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CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNERS

1938-1997

1980-1999 / 1960-1979 / 1940-1959 / 1938-1939

1980-1999

1960-1979

• 1959: CHANTICLEER AND THE FOX, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney
• 1958: TIME OF WONDER by Robert McCloskey
• 1957: A TREE IS NICE illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry
• 1956: FROG WENT A-COURTIN' illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff
• 1955: CINDERELLA, OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown.
• 1954: MADELEINE'S RESCUE by Ludwig Bemelmans.
• 1953: THE BIGGEST BEAR by Lynd Ward.
• 1952: FINDERS KEEPERS, illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind].
• 1951: THE EGG TREE by Katherine Milhous.
• 1950: SONG OF THE SWALLOWS by Leo Politi.
• 1949: THE BIG SNOW by Berta & Elmer Hader.
• 1948: WHITE SNOW, BRIGHT SNOW illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt
• 1947: THE LITTLE ISLAND illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown]
• 1946: THE ROOSTER CROWS by Maude & Miska Petersham
• 1945: PRAYER FOR A CHILD illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field.
• 1944: MANY MOONS illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber.
• 1943: THE LITTLE HOUSE by Virginia Lee Burton.
• 1942: MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS by Robert McCloskey.
• 1941: THEY WERE STRONG AND GOOD by Robert Lawson.
• 1940: ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire .

1938-1939

• 1939: MEI LI by Thomas Handforth
• 1938: ANIMALS OF THE BIBLE, A PICTURE BOOK illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text: selected by Helen Dean Fish
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