CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNERS

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2000's Caldecott Medal Winners
2009 Susan Marie Swanson. The House In The Night. Houghton Mifflin Company  
2008 Brian Selznick. Inventioin of Huso Cabret. Scholastic Press  
2007 David Wiesner. Flotsam. Clarion.  
2006 Norton Juster. The Hello, Goodbye Window. Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion Books for Children.  
2005 Kevin Henkes. Kitten's First Full Moon. Greenwillow Books/Harper Collins Publisher.  
2004 Mordicai Gerstein. The Man Who Walked Between The Towers. Roaring Book Press?Millbrook Press.  
2003 Eric Rohmann. My Friend Rabbit. Roaring Book Press.  
2002 David Wiesner. The Three Pigs. Houghton Mifflin/Clarion  
2001 St. George, Judith. So You Want to be President? Philomel.
2000 Simms Taback. Joseph Had a Little Overcoat. Viking Press.

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1990's Caldecott Winners
1999 Mary Azarian. Snowflake Bentley. Houghton Mifflin Company.
1998 Paul Zelinsky. Rapunzel. Dutton.
1997 David Wisniewski. Golem. Clarion Books
1996 Peggy Rathmann. Officer Buckle and Gloria. Putnam.
1995 David Diaz (Illus.) Smoky Night. written by Eve Bunting. Harcourt Brace.
1994 Allen Say. Grandfather's Journey. Houghton Mifflin.
1993 Emily Arnold McCully. Mirette on the High Wire. G.P. Putnam's Sons.
1992 David Wiesner. Tuesday. Clarion Books
1991 David Macaulay. Black and White. Houghton Mifflin.
1990 Ed Young. Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China. Putman.

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1980's Caldecott Winners
1989 Stephen Gammell (illus.) Song and Dance Man.written by Karen Ackerman. Knopf.
1988 John Schoenherr (illus.) Owl Moon. written by Jane Yolen. Putnam.
1987 Richard Egielski (illus.) Hey, Al. written by Al Yorinks. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
1986 Chris Van Allsburg. The Polar Express. Houghton-Mifflin.
1985 Trina Schart Hyman. Saint George and the Dragon: A Golden Legend. Little, Brown.
1984 Alice & Martin Provensen. The Glorious Flight. Viking.
1983 Marcia Brown. Shadow. (translated & illus. from the French of Blaise Cendrars). Scribner.
1982 Chris Van Allsburg. Jumanji. Houghton Mifflin.
1981 Arnold Lobel. Fables. Harper.
1980 Barbara Cooney (illus.) Ox-Cart Man. written by Donald Hall. Viking Press.

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1970's Caldecott Winners
1979 Paul Goble. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Bradbury Press.
1978 Peter Spier. Noah's Ark. Doubleday.
1977 Leo & Diane Dillon (Illus.) Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions. written by Margaret Musgrove. Dial Press.
1976 Leo & Diane Dillon (Illus.) Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale. retold by Verna Aardema. Dial Press.
1975 Gerald McDermott. Arrow to the Sun. Viking Press.
1974 Margot Zemach. Duffy and the Devil. Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
1973 Blair Lent. The Funny Little Woman. Dutton.
1972 Nonny Hogrogian. One Fine Day. Macmillan.
1971 Gail E. Haley. A Story, A Story. Atheneum.
1970 William Steig. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. Windmill Books.

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1960's Caldecott Winners
1969 Uri Shulevitz (Illus.) The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship. retold by Arthur Ransome. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
1968 Ed Emberley (Illus.) Drummer Hoff. adapted by Barbara Emberley. Prentice-Hall.
1967 Evaline Ness. Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
1966 Nonny Hogrogian (Illus.) Always Room for One More written by Sorche Nic Leodhas. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
1965 Beni Montresor (Illus.) May I Bring a Friend? written by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. Atheneum.
1964 Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper & Row.
1963 Ezra Jack Keats. The Snowy Day. Viking Press.
1962 Marcia Brown. Once a Mouse...; a fable cut in wood. Charles Scribner's Sons.
1961 Nicolas Sidjakov (Illus.) Baboushka and the Three Kings. written by Ruth Robbins. Parnassus Press.
1960 Marie Hall Ets & Aurora Labastida. Nine Days to Christmas. Viking Press.

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1950's Caldecott Winners
1959 Barbara Cooney (Illus.) Chanticleer and the Fox; adapted from the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. written by Thomas Y. Crowell.
1958 Robert McCloskey. Time of Wonder. Viking Press.
1957 Marc Simont (Illus.) A Tree Is Nice. written by Janice Udry. Harper.
1956 Feodor Rojankovsky (Illus.) Frog Went a-Courtin'. written by John Langstaff. Harcourt, Brace.
1955 Marcia Brown. Cinderella; written by Charles Perrault. trans. & illus. by Marcia Brown. Charles Scribner's Sons.
1954 Ludwig Bemelmans. Madeline's Rescue. Viking Press.
1953 Lynd Ward. The Biggest Bear.Houghton Mifflin.
1952 Nicolas Mordvinoff (Illus.) Finders Keepers. written by Will Lipkind & Nicolas Mordvinoff. Harcourt, Brace.
1951 Katherine Milhous. The Egg Tree. Charles Scribner's Sons.
1950 Leo Politi. Song of the Swallows. Charles Scribner's Sons.

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1940's Caldecott Winners
1949 Berta & Elmer Hader. The Big Snow. Macmillan.
1948 Roger Duvoisin (Illus.) White Snow, Bright Snow. written by Alvin Tresselt. Lothrop.
1947 Leonard Weisgard. The Little Island. written by Golden MacDonald [pseud for Margaret Wise Brown]. Doubleday.
1946 Maud & Miska Petersham. The Rooster Crows; a Book of American Rhymes and Jingles. Macmillan.
1945 Elizabeth Orton Jones (Illus.) A Prayer for a Child. written by Rachel Lyman Field. Macmillan.
1944 Louis Slobodkin (Illus.) Many Moons. written by James Thurber. Harcourt, Brace.
1943 Virginia Lee Burton. The Little House. Houghton Mifflin.
1942 Robert McCloskey. Make Way for Ducklings. Viking Press.
1941 Robert Lawson. They Were Strong and Good. Viking Press.
1940 Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. Abraham Lincoln. Doubleday.

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1930's Caldecott Winners
1939 Thomas Handforth. Mei Li. Doubleday.
1938 Dorothy Lathrop. Animals of the Bible. with text selected by Helen Dean Fish from the King James Bible. Frederick A. Stokes.

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