Newberry Library
Newberry Library, a privately supported research and rare-books library in Chicago, Illinois. It has 1,400,000 volumes, some 5,000,000 catalogued manuscripts, and 75,000 maps. Emphasis is on the history, culture and literature of the Americas and of western Europe since the Middle Ages. The library is free and open to the public. Materials do not circulate outside the building.
| Newbery Medal winners | |||
| Year | Author | Winning book | |
| 1922 | Hendrik Willem Van Loon | The Story of Mankind | |
| 1923 | Hugh Lofting | The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle | |
| 1924 | Charles Boardman Hawes | The Dark Frigate | |
| 1925 | Charles Joseph Finger | Tales from Silver Lands | |
| 1926 | Arthur Bowie Chrisman | Shen of the Sea: A Book for Children | |
| 1927 | Will James | Smoky | |
| 1928 | Dhan Gopal Mukerji | Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon | |
| 1929 | Eric Philbrook Kelly | The Trumpeter of Krakow | |
| 1930 | Rachel Field | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | |
| 1931 | Elizabeth Coatsworth | The Cat Who Went to Heaven | |
| 1932 | Laura Adams Armer | Waterless Mountain | |
| 1933 | Elizabeth Foreman Lewis | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | |
| 1934 | Cornelia Lynde Meigs | Invincible Louisa | |
| 1935 | Monica Shannon | Dobry | |
| 1936 | Carol Ryrie Brink | Caddie Woodlawn | |
| 1937 | Ruth Sawyer | Roller Skates | |
| 1938 | Kate Seredy | The White Stag | |
| 1939 | Elizabeth Enright | Thimble Summer | |
| 1940 | James Henry Daugherty | Daniel Boone | |
| 1941 | Armstrong Sperry | Call It Courage | |
| 1942 | Walter Dumaux Edmonds | The Matchlock Gun | |
| 1943 | Elizabeth Janet Gray | Adam of the Road | |
| 1944 | Esther Forbes | Johnny Tremain | |
| 1945 | Robert Lawson | Rabbit Hill | |
| 1946 | Lois Lenski | Strawberry Girl | |
| 1947 | Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | Miss Hickory | |
| 1948 | William Pene Du Bois | The Twenty-One Balloons | |
| 1949 | Marguerite Breithaupt Henry | King of the Wind | |
| 1950 | Marguerite Lofft De Angeli | The Door in the Wall | |
| 1951 | Elizabeth Yates | Amos Fortune, Free Man | |
| 1952 | Eleanor Estes | Ginger Pye | |
| 1953 | Ann Nolan Clark | Secret of the Andes | |
| 1954 | Joseph Krumgold | ... And Now Miguel | |
| 1955 | Meindert DeJong | The Wheel on the School | |
| 1956 | Jean Lee Latham | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | |
| 1957 | Virginia Sorensen | Miracles on Maple Hill | |
| 1958 | Harold Keith | Rifles for Watie | |
| 1959 | Elizabeth George Speare | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | |
| 1960 | Joseph Krumgold | Onion John | |
| 1961 | Scott O'Dell | Island of the Blue Dolphins | |
| 1962 | Elizabeth George Speare | The Bronze Bow | |
| 1963 | Madeleine L'Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | |
| 1964 | Emily Cheney Neville | It's Like This, Cat | |
| 1965 | Maia Wojciechowska | Shadow of a Bull | |
| 1966 | Elizabeth Borton de Treviño | I, Juan de Pareja | |
| 1967 | Irene Hunt | Up a Road Slowly | |
| 1968 | Elaine Konigsburg | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | |
| 1969 | Lloyd Alexander | The High King | |
| 1970 | William H. Armstrong | Sounder | |
| 1971 | Betsy Byars | The Summer of the Swans | |
| 1972 | Robert C. O'Brien | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | |
| 1973 | Jean Craighead George | Julie of the Wolves | |
| 1974 | Paula Fox | The Slave Dancer | |
| 1975 | Virginia Hamilton | M.C. Higgins, the Great | |
| 1976 | Susan Cooper | The Grey King | |
| 1977 | Mildred D. Taylor | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | |
| 1978 | Katherine Paterson | Bridge to Terabithia | |
| 1979 | Ellen Raskin | The Westing Game | |
| 1980 | Joan W. Blos | A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal | |
| 1981 | Katherine Paterson | Jacob Have I Loved | |
| 1982 | Nancy Willard | A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers | |
| 1983 | Cynthia Voigt | Dicey's Song | |
| 1984 | Beverly Cleary | Dear Mr. Henshaw | |
| 1985 | Robin McKinley | The Hero and the Crown | |
| 1986 | Patricia MacLachlan | Sarah, Plain and Tall | |
| 1987 | Sid Fleischman | The Whipping Boy | |
| 1988 | Russell Freedman | Lincoln: A Photobiography | |
| 1989 | Paul Fleischman | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | |
| 1990 | Lois Lowry | Number the Stars | |
| 1991 | Jerry Spinelli | Maniac Magee | |
| 1992 | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Shiloh | |
| 1993 | Cynthia Rylant | Missing May | |
| 1994 | Lois Lowry | The Giver | |
| 1995 | Sharon Creech | Walk Two Moons | |
| 1996 | Karen Cushman | The Midwife's Apprentice | |
| 1997 | Elaine Konigsburg | The View from Saturday | |
| 1998 | Karen Hesse | Out of the Dust | |
| 1999 | Louis Sachar | Holes | |
| 2000 | Christopher Paul Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy | |
| 2001 | Richard Peck | A Year Down Yonder | |
| 2002 | Linda Sue Park | A Single Shard | |
| 2003 | Avi | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | |
| 2004 | Kate DiCamillo | The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread | |
| 2005 | Cynthia Kadohata | Kira-Kira | |
| 2006 | Lynne Rae Perkins | Criss Cross | |
| 2007 | Susan Patron | The Higher Power of Lucky | |
| 2008 | Laura Amy Schlitz | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | |
Outstanding materials include the Edward E. Ayer collection on American Indians; John M. Wing Foundation collection on the history of printing; Jane Oakley Fund music collection; and the Everett D. Graff collection in Western Americana. The library is also noted for its collections in Renaissance history and literature, Portuguese history, English literature, linguistics, genealogy, and music. The library also has substantial holdings of early American periodicals.
The library was founded in 1887 by a bequest from Walter Loomis Newberry, a Chicago businessman, and was incorporated in 1892. Its Spanish-Romanesque stone building, dedicated in 1893, is about one mile (1.6 km) north of Chicago's central business district.
