Within the book collecting hobby, in general, the first edition Newbery Medal books have higher collector interest than the Caldecott Medal books. This is especially evident over the past thirty years, where market values of first edition Newbery books have increased dramatically. 

The Newbery winners as a whole, being chapter books, have not been included in the Children's Picturebook Price Guide. However, many of the Newbery books include artwork by illustrators covered by the Price Guide, so for the sake of biblographic completeness, the books have been included in the artist's titles.

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The Newbery has been awarded by the American Library Association since 1922:

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Newbery Award Books, With Illustrations!

We've documented eighty-one Newbery books with pictures and/or cover art by illustrators listed in the Price Guide. Twenty-eight of the books won the Newbery Medal. Twenty-four of the books were both written and illustrated by a single individual, including Robert Lawson and Wanda Gag.

A Visit To William Blake's Inn is the only book to win both a Newbery and Caldecott award. In 1982, Nancy Willard was awarded the Newbery Medal for the story, while Alice and Martin Provenson won a Caldecott Honor for the illustrations.

Two of Wanda Gág's picturebooks, Millions Of Cats (1929) and ABC Bunny (1933), along with another picturebook, Honk The Moose (1936), won Newbery Honor awards in the years prior to the inception of the Caldecott awards. The only other picturebook to win a Newbery awards for writing was William Steig's Dr. DeSoto (1982).

Caldecott Medal winner Maurice Sendak's artwork can be found in six of the Newbery books.

The table lists values for first edition books, with dust jackets!

Newbery Medal and Honor Books—Picturebook Illustrators
Year	Title	Award	Winning Author(s)	Illustrator	VG+	Fine
1922	The Golden Fleece	NH	Padraic Colum	Willy Pogány	$460
1928	Gay-Neck	NM	Dhan Gopal Mukerji	Boris Artzybasheff	$540
1929	Millions Of Cats	NH	Wanda Gág	Wanda Gág	$4,000
1930	Hitty, Her First Hundred Years	NM	Rachel Field	Dorothy P. Lathrop	$940
1931	The Cat Who Went To Heaven	NM	Elizabeth Coatsworth	Lynd Ward	$780
1932	Waterless Mountain	NM	Laura Adams Armer	Laura Adams Armer	$1,200
1932	The Fairy Circus	NH	Dorothy P. Lathrop	Dorothy P. Lathrop	$520
1933	Young Fu Of The Upper Yangtze	NM	Elizabeth Foreman Lewis	Kurt Wiese	$760
1934	The ABC Bunny	NH	Wanda Gág	Wanda Gág	$1,400
1936	Caddie Woodlawn	NM	Carol Ryrie Brink	Kate Seredy	$1,000
1936	Honk, The Moose	NH	Kate Seredy	Kurt Wiese	$480
1936	The Good Master	NH	Phil Stong	Kate Seredy	$260
1937	Phoebe Fairchild	NH	Lois Lenski	Lois Lenski	$380
1937	The Golden Basket	NH	Ludwig Bemelmans	Ludwig Bemelmans	$480
1938	The White Stag	NM	Kate Seredy	Kate Seredy	$560
1938	Pecos Bill	NH	James Bowman	Laura Bannon	$140
1939	Mr Popper’s Penguins	NH	Richard & Florence Atwater	Robert Lawson	$400
1940	Daniel Boone	NM	James Daugherty	James Daugherty	$640
1940	The Singing Tree	NH	Kate Seredy	Kate Seredy	$240
1941	The Long Winter	NH	Laura Ingalls Wilder	Helen Sewell	$1,200
1942	The Matchlock Gun	NM	Walter D. Edmonds	Paul Lantz	$540
1942	Indian Captive	NH	Lois Lenski	Lois Lenski	$320
1942	Little Town On The Prairie	NH	Laura Ingalls Wilder	Helen Sewell	$1,200
1943	Adam Of The Road	NM	Elizabeth Gray Vining	Robert Lawson	$400
1943	The Middle Moffat	NH	Eleanor Estes	Louis Slobodkin	$380
1944	Johnny Tremain	NM	Esther Forbes	Lynd Ward	$520
1944	Rufus M.	NH	Eleanor Estes	Louis Slobodkin	$240
1945	Rabbit Hill	NM	Robert Lawson	Robert Lawson	$360
1945	The Hundred Dresses	NH	Alice Dalgliesh	Louis Slobodkin	$220
1945	The Silver Pencil	NH	Eleanor Estes	Katherine Milhous	$200
1946	Strawberry Girl	NM	Lois Lenski	Lois Lenski	$1,200
1946	Justin Morgan Had A Horse	NH	Marguerite Henry	Wesley Dennis	$220
1947	Miss Hickory	NM	Carolyn Sherwin Bailey	Ruth Gannett	$500
1947	Big Tree	NH	Mary Buff	Conrad Buff	$160
1948	The Twenty-One Balloons	NM	William Pène Du Bois	William Pène Du Bois	$280
1948	Misty Of Chincoteague	NH	Marguerite Henry	Wesley Dennis	$220
1948	Pancakes-Paris	NH	Claire Huchet Bishop	Georges Schreiber	$140
1949	King Of The Wind	NM	Marguerite Henry	Wesley Dennis	$480
1949	My Father’s Dragon	NH	Ruth Stiles Gannett	Ruth Chrisman Gannett	$220
1949	Seabird	NH	Holling C. Holling	Holling C. Holling	$260
1950	The Door In The Wall	NM	Marguerite De Angeli	Marguerite De Angeli	$460
1952	Ginger Pye	NM	Eleanor Estes	Louis Slobodkin	$440
1952	Minn Of The Mississippi	NH	Holling C. Holling	Holling C. Holling	$240
1952	The Apple And The Arrow	NH	Mary Buff	Conrad Buff	$140
1953	Secret Of The Andes	NM	Ann Nolan Clark	Jean Charlot	$440
1953	Charlotte’s Web	NH	E. B. White	Garth Williams	$980
1953	The Bears On Hemlock Mountain	NH	Alice Dalgliesh	Helen Sewell	$200
1954	... And Now Miguel	NM	Joseph Krumgold	Jean Charlot	$440
1954	Hurry Home, Candy	NH	Mary Buff	Conrad Buff	$540
1954	Magic Maize	NH	Meindert De Jong	Maurice Sendak	$140
1954	Shadrach	NH	Meindert De Jong	Maurice Sendak	$360
1955	The Wheel On The School	NM	Meindert De Jong	Maurice Sendak	$800
1955	The Courage Of Sarah Noble	NH	Alice Dalgliesh	Leonard Weisgard	$200
1957	Black Fox Of  Lorne	NH	Marguerite De Angeli	Marguerite De Angeli	$220
1957	The House Of Sixty Fathers	NH	Meindert De Jong	Maurice Sendak	$520
1958	The Great Wheel	NH	Robert Lawson	Robert Lawson	$280
1959	Along Came A Dog	NH	Meindert De Jong	Maurice Sendak	$400
1961	The Cricket In Times Square	NH	George Selden	Garth Williams	$260
1966	The Animal Family	NH	Randall Jarrell	Maurice Sendak	$340
1968	The Fearsome Inn	NH	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Nonny Hogrogian	$140
1969	To Be A Slave	NH	Isaac Bashevis Singer	Tom Feelings	$100
1969	When Shlemiel Went To Warsaw	NH	Julius Lester	Margot Zemach	$140
1971	Kneeknock Rise	NH	Natalie Babbitt	Natalie Babbitt	$70	$90
1972	Annie And The Old One	NH	Miska Miles	Peter Parnall	$50	$60
1973	Julie Of The Wolves	NM	Jean Craighead George	John Schoenherr	$180	$240
1973	Frog And Toad Together	NH	Arnold Lobel	Arnold Lobel	$120	$180
1975	Figgs & Phantoms	NH	Ellen Raskin	Ellen Raskin	$60	$80
1977	Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry	NM	Mildred Taylor	Jerry Pinkney	$180	$260
1977	Abel’s Island	NH	William Steig	William Steig	$80	$120
1979	The Westing Game	NM	Ellen Raskin	Ellen Raskin	$180	$240
1982	A Visit To William Blake’s Inn	NM	Nancy Willard	A. & M.  Provensen	$240	$320
1983	Doctor DeSoto	NH	William Steig	William Steig	$70	$90
1984	Dear Mr. Henshaw	NM	Beverly Cleary	Paul O. Zelinsky	$140	$200
1985	Like Jake And Me	NH	Mavis Jukes	Lloyd Bloom	$50	$70
1987	The Whipping Boy	NM	Sid Fleischman	Peter Sis	$160	$200
1989	Joyful Noise	NM	Paul Fleischman	Eric Beddows	$120	$160
1989	In The Beginning	NH	Virginia Hamilton	Barry Moser	$50	$70
1993	The Dark Thirty	NH	Patricia McKissack	Brian Pinkney	$60	$90
2000	26 Fairmount Avenue	NH	Tomie dePaola	Tomie dePaola	$50	$70
2001	The Wanderer	NH	Sharon Creech	David Diaz	$60	$90
2004	Olive’s Ocean	NH	Kevin Henkes	Kevin Henkes	$35	$50

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