Newbery Honor Book
The Newbery Honor Books are runners-up to the Newberry Medal, which is awarded each year for the preceding year’s most distinguished American picture book for children.
The medal is named in honor of John Newbery. He was an eighteenth-century British publisher of juvenile books. He made it a priority to create books specifically for children.
No Award was given in 1923, 1924, or 1927. That is because no book was considered suitable.
Learn more: official Newberry Medal and Honor homepage.
Winners:
Vaino, A Boy of New Finland (1929)
Spice and the Devil’s Cave (1930)
A story about the rivalry between Arab traders, the city-state of Venice, and of the struggling nation of Portugal to dominate the spice trade by finding a new sea route to India by going around the "Devil's Cave"--The Cape of Good Hope.
Floating Island (1930)
The Doll family is shipwrecked on a desert island.
The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess (1930)
Queer Person (1930)
Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer (1930)
Alice Alison Lide
Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes (1930)
Mountains are Free (1930)
The Fairy Circus (1931)
Inspired by a human circus that performs in their meadow, the fairies put on a circus of their own for the woodland creatures.
Jane’s Island (1931)
Out of the Flame (1931)
Boy of the South Seas (1931)
Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy (1931)
The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War (1932)
A story about the underground railroad that brought slaves from the South to Canada.
Children of the Soil: A Story of Scandinavia (1932)
The Forgotten Daughter (1933)
In second century Rome the daughter of a centurion is raised as a slave.