Which author has four Newbery Honors and one Medal, for five total citations?

Meindert De Jong is the author with four Newbery Honors and one Newbery Medal, for five total citations.

De Jong’s five recognized books span the 1950s. *Hurry Home, Candy* and *Shadrach* were Newbery Honor Books in 1954; *The Wheel on the School* won the 1955 Newbery Medal; *The House of Sixty Fathers* received an Honor in 1957; and *Along Came a Dog* received an Honor in 1959.

The record is notable because De Jong had both the largest total of Newbery recognitions among authors who won the Medal and a concentrated period of acclaim. His stories often focus on children facing hardship, animals, family bonds and moral choices. *The Wheel on the School*, set in a Dutch fishing village, centers on children trying to bring storks back to their community.

The alternatives are close competitors but do not match the five-citation total. Cornelia Meigs, Virginia Hamilton and Scott O’Dell each had four Newbery citations in the cited record. Laura Ingalls Wilder also had five Honors, but she never won the Medal.