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In 1937 Frederic G. Melcher suggested an annual medal to be given to artists who create a great picture book of the year and was called the Caldecott Medal in honor of Randolph J. Caldecott, the nineteenth-century English illustrator. 2002 The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin) 2001 So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St. George (Philomel Books) 2000 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Simms Taback (Viking) 1999 Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton) 1998 Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton) 1997 Golem by David Wisniewski (Clarion) 1996 Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam) 1995 Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting (Harcourt) 1994 Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine (Houghton) 1993 Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam) 1992 Tuesday by David Wiesner (Clarion Books) 1991 Black and White by David Macaulay (Houghton) 1990 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young (Philomel) 1989 Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman (Knopf) 1988 Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen (Philomel) 1987 Hey, Al, illustrated by Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks (Farrar) 1986 The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton) 1985 Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges (Little, Brown) 1984 The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen (Viking) 1983 Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown; original text in French: Blaise Cendrars (Scribner) 1982 Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton) 1981 Fables by Arnold Lobel (Harper) 1980 Ox-Cart Man, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald Hall (Viking) 1979 The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble (Bradbury) 1978 Noah's Ark by Peter Spier (Doubleday) 1977 Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove (Dial) 1976 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema (Dial) 1975 Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott (Viking) 1974 Duffy and the Devil, illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach (Farrar) 1973 The Funny Little Woman, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene Mosel (Dutton) 1972 One Fine Day, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (Macmillan) 1971 A Story A Story, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (Atheneum) 1970 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Windmill Books) 1969 The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text: retold by Arthur Ransome (Farrar) 1968 Drummer Hoff, illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley (Prentice-Hall) 1967 Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness (Holt) 1966 Always Room for One More, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger] (Holt) 1965 May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor; text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (Atheneum) 1964 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Harper) 1963 The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking) 1962 Once a Mouse, retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown (Scribner) 1961 Baboushka and the Three Kings, illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text: Ruth Robbins (Parnassus) 1960 Nine Days to Christmas, illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida (Viking) 1959 Chanticleer and the Fox, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney (Crowell) 1958 Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Viking) 1957 A Tree Is Nice, illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry (Harper) 1956 Frog Went A-Courtin', illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff) (Harcourt) 1955 Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown (Scribner) 1954 Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking) 1953 The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward (Houghton) 1952 Finders Keepers, illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] (Harcourt) 1951 The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous (Scribner) 1950 Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi (Scribner) 1949 The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan) 1948 White Snow, Bright Snow, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop) 1947 The Little Island, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] (Doubleday) 1946 The Rooster Crows by Maude & Miska Petersham (Macmillan) 1945 Prayer for a Child, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field (Macmillan) 1944 Many Moons, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber (Harcourt) 1943 The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton) 1942 Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Viking) 1941 They Were Strong and Good, by Robert Lawson (Viking) 1940 Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (Doubleday) 1939 Mei Li by Thomas Handforth (Doubleday) 1938 Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text: selected by Helen Dean Fish (Lippincott) |
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