1939-1930 Newbery Award Winning Books

1939

  • Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright**
  • Nino by Valenti Angelo*
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater*
  • Hello the Boat! by Phyllis Crawford*
  • Leader Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot by Jeanette Eaton*
  • Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray*

1938

1937

  • Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer**
  • Phebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski*
  • Whistler's Van by Idwall Jones*
  • The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans*
  • Winterbound by Margery Bianco*
  • The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes*
  • Audubon by Constance Rourke*

1936

  • Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink**
  • Honk, the Moose by Philip Stong*
  • The Good Master by Kate Seredy*
  • Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray*
  • All Sail Set: a Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry*

1935

  • Dobry by Monica Shannon**
  • Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger*
  • Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke*
  • Day on Skates: the Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda Von Stockum*

1934

  • Invincible Louisa: the Story of the Author of Little Women
    by Cornelia Meigs**
  • The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker*
  • Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster*
  • ABC Bunny by Wanda Gág*
  • Winged Girl of Knossos by Erik Berry, pseud.*
  • New Land by Sarah Schmidt*
  • Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum*
  • Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes*
  • Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle*

1933

  • Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis**
  • Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs*
  • The Railroad to Freedom: a Story of the Civil War by Hildegarde Swift*
  • Children of the Soil: a Story of Scandinavia by Nora Burglon*

1932

  • Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer**
  • The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop*
  • Calico Bush by Rachel Field*
  • Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens*
  • Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery*
  • Jane's Island by Marjoire Alle*
  • Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis*

1931

  • The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth**
  • Floating Island by Anne Parrish*
  • The Dark Star of Itza: the Story of a Pagen Princess by Alida Malkus*
  • Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard*
  • Mountains are Free by Julie Davis Adams*
  • Spice and the Devil's Cave by Anges Hewes*
  • Meggy MacIntosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray*
  • Garam the Hunter: a Boy of the Hill Tribes by Herbert Best*
  • Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide and Margaret Johansen*

1930

  • Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field**
  • A Daughter of the Seine: the Life of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton*
  • Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller*
  • Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely*
  • The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young*
  • Vaino by Julia Davis Adams*
  • Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift*
** award winner
* honor winner

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