
| 1998 |
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| Medalist: | Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse | |
| Honor: | Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Wringer by Jerry Spinelli |
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| 1997 |
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| Medalist: | The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg | |
| Honor: | A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer Moorchild by Eloise McGraw The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White | |
| 1996 |
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| Medalist: | The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman | |
| Honor: | What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner The Great Fire by Jim Murphy | |
| 1995 |
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| Medalist: | Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech | |
| Honor: | Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer | |
| 1994 |
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| Medalist: | The Giver by Lois Lowry | |
| Honor: | Crazy Lady by J. Conly Dragon's Gate by L. Yep Eleanor Roosevelt by R. Freedman | |
| 1993
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| Medalist: | Missing May by Cynthia Rylant | |
| Honor: | What Hearts by Bruce Brooks Dark Thirty by Patricia McKissack Somewhere in Darkness by Walter Dean Myers | |
| 1992 |
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| Medalist: | Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| Honor: | Nothing But the Truth by Avi Wright Brothers by R. Freeman | |
| 1991 |
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| Medalist: | Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli | |
| Honor: | True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi | |
| 1990 |
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| Medalist: | Number the Stars by Lois Lowry | |
| Honor: | Afternoon of Elves by Janet Lisle Shabanu, Daughter of The Wind by Suzanne Staples Winter Room by Gary Paulson | |
| 1989 |
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| Medalist: | Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman | |
| Honor: | In the Beginning by Virginia Hamilton Scorpions by Walter Myers | |
| 1988
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| Medalist: | Lincoln Photobiography by R.Freedman | |
| Honor: | After the Rain by N. Mazer Hatchet by Gary Paulsen | |
| 1987
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| Medalist: | The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman | |
| Honor: | A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant On My Honor: by Marion Dane Bauer Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber | |
| 1986 |
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| Medalist: | Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan | |
| Honor: | Commodore Perry in the Land of Shogun by Rhonda Blumberg Dogsong by Gary Paulson | |
| 1985
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| Medalist: | The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley | |
| Honor: | Like Jake and Me by Mavis Jukes The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox | |
| 1984 |
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| Medalist: | Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary | |
| Honor: | The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voight The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain | |
| 1983 |
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| Medalist: | Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight | |
| Honor: | Blue Sword by Robin McKinley Dr. DeSoto by William Steig Graven Images by Paul Fleischman My Own Story by Jean Fritz Sweet Whisper, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton | |
| 1982 |
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| Medalist: | A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard | |
| Honor: | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary Upon the Head Of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary by Aranka Siegal | |
| 1981 |
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| Medalist: | Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson | |
| Honor: | The Fledgling by Jane Langton A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle | |
| 1980
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| Medalist: | a Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 by Joan Blos | |
| Honor: | The Road From Home: The Story of An Armenian Girl by David Kherdian | |
| 1979 |
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| Medalist: | The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin | |
| Honor: | The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson | |
| 1978 |
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| Medalist: | Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson | |
| Honor: | Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey by Jamake Highwater | |
| 1977 |
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| Medalist: | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor | |
| Honor: | Abel's Island by William Steig A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond | |
| 1976 |
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| Medalist: | The Grey King by Susan Cooper | |
| Honor: | The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep | |
| 1975 |
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| Medalist: | M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton | |
| Honor: | Figgs and Phantoms by Ellen Raskin My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Green | |
| 1974 |
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| Medalist: | The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox | |
| Honor: | The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper | |
| 1973 |
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| Medalist: | Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George | |
| Honor: | Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel The Upstairs Room by Johanna Weiss The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | |
| 1972 |
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| Medalist: | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien | |
| Honor: | Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | |
| 1971 |
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| Medalist: | Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars | |
| Honor: | Kneeknock Rise by Natalie Babbitt Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell | |
| 1970 |
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| Medalist: | Sounder by William H. Armstrong | |
| Honor: | Our Eddie by Sulamith Ish-Kishor The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art by Janet Moore Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele | |
| 1969 |
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| Medalist: | The High King by Lloyd Alexander | |
| Honor: | To Be a Slave by Julius Lester When Shlemiel Went To Warsaw and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| 1968 |
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| Medalist: | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg | |
| Honor: | Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and
Me, Elizabeth by
E. L. Konigsburg The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell The Fearsome Inn by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | |
| 1967 |
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| Medalist: | Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt | |
| Honor: | The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell Zlateh the Goat by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Jazz Man by Mary H. Weik | |
| 1966 |
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| Medalist: | I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borten de Trevino | |
| Honor: | The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz | |
| 1965
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| Medalist: | Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska | |
| Honor: | Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt | |
| 1964 |
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| Medalist: | It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville | |
| Honor: | Rascal by Sterling North The Loner by Ester Weir | |
| 1963 |
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| Medalist: | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle | |
| Honor: | Thistle and Thyme by Sorche Nic Leodhas Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge | |
| 1962 |
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| Medalist: | The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare | |
| Honor: | Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis The Golden Goblet by Eloise McGraw Belling the Tiger by Mary Stolz | |
| 1961 |
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| Medalist: | Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell | |
| Honor: | America Moves Forward by Gerald W. Johnson
Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden | |
| 1960 |
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| Medalist: | Onion John by Joseph Krumgold | |
| Honor: | My Side of the Mountain by Jean George America Is Born by Gerald W. Johnson The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall | |
| 1959 |
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| Medalist: | The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare | |
| Honor: | The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage
Carlson Along Came a Dog by Meindert Dejong Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Francis Kalnay The Perilous Road by William O. Steele | |
| 1958 |
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| Medalist: | Rifles For Watie by Harold Keith | |
| Honor: | The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz Goneaway Lake by Elizabeth Enright The Greaat Wheel by Robert Lawson Tom Paine, Freedom's Apostle by Leo Gurko | |
| 1957 |
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| Medalist: | Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson | |
| Honor: | Old Yeller by Fred Gipson The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong Mr. Justice Holmes by Clara Ingram Judson The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli | |
| 1956 |
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| Medalist: | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham | |
| Honor: | The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Golden Name Day by Jennie Linquist Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Shippen | |
| 1955 |
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| Medalist: | The Wheel on the School by Meindert Dejong | |
| Honor: | The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Banner In The Sky by James Ullman | |
| 1954 |
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| Medalist: | And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold | |
| Honor: | All Alone by Claire Hutchet Bishop Shadrach by Meindert Dejong Hurry Home Candyby Meindert Dejong Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot by Clara Ingram Judson Magic Maize by Mary and Conrad Buff | |
| 1953 |
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| Medalist: | Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark | |
| Honor: | Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Moccasin Trail by Eloise McGraw Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil The Bears On Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh Birthdays of Freedom Vol. 1 by Genevieve Foster | |
| 1952 |
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| Medalist: | Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes | |
| Honor: | Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Baity
Minn of The Mississippi by Holling C Holling The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff The Light At Tern Rock by Julia Sauer The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff | |
| 1951 |
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| Medalist: | Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates | |
| Honor: | Better Known As Johnny Appleseed by Mabel
Leigh Hunt Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword by Jeanette Eaton Abraham Lincoln, Friend Of the People by Clara Ingram Judson Appleby Capple by Anne Parrish | |
| 1950 |
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| Medalist: | The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli | |
| Honor: | Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz Kildee House by Rutherford Montgomery George Washington by Genevieve Foster Song of the Pines by Walter and Marion Havighurst | |
| 1949 |
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| Medalist: | King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry | |
| Honor: | 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 |
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| Medalist: | The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois | |
| Honor: | Pancakes-Paris by Claire Hutchet Bishop Le Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman The Cow-Tail Switch by Harold Courlander Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerit Henry | |
| 1947 |
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| Medalist: | Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | |
| Honor: | 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 The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett | |
| 1946 |
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| Medalist: | Strawberry Girl by Lois Lensky | |
| Honor: | 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 |
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| Medalist: | Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson | |
| Honor: | 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 Jeanetter Eaton | |
| 1944 |
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| Medalist: | Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes | |
| Honor: | The Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder Fog Magic by Julia Sauer Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yeates | |
| 1943 |
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| Medalist: | Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray | |
| Honor: | The Middle Moffat by Eleanore Estes Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt | |
| 1942 |
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| Medalist: | The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds | |
| Honor: | Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls
Wilder George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster Indian Captive by Lois Lenski Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin | |
| 1941 |
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| Medalist: | Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry | |
| Honor: | 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 |
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| Medalist: | Daniel Boone by James Daugherty | |
| Honor: | 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 | |
| 1939 |
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| Medalist: | Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright | |
| Honor: | Nino by Valenti Angelo Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater Hello the Boat by Phyllis Crawford Leader By Destiny: George Washington by Jeanette Eaton Penn by Elizabeth Janet Gray | |
| 1938 |
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| Medalist: | The White Stag by Kate Seredy | |
| Honor: | Pecos Bill by James Cloyd Bowman Bright Island by Mabel Robinson On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| 1937 |
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| Medalist: | Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer | |
| Honor: | Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book by Lois Lenski Stokes: Whistler's Van by Idwal Jones Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans Winterbound by Margery Bianco The Codfish Musket by Agnes Hewes | |
| 1936 |
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| Medalist: | Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink | |
| Honor: | Honk, the Moose by Phil Strong The Good Master by Kate Seresy Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray All Sail Set by Armstrong Sperry | |
| 1935 |
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| Medalist: | Dobry by Monica Shannon | |
| Honor: | Pageant of Chinese History by Elizabeth Seeger
Davy Crockett by Constance Rourke Day on Skates by Hilda Von Stockum | |
| 1934
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| Medalist: | Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs | |
| Honor: | The Forgotten Daughter by Caroline Snedeker
Swords of Steel by Elsie Singmaster ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag Winged Girl Of Knossos by Erik Berry New Land by Sarah Schmidt Big Tree Of Bunlahy by Padraic Colum Glory of the Seas by Agnes Hewes Apprentice of Florence by Ann Kyle | |
| 1933 |
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| Medalist: | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis | |
| Honor: | Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs The Railroad To Freedom by Hildegarde Swift Children of the Soil by Nora Burglon | |
| 1932 |
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| Medalist: | Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer | |
| Honor: | The Fairy Circus by Dorothy P. Lathrop Calico Bush by Rachel Field Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens Out of the Flame by Eloise Lownsbery Jane's Island by Marjorie Allee Truce Of the Wolf by Mary Gould Davis | |
| 1931 |
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| Medalist: | The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatswirth | |
| Honor: | Floating Island by Anne Parrish The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess by Alida Malkus Queer Person by Ralph Hubbard Mountains Are Free by Julie Davis Adams Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Hewes Meggy Macintosh by Elizabeth Janet Gray Garram the Hunter by Herbert Best Ood-Le-Uk the Wanderer by Alice Lide and Margaret Johansen | |
| 1930 |
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| Medalist: | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field | |
| Honor: | Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame
Roland by Jeanette
Eaton Pran of Albania by Elizabeth Miller Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales by Ella Young Vaino: A Boy of New England by Julia Davis Adams Little Blacknose by Hildegarde Swift | |
| 1929 |
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| Medalist: | The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly | |
| Honor: | Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo by John Bennett Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag The Boy Who Was by Grace Hallock Clearing Weather by Cornelia Meigs Runaway Papoose by Grace Moon Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney | |
| 1928 |
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| Medalist: | Gayneck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji | |
| Honor: | The Wonder Smith and His Son by Ella Young
Downright Dencey by Caroline Snedeker | |
| 1927 |
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| Medalist: | Smoky, the Cow Horse by Will James | |
| Honor: | No Record | |
| 1926 |
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| Medalist: | Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman | |
| Honor: | Voyagers by Padraic Colum | |
| 1925 |
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| Medalist: | Tales From the Silver Lands by Charles Finger | |
| Honor: | Dream Coach by Anne Parrish | |
| 1924 |
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| Medalist: | The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes | |
| Honor: | No Record | |
| 1923 |
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| Medalist: | The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting | |
| Honor: | No Record | |
| 1922 |
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| Medalist: | The Story of Mankind by Hendrik
Willem Van Loon | |
| Honor: |
The Great Quest
by Charles Hawes Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall The Old Tobacco Shop by William Bowen The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs | |
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