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:
Frontier Living (1961)
Author(s):
Edward Tunis
Illustrator(s):
Edward Tunis
Men of Athens (1962)
Author(s):
Olivia Coolidge
Illustrator(s):
Milton Johnson
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland (1962)
Author(s):
Sorche Nic Leodhas
Illustrator(s):
Evaline Ness
Across Five Aprils (1964)
Author(s):
Irene Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Albert John Pucci
The Black Cauldron (1965)
Author(s):
Lloyd Alexander
Illustrator(s):
Evaline Ness
The Jazz Man (1966)
Author(s):
Mary Hays Weik
Illustrator(s):
Ann Grifalconi
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth (1967)
Author(s):
E. L. Konigsburg
Illustrator(s):
E. L. Konigsburg
The Black Pearl (1967)
Author(s):
Scott O’Dell
Illustrator(s):
Milton Johnson
The Egypt Game (1967)
Author(s):
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Illustrator(s):
Alton Raible
To Be a Slave (1968)
Author(s):
Julius Lester
Illustrator(s):
Tom Feelings
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories (1968)
Author(s):
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Illustrator(s):
Margot Zemach
The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art (1968)
Author(s):
Janet Gaylord Moore
Illustrator(s):
None
