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Newbery Honor Book
The Newbery Honor Books are runners-up to the Newberry Medal, which is awarded each year for the preceding year’s most distinguished American picture book for children.
The medal is named in honor of John Newbery. He was an eighteenth-century British publisher of juvenile books. He made it a priority to create books specifically for children.
No Award was given in 1923, 1924, or 1927. That is because no book was considered suitable.
Learn more: official Newberry Medal and Honor homepage.
Winners:
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (1952)
The bears were nowhere to be seen when Jonathan went over the mountain, but it is getting dark as he starts on his return journey.
Read online at archive.org.
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1953)
In this fourth volume of her family saga, the Ingalls family moves to Minnesota and settles on the banks of Plum Creek.
Read online at archive.org.
All Alone (1953)
Marcel takes his family’s three cows to summer pasture on Little Giant all by himself.
Read online at archive.org.
These Happy Golden Years (1953)
In the final installment of Laura Ingalls’ biography she becomes Mrs. Almanzo Wilder.
Read online at archive.org.
The Golden Name Day (1955)
Nancy is staying with her Swedish grandparents for a year. They have to figure out how to celebrate her nine year old name day since her name is not Swedish.
Read online at archive.org.
The Black Fox of Lorne (1956)
Tenth-century Viking twins are shipwrecked on the Scottish coast and seek to avenge the death of their father.
The Great Wheel (1957)
Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris Wheel for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893.
The Junior Literary Guild edition has a library binding. A prepublication binding in yellow cloth without stamping on the spine has also been seen.
Read online at archive.org.
Gone-Away Lake (1957)
Portia and her cousin Julian discover an abandoned summer colony on the shores of a gone-away lake.
Read online at archive.org.
Joe Krush
The Family Under the Bridge (1958)
A homeless man meets a family of three children, their mother and their dog camping on his spot under a bridge over the Seine and ends up adopting them all.
Read online at archive.org.
The Gammage Cup (1959)
A light on the mountain brings conflict to the Land Between the Mountains, and the only Minnipins who stand in the breach are a band of outcasts.
Read online at archive.org.
My Side of the Mountain (1959)
Sam Gribley takes to the woods and lives by himself for a year.
The Cricket in Times Square (1960)
The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.
Read online at archive.org.
The Defender (1961)
Turgen, a Siberian herder, protects the mountain sheep from a hard winter.
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era (1963)
The story of a boy’s pet raccoon, later made into a movie of the same name.
The Loner (1963)
A boy without a name finds a home with a shepherd.
Dragonwings (1975)
A young man from China joins his father in early 20th century San Fancisco. Read online at archive.org.
The Fledgling (1980)
Georgie, a young girl, discovers she can fly.
Read online at archive.org.
Hatchet (1987)
Thirteen year old Brian is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness.
The Thief (1996)
Gen boasts he can steal anything, and the King’s Magus takes him up on it.