Caldecott Medal Winners

Contributor's Form (list #83)

• 1999 - Mary Azarian. Snowflake Bentley (Text: Jacqueline Briggs Martin)
• 1998 - Paul O. Zelinsky. Rapunzel
• 1997 - David Wisniewski. Golem
• 1996 - Peggy Rathmann. Officer Buckle and Gloria
• 1995 - David Diaz. Smoky Night (Text: Eve Bunting)
• 1994 - Allen Say. Grandfather's Journey
• 1993 - Emily Arnold McCully. Mirette on the High Wire
• 1992 - David Wiesner. Tuesday
• 1991 - David Macaulay. Black and White
• 1990 - Ed Young. Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
• 1989 - Stephen Gammell. Song and Dance Man (Text: Karen Ackerman)
• 1988 - John Schoenherr. Owl Moon (Text: Jane Yolen)
• 1987 - Richard Egielski. Hey, Al (Text: Arthur Yorinks)
• 1986 - Chris Van Allsburg. The Polar Express
• 1985 - Trina Schart Hyman. Saint George and the Dragon (Text: Margaret Hodges)
• 1984 - Alice and Martin Provensen. The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot
• 1983 - Marcia Brown. Shadow (Text: Blaise Cendrars)
• 1982 - Chris Van Allsburg. Jumanji
• 1981 - Arnold Lobel. Fables
• 1980 - Barbara Cooney. Ox-Cart Man (Text: Donald Hall)
• 1979 - Paul Goble. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
• 1978 - Peter Spier. Noah's Ark (Text: Jacob Revius)
• 1977 - Leo and Diane Dillon. Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions (Text: Margaret Musgrove)
• 1976 - Leo and Diane Dillon. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale (Text: Verna Aardema)
• 1975 - Gerald McDermott. Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale
• 1974 - Margot Zemach. Duffy and the Devil (Text: Harve Zemach)
• 1973 - Blair Lent. The Funny Little Woman (Text: Arlene Mosel)
• 1972 - Nonny Hogrogian. One Fine Day
• 1971 - Gail E. Haley. A Story--A Story
• 1970 - William Steig. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
• 1969 - Uri Shulevitz. The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (Text: Arthur Ransome)
• 1968 - Ed Emberley. Drummer Hoff (Text: Barbara Emberley)
• 1967 - Evaline Ness. Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
• 1966 - Nonny Hogrogian. Always Room for One More (Text: Sorche Nic Leodhas)
• 1965 - Beni Montresor. May I Bring a Friend? (Text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers)
• 1964 - Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are
• 1963 - Ezra Jack Keats. The Snowy Day
• 1962 - Marcia Brown. Once a Mouse
• 1961 - Nicolas Sidjakov. Baboushka and the Three Kings (Text: Ruth Robbins)
• 1960 - Marie Hall Ets. Nine Days to Christmas (Text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida)
• 1959 - Barbara Cooney. Chanticleer and the Fox (Text: adapted from Geoffrey Chaucer)
• 1958 - Robert McCloskey. Time of Wonder
• 1957 - Marc Simont. A Tree is Nice (Text: Janice May Udry)
• 1956 - Feodor Rojankovsky. Frog Went A-Courtin' (Text: John Langstaff)
• 1955 - Marcia Brown. Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper (Text: Charles Perrault)
• 1954 - Ludwig Bemelmans. Madeline's Rescue
• 1953 - Lynd K. Ward. The Biggest Bear
• 1952 - Nicolas Mordvinoff. Finders Keepers (Text: William Lipkind)
• 1951 - Katherine Milhous. The Egg Tree
• 1950 - Leo Politi. Song of the Swallows
• 1949 - Berta and Elmer Hader. The Big Snow
• 1948 - Roger Duvoisin. White Snow, Bright Snow (Text: Alvin Tresselt)
• 1947 - Leonard Weisgard. The Little Island (Text: Golden MacDonald [Margaret Wise Brown])
• 1946 - Maud and Miska Petersham. The Rooster Crows
• 1945 - Elizabeth Orton Jones. Prayer for a Child (Text: Rachel Field)
• 1944 - Louis Slobodkin. Many Moons (Text: James Thurber)
• 1943 - Virginia Lee Burton. The Little House
• 1942 - Robert McClosky. Make Way for Ducklings
• 1941 - Robert Lawson. They Were Strong and Good
• 1940 - Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. Abraham Lincoln
• 1939 - Thomas Handforth. Mei Li
• 1938 - Dorothy P. Lathrop. Animals of the Bible

Acknowledgements

We utilized three excellent (and highly recommended) resources for this list: the listings themselves (through 1998) came from David K. Brown's Children's Literature Web Guide; the author links were found on Kay Vandergrift's Author Pages Index; and the title links are to the appropriate data record at Amazon.com.