Newbery Winners and Honors: 1950 Winner & Honorees

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli

Tree of freedom by Rebecca Caudill ; illus. by Dorothy Bayley Morse. The two eldest children of a pioneer family are determined to carry their love of beauty and learning to their new home in the Kentucky Wilderness.

The blue cat of Castle Town by Catherine Cate Coblentz, illustrated by Janice Holland. A blue kitten is born once in a blue moon in a town in Vermont. His destiny is to find a friendly hearth and inspire its owner with the beauty and wisdom of the river's song.

Kildee house by by Rutherford Montgomery ; illustrated by Barbara Cooney. A biography of Lincoln whose success story became the symbol of the American dream--the backwoods boy who by honesty, dignity, and kindness won the highest office in the country.

George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster; Joanna Foster Parallels events in the life of George Washington with those of other now-famous individuals who lived during his lifetime, and shows the role each of them played in the history of the world.