1949-1940 Newbery Award Winning Books

1949

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

1948

• The Twenty-One Balloons 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
  by Harold Courlander*
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry* 

1947

• Miss Hickory 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 by Lois Lenski**
• Justin Morgan Had a Horse 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 by Robert Lawson**
• The Hundred Dresses 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 by Esther Forbes**
• These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder*
• Fog Magic by Julia Sauer*
• Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes*
• Mountian Born by Elizabeth Yates*

1943

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

1942

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

1941

• Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry**
• Blue Willow by Doris Gates*
• Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr*
• The Long Winter 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 by Laura Ingalls Wilder*
• Boy With a Pack by Stephen W. Meader*

** award winner
* honor winner