Newbery Winners and Honors: 1939 Winner & Honorees

Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Illustrator)

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater; Florence Atwater; Robert Lawson (Illustrator) The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.

"Hello, the boat!" by by Phyllis Crawford; pictures by Edward Laning. When they decide to leave their home in Pittsburgh in 1817 and re-establish themselves in the West, the Doak family manages a merchant's new storeboat down the Ohio River to Cincinnati.

Leader by destiny : George Washington, man and patriot by Jeanette Eaton, illustrated by Jack Manley Rosé. This biography treats both an individual and an era of history in a manner all the more accurate because the book is human and unbiased.

Penn by by Elizabeth Janet Gray; illustrated by George Gillett Whitney. A biography of the Quaker who founded Pennsylvania and was its first leader.