LibGuides: Newbery Winners and Honors: 1940s Newbery Winners

1940s Winners at the Curriculum Center or Main Library

1941 - Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC PB FIC SPE/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.S66C3
1942 - The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds; Paul Lantz (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC 973.2 EDM/MAIN LIBRARY PZ202.E35M3
1943 - Adam of the Road by Elizabeth J. Gray; Robert Lawson (Illustrator); Elizabeth Janet Gray
Call Number: GSCC FIC GRA/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.V55A63 1942
1944 - Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes; Lynd Ward (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC FIC Forbes/MAIN LIBRARY PZ203.F67J6
1945 - Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC FIC LAW/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.L385R3
1946 - Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Illustrator); Lenski
Call Number: GSCC FIC LEN
1947 - Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey; Ruth Gannett (Illustrator)
Call Number: IMTC FIC BAI/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.B35M5
1948 - The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Illustrator); William Pene du Bois
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC BOI
1949 - King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry; Wesley Dennis (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC FIC HEN and PBK FIC HEN/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.H45K5

1945 - The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes; Louis Slobodkin (Illustrator); Helena Estes
Call Number: GSCC FIC Estes and PBK FIC Estes/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.E83H86 1972
1946 - Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry; Wesley Dennis (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.H443J87 1945
1947 - The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore M. Jewett; Frederick T. Chapman (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC FIC JEW
1948 - Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry; Wesley Dennis (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC FIC HEN
1948 - The Cow-Tail Switch by Harold Courlander; George Herzog; Madye Lee Chastain (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC 398.2 COU
1949 - My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett; Ruth Chrisman Gannett
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.G34M9

1940 - Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader (Stephen Warren)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.M38B6
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Garth Williams (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC FIC WIL/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.W53B9
1941 - The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Garth Williams (Illustrator)
Call Number: IMTC FIC WIL and PBK FIC WIL
1941 - Blue Willow by Doris Gates; Paul Lantz (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC PBK FIC WIL/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.G38B5
1942 - Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Garth Williams (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.W53L55
1943 - The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes; Louis Slobodkin (Illustrator); Tricia Tusa (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC FIC EST/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.E83M6
1944 - Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes; Louis Slobodkin (Illustrator); Tricia Tusa (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.E83R8
1944 - These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Garth Williams (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC PB FIC WIL/MAIN LIBRARY PZ9.W53T4