Newbery Award 1949-1940년

1949 Medal Winner: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

Honor Books:
Seabird by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)

Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin (Viking)

My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett (Random House)

Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps (Knopf)

1948 Medal Winner: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)

Honor Books:
Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop (Viking)

Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (Abingdon)

The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman (Bobbs-Merrill)

The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander (Holt)

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

1947 Medal Winner: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)

Honor Books:
Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes (Messner)

Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)

The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell (Harper)

The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet) (Appleton)

The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett (Viking)

1946 Medal Winner: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)

Honor Books:
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)

The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means (Houghton)

Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston (Scribner)

New Found World by Katherine Shippen (Viking)

1945 Medal Winner: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)

Honor Books:
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)

The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)

Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)

Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanetter Eaton (Harcourt)

1944 Medal Winner: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton)

Honor Books:
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)

Fog Magic by Julia Sauer (Viking)

Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)

Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates (Coward)

1943 Medal Winner: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
Honor Books:
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)

Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt (Lippincott)

1942 Medal Winner: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)

Honor Books:
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)

George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster (Scribner)

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)

Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin (Viking)

1941 Medal Winner: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)

Honor Books:
Blue Willow by Doris Gates (Viking)

Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr (Crowell)

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)

Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall (Viking)

1940 Medal Winner: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)

Honor Books:
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (Viking)

Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson (Random House)

By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)

Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt)