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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