A few weeks ago, I posted about Pulitzer Prize winners. The post received attention from Lana Cole at https://colecampfireblog.com, who has decided to read all of the Newbery winners. (See her post about it here https://colecampfireblog.com/2018/07/21/my-new-reading-goal/) She has inspired me to see how many I’ve read.
Here’s the list. The ones I have read are in bold.
1922 Hendrik Willem van Loon The Story of Mankind
1923 Hugh Lofting The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
1924 Charles Boardman Hawes The Dark Frigate
1925 Charles Finger Tales from Silver Lands
1926 Arthur Bowie Chrisman Shen of the Sea
1927 Will James Smoky the Cow Horse
1928 Dhan Gopal Mukerji Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
1929 Eric P. Kelly The Trumpeter of Krakow
1930 Rachel Field Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
1931 Elizabeth Coatsworth The Cat Who Went to Heaven
1932 Laura Adams Armer Waterless Mountain
1933 Elizabeth Foreman Lewis Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1934 Cornelia Meigs Invincible Louisa
1935 Monica Shannon Dobry
1936 Carol Ryrie Brink Caddie Woodlawn
1937 Ruth Sawyer Roller Skates
1938 Kate Seredy The White Stag
1939 Elizabeth Enright Thimble Summer
1940 James Daugherty Daniel Boone
1941 Armstrong Sperry Call It Courage
1942 Walter D. Edmonds The Matchlock Gun
1943 Elizabeth Janet Gray Adam of the Road
1944 Esther Forbes Johnny Tremain
1945 Robert Lawson Rabbit Hill
1946 Lois Lenski Strawberry Girl
1947 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Miss Hickory
1948 William Pène du Bois The Twenty-One Balloons
1949 Marguerite Henry King of the Wind
1950 Marguerite de Angeli The Door in the Wall
1951 Elizabeth Yates Amos Fortune, Free Man
1952 Eleanor Estes Ginger Pye
1953 Ann Nolan Clark Secret of the Andes
1954 Joseph Krumgold …And Now Miguel
1955 Meindert DeJong The Wheel on the School
1956 Jean Lee Latham Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
1957 Virginia Sorensen Miracles on Maple Hill
1958 Harold Keith Rifles for Watie
1959 Elizabeth George Speare The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1960 Joseph Krumgold Onion John
1961 Scott O’Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins
1962 Elizabeth George Speare The Bronze Bow
1963 Madeleine L’Engle A Wrinkle in Time
1964 Emily Cheney Neville It’s Like This, Cat
1965 Maia Wojciechowska Shadow of a Bull
1966 Elizabeth Borton de Treviño I, Juan de Pareja
1967 Irene Hunt Up a Road Slowly
1968 E. L. Konigsburg From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1969 Lloyd Alexander The High King
1970 William H. Armstrong Sounder
1971 Betsy Byars Summer of the Swans
1972 Robert C. O’Brien Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1973 Jean Craighead George Julie of the Wolves
1974 Paula Fox The Slave Dancer
1975 Virginia Hamilton M. C. Higgins, the Great
1976 Susan Cooper The Grey King
1977 Mildred Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978 Katherine Paterson Bridge to Terabithia
1979 Ellen Raskin The Westing Game
1980 Joan Blos A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal
1981 Katherine Paterson Jacob Have I Loved
1982 Nancy Willard A Visit to William Blake’s Inn
1983 Cynthia Voigt Dicey’s Song
1984 Beverly Cleary Dear Mr. Henshaw
1985 Robin McKinley The Hero and the Crown
1986 Patricia MacLachlan Sarah, Plain and Tall
1987 Sid Fleischman The Whipping Boy
1988 Russell Freedman Lincoln: A Photobiography
1989 Paul Fleischman Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
1990 Lois Lowry Number the Stars
1991 Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee
1992 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Shiloh
1993 Cynthia Rylant Missing May
1994 Lois Lowry The Giver
1995 Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons
1996 Karen Cushman The Midwife’s Apprentice
1997 E. L. Konigsburg The View from Saturday
1998 Karen Hesse Out of the Dust
1999 Louis Sachar Holes
2000 Christopher Paul Curtis Bud, Not Buddy
2001 Richard Peck A Year Down Yonder
2002 Linda Sue Park A Single Shard
2003 Avi Crispin: The Cross of Lead
2004 Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux
2005 Cynthia Kadohata Kira-Kira
2006 Lynne Rae Perkins Criss Cross
2007 Susan Patron The Higher Power of Lucky
2008 Laura Amy Schlitz Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
2009 Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book
2010 Rebecca Stead When You Reach Me
2011 Clare Vanderpool Moon Over Manifest
2012 Jack Gantos Dead End in Norvelt
2013 Katherine Applegate The One and Only Ivan
2014 Kate DiCamillo Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
2015 Kwame Alexander The Crossover
2016 Matt de la Peña Last Stop on Market Street
2017 Kelly Barnhill The Girl Who Drank the Moon
2018 Erin Entrada Kelly Hello, Universe
It looks like I’ve read 22 of them. I recognize many of the titles from my childhood, even those I haven’t read yet, and some of them I’ve read in the past five years with my children. I want to read more!
How many have you read?
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I have a collection of a lot of Newbery honors and winners. I’ve read a lot of early ones. That Mankind book is huge and complex. I’d like to see a kid read it! Hitty and Gaylord and the Coatsworth cat books are great.
Interesting that one of them maybe isn’t for kids!
Maybe kids in the 1920s, but not today’s kids!
I have read 13. I will add these to my ever growing list of books.
The TBR list never gets any shorter, does it! 🙂
I’ve read quite a few, but so many more of them I would like to read! As usual… 🙂
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I’ve only read one! Basil E Frankweiler.
That is a really good one, though!
I have read Johnny Tremain, King of the Wind, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Bronze Bow, A Wrinkle in Time, Bridge to Terabithia, and Sarah, Plain and Tall.
That’s a great list of them.
Great post and thank you for the mention Emily! Currently I have read about 40 of them.. the latest was over the weekend, I finished up Flora & Ulysses! 💗 Happy Reading!😊
You’re welcome, Lana! You are doing such a fun reading project.
I absolutely adore Flora & Ulysses!
It was definitely a fun one! I’m glad you enjoyed it too! I just finished up The Tale of Despereaux. It was cute!
Love this!
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I’ve read a few of them, mostly when I was younger, but I did not realize how old some of these books are! Ginger Pye was one of my favorites growing up but I had no idea it was written in the 50s!
They are classics!
Good heavens! I saw a copy of The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1959) on a visit to the American Writers Museum and my heart lurched! I can’t remember what the story was about but I remember reading it as a kid in Detroit in the early 1970s and having that revelatory “books can do this?!” feeling.
I love this story, Leslie! That sums up the power of books right there. And The Witch of Blackbird Pond is about witches in early New England. I only know that because I reread it a few years ago with my daughter and got to review the plot.
Not. A. Single. One.
Oh, this makes me sad. Try some!
I know. But then, to my credit, I had never heard of the Newbery award. I read tons of stuff, but I don’t associate much with bibliophiles, so I am not up on such matters :).
Well, in that case, I forgive you. 😉 I hope you try a few of them!
I lost count at about 22 or 23. And many of them are favorites from childhood. A good list to keep on hand. Thanks for posting it.
You’re welcome. It sounds like you’ve read a lot of them so far.
I hadn’t heard of the Newbery Award and needed to consult ‘google’. But it looks impressive.
I’m glad we have Google! I like reading to my kids, so having a list of the best chapter books for children handy is always good thing for me.