Honor |
| 2021 | Erin Entrada Kelly | We Dream of Space | Honor |
| 2021 | Christina Soontornvat | All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team | Honor |
| 2021 | Christina Soontornvat | A Wish in the Dark | Honor |
| 2021 | Carole Boston Weatherford | Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom | Honor |
| 2022 | Donna Barba Higuera | The Last Cuentista | Winner |
| 2022 | Rajani LaRocca | Red, White, and Whole | Honor |
| 2022 | Darcie Little Badger | A Snake Falls to Earth | Honor |
| 2022 | Kyle Lukoff | Too Bright to See | Honor |
| 2022 | Andrea Wang | Watercress | Honor |
| 2023 | Amina Luqman-Dawson | Freewater | Winner |
| 2023 | Andrea Beatriz Arango | Iveliz Explains It All | Honor |
| 2023 | Christina Soontornvat | The Last Mapmaker | Honor |
| 2023 | Lisa Yee | Maizy Chen's Last Chance | Honor |
| 2024 | Dave Eggers | The Eyes and the Impossible | Winner |
| 2024 | M.T. Anderson | Elf Dog and Owl Head | Honor |
| 2024 | Erin Bow | Simon Sort of Says | Honor |
| 2024 | Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson | Eagle Drums | Honor |
| 2024 | Pedro Martín | MexiKid: A Graphic Memoir | Honor |
| 2024 | Daniel Nayeri | The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams | Honor |
| 2025 | Erin Entrada Kelly | The First State of Being | Winner |
| 2025 | Ruth Behar | Across So Many Seas | Honor |
| 2025 | Lesa Cline-Ransome | One Big Open Sky | Honor |
| 2025 | Chanel Miller | Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All | Honor |
| 2025 | Kate O'Shaughnessy | The Wrong Way Home | Honor |

## Multiple award winners

Listed below are all authors who have won at least two Newbery Medals or who have three or more Medals and/or Honors. Won a Newbery Medal and Honor
| Author | Total number of Medals and Honors | Number of Newbery Medals | Newbery Medals | Number of Newbery Honors | Newbery Honors |
| Avi | 3 | 1 | 2003 | 2 | 1991, 1992 |
| Mary and Conrad Buff | 3 | | | 3 | 1947, 1952, 1954 |
| Beverly Cleary | 3 | 1 | 1984 | 2 | 1978, 1982 |
| Padraic Colum | 3 | | | 3 | 1922, 1926, 1934 |
| Christopher Paul Curtis | 3 | 1 | 2000 | 2 | 1996, 2008 |
| Alice Dalgliesh | 3 | | | 3 | 1945, 1953, 1955 |
| Meindert DeJong | 5 | 1 | 1955 | 4 | 1954, 1954, 1957, 1959 |
| Kate DiCamillo | 3 | 2 | 2004, 2014 | 1 | 2001 |
| Jeanette Eaton | 4 | | | 4 | 1930, 1939, 1945, 1951 |
| Eleanor Estes | 4 | 1 | 1952 | 3 | 1943, 1944, 1945 |
| Nancy Farmer | 3 | | | 3 | 1995, 1997, 2003 |
| Genevieve Foster | 4 | | | 4 | 1942, 1945, 1950, 1953 |
| Russell Freedman | 4 | 1 | 1988 | 3 | 1992, 1994, 2005 |
| Elizabeth Gray Vining | 4 | 1 | 1943 | 3 | 1931, 1936, 1939 |
| Virginia Hamilton | 4 | 1 | 1975 | 3 | 1972, 1983, 1989 |
| Charles Boardman Hawes | 2 | 1 | 1924 | 1 | 1922 |
| Marguerite Henry | 3 | 1 | 1949 | 2 | 1946, 1948 |
| Agnes Hewes | 3 | | | 3 | 1931, 1934, 1937 |
| Jennifer L. Holm | 3 | | | 3 | 2000, 2007, 2011 |
| Clara Ingram Judson | 3 | | | 3 | 1951, 1954, 1957 |
| Erin Entrada Kelly | 3 | 2 | 2018, 2025 | 1 | 2021 |
| E. L. Konigsburg | 3 | 2 | 1968, 1997 | 1 | 1968 |
| Joseph Krumgold | 2 | 2 | 1954, 1960 | | |
| Lois Lenski | 3 | 1 | 1946 | 2 | 1937, 1942 |
| Lois Lowry | 2 | 2 | 1990, 1994 | | |
| Eloise Jarvis McGraw | 3 | | | 3 | 1953, 1962, 1997 |
| Cornelia Meigs | 4 | 1 | 1934 | 3 | 1922, 1929, 1933 |
| Scott O'Dell | 4 | 1 | 1961 | 3 | 1967, 1968, 1971 |
| Anne Parrish | 3 | | | 3 | 1925, 1931, 1951 |
| Katherine Paterson | 3 | 2 | 1978, 1981 | 1 | 1979 |
| Gary Paulsen | 3 | | | 3 | 1986, 1988, 1990 |
| Kate Seredy | 3 | 1 | 1938 | 2 | 1936, 1940 |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | 3 | | | 3 | 1967, 1968, 1969 |
| Zilpha Keatley Snyder | 3 | | | 3 | 1968, 1972, 1973 |
| Christina Soontornvat | 3 | | | 3 | 2021, 2021, 2023 |
| Elizabeth George Speare | 3 | 2 | 1959, 1962 | 1 | 1984 |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder | 5 | | | 5 | 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944 |
| Jacqueline Woodson | 4 | | | 4 | 2006, 2008, 2009, 2015 |