🥇 Newbery Medalists 🥇
A Branch of August's Bookshelf

Selected children's titles from the National Emergency Library,
via archive.org, freely available with the use of a virtual library card

Curated by Jim Cocola, Associate Head for the Humanities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

📚🖊️🥇 Newbery Medalists 🥇🖊️📚

American Library Association award to the author of
"the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children"

2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (HarperCollins Children's Books)	2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)	1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)

1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)	1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)	1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)

1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)	1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)	1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)

1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)	1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)	1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)

1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)	1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)	1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)

1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)	1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)	1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)

1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)	1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Stokes)	1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)