Newbery Winners

     Each year the Newbery Medal is awarded by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children’s books published the previous year. The first Newbery Award winner was announced in 1922. The award is named for the eighteenth-century English book-seller John Newbery. The purpose of the Newbery Medal is "To encourage original creative work in the field of books for children. To emphasize to the public that contributions to the literature for children deserve similar recognition to poetry, plays, or novels. To give those librarians, who make it their life work to serve children’s reading interests, and opportunity to encourage good writing in this field." The Newbery Award thus became the first children’s book award in the world. Its terms, as well as its long history, continue to make it the best known and most discussed children’s book award in the United States.

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