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LCaulkins
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With the new year bringing several more Newbery selections into the public domain, I'm reposting our organization list of all the Newbery books that are in the public domain.
Each book has links to its recordings or project board. Green titles are in progress; magenta titles have not been addressed at the time of latest update to this post.
(updated 4-23-2024)

Newbery Medal and Honor Books on LibriVox

1922 Medal Winner:
  • The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik Willem van Loon - duet
Honor Books:
  • The Great Quest, by Charles Hawes - DR in progress viewtopic.php?t=96808
  • Cedric the Forester, by Bernard Marshall - solo
  • The Old Tobacco Shop: A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure, by William Bowen - collaborative
  • The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, by Padraic Colum - collaborative
  • The Windy Hill, by Cornelia Meigs - solo

1923 Medal Winner: No Honor books listed for this year


1924 Medal Winner:
  • The Dark Frigate, by Charles Hawes - solo
No Honor books listed for this year


1925 Medal Winner:
  • Tales from Silver Lands, by Charles Finger - solo
Honor Books:
  • Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story, by Anne Carroll Moore - dramatic reading
  • The Dream Coach, by Anne Parrish - solo

1926 Medal Winner: Honor Book:
  • The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery, by Padraic Colum - duet

1927 Medal Winner:
  • Smoky, the Cowhorse, by Will James solo
No Honor books listed for this year


1928 Medal Winner: Honor Books:
  • Downright Dencey, by Caroline Dale Snedeker - (scripts are prepared for dramatic recording, narrator recording in progress)
  • The Wonder Smith and His Son: A Tale from the Golden Childhood of the World, by Ella Young - not yet recorded Hathitrust PD source

1929 Medal Winner: Honor Books:
1930 (Published 1929) - available starting Jan 2025
Medal Winner:
  • Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, by Rachel Field

Honor Books:
  • A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland, by Jeanette Eaton
  • Pran of Albania, by Elizabeth Miller
  • Jumping-0ff Place, by Marion Hurd McNeely
  • The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales, by Ella Young
  • Vaino, by Julia Davis Adams
  • Little Blacknose, by Hildegarde Swift


Later-Year books that did not renew copyright:

(1931) Spice and the Devil's Cave, by Agnes Hewes - U Penn source, Hathitrust
(1934) New Land, by Sarh Schmidt - U Penn source, Hathitrust (great for Dramatic Reading)
(1935) A Day on Skates, by Hilda Von Stockum - U Penn source (scripts are prepared for dramatic recording, strictly U.S-only PD)
(1940) Runner of the Mountain Tops, by Mabel L. Robinson - U Penn source, Archive.org
(1948) The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe King's Son - U Penn source (great for Dramatic Reading)
(1949) My Father's Dragon, by Ruth Stiles Gannett - solo (great for Dramatic Reading)
(1950) The Blue Cat of Castle Town, by Catherine Coblentz - solo (great for Dramatic Reading)
(1964) It's Like This, Cat, by Emily Neville - 1, solo | 2, Collaborative | 3, solo
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To provide an update to this thread:

Millions of Cats has been recorded for the (ongoing) Children's Short Works 56: viewtopic.php?t=102144

Links for 1928 books

Clearing Weather: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000449324

The Trumpeter of Krakow: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000785364

The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001417450

The Boy Who Was: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009929163

I could not find a PD source for Runaway Papoose
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Post by LCaulkins »

Thank you very much, Elsie! Everything has been updated. I also checked the Newbery holdings in the catalog and updated that info.
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elsieselwyn wrote: April 3rd, 2024, 7:22 am To provide an update to this thread:

Millions of Cats has been recorded for the (ongoing) Children's Short Works 56: viewtopic.php?t=102144

Links for 1928 books

Clearing Weather: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000449324

The Trumpeter of Krakow: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000785364

The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001417450

The Boy Who Was: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009929163

I could not find a PD source for Runaway Papoose
Here's Runaway Papoose:
https://archive.org/details/runawaypapoose00moon

The IA metadata has the wrong date of 1938. If you look at the copyright page, it has 1928.
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Thanks for that! info edited
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Thanks! Trumpeter of Krakow source edited
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