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:
Because of Winn-Dixie (2000)
Author(s):
Kate DiCamillo
Illustrator(s):
Cherry Jones
Hope Was Here (2000)
Author(s):
Joan Bauer
Illustrator(s):
None
Joey Pigza Loses Control (2000)
This book is the sequel to Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.
Author(s):
Jack Gantos
Illustrator(s):
None
The Wanderer (2000)
Author(s):
Sharon Creech
Illustrator(s):
David Díaz
Carver: A Life in Poems (2001)
Author(s):
Marilyn Nelson
Illustrator(s):
None
Everything on a Waffle (2001)
Author(s):
Polly Horvath
Illustrator(s):
Gina Freschet
A Corner of the Universe (2002)
Author(s):
Ann M. Martin
Illustrator(s):
None
Hoot (2002)
Author(s):
Carl Hiaasen
Illustrator(s):
Carl Hiaasen
Pictures of Hollis Woods (2002)
Author(s):
Patricia Reilly Giff
Illustrator(s):
Clarissa Leahy
Surviving the Applewhites (2002)
Author(s):
Stephanie S. Tolan
Illustrator(s):
Hala Witwer
The House of the Scorpion (2002)
Author(s):
Nancy Farmer
Illustrator(s):
Russell Gordon
An American Plague: the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 (2003)
Author(s):
Jim Murphy
Illustrator(s):
None
Olive’s Ocean (2003)
Author(s):
Kevin Henkes
Illustrator(s):
Kevin Henkes
Al Capone Does My Shirts (2004)
Author(s):
Gennifer Choldenko
Illustrator(s):
None
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (2004)
Author(s):
Gary D. Schmidt
Illustrator(s):
Stefano Vitale
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights (2004)
Author(s):
Russell Freedman
Illustrator(s):
None
Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow (2005)
Author(s):
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Illustrator(s):
None
Princess Academy (2005)
Author(s):
Shannon Hale
Illustrator(s):
None
Show Way (2005)
Author(s):
Jacqueline Woodson
Illustrator(s):
Hudson Talbott
Whittington (2005)
Author(s):
Alan Armstrong
Illustrator(s):
S. D. Schindler
