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 Middle Moffat (1942)
Jane is the mysterious middle Moffat whose adventures we follow in this second book about the Moffat family.
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Rufus M. (1943)
In this volume of the history of the Moffat family, Rufus, the youngest sets out to make the family fortune.
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Mountain Born (1943)
Peter learns to be a shepherd under the tutelage of Old Benj.
Fog Magic (1943)
When the fog rolls in Greta Addington can enter the past of a small Nova Scotia town.
These Happy Golden Years (1943)
In the eighth book of her biography Laura Ingalls becomes Mrs. Almanzo Wilder.
Helen Sewell
The Hundred Dresses (1944)
Wanda wears the same dress to school, but she has a hundred dresses at home in her closet.
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Abraham Lincoln’s World (1944)
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams (1944)
New Found World (1945)
The Moved-Outers (1945)
The Heavenly Tenants (1946)
The Wonderful Year (1946)
Ellen moves with her family to a fruit farm in Colorado. The book won the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation Award as well as a Newbery Honor.
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Big Tree (1946)
Mary M. Buff
Mary M. Buff