1959-1950 Newbery Award Winning Books

1959

• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare**
• The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson*
• Along Came a Dog by Meindert De Jong*
• Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay*
• The Perilous Road by William O. Steele*

1958

• Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith**
• The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz*
• Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright*
• The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson*
• Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko*

1957

• Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen**
• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson*
• The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert De Jong*
• Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson*
• The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads*
• Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli*

1956

• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham**
• The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings*
• The Golden Name Day by Jennie Lindquist*
• Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen*

1955

• The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong**
• Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh*
• Banner in the Sky by James Ullman*

1954

• ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold**
• All Alone by Claire Huchet Bishop*
• Shadrach by Meindert De Jong*
• Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert De Jong*
• Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson*
• Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff*

1953

• Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark**
• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White*
• Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw*
• Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil*
• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh*
• Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster*

1952

• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes**
• Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity*
• Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling*
• The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff*
• The Light at Tern Rock by Julia Sauer*
• The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff*

1951

• Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates**
• Better Known as Johnny Appleseed by Mabel Leigh Hunt*
• Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton*
• Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People by Clara Ingram Judson*
• The Story of Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish*

1950

• The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli**
• Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill*
• The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz*
• Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery*
• George Washington by Genevieve Foster*
• Song of the Pines: a Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin
  by Walter and Marion Havighurst*

** award winner
* honor winner