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Arthur Bowie Chrisman

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The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children (a division of the American Library Association) to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. It is named for the eighteenth-century bookseller John Newbery. Ahearn

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Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea

1923:

Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

1924:

Charles Hawes, The Dark Frigate

1925:

Charles Finger, Tales from Silver Lands

1927:

Will James, Smoky, the Cowhorse

1928:

Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon

1929:

Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow

1930:

Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Yards

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 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, Rabit Hill

1946:

Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl

1947:

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Miss Hickory

1948:

William Pene 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

1952:

Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye

1953:

Ann Nolan Clark, Secret of the Andes

1954:

Joseph Krumgold, ...And Now Miguel

1955:

Meindert De Jong, 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:

O'Dell Scott, 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 Trevino, 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

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

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