Newbery Winners and Honors: 1945 Winner & Honorees

Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

Abraham Lincoln's world, 1809-1865 by written and illustrated by Genevieve Foster. A historical survey of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas during the lifetime of Abraham Lincoln, examining people, places, and events which gave color to the world of the nineteenth century.

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes; Louis Slobodkin (Illustrator); Helena Estes Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.

Lone journey : the life of Roger Williams by by Jeanette Eaton, illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. A fictionized biography of the man who left England to fight for freedom of speech and liberty of worship in colonial America. He founded a settlement in what is now Rhode Island and helped to create a truly democratic government.

The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh; Katherine Milhous (Illustrator) Janet uses the special pencil she received from her father to turn her life into stories.