Television had a big year in 1963, among the news coverage of President Kennedy’s assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech,” and the first live televised murder of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. Although much of this was unpleasant, media had its good turns in the 1960’s. In 1966, Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” explores the narrative style in a non-fiction book. The movie based on the research for this book, starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, is wonderful, by the way.
1961 Medal Winner: “Island of the Blue Dolphins” by Scott O’Dell
Honor Books
- “America Moves Forward: A History for Peter” by Gerald W. Johnson
- “Old Ramon” by Jack Schaefer
- “The Cricket In Times Square” by George Selden, pseud. (George Thompson)
1962 Medal Winner: “The Bronze Bow” by Elizabeth George Speare
Honor Books
- “Frontier Living” by Edwin Tunis
- “The Golden Goblet” by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
- “Belling The Tiger” by Mary Stolz
1963 Medal Winner: “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle
Honor Books
- “Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland” by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. (Leclaire Alger)
- “Men of Athens” by Olivia Coolidge
1964 Medal Winner: “It’s Like This, Cat” by Emily Neville
Honor Books
- “Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era” by Sterling North
- “The Loner” by Ester Wier
1965 Medal Winner: “Shadow of a Bull” by Maia Wojciechowska
Honor Book
- “Across Five Aprils” by Irene Hunt
1966 Medal Winner: “I, Juan de Pareja” by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Honor Books
- “The Black Cauldron” by Lloyd Alexander
- “The Animal Family” by Randall Jarrell
- “The Noonday Friends” by Mary Stolz
1967 Medal Winner: “Up a Road Slowly” by Irene Hunt
Honor Books
- “The King’s Fifth” by Scott O’Dell
- “Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “The Jazz Man” by Mary Hays Weik
1968 Medal Winner: “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” by E. L. Konigsburg
Honor Books
- “Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth” by E. L. Konigsburg
- “The Black Pearl” by Scott O’Dell
- “The Fearsome Inn” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “The Egypt Game” by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1969 Medal Winner: “The High King” by Lloyd Alexander
Honor Books
- “To Be a Slave” by Julius Lester
- “When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
1970 Medal Winner: “Sounder” by William H. Armstrong
Honor Books
- “Our Eddie” by Sulamith Ish-Kishor
- “The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art” by Janet Gaylord Moore
- “Journey Outside” by Mary Q. Steele
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Newbery Medal Winners: 1922-1930
Newbery Medal Winners: 1931-1940
Newbery Medal Winners: 1941-1950
Newbery Medal Winners: 1951-1960