Poll results: Newbery

And we have a Newbery winner! Not for the 2008 Newbery... that will be announced tomorrow, but for my equally important poll about favorite past Newbery winners.

The winner is one of my all time favorite books: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg.

I was surprised at how few votes King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry got (only 2)... and was impressed at how many obscure Newbery winner recieved votes. See below for the rest of the intriguing results.

Question: What are your favorite Newbery Medal books?

Answers:

1^st place (26 votes)

• 1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

2^nd place (24 votes)

• 1994: The Giver

3^rd place (23 votes each)

• 1979: The Westing Game
• 1978: Bridge to Terabithia
• 1963: A Wrinkle in Time

4^th place (22 votes)

• 1999: Holes

5^th place (21 votes)

• 1990: Number the Stars

6^th place (18 votes)

• 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

7^th place (15 votes)

• 1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

8^th place (14 votes)

• 1981: Jacob Have I Loved

9^th place (13 votes)

• 1944: Johnny Tremain

10^th place (12 votes each)

• 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall
• 1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins

11^th place (11 votes)

• 1995: Walk Two Moons

12^th place (10 votes each)

• 1991: Maniac Magee
• 1983: Dicey's Song
• 1936: Caddie Woodlawn

13^th place (9 votes each)

• 2004: The Tale of Despereaux
• 1997: The View from Saturday
• 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• 1973: Julie of the Wolves

14^th place (8 votes each)

• 2001: A Year Down Yonder
• 2000: Bud, Not Buddy
• 1996: The Midwife's Apprentice
• 1985: The Hero and the Crown
• 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw

15^th place (7 votes)

• 2002: A Single Shard

16^th place (6 votes each)

• 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky
• 1998: Out of the Dust
• 1976: The Grey King
• 1969: The High King
• 1950: The Door in the Wall

17^th place (5 votes each)

• 2005: Kira-Kira
• 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography

18^th place (4 votes each)

• 1989: Joyful Noise
• 1970: Sounder
• 1967: Up a Road Slowly
• 1962: The Bronze Bow
• 1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

19^th place (3 votes each)

• 2003: Crispin
• 1993: Missing May
• 1987: The Whipping Boy
• 1974: The Slave Dancer
• 1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
• 1955: The Wheel on the School
• 1948: The Twenty-One Balloons
• 1945: Rabbit Hill

20^th place (2 votes each)

• 2006: Criss Cross
• 1964: It's Like This, Cat
• 1958: Rifles for Watie
• 1949: King of the Wind
• 1941: Call It Courage
• 1937: Roller Skates
• 1934: Invincible Louisa
• 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
• 1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

21^st place (1 vote each)

• 1992: Shiloh
• 1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn
• 1980: A Gathering of Days
• 1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great
• 1971: Summer of the Swans
• 1954: And Now Miguel
• 1953: Secret of the Andes
• 1952: Ginger Pye
• 1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man
• 1947: Miss Hickory
• 1946: Strawberry Girl
• 1943: Adam of the Road
• 1942: The Matchlock Gun
• 1940: Daniel Boone
• 1939: Thimble Summer
• 1938: The White Stag
• 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
• 1932: Waterless Mountain
• 1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow
• 1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse
• 1922: The Story of Mankind

22^nd place (0 votes each)

• 1966: I, Juan de Pareja
• 1965: Shadow of a Bull
• 1960: Onion John
• 1957: Miracles on Maple Hill
• 1935: Dobry
• 1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
• 1926: Shen of the Sea
• 1925: Tales from Silver Lands
• 1924: The Dark Frigate

See this post for the results of the Caldecott poll I conducted.