Who’s ready for month three of the Newbery Through the Decades Challenge? 
Here’s what’s up this month:
1949 Medal Winner: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
Honor Books:
- Seabird by Holling C. Holling
- Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
- My Father’s Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett (Review at Read-at-Home Mom)
- Story of the Negro by Arna Bontemps
1948 Medal Winner: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
Honor Books:
- Pancakes-Paris by Claire Huchet Bishop
- Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger
- The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
- The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories by Harold Courlander
- Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
1947 Medal Winner: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Honor Books:
- Wonderful Year by Nancy Barnes
- Big Tree by Mary & Conrad Buff
- The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
- The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher, pseud. (Darwin L. Teilhet)
- The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor Jewett
1946 Medal Winner: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Honor Books:
- Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
- The Moved-Outers by Florence Crannell Means
- Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear by Christine Weston
- New Found World by Katherine Shippen
1945 Medal Winner: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Honor Books:
- The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (Review at Supratentorial)
- The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
- Abraham Lincoln’s World by Genevieve Foster
- Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams by Jeanette Eaton
1944 Medal Winner: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Honor Books:
- These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Fog Magic by Julia Sauer (Review at Supratentorial)
- Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
- Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates
1943 Medal Winner: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Honor Books:
- The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
- Have You Seen Tom Thumb? by Mabel Leigh Hunt
1942 Medal Winner: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
Honor Books:
- Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- George Washington’s World by Genevieve Foster
- Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
- Down Ryton Water by Eva Roe Gaggin
1941 Medal Winner: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Honor Books:
- Blue Willow by Doris Gates
- Young Mac of Fort Vancouver by Mary Jane Carr
- The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall
1940 Medal Winner: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
Honor Books:
- The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
- Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Robinson
- By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Boy with a Pack by Stephen W. Meader
Here are my picks for the month:
Many of these books from the 1940s that I read long before blogs existed. There are many great titles on this list, so the above are just possibilities.
What are you planning to read this month?
