Awarded each year by the American Library Association for distinguished children's books

1922 Hendrik Van LOON - The Story of Mankind (Liveright) (Harrap)
Honor Books : Charles HAWES - The Great Quest (Little Brown) (Heinemann)
Bernard MARSHALL - Cedric the Forester (Appleton-Century)
William BOWEN - The Old Tobacco Shop (Macmillan)
Padraic COLUM - The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived Before Achilles (Macmillan)
Cornelia MEIGS - Windy Hill (Macmillan)

1923 Hugh LOFTING - The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle (Lippincott) (Cape)
Honor Books : No record

1924 Charles HAWES - The Dark Frigate (Little Brown) (Heinemann)
Honor Books : No Record

1925 Charles FINGER - Tales from Silver Lands (Doubleday) (Heinemann)
Honor Books : Anne Carroll MOORE - Nicholas (Putnam)
Anne PARRISH - Dream Coach (Macmillan)

1926 Arthur Bowie CHRISMAN - Shen of the Sea (Dutton) (Hamish Hamilton)
Honor Books : Padraic COLUM - Voyagers (Macmillan)

1927 Will JAMES - Smoky, the Cowhorse (Scribner)
Honor Books : No record

1928 Dhan Gopal MUKERJI - Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon (Dutton) (Angus & Robertson)
Honor Books : Ella YOUNG - The Wonder Smith and His Son (Longmans)
Caroline SNEDEKER - Downright Dencey (Doubleday) (Heinemann)

1929 Eric P KELLY - The Trumpeter of Krakow (Macmillan) (Chatto)
Honor Books : John BENNETT - Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo (Longmans)
Wanda GAG - Millions of Cats (Coward-McCann) (Faber)
Grace HALLOCK - The Boy Who Was (Dutton) (Dent)
Cornelia MEIGS - Clearing Weather (Little Brown)
Grace MOON - Runaway Papoose (Doubleday)
Elinor WHITNEY - Tod of the Fens (Macmillan)

1930 Rachel FIELD - Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (Macmillan) (Routledge)
Honor Books : Jeanette EATON - Daughter of the Seine (Harper)
Elizabeth MILLER - Pran of Albania (Doubleday)
Marian Hurd McNEELY - Jumping-off Place (Longmans)
Ella YOUNG - Tangle-coated Horse & Other Tales (Longmans)
Julia Davis ADAMS - Vaino (Dutton) (Dent)
Hildergarde SWIFT - Little Blacknose (Harcourt)

1931 Elizabeth COATSWORTH - The Cat Who Went to Heaven (Macmillan) (Dent)
Honor Books : Anne PARRISH - Floating Island (Harper) (Benn)
Alida MALKUS - The Dark Star of Itza (Harcourt)
Ralph HUBBARD - Queer Person (Doubleday)
Julie Davis ADAMS - Mountains are Free (Dutton)
Agnes HEWES - Spice and the Devil's Cave (Knopf)
Elizabeth Janet GRAY - Meggy MacIntosh (Doubleday)
Herbert BEST - Garram the Hunter (Doubleday) (Dent)
Alice LIDE & Margaret JOHANSEN - Oo-le-uk the Wanderer (Little Brown)

1932 Laura Adams ARMER - Waterless Mountain (Longmans)
Honor Books : Dorothy LATHROP - The Fairy Circus (Macmillan)
Rachel FIELD - Calico Bush (Macmillan)
Eunice TIETJENS - Boy of the South Seas (Coward-McCann)
Eloise LOWNSBERY - Out of the Flame (Longmans)
Marjorie ALLEE - Jane's Island (Houghton Mifflin)
Mary Gould DAVIS - Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy (Harcourt)

1933 Elizabeth LEWIS - Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (Winston) (Harrap)
Honor Books : Cornelia MEIGS - Swift Rivers (Little Brown)
Hildergarde SWIFT - The Railroad to Freedom (Harcourt) (Bodley Head)
Nora BURGLON - Children of the Soil (Doubleday)

1934 Cornelia MEIGS - Invincible Louisa (Little Brown)
Honor Books : Caroline SNEDEKER - The Forgotten Daughter (Doubleday)
Elsie SINGMASTER - Swords of Steel (Houghton)
Wanda GAG - ABC Bunny (Coward-McCann) (Faber)
Erik BERRY (pseud Allena Best) - Winged Girl of Knossos (Appleton-Century)
Sarah SCHMIDT - New Land (McBride)
Padraic COLUM - Big Tree of Bunlahy (Macmillan)
Agnes HEWES - Glory of the Seas (Knopf) (Cassell)
Anne KYLE - Apprentice of Florence (Houghton Mifflin)

1935 Monica SHANNON - Dobry (Viking) (Harrap)
Honor Books : Elizabeth SEEGER - Pageant of Chinese History (Longmans)
Constance ROURKE - Davy Crockett (Harcourt)
Hilda Van STOCKUM - Day on Skates (Harper)

1936 Carol BRINK - Caddie Woodlawn (Macmillan) (Collier-Macmillan)
Honor Books :Phil STONG - Honk, the Moose (Dodd Mead) (Harrap)
Kate SEREDY - The Good Master (Viking) (Harrap)
Elizabeth Janet GRAY - Young Walter Scott (Viking) (Nelson)
Armstrong SPERRY - All Sail Set (Winston) (Bodley Head)

1937 Ruth SAWYER - Roler Skates (Viking) (Bodley Head)
Honor Books : Lois LENSKI - Phebe Fairchild; Her Book (Stokes)
Idwal JONES - Whistlers' Van (Viking) (Selwyn & Blount)
Ludwig BEMELMANS - Golden Basket (Viking)
Margery BIANCO - Winterbound (Viking)
Constance ROURKE - Audubon (Harcourt) (Harrap)
Agnes HEWES - The Codfish Musket (Doubleday)

1938 Kate SEREDY - The White Stag (Viking) (Harrap)
Honor Books : James Cloy BOWMAN - Pecos Bil (Little Brown)
Mabel ROBINSON - Bright Island (Random House) (Hutchinson)
Laura Ingalls WILDER - On the Banks of Plum Creek (Harper) (Methuen)

1939 Elizabeth ENRIGHT - Thimble Summer (Rinehart) (Heinemann)
Honor Books : Valenti ANGELO - Nino (Viking)
Richard & Florence ATWATER - Mr Popper's Penguins (Little Brown) (Bodley Head)
Phyllis CRAWFORD - Hello the Boat ! (Holt) (Harrap)
Jeanette EATON - Leader by Destiny - George Washington, Man & Patriot (Harcourt) (Harrap)
Elizabeth Janet GRAY - Penn (Viking)

1940 James DAUGHERTY - Daniel Boone (Viking)
Honor Books : Kate SEREDY - The Singing Tree (Viking) (Brockhampton)
Mabel ROBINSON - Runner of the Mountain Tops (Random House)
Laura Ingalls WILDER - By the Shores of Silver Lake (Harper) (Lutterworth)
Stephen W MEADER - Boy with a Pack (Harcourt)

1941 Armstrong SPERRY - Call it Courage (Macmillan)
In UK as "The Boy Who Was Afraid" (Bodley Head)
Honor Books : Doris GATES - Blue Willow (Viking) (Muller)
Mary Jane CARR - Young Mac of Fort Vancouver (Crowell)
Laura Ingalls WILDER - The Long Winter (Harper) (Lutterworth)
Anna Gertrude HALL - Nansen (Viking)

1942 Walter D EDMONDS - The Matchlock Gun (Dodd Mead)
Honor Books : Laura Ingalls WILDER - Little Town on the Prairie (Harper) (Lutterworth)
Genevieve FOSTER - George Washington's World (Scribner)
Lois LENSKI - Indian Captive : The Story of Mary Jemison (Lippincott) (Coach House Press, London)
Eva Roe GAGGIN - Down Ryton Water (Viking)

1943 Elizabeth Janet GRAY - Adam of the Road (Viking) (Black)
Honor Books : Eleanor ESTES - The Middle Moffat (Harcourt) (Bodley Head)
Mabel Leigh HUNT - Have You Seen Tom Thumb ? (Lippincott)

1944 Esther FORBES - Johnny Tremain (Houghton Mifflin) (Longman/Kestrel)
Honor Books : Laura Ingalls WILDER - These Happy Golden Years (Harper) (Lutterworth)
Julia SAUER - Fog Magic (Viking) (Woodfield, London)
Elizabeth YATES - Mountain Born (Coward-McCann)
Eleanor ESTES - Rufus M (Harcourt) (Bodley Head)

1945 Robert LAWSON - Rabbit Hill (Viking)
Honor Books : Eleanor ESTES - The Hundred Dresses (Harcourt)
Alice DALGLIESH - The Silver Pencil (cribner)
Genevieve FOSTER - Abraham Lincoln's World (Scribner)
Jeanette EATON - Lone Journey : the Life of Roger Williams (Harcourt)

1946 Lois LENSKI - Strawberry Girl (Lippincott) (OUP)
Honor Books : Marguerite HENRY - Justin Morgan had a Horse (Rand McNally)
Florence Crannell MEANS - The Moved-outers (Houghton Mifflin)
Christine WESTON - Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear (Scribner) (Macmillan)
Katherine SHIPPEN - New Found World (Viking)

1947 Carolyn Sherwin BAILEY - Miss Hickory (Viking)
Honor Books : Nancy BARNES - Wonderful Year (Messner)
Mary & Conrad BUFF - Big Tree (Viking)
William MAXWELL - The Heavenly Tenants (Harper)
Cyrus FISHER (pseud Darwin L Teilhet) - The Avion My Uncle Flew (Appleton-Century)
Eleanore JEWETT - The Hidden Treasure of Glaston (Viking) (Dobson)

1948 William Pene U BOIS - The Twenty-One Balloons (Viking) (World's Work, Kingswood)
Honor Books : Calire Huchet BISHOP - Pancakes-Paris (Viking)
Carolyn TREFFINGER - LiLun, Lad of Courage (Abingdon)
Catherine BESTERMAN - The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot (Bobbs Merrill)
Harold COURLANDER - The Cow-tail Switch, and Other West African Stories (Holt)
Marhguerite HENRY - Misty of Chinoteague (Rand McNally) (Collins)

1949 Marguerite HENRY - King of the Wind (Rand McNally) (Collins)
Honor Books : Holling C HOLLING - Seabird (Houghton Mifflin) (Collins)
Louise RANKIN - Daughter of the Mountain (Viking) (Bodley Head)
Ruth GANNETT - My Father's Dragon (Random House) (Macmillan)
Arna BONTEMPS - Story of the Negro (Knopf)

1959 Elizabeth George SPEARE - The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Houghton Mifflin) (Gollancz)
Honor Books : Natalie S CARLSON - The Family Under the Bridge (Harper)
Meindert DEJONG - Along Came a Dog (Harper) (Lutterworth)
Francis KALNAY - Chiacro : Wild Pony of the Pampa (Harcourt) (Macmillan)
William O STEELE - The Perilous Road (Harcourt) (Macmillan)

1960 Joseph KRUMGOLD - Onion John (Crowell) (Lutterworth)
Honor Books : Jean GEORGE - My Side of the Mountain (Dutton) (Bodley Head)
Gerald W JOHNSON - America is Born (Morrow)
Carol KENDALL - The Gammage Cup (Harcourt) (Dent as "The Minnipins")

1961 Scott O'DELL - Island of the Blue Dolphins (Houghton Mifflin) (Longman/Kestrel)
Honor Books : Gerald W JOHNSON - America Moves Forward (Morrow)
Jack SCHAEFFER - Old Ramon (Houghton Mifflin) (Deutsch)
George SELDON (pseud George Thompson) - Cricket in Times Square (Farrar Straus) (Dent)

1962 Elizabeth George SPEARE - The Bronze Bow (Houghton Mifflin) (Gollancz)
Honor Books : Edward TUNIS - Frontier Living (World)
Eloise Jarvis McGRAW - The Golden Goblet (Coward-McCann) (Longman/Kestrel)
Mary STOLZ - Belling the Tiger (Harper)

1963 Madeleine L'ENGLE - A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar Straus) (Longman/Kestrel)
Honor Books :
Sorche Nic LEODHAS (pseud Leclaire Alger) - Thistle & Thyme - Tales & Legends from Scotland (Holt) (Bodley Head)
Olivia COOLIDGE - Men of Athens (Houghton Mifflin) (Bodley Head)

1964 Emily NEVILLE - It's Like This, Cat (Harper) (Angus & Robertson)
Honor Books : Sterling NORTH - Rascal (Dutton) (Brockhampton)
Ester WIER - The Loner (McKay) (Longman/Kestrel)

1965 Maia WOJCIECHOWSKA - Shadow of a Bull (Atheneum)
Honor Book : Irene HUNT - Across Five Aprils (Follett) (Bodley Head)

1966 Elizabeth Borton de TREVINO - I, Juan de Pareja (Farrar) (Gollancz)
Honor Books : Lloyd ALEXANDER - The Black Cauldron (Holt) (Heinemann)
Randall JARRELL - The Animal Family (Pantheon) (Hart-Davis)
Mary STOLZ - The Noonday friends (Harper)

1967 Irene HUNT - Up a Road Slowly (Follett) (Macdonald)
Honor Books : Scott O'DELL - The King's Fifth (Houghton Mifflin) (Longman/Kestrel)
Isaac Bashevis SINGER - Zlateh the Goat & Other Stories (Harper) (Longman/Kestrel)
Hays WEIK - The Jazz Man (Theneum)

1968 E L KONIGSBURG - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler (Atheneum) (Macmillan)
Honor Books : E L KONIGSBURG - Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth (Atheneum) (Macmillan)
Scott O'DELL - The BLack Pearl (Houghton) (Longman/Kestrel)
Isaac Bashevis SINGER - The Fearsome Inn (Scribner)
Zilpha Keatley SNYDER - The Egypt Game (Atheneum)

1969 Lloyd ALEXANDER - The High King (Holt)
Honor Books : Julius LESTER - To Be a Slave (Dial) (Longman/Kestrel)
Isaac Bashevis SINGER - When Shlemiel went to Warsaw & Other Stories (Farrar) (Longman/Kestrel)

1970 William ARMSTRONG - Sounder (Harper) (Gollancz)
Honor Books : Sulamith ISH-KISHOR - Our Eddie (Pantheon)
Janey Gaylord MOORE - The Many Ways of Seeing : An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art (World)
Mary Q STEELE - Journey Outside (Viking) (Macmillan)

1971 Betsy BYARS - The Summer of the Swans (Viking)
Honor Books : Natalie BABBITT - Kneeknock Rise (Farrar)
Sylvia louise ENGDAHL - Enchantress from the Stars (Atheneum)
Scott O'DELL - Sing Down the Moon (Houghton Mifflin) (Hamish Hamilton)

1972 Robert C O'BRIEN- Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Atheneum) (Gollancz)
Honor Books : Allan W ECKERT - Incident at Hawk's Hill (Little Brown) (Hamish Hamilton)
Virginia HAMILTON -The Planet of Junior Brown (Macmillan)
Ursula K LE GUIN - The Tombs of Atuan (Atheneum) (Gollancz)
Miska MILES - Annie and the Old One (Little Brown)
Zilpha Keatley SNYDER - The Headless Cupid (Atheneum)

1973 Jean Craighead GEORGE - Julie of the Wolves (Harper) (Hamish Hamilton)
Honor Books : Arnold LOBEL - Frog and Toad Together (Harper) (World's Work)
Johann REISS - The Upstairs Room (Crowell)
Zilpha Keatley SNYDER - The Witches of Worm (Atheneum)

1974 Paul FOX - The Slave Dancer (Bradbury Press) (Macmillan)
Honor Book : Susan COOPER - The Dark is Rising (Atheneum) (C & W)
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1989 Walter Myers - Scorpions
Paul Fleischman - Joyful Noise
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

READING
Irin Kerlan : Newbery & Caldecott Awards - A Bibliography of First Editions
(1949 Minnesota UP)