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Caldecott Award Winners

The Caldecott Medal is presented annually to the illustrator of the most distinguised American picture book for children published in the prededing year.

2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Selznick, Brian. Scholastic.
2007 Flotsam by Wiesner, David. Clarion.
2006 The Hello, Goodbye Window Illus. by Raschka, Chris. Michael DiCapua Books.
2005 Kitten's First Moon by Henkes, Kevin. Greenwillow.
2004 The Man Who Walked Between Two Towers by Gerstain, Mordicai. Roaring Book Press
2003 My Friend Rabbit. by Eric Rohmann. Roaring Book Press.
2002 The Three Pigs. by David Wiesner. Clarion/Houghton Mifflin.
2001 So You Want to be President?. Text by St. George, Judith. Illus. by Small, David. Philomel.
2000 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat. by Tabak, Simms. Viking.
1999 Snowflake Bentley. Text by Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. Illus. by Azarian, Mary. Houghton Mifflin.
1998 Rapunzel. Retold and illus. by Zelinsky, Paul O. Dutton Children's Books.
1997 Golem. Illus. by Wisniewski, David. Clarion Books (div. of Houghton Mifflin).
1996 Officer Buckle & Gloria. Rathmann, Peggy. Putman's sons.
1995 Smoky Night. Bunting, Eve. Harcourt Brace.
1994 Grandfather's Journey. Say, Allen. Houghton Mifflin.
1993 Mirette on the High Wire. McCully, Emily Arnold. GP Putman's Sons.
1992 Tuesday. Wiesner, David. Houghton, Mifflin.
1991 Black and White. Macaulay, David. Houghton Mifflin.
1990 Lon Po Po. Young, Ed. Putnam & Grosset.
1989 Song and Dance. Ackerman, Karen. Illus Gammell, Stephen. Alfred A. Knopf.
1988 Owl Moon. Yolen, Jane. Illus. Schoenherr, John. Putnam & Grosset.
1987 Hey, Al. Yorinks, Arthur. Illus. Egielski, Richard. Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
1986 The Polar Express. Van Allsburg, Chris. Houghton Mifflin .
1985 Saint George and the Dragon. Hodges, Margaret. Illus. Hyman, Trina Schart. Little, Brown & Co.
1984 Glorious Flight. Provensen, Alice & Martin. Puffin Books.
1983 Shadow. Brown, Marcia. Macmillan.
1982 Jumanji. Van Allsburg, Chris. Houghton Mifflin.
1981 Fables. Lobel, Arnold. HarperCollins.
1980 Ox-Cart Man. Hall, Donald. Illus Cooney, Barbara. Puffin.
1979 Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Goble, Paul. Macmillan.
1977 Ashanti to Zulu. Musgrove, Margaret. Illus. Dillon, Leo & Diane. Dial.
1976 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears. Aardema, Verna. Illus. Dillon, Leo & Diane. Dial.
1975 Arrow to the Sun. McDermott, Gerald. Puffin Books.
1974 Duffy and the Devil. Zemach, Harve. Illus. Zemach, Margot. Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
1973 The Funny Little Woman. Mosel, Arlene. Illus. Lent, Blair. EP Dutton.
1972 One Fine Day. Hogrogian, Nonny. Macmillan.
1971 A Story, A Story. Haley, Gail E. Atheneum.
1970 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. Steig, William. Prentice-Hall.
1969 The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship. Ransome, Arthur. Illus. Shulevitz, Uri. Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
1968 Drummer Hoff. Emberley, Barbara. Illus. Emberly, Ed. Prentice Hall.
1967 Sam, Bangs and Moonshine. Ness, Evaline. Henry Holt.
1966 Always Room for One More. Leodhas, Sorche Nic. Illus. Hogrogian, Nonny. Henry Holt.
1965 May I Bring a Friend?. De Regniers, Beatrice Schenk. Illus Montresor, Beni. Macmillan.
1964 Where the Wild Things Are. Sendak, Maurice. HarperCollins.
1963 The Snowy Day. Keats, Ezra Jack. Puffin Books.
1962 Once a Mouse. Brown, Marcia. Atheneum.
1961 Baboushka and the Three Kings. Robbins, Ruth. Illus. Sidjakov, Nicholas. Houghton Mifflin.
1960 Nine Days to Christmas: A Story of Mexico. Ets, Marie Hall. Illus. Ets, Marie Hall & Labastida, Aurora.
1959 Chanticleer and the Fox. Cooney, Barbara. HarperCollins.
1958 Time of Wonder. McCloskey, Robert. Puffin Books.
1957 A Tree Is Nice. Udry, Janice May. Illus. Simont, Marc. HarperCollins.
1956 Frog Went A-Courtin'. Langstaff, John. Illus. Rojankovsky, Feodor. Harcourt Brace.
1955 Cinderalla. Brown, Marcia. Macmillan.
1954 Madeline's Rescue. Bemelmans, Ludwig. Puffin Books.
1953 The Biggest Bear. Ward, Lynd. Houghton Mifflin.
1952 Finders Keepers. Lipkind, Will. Illus Mordvinoff, Nicolas. Harcourt Brace.
1951 The Egg Tree. Milhous, Katherine. Macmillan.
1950 Song of the Swallows. Politi, Leo.. Atheneum.
1949 The Big Snow. Hader, Berta & Elmer. Macmillan.
1948 White Snow, Bright Snow. Tressely, Alvin. Illus. Duvolsin, Roger. Wm.Morrow.
1947 Little Island. MacDonald, Golden. Illus Weisgard, Leonard. Scholastic.
1946 The Rooster Crows. Illus. Petersham, Maud & Miska. Macmillan.
1945 Prayer for a Child. Field, Rachel. Illus. Jones, Elizabeth Orton. Macmillan.
1944 Many Moons. Thurber, James. Illus. Slobodkin, Louis. Harcourt Brace.
1943 Little House. Burton, Virginia Lee. Houghton Mifflin.
1942 Make Way for Ducklings. McCloskey, Robert. Puffin Books.
1941 They were Strong and Good. Lawson, Robert. Viking.
1940 Abraham Lincoln. D'Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar. Doubleday.
1939 Mei Li. Handforth, Thomas. Doubleday.
1938 Animals of the Bible. Illus. Lathrop, Dorthy P. HarperCollins.

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