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:
A String in the Harp (1976)
Abel’s Island (1976)
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey (1977)
Ramona and Her Father (1977)
Ramona and Her Father is the fourth book in Beverly Cleary’s popular “Ramona Quimby” series.
The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978)
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl (1979)
Nonny Hogrogian illustrated the 1995 and later editions
The Fledgling (1980)
Georgie, a young girl, discovers she can fly.
Read online at archive.org.
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 (1981)
Doctor De Soto (1982)
Graven Images (1982)
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1982)
Leo Dillon