Toddler Books Introduces the Newberry Medal Winners
While the Caldecott list will have more toddler books, I decided I would provide both the Newberry and the Caldecott lists as resources for parents interested in
knowing which books have received special recognition. The Newberry list has books that are great for gifts, older siblings or
for building a future home library. I myself have used a number of these while teaching 4th grade in literature units.
Amazon is a great source for reviews about toddler books as well as older children's books while also offering competitive prices on new and used books
and opportunities to earn free shipping, so you are encouraged to check any of the titles in the Amazon search box provided in the right column.
Other good sources for books are eBay, yard sales, and used bookstores. Checking with Amazon first is often a good way to base whether prices from
other sources are a good deal or not.
eBay is another great source for
About the Newberry Award
Established 1922. A medal presented annually to the author of the most
distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in the United States in the preceding year. The
recipient must be a citizen or resident of the United States. The winner is announced at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting (January/February),
and the award is presented at the ALA summer conference.
2008 - Laura Amy SchlitzGood Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
2007 - Susan PatronThe Higher Power of Lucky
2006 - Lynne Rae PerkinsCriss Cross
2005 - Cynthia KadohataKira-Kira
2004 - Kate DiCamilloThe Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
2003 - AviCrispin: The Cross of Lead
2002 - Linda Sue ParkA Single Shard
2001 - Richard PeckA Year Down Yonder
2000 - Christopher Paul CurtisBud, Not Buddy
1999 - Louis Sachar, Holes
1998 - Karen Hesse. Out of the Dust
1997 - E.L. Konigsburg. The View From Saturday
1996 - Karen Cushman. The Midwife's Apprentice
1995 - Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons
1994 - Lois Lowry. The Giver
1993 - Cynthia Rylant. Missing May
1992 - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Shiloh
1991 - Jerry Spinelli. Maniac Magee
1990 - Lois Lowry. Number the Stars
1989 - Paul Fleischman. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
1988 - Russell Freedman. Lincoln: A Photobiography
1987 - Sid Fleischman. The Whipping Boy
1986 - Patricia MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall
1985 - Robin McKinley. The Hero and the Crown
1984 - Beverly Cleary. Dear Mr. Henshaw
1983 - Cynthia Voigt. Dicey's Song
1982 - Nancy Willard. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for
Innocent and Experienced Travelers
1981 - Katherine Paterson. Jacob Have I Loved
1980 - Joan Blos. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal,
1830-32
1979 - Ellen Raskin. The Westing Game
1978 - Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia
1977 - Mildred D. Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1976 - Susan Cooper. The Grey King
1975 - Virginia Hamilton. M.C. Higgins, the Great
1974 - Paula Fox. The Slave Dancer
1973 - Jean Craighead George. Julie of the Wolves
1972 - Robert C. O'Brien. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
1971 - Betsy Byars. The Summer of the Swans
1970 - William H. Armstrong. Sounder
1969 - Lloyd Alexander. The High King
1968 - E.L. Konigsburg. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1967 - Irene Hunt. Up a Road Slowly
1966 - Elizabeth Borton de Treviño. I, Juan de Pareja
1965 - Maia Wojciechowska. Shadow of a Bull
1964 - Emily C. Neville. It's Like This, Cat
1963 - Madeleine L'Engle. A Wrinkle in Time
1962 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Bronze Bow
1961 - Scott O'Dell. Island of the Blue Dolphins
1960 - John Krumgold. Onion John
1959 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
1958 - Harold V. Keith. Rifles for Watie
1957 - Virginia Sorensen. Miracles on Maple Hill
1956 - Jean Lee Latham. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
1955 - Meindert DeJong. The Wheel on the School
1954 - John Krumgold. ... And Now Miguel
1953 - Ann Nolan Clark. Secret of the Andes
1952 - Eleanor Estes. Ginger Pye
1951 - Elizabeth Yates. Amos Fortune, Free Man
1950 - Marguerite de Angeli. The Door in the Wall
1949 - Marguerite Henry. King of the Wind
1948 - William Pène du Bois. The Twenty-One Balloons
1947 - Carolyn S. Bailey. Miss Hickory
1946 - Lois Lenski. Strawberry Girl
1945 - Robert Lawson. Rabbit Hill
1944 - Esther Forbes. Johnny Tremain
1943 - Elizabeth Janet Gray. Adam of the Road
1942 - Walter D. Edmonds. The Matchlock Gun
1941 - Armstrong Sperry. Call It Courage
1940 - James Daugherty. Daniel Boone
1939 - Elizabeth Enright. Thimble Summer
1938 - Kate Seredy. The White Stag
1937 - Ruth Sawyer. Roller Skates
1936 - Carol Ryrie Brink. Caddie Woodlawn
1935 - Monica Shannon. Dobry
1934 - Cornelia Meigs. Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of
Little Women
1933 - Elizabeth Lewis. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1932 - Laura Adams Armer. Waterless Mountain
1931 - Elizabeth Coatsworth. The Cat Who Went to Heaven
1930 - Rachel Field. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
1929 - Eric P Kelly. The Trumpeter of Krakow: A Tale of the Fifteenth
Century
1928 - Dhan Mukerji. Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
