Newbery Medal Winners: 1951-1960
In 1951, color television sets went on sale for the first time. Imagine what a big step that was for media then. 3-D movies were introduced in 1952 and today we can get movies in our homes on discs. Isn’t that incredible? The Grammy Awards debuted in 1959, giving awards for music from 1958. Literature had leaps and bounds in the 1950’s. Ray Bradbury’s novel about fascism and censorship — “Fahrenheit 451” — became a huge smash. In 1957, ALbert Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1958 novel “Exodus” took a look at how Israel became a nation.
1951 Medal Winner: “Amos Fortune, Free Man” by Elizabeth Yates
Honor Books
- “Better Known as Johnny Appleseed” by Mabel Leigh Hunt
- “Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword” by Jeanette Eaton
- “Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People” by Clara Ingram Judson
- “The Story of Appleby Capple” by Anne Parrish
1952 Medal Winner: “Ginger Pye” by Eleanor Estes
Honor Books
- “Americans Before Columbus” by Elizabeth Baity
- “Minn of the Mississippi” by Holling C. Holling
- “The Defender” by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
- “The Light at Tern Rock” by Julia Sauer
- “The Apple and the Arrow” by Mary & Conrad Buff
1953 Medal Winner: “Secret of the Andes” by Ann Nolan Clark
Honor Books
- “Charlotte’s Web” by E. B. White
- “Moccasin Trail” by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
- “Red Sails to Capri” by Ann Weil
- “The Bears on Hemlock Mountain” by Alice Dalgliesh
- “Birthdays of Freedom, Vol. 1” by Genevieve Foster
1954 Medal Winner: “…And Now Miguel” by Joseph Krumgold
Honor Books
- “All Alone” by Claire Huchet Bishop
- “Shadrach” by Meindert Dejong
- “Hurry Home, Candy” by Meindert Dejong
- “Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot” by Clara Ingram Judson
- “Magic Maize” by Mary & Conrad Buff
1955 Medal Winner: “The Wheel on the School” by Meindert DeJong
Honor Books
- “Courage of Sarah Noble” by Alice Dalgliesh
- “Banner In The Sky” by James Ullman
1956 Medal Winner: “Carry On, Mr. Bowditch” by Jean Lee Latham
Honor Books
- “The Secret River” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- “The Golden Name Day” by Jennie Lindquist
- “Men, Microscopes, and Living Things” by Katherine Shippen
1957 Medal Winner: “Miracles on Maple Hill” by Virginia Sorenson
Honor Books
- “Old Yeller” by Fred Gipson
- “The House of Sixty Fathers” by Meindert DeJong
- “Mr. Justice Holmes” by Clara Ingram Judson
- “The Corn Grows Ripe” by Dorothy Rhoads
- “Black Fox of Lorne” by Marguerite de Angeli
1958 Medal Winner: “Rifles for Watie” by Harold Keith
Honor Books
- “The Horsecatcher” by Mari Sandoz
- “Gone-Away Lake” by Elizabeth Enright
- “The Great Wheel” by Robert Lawson
- “Tom Paine, Freedom’s Apostle” by Leo Gurko
1959 Medal Winner: “The Witch of Blackbird Pond” by Elizabeth George Speare
Honor Books
- “The Family Under The Bridge” by Natalie Savage Carlson
- “Along Came A Dog” by Meindert Dejong
- “Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa” by Francis Kalnay
- “The Perilous Road” by William O. Steele
1960 Medal Winner: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
Honor Books
- “My Side of the Mountain” by Jean Craighead George
- “America Is Born: A History for Peter” by Gerald W. Johnson
- “The Gammage Cup” by Carol Kendall
Newbery Medal Winners: 1922-1930
Newbery Medal Winners: 1931-1940
Newbery Medal Winners: 1941-1950