Caldecott Medal Winners

1938 - 1969

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Award Description
Medal Winners: 1970 - Present
Honor Winners 1970 - Present
Honor Winners 1938 - 1969

1969
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Uri Shulevitz

1968
Drummer Hoff Ed Emberley
1967
Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine Ness, Evaline
1966
Always Room for One More Nonny Hogrogian
1965
May I Bring a Friend? Ben Montressor
1964
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
1963
The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats
1962
Once a Mouse Bernarda Bryson
1961
Baboushka and the Three Kings Nicolas Sidjakov
1960
Nine Days to Christmas Marie Hall Ets
1959
Chanticleer and the Fox Barbara Cooney
1958
Time of Wonder Robert McCloskey
1957
A Tree is Nice Marc Simont
1956
Frog Went A-Courtin' Feodor Rojankovsky
1955
Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper Marcia Brown
1954
Madeline's Rescue Ludwig Bemelmans
1953
The Biggest Bear Lynn Ward
1952
Finders Keepers Nicholas Mordinoff
1951
The Egg Tree Katherine Milhous
1950
Song of the Swallows Leo Politi
1949
The Big Snow Berta and Elmer Hader
1948
White Snow, Bright Snow Roger Duvoisin
1947
The Little Island Leonard Weisgard
1946
The Rooster Crows Maude and Miska Petersham
1945
Prayer for a Child Elizabeth Orton Jones
1944
Many Moons Louis Slobodkins (illus)
James Thurber (text)
1943
The Little House Virginia Lee Burton
1942
Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey
1941
They Were Strong and Good Robert Lawson
1940
Abraham Lincoln Ingri d'Aulaire and Edgar Parin
1939
Mei Li Thomas Handforth
1938
Animals of the Bible Dorothy P. Lathrop