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:
The Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside (1933)
The ABC Bunny (1933)
The rhythmic and rhyming text tells the story of Bunny, driven from Bunnyland to Elsewhere after an unfortunate accident with an apple. Every letter in the alphabet is represented in Bunny’s journey. The illustrations are original lithographs drawn by Wanda Gág.
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Wanda Gág
The Forgotten Daughter (1933)
In second century Rome the daughter of a centurion is raised as a slave.
Glory of the Seas (1933)
A young shipping clerk in Boston yearns to travel to California to find gold. But, before he can get on with this dream, many other adventurers distract him.
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A Day On Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic (1934)
The story of a school outing on the frozen Dutch canals.
The Pageant of Chinese History (1934)
Honk the Moose (1935)
One winter up on Minnesota’s Iron Range, two boys adopt a moose who decides to stay the winter in the livery barn. Read online at archive.org.
All Sail Set (1935)
When his father loses his fortune, a boy is taken on by a famous shipbuilder and eventually makes a maiden, record-breaking trip around Cape Horn on the “Flying Cloud.”
The Good Master (1935)
The adventures of Jancsi and his cousin Kate on his father’s ranch in Hungary.
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Young Walter Scott (1935)
An imaginative biography of Sir Walter Scott’s youth.
The Golden Basket (1936)
Two girls from England are on holiday in Bruges, Belgium and meet the littlest orphan, Madeleine.
Whistler’s Van (1936)
Endpapers and frontispiece by Zhenya Gay
Winterbound (1936)
Kay and Garry Ellis spend the winter in an old farm house, and are the better for it.
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book (1936)
Phebe spends a year with her country cousins in Connecticut in the 1840’s.