Award Winners
NEWBERY WINNERS - Award for best children's fiction
2020: New Kid by Jerry Craft
2019: Mercy Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
2018: Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelley
2017: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
2016: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena
2015: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
2014: Flora & Ulysses, The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
2011: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gamain
2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by L. Schlitz
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
2005: Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
2004: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
2000: Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pïne du Bois
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Doubleday)
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
CALDECOTT WINNERS - award for best illustrations in a children's book
2020: The Undefeated by Kadir Nelson
2019: Hello Lighthosue by Sophie Blackall
2018: Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell
2017: Radiant Child: the Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
2016: Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, illustrated by Sophie Blackwell
2015: The Adventures of Beekle, the Unimaginary Friend, Dan Santat
2014: Locomotive by Brian Floca
2013: This is not my Hat by Jon Klassen
2012: A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka
2011: A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Erin Stead
2010: The Lion and The Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
2009: The House in the Night illustrated by Beth Krommes, text by Susan Marie Swanson
2008: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
2007: Flotsam by David Wiesner
2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window, illustrated by Chris Raschka, text by Norton Juster
2005: Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
2004: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
2002: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
2001: So You Want to be President? illustrated by David Small, text by Judith St. George
2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Simms Taback
1999: Snowflake Bentley, illustrated by Mary Azarian, text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
1998: Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky
1997: Golem by David Wisniewski
1996: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
1995: Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz, text by Eve Bunting
1994: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
1993: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
1992: Tuesday by David Wiesner
1991: Black and White by David Macaulay
1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
1989: Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, text by Karen Ackerman
1988: Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr, text by Jane Yolen
1987: Hey, Al, illustrated by Richard Egielski, text by Arthur Yorinks
1986: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
1985: Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, retold by Margaret Hodges
1984: The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen
1983: Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown
1982: Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
1981: Fables by Arnold Lobel
1980: Ox-Cart Man, illustrated by Barbara Cooney, text by Donald Hall
1979: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
1978: Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
1977: Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon
1976: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon, text: retold by Verna Aardema
1975: Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
1974: Duffy and the Devil, illustrated by Margot Zemach, retold by Harve Zemach
1973: The Funny Little Woman, illustrated by Blair Lent
1972: One Fine Day, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian
1971: A Story A Story, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley
1970: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
1969: The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz
1968: Drummer Hoff, illustrated by Ed Emberley
1967: Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness
1966: Always Room for One More, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian, text by Sorche Nic Leodhas
1965: May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor
1964: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
1963: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
1962: Once a Mouse, retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown
1961: Baboushka and the Three Kings, illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov
1960: Nine Days to Christmas, illustrated by Marie Hall Ets
1959: Chanticleer and the Fox, illustrated by Barbara Cooney
1958: Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
1957: A Tree is Nice, illustrated by Marc Simont
1956: Frog Went A-Courtin', illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky
1955: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, illustrated by Marcia Brown
1954: Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
1953: The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
1952: Finders Keepers, illustrated by Nicolas, pseud.
1951: The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
1950: Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
1949: The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader
1948: White Snow, Bright Snow, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin
1947: The Little Island, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
1946: The Rooster Crows by Maude & Miska Petersham
1945: Prayer for a Child, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones
1944: Many Moons, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin
1943: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
1942: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
1941: They Were Strong and Good, by Robert Lawson
1940: Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
1939: Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
1938: Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop
BATCHELDER WINNERS - for a children's book originally published in another language
2015: Mikis and the Donkey by Bibi Dumon Tak
2014: Mister Orange, written by Truus Matti, translated by Laura Watkinson
2013: My Family for the War, written by Anne C. Voorhoeve, translated by Tammi Reichel
2012: Soldier Bear, written by Bibi Dumon Tak, illustrated by Philip Hopman, and translated by Laura Watkinson
2011: A Time of Miracles, written by Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated by Y. Maudet
2010: A Faraway Island, writtten by Annika Thor, translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck
2009: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, writtten by Nahoko Uehashi, translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano
2008: Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe and translated from the Japanese by Alexander O. Smith.
2007: Delacorte Press, publisher of The Pull of the Ocean, by Jean-Claude Mourlevat, translated from the French by Y. Maudet 2006: Arthur A. Levine Books for An Innocent Soldier written by Josef Holub and translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.
2005: Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books, for The Shadows of Ghadames by Jo�lle Stolz, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
2004: Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton Mifflin Company, for Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev and translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.
2003: The Chicken House/Scholastic Publishing, for The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke and translated by Oliver Latsch.
2002: Cricket Books/Carus Publishing, for How I Became an American by Karin G�ndisch. Translated by James Skofield.
2001: Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic Press, for Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi. Translated from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan. 2000: Walker and Company, for The Baboon King by Anton Quintana, 1999. Translated from the Dutch by John Nieuwenhuizen. 1999: Dial, for Thanks to My Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici, 1998. Translated from the German by James Skofield.
1998: Henry Holt, for The Robber and Me by Josef Holub, 1996. Edited by Mark Aronson and translated from the German by Elizabeth D. Crawford.
1997: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, for The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto (Tokyo, Japan), 1996. Translated from Japanese by Cathy Hirano.
1996: Houghton Mifflin, for The Lady with the Hat by Uri Orlev, 1995, translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin
1995: Dutton, for The Boys from St. Petri by Bjarne Reuter, 1994, translated from Danish by Anthea Bell
1994: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, for The Apprentice by Pilar Molina Llorente, 1993, translated from Spanish by Robin Longshaw 1993: [no award given]
1992: Houghton MIfflin Company, for The Man from the Other Side by Uri Orlev, 1991, translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin 1991: E.P. Dutton, for A Hand Full of Stars by Rafik Schami, 1990, translated from German by Rika Lesser
1990: E.P. Dutton, for Buster's World by Bjarne Reuter, 1989, translated from Danish by Anthea Bell
1989: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, for Crutches by Peter Hartling, 1988, translated from German by Elizabeth D. Crawford
1988: McElderry Books, for If You Didn't Have Me by Ulf Nilsson, 1987, translated from Swedish by Lone Thygesen Clecher & George Blecher
1987: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, for No Hero for the Kaiser by Rudolph Frank, 1986, translated from German by Patricia Crampton
1986: Creative Education, for Rose Blanche by Christophe Gallaz & Robert Innocenti, 1985, translated from Italian by Martha Coventry & Richard Craglia
1985: Houghton Mifflin, for The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev, 1984, translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin
1984: Viking Press, for Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren, 1983, translated from Swedish by Patricia Crampton 1983: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, for Hiroshima No Pika by Toshi Maruki, 1982, translated from Japanese through Kurita-Bando Literary Agency
1982: Bradbury Press, for The Battle Horse by Harry Kullman, 1981, translated from Swedish by George Blecher & Lone Thygesen Blecher
1981: William Morrow & Co., for The Winter When Time Was Frozen by Els Pelgrom, 1980, translated from Dutch by Maryka & Raphael Rudnik
1980: E.P. Dutton, for The Sound of the Dragon's Feet by Aliki Zei, 1979, translated from Greek by Edward Fenton
1979: Two awards given: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., for Rabbit Island by Jïrg Steiner, 1978, translated from German by Ann Conrad Lammers; Franklin Watts,Inc., for Konrad by Christine Ntlinger, 1977, translated from German by Anthea Bell 1978: [no award given]
1977: Atheneum, for The Leopard by Cecil Bdker, 1975, translated from Danish by Gunnar Poulsen
1976: Henry Z. Walck, for The Cat and Mouse Who Shared a House by Ruth Hïlimann, 1973, translated from German by Anthea Bell
1975: Crown, for An Old Tale Carved Out of Stone by A. Linevskii, 1973, translated from Russian by Maria Polushkin
1974: E.P. Dutton, for Petros' War by Aliki Zei, 1972, translated from Greek by Edward Fenton
1973: William Morrow & Co., for Pulga by S. R. Van Iterson, 1971, translated from Dutch by Alexander & Alison Gode
1972: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc., for Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter, 1970, translated from German by Edite Kroll
1971: Pantheon Books, for In the Land of Ur, the Discovery of Ancient Mesopotamia by Hans Baumann, 1969, translated from German by Stella Humphries
1970: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, for Wildcat Under Glass by Aliki Zei, 1968, translated from Greek by Edward Fenton
1969: Charles Scribner's Sons, for Don't Take Teddy by Babbis Friis-Baastad, 1967, translated from Norwegian by Lise Simme McKinnon
1968: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., for The Little Man by Erich Kstner, 1966, translated from German by James Kirkup