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Newbery Winners and Honors: 1940s Newbery Winners

40's Winners & Honorees

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1940s Winners

1949 - King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry; Wesley Dennis (Illustrator)
Call Number: Fic H523k
1948 - The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Illustrator); William Pene du Bois
Call Number: Fic P398t
1947 - Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey; Ruth Gannett (Illustrator)
Call Number: Fic B155m
1946 - Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Illustrator); Lenski
Call Number: Fic L573st
1945 - Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Illustrator)
Call Number: Fic L425r
1944 - Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes; Lynd Ward (Illustrator)
Call Number: Fic F692j
1943 - Adam of the Road by Elizabeth J. Gray; Robert Lawson (Illustrator); Elizabeth Janet Gray
Call Number: Fic V785a
1942 - The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds; Paul Lantz (Illustrator)
Call Number: Fic E24m
1941 - Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Illustrator)
Call Number: Fic S751c
1940 - Daniel Boone by by James Daugherty
Call Number: 923.9 B724d