Newbery Honor Book
The Newbery Honor Books are runners-up to the Newberry Medal, which is awarded each year for the preceding year’s most distinguished American picture book for children.
The medal is named in honor of John Newbery. He was an eighteenth-century British publisher of juvenile books. He made it a priority to create books specifically for children.
No Award was given in 1923, 1924, or 1927. That is because no book was considered suitable.
Learn more: official Newberry Medal and Honor homepage.
Winners:
One-Eyed Cat (1984)
Author(s):
Paula Fox
Illustrator(s):
Erika Meltzer
The Moves Make the Man (1984)
Author(s):
Bruce Brooks
Illustrator(s):
None
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun (1985)
Author(s):
Rhoda Blumberg
Illustrator(s):
None
A Fine White Dust (1986)
Author(s):
Cynthia Rylant
Illustrator(s):
None
On My Honor (1986)
Author(s):
Marion Dane Bauer
Illustrator(s):
None
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens (1986)
Author(s):
Patricia Lauber
Illustrator(s):
None
After the Rain (1987)
Author(s):
Norma Fox Mazer
Illustrator(s):
None
Scorpions (1988)
Author(s):
Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator(s):
Bradford Brown
Afternoon of the Elves (1989)
Author(s):
Janet Taylor Lisle
Illustrator(s):
None
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind (1989)
Author(s):
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Illustrator(s):
None
The Winter Room (1989)
Author(s):
Gary Paulsen
Illustrator(s):
None
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1990)
Author(s):
Avi
Illustrator(s):
Ruth E. Murray
Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel (1991)
Author(s):
Avi
Illustrator(s):
None
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane (1991)
Author(s):
Russell Freedman
Illustrator(s):
Orville Wright
Somewhere in the Darkness (1992)
Author(s):
Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator(s):
None
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (1992)
Author(s):
Patricia C. McKissack
Illustrator(s):
Brian Pinkney
What Hearts (1992)
Author(s):
Bruce Brooks
Illustrator(s):
None
