So today I went through shelves and boxes to begin to form a complete picture of how I am doing on collecting good hardcover copies of every Newbery gold medalist. Here is my list in order of most urgent wants at the top, and not needed at the bottom. A "good hardcover" is defined as hardbound with enough of the dust jacket included to count as such. Most such books before 1996 and after 2007 are ex-library in plastic jacket cover. In most cases books and jackets are in pretty good shape but in several cases one or both leave much to be desired.
Have Not Read and have No Copy Whatsoever (not even of any kind):
2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (HarperCollins Children's Books) (Wish Listed on PaperbackSwap, #26)
2014: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press) (Wish Listed on PaperbackSwap, #23)
2015: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) (Wish Listed on PaperbackSwap, #27)
2016: Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña (G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin) (Wish Listed on PaperbackSwap, #23)
2017: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin Young Readers/Workman) (Wish Listed on PaperbackSwap, #57)
2018: Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) (Wish Listed on PaperbackSwap, #18)
Have Read (almost certainly a library copy) as I have No Copy Whatsoever (not even of any kind--at least I'm pretty sure--):
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
Have Read and have in Paperback Only:
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
Have Read, Pretty Sure I have a Good Hardcover, Need to Go Through More Boxes to Make Absolutely Certain:
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton)
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry(Houghton)
Have Read, Have a Hardcover, but Not Good
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum) (Hardbound, but more like a book club edition--cover art printed on non-shiny cover, no dust jacket.)
2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster) (Bought online thinking it was hardcover, but it is hardbound, cover art printed on a shiny cover, no dust jacket--a step above Permabound but not by much.)
Have Read, Have a Good Hardcover but No Dust Jacket. (In these cases I upgrade by buying a copy in a jacket if I can find a reasonably good one reasonably priced, putting the jacket on the most desirable copy, and gifting the other copy. In a few cases, cover art printed on the book is in better shape than any dust jacket I might find.)
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright) (This one is so early I'm not even sure it originally came with a dust jacket.)
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan) (Ex-library and pretty beat up, while the others are in pretty good shape.)
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)
1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
Have Not Read, Have a Good Hardcover in Dust Jacket
2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)
2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)
2011: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)
2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux)
Have Read, Have a Good Hardcover in Dust Jacket
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Stokes)
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (Harcourt)
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell)
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar) (EXTREMELY beat up ex-library.)
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett)
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Dial)
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)