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1949-1940 Newbery Award Winning Books

1949

  • King of the Wind [1] by Marguerite Henry**
  • Seabird by Holling C. Holling*
  • Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin*
  • My Father's Dragon [2] by Ruth S. Gannett*
  • Story of the Negro [3] by Arna Bontemps*

1948

  • The Twenty-One Balloons [4] by William Pène du Bois**
  • Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop*
  • Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger*
  • The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot
    by Catherine Besterman*
  • The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories [5]
    by Harold Courlander*
  • Misty of Chincoteague [6] by Marguerite Henry* 

1947

  • Miss Hickory [7] by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey**
  • Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes*
  • Big Tree by Mary and Conrad Buff*
  • The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell*
  • The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud.*
  • The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett*

1946

  • Strawberry Girl [8] by Lois Lenski**
  • Justin Morgan Had a Horse [9] by Marguerite Henry*
  • The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means*
  • Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston*
  • New Found World by Katherine Shippen*

1945

  • Rabbit Hill [10] by Robert Lawson**
  • The Hundred Dresses [11] by Eleanor Estes*
  • The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh*
  • Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster*
  • Lone Journey: the Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton*

1944

  • Johnny Tremain [12] by Esther Forbes**
  • These Happy Golden Years [13] by Laura Ingalls Wilder*
  • Fog Magic by Julia Sauer*
  • Rufus M. [14] by Eleanor Estes*
  • Mountian Born by Elizabeth Yates*

1943

  • Adam of the Road [15] by Elizabeth Janet Gray**
  • The Middle Moffat [16] by Eleanor Estes*
  • Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt*

1942

  • The Matchlock Gun [17] by Walter Edmonds**
  • Little Town on the Prairie [18] by Laura Ingalls Wilder*
  • George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster*
  • Indian Captive: the Story of Mary Jemison [19] by Lois Lenski*
  • Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin*

1941

  • Call it Courage [20] by Armstrong Sperry**
  • Blue Willow by Doris Gates*
  • Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr*
  • The Long Winter [21] by Laura Ingalls Wilder*
  • Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall*

1940

  • Daniel Boone by James Daugherty**
  • The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy*
  • Runner of the Mountain Tops: the Life of Louis Agassiz
    by Mabel Robinson*
  • By the Shores of Silver Lake [22] by Laura Ingalls Wilder*
  • Boy With a Pack by Stephen W. Meader*
** award winner
* honor winner

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