ShelfEvidentNewbery Medal — Complete Winners List
104 years of winners · American Library Association · Since 1922 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Erin Entrada Kelly | Greenwillow Books | |
| 2024 | Dave Eggers | McSweeney's McMullens | |
| 2023 | Amina Luqman-Dawson | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2022 | Donna Barba Higuera | Levine Querido | |
| 2021 | Tae Keller | Random House | |
| 2020 | Jerry Craft | HarperCollins | |
| 2019 | Meg Medina | Candlewick Press | |
| 2018 | Erin Entrada Kelly | Greenwillow Books | |
| 2017 | Kelly Barnhill | Algonquin Young Readers | |
| 2016 | Matt de la Peña | G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2015 | Kwame Alexander | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 2014 | Kate DiCamillo | Candlewick Press | |
| 2013 | Katherine Applegate | HarperCollins | |
| 2012 | Jack Gantos | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2011 | Clare Vanderpool | Delacorte Press | |
| 2010 | Rebecca Stead | Wendy Lamb Books | |
| 2009 | Neil Gaiman | HarperCollins | |
| 2008 | Laura Amy Schlitz | Candlewick Press | |
| 2007 | Susan Patron | Atheneum Books | |
| 2006 | Lynne Rae Perkins | Greenwillow Books | |
| 2005 | Cynthia Kadohata | — | |
| 2004 | Kate DiCamillo | — | |
| 2003 | Avi | — | |
| 2002 | Linda Sue Park | — | |
| 2001 | Richard Peck | — | |
| 2000 | Christopher Paul Curtis | — | |
| 1999 | Louis Sachar | — | |
| 1998 | Karen Hesse | — | |
| 1997 | E. L. Konigsburg | — | |
| 1996 | Karen Cushman | — | |
| 1995 | Sharon Creech | — | |
| 1994 | Lois Lowry | — | |
| 1993 | Cynthia Rylant | — | |
| 1992 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | — | |
| 1991 | Jerry Spinelli | — | |
| 1990 | Lois Lowry | — | |
| 1989 | Paul Fleischman | — | |
| 1988 | Russell Freedman | — | |
| 1987 | Sid Fleischman | — | |
| 1986 | Patricia MacLachlan | — | |
| 1985 | Robin McKinley | — | |
| 1984 | Beverly Cleary | — | |
| 1983 | Cynthia Voigt | — | |
| 1982 | Nancy Willard | — | |
| 1981 | Katherine Paterson | — | |
| 1980 | Joan Blos | — | |
| 1979 | Ellen Raskin | — | |
| 1978 | Katherine Paterson | — | |
| 1977 | Mildred D. Taylor | — | |
| 1976 | Susan Cooper | — | |
| 1975 | Virginia Hamilton | — | |
| 1974 | Paula Fox | — | |
| 1973 | Jean Craighead George | — | |
| 1972 | Robert C. O'Brien | — | |
| 1971 | Betsy Byars | — | |
| 1970 | William H. Armstrong | — | |
| 1969 | Lloyd Alexander | — | |
| 1968 | E. L. Konigsburg | — | |
| 1967 | Irene Hunt | — | |
| 1966 | Elizabeth Borton de Treviño | — | |
| 1965 | Maia Wojciechowska | — | |
| 1964 | Emily Cheney Neville | — | |
| 1963 | Madeleine L'Engle | — | |
| 1962 | Elizabeth George Speare | — | |
| 1961 | Scott O'Dell | — | |
| 1960 | Joseph Krumgold | — | |
| 1959 | Elizabeth George Speare | — | |
| 1958 | Harold Keith | — | |
| 1957 | Virginia Sorensen | — | |
| 1956 | Jean Lee Latham | — | |
| 1955 | Meindert De Jong | — | |
| 1954 | Joseph Krumgold | — | |
| 1953 | Ann Nolan Clark | — | |
| 1952 | Eleanor Estes | — | |
| 1951 | Elizabeth Yates | — | |
| 1950 | Marguerite de Angeli | — | |
| 1949 | Marguerite Henry | — | |
| 1948 | William Pène du Bois | — | |
| 1947 | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | — | |
| 1946 | Lois Lenski | — | |
| 1945 | Robert Lawson | — | |
| 1944 | Esther Forbes | — | |
| 1943 | Elizabeth Gray Vining | — | |
| 1942 | Walter D. Edmonds | — | |
| 1941 | Armstrong Sperry | — | |
| 1940 | James Daugherty | — | |
| 1939 | Elizabeth Enright | — | |
| 1938 | Kate Seredy | — | |
| 1937 | Ruth Sawyer | — | |
| 1936 | Carol Ryrie Brink | — | |
| 1935 | Monica Shannon | — | |
| 1934 | Cornelia Meigs | — | |
| 1933 | Elizabeth Foreman Lewis | — | |
| 1932 | Laura Adams Armer | — | |
| 1931 | Elizabeth Coatsworth | — | |
| 1930 | Rachel Field | — | |
| 1929 | Eric P. Kelly | — | |
| 1928 | Dhan Gopal Mukerji | — | |
| 1927 | Will James | — | |
| 1926 | Arthur Bowie Chrisman | — | |
| 1925 | Charles Finger | — | |
| 1924 | Charles Boardman Hawes | — | |
| 1923 | Hugh Lofting | — | |
| 1922 | Hendrik Willem van Loon | — |
