Rebecca's Newbery Challenge

I'm working up the list and also down the list (when I need a break from the 1920s books and/or the modern children's literature). I want to read all the honors and winners. I write up thoughts at my blog, reviews.rebeccareid.com. But I'll come back here and cross out one's I've read.

Actually i can't figure out how to do a strike out in Library Thing. If anyone knows, please respond. For now, I'll astrisk ones I've read. But a cross out would be much more satisfying.
*2026*
All the Blues in the Sky by Renee Watson
The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman
The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Van Glaser
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila

*2025*
The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly 2024
Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller 2024
The Wrong Way Home by Kate O'Shaughnessey 2025
Across So Many Seas written by Ruth Behar 2025
One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome 2024

*2024*
The Eyes and the Impossible by David Eggers
Elf Dog and Owl Head by M. T. Anderson
Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow
Eagle Drums by Nasugraq Rainey Hopson
Mexikid by Pedro Martin
The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri

*2023*
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango
The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee (Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House)

*2022*
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca (Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger (Arthur A. Levine, an imprint of Levine Querido)
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff (Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House)
Watercress by Andrea Wang, illus. by Jason Chin (Neal Porter Books/Holiday House)

*2021*
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House)
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Michele Wood (Candlewick Press)
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House)
We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly, illustrated by Erin Entrada Kelly and Celia Krampien (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick Press)

*2020*
New Kid by Jerry Craft (HarperCollins)
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster Children’s)
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker (Macmillan)
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Verisfy/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

*2019
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, illustrated by Ian Schoenherr (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

2018*
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut written by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James (Bolden/Agate)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson (Bloomsbury)

*2017*
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin Young Readers/Workman)
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brough to Life by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)
The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and their Holy Dog written by Adam Gidwitz, illustrated by Hatem Aly
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

2016
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin)
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Scholastic Press/Scholastic Inc.)

2015
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson

2014
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
Doll Bones by Holly Black (Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s
Publishing)
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
Paperboy by Vince Vawter (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books)

2013
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick Press)
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (Flash Point/Roaring Brook Press)
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (Dial/Penguin Young Readers Group)

2012
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux)
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin

2011 -
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's
Books)
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (Random House Children's Books)
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams)
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins)

2010 -
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (Henry Holt)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of
Scholastic, Inc.)

2009 -
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illus. by David Small (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster)
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt)
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Books for
Young Readers)

2008 -
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam)

2007 -
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm, (Random House)
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson (Delacorte Press)
Rules by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic)

2006 -
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
Whittington by Alan Armstrong, illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Random House)
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons)

2005 -
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (G.P. Putnam's Sons/a division of Penguin Young
Readers Group)
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell
Freedman (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

2004 -
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)

2003 -
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books)
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan (HarperCollins)

2002 -
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Farrar Straus Giroux)
Carver: A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street)

2001 -
A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck (Dial)
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)

2000 -
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
Getting Near to Baby by by Audrey Couloumbis (Putnam)
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm (HarperCollins)
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (Putnam)

1999 -
Holes by Louis Sachar
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (Dial)

1998 -
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Delacorte)
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (HarperCollins)

1997 -
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
Moorchild by Eloise McGraw (Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow/Morrow)
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White (Farrar Straus Giroux)

1996 -
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)

1995 -
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer (Jackson/Orchard)

1994 -
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly (HarperCollins)
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (HarperCollins)
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)

1993 -
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks (A Laura Geringer Book, a HarperCollins imprint)
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack (Knopf)
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Hardcover)

1992 -
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
Nothing But The Truth: a Documentary Novel by Avi
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)

1991-
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

1990 -
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle (Jackson/Orchard)
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Knopf)
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen (Jackson/Orchard)

1989 -
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton (Harcourt)
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers (Harper)

1988 -
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
After The Rain by Norma Fox Mazer (Morrow)
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

1987 -
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant (Bradbury)
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer (Clarion)
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber (Bradbury)

1986 -
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg (Lothrop)
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)

1985 -
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes (Knopf)
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks (Harper)
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox (Bradbury)

1984 -
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky (Macmillan)
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain (Harper)

1983 -
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
Doctor DeSoto by William Steig (Farrar)
Graven Images by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz (Putnam)
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton (Philomel)

1982 -
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal (Farrar)

1981 -
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
The Fledgling by Jane Langton (Harper)
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)

1980 -
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian (Greenwillow)

1979 -
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)

1978 -
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater (Lippincott)

1977 -
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Abel's Island by William Steig (Farrar)
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond (Atheneum)

1976 -
The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis (Viking)
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (Harper)

1975 -
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
Figgs & Phantoms by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Houghton)
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene (Dial)

1974 -
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)

1973 -
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)
Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss (Crowell)
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

1972 -
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert (Little, Brown)
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin (Atheneum)
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles (Little, Brown)
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)

1971 -
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)
Knee Knock Rise by Natalie Babbitt (Farrar)
Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (Atheneum)
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)

1970 -
Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)
Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Pantheon)
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Gaylord Moore (World)
Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele (Viking)

1969 -
The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar)

1968 -
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Scribner)
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

1967 -
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett)
The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Harper)
The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik (Atheneum)

1966 -
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell (Pantheon)
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz (Harper)

1965 -
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (Follett)

1964 -
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North (Dutton)
The Loner by Ester Wier (McKay)

1963 -
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger)
(Holt)
Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge (Houghton)

1962 -
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis (World)
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Belling The Tiger by Mary Stolz (Harper)

1961 -
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
America Moves Forward: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer (Houghton)
The Cricket In Times Square by George Selden, pseud.

1960 -
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
America Is Born: A History for Peter by Gerald W. Johnson (Morrow)
The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (Harcourt)

1959 -
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Family Under The Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
Along Came A Dog by Meindert Dejong
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay (Harcourt)
The Perilous Road by William O. Steele (Harcourt)

1958 -
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz (Westminster)
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (Harcourt)
The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (Viking)
Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko (Crowell)

1957 -
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (Harper)
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads
Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)

1956 - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist (Harper)
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen (Viking)

1955 -
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner In The Sky by James Ullman (Lippincott)

1954 -
…And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
Shadrach by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert Dejong (Harper)
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
Magic Maize by Mary & Conrad Buff (Houghton)

1953 -
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Coward)
Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil (Viking)
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)

1952 -
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity (Viking)
Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling
The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff (Scribner)
The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer (Viking)
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff

1951 -
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton (Morrow)
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson (Follett)
The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish (Harper)

1950 -
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill (Viking)
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz (Longmans)
Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery (Doubleday)
George Washington by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin by Walter & Marion Havighurst (Winston)

1949 -
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
Seabird by Holling C. Holling
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin (Viking)
My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps (Knopf)

1948 -
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)
Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon)
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman (Bobbs-Merrill)
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander (Holt)
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

1947 -
Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)
Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes (Messner)
Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)
The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell (Harper)
The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet) (Appleton)
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett (Viking)

1946 -
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means (Houghton)
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston (Scribner)
New Found World by Katherine Shippen (Viking)

1945 -
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton (Harcourt)

1944 -
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fog Magic by Julia Sauer (Viking)
Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates (Coward)

1943 -
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott) OOP - cannot find

1942 -
The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin (Viking)

1941 -
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
Blue Willow by Doris Gates (Viking)
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr (Crowell)
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall (Viking)

1940 -
Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (Viking)
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt)

1939 -
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
Nino by Valenti Angelo (Viking)
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford (Holt)
Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton (Harcourt)
Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)

1938 -
The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)
Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman (Little, Brown)
Bright Island by Mabel Robinson (Random House)
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

1937 -
Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski (Stokes)
Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones (Viking)
The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
Winterbound by Margery Bianco (Viking)
The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes (Doubleday)
Audubon by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)

1936 -
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)
Honk, the Moose by Phil Stong (Dodd)
The Good Master by Kate Seredy (Viking)
Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry (Winston)

1935 -
Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)
Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger (Longmans)
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke (Harcourt)
Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Van Stockum (Harper)

1934 -
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker (Doubleday)
Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster (Houghton) OOP - cannot find
ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág (Coward)
Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud. (Allena Best) (Appleton)
New Land by Sarah Schmidt (McBride)
Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum (Macmillan)
Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes (Knopf)
Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle (Houghton)

1933 -
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
The Railroad To Freedom: A Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift (Harcourt)
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon (Doubleday) OOP - cannot find

1932 -
Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop (Macmillan) OOP - cannot find
Calico Bush by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens (Coward-McCann) OOP - cannot find
Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery (Longmans) OPP - cannot find
Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee (Houghton)
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis (Harcourt) OOP - cannot find

1931 -
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Floating Island by Anne Parrish
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of A Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus
Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard
Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams
Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes
Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide & Margaret Johansen

1930 -
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton
Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller
Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young
Vaino by Julia Davis Adams
Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift

1929 -
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock
Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs
Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon
Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney

1928 -
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker

1927 -
Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James

1926 -
Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum

1925
Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Annie Carroll Moore
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

1924
The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes read 2023

1923 -
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting reviewed 2023

1922 -
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon reviewed 2023
The Great Quest by Charles Hawes reviewed 2023
Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall reviewed 2023
The Old Tobacco Shop by William Bowen reviewed 2023
The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum reviewed 2023
The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs reviewed 2023

>1 rebeccareid: I perused your off-site reviews, back in January. You've progressed by leaps and bounds. Are you ready to update your completed years?

>2 EGBERTINA: I've gotten stumped in the 1931 years! They are so awful and boring I'm taking a break but I'll update through today 2026!

>3 rebeccareid: I'm sorry to hear that you have found 1931 so dissatisfactory. I actually enjoyed several of them; and those that were less than perfect, usually had literary qualities that I could well appreciate. I am guessing that I am old enough to be your mother, so this older writing suits me well. It is the most recent writings that I find problematic, both in structure and content. You have been much more charitable in your capacity to appreciate them in a fashion that I have not.

>4 EGBERTINA: I have kids at home -- youngest is 10 now -- so I read in terms of what i want them reading. The old ones are just not appropriate for kids today, so that is how I read them. The newer ones, I see the merits for the kids in my life. I am trying to see the merits as well as the issues. I am reading the old books as an adult so I do see some good, just not as books for kids.

>5 rebeccareid: An interesting perspective. Having been raised on older literature. I find it more comfortable and far less inappropriate. When I got into the ones from the 80's and 90's- I had a difficult time understanding the appeal of literature about gangs, child abuse, alcoholism etc. I cling to the really innocent stories. Newbery seldom rose to the level of pure childhood joy. However some of the historical topics I enjoyed quite a bit. Perhaps, because I grew up reading all those Landmark books. I especially enjoyed several authors from the 30's and 40's because they incorporated so much female agency into their characters- without screaming it brashly.

>1 rebeccareid: welcome, belatedly!

I've been working on my Newbery challenge for several years. There are some old stories that I just couldn't like, such as Miss Hickory, but I loved The Dark Frigate.

I read according to what I can find without buying the books, or at least not spending much (yippee to thrift stores and library discard sales!).

I have liked some of the more recent winners, but seem to have a sweet spot for older books from the 1940s and 1950s.

I have two granddaughters, a 10 year old and a 6 year old. I forward to them what I think are the best books, keeping in mind their interests. The older loves stories about pioneer girls, the younger loves animals. I hope they enjoy the majority that I pass on.