One of the worlds most highly regarded children's book awards
, The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the
American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year.
It was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. Together with the Newbery Medal, it is the most prestigious American children's book award.
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The Talented Mr. Selznick Wins 2008 Caldecott Medal With Hugo Cabret
Multiple award winner Brian Selznick has won the 2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal for The Invention of Hugo Cabret
(Scholastic Press), a novel that he not only wrote, but illustrated as well. Clever man. It’s the first time that a novel has won the country’s top prize for illustration, and it’s also Scholastic’s first Caldecott
Award. The book also won the 2007 Quills and was shortlisted for the National Book Awards. Brian is no newcomer to the Caldecott having previously won an Honor award for The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins.
Video Review of Hugo Cabret by 'Book Award Tragic'
There were also four 2008 Caldecott Honor Books: 
Henry's Freedom Box, illustrated by Kadir Nelson , written by Ellen Levine (Scholastic Press);First the Egg 
(Roaring Brook/Porter) by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (below right) and The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
by Peter Sís (FSG/Foster). The latter also also received the ALA's 2008 Robert Silbert Medal for the most distinguished informational book for young reader. The final Caldecott honor award went to Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
by Mo Willems (Hyperion).
That Brian Selznick's (right) The Invention of Hugo Cabret was this years winner of the Caldecott Medal will come as little surprise to many. The book 
had already made the finals of the National Book Award in a strong line-up but eventually lost out to Seattle based writer Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The book also came to the attention of the 2007, unashamedly populist, Quills award panel where it was clear winner in the Middle Grade Category.
So, what is that makes Mr. Selznick's book so appealing?
From an opening shot of the full moon setting over an awakening Paris in 1931, this tale starts to redefine picture book form. Hugo, a young orphan secretly living in the walls of a train station, labors to complete a mysterious invention left by his father. In a work of 533 pages, the gripping narrative and wordless double-page spreads tell the story turnabout. In the most cleverly devised fashion neither the words nor pictures alone tell this story. The book invokes an air of beguilement replicating an almost a cinematic experience. Pencil illustrations bring to mind a flickering reminder of the silent films to which the book pays homage. A well-deserved winner. KJP
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About the Winning Author
Brian Selznick (born 14 July 1966 in East Brunswick, New Jersey) is an American author and illustrator of children's books.
He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, then worked for three years at Eeyore's Books for Children in Manhattan; his first book, The Houdini Box
, was published while he was working there.
Mr. Selznick has previously won the Caldecott Honor in 2002 for The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer
, the Texas Bluebonnet Award, the Rhode Island Children's Book Award for The Houdini Box, and the Christopher Award for Frindle
.- Amelia And Eleanor Go For A Ride
(Scholastic) was an ALA Notable book, and a Booksense Honor Book among other distinctions. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
2008 Caldecott Honor Books
Henry's Freedom Box, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (left), written by
Ellen Levine (Scholastic Press.
Inspired by an antique lithograph, Kadir Nelson has created dramatically luminous illustrations that portray Henry “Box” Brown's ingenious design to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom
Kadir Nelson began his career in illustration by creating the story boards for Steven Spielberg's film "Amistad." Since that time he has become a much-sought-after artist, illustrating many celebrated picture books, including the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Thunder Rose
the best-seller Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
and Ellington Was Not a Street
for which he received the 2005 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. Other book illustrations include the NAACP Image Award-nominated Please, Puppy, Please
(Simon & Schuster, 2005) by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (a 2007 Caldecott Honor Book & the 2007 Winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award), written by Carole Boston Weatherford. Nelson lives in California.
Ellen Levine (right) was born in New York City. She received her B.A. degree in Politics from 
Brandeis University, graduating Magna cum laude. She has a Master's degree in political science from the University of Chicago and a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law. She has worked in film and television, taught adults and immigrant teenagers in special education and ESL programs, and served a law clerkship with Chief Judge Joseph Lord, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. A former staff attorney with a public interest law group, Levine now devotes her time to writing, lecturing, and teaching. She is on the faculty of Vermont College's MFA program in writing for Children and Young Adults.
Her other books include:
If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King
If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island (If You.)
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
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Honor Winner-First the Egg (Roaring Brook/Porter) by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Laura Vaccaro Seeger's innovative concept book on transformations, First the Egg uses strategically placed die-cuts to provide an astonishing visual explication of the word “then.” Her richly textured brushstrokes creatively reveal the pro
cess of metamorphosis for young readers.
Laura Vaccaro Seeger (left)is an Emmy Award-winning artist and animator. She has created dozens of show openings for network television and has made many children’s videos. She is now dedicated to her first love, writing and illustrating children’s books. Roaring Brook Press publishes her extraordinary children’s books nearly every single one of which has won Book Award. Definitely a citizen of Book Award World. Laura lives in Long Island, NY, with her husband, Chris, and their two children, Drew and Dylan. What a talented woman. Her other works include:
The Hidden Alphabet (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers Award)
Lemons Are Not Red
Walter Was Worried (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers Award 
Black? White! Day? Night! - A Book of Opposites (Ala Notable Children's Books Awards)
Dog and Bear (Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner-Best Picture Book)
Honor Winner- The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís (FSG/Foster)
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, a graphic memoir of Sís's youth in Prague, brilliantly weds artistic and design choices to content: tight little panels with officious lines and red punctuation; full-bleed line-and-watercolor spreads of nightmares and dreams; color and absence of color.
"With Sís, everything is multi layered and full of surprises. Getting it all in one read is like seeing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in an afternoon." --The San Diego Tribune
Peter Sis (right in 2004) is an award-winning children's illustrator, filmmaker and author who grew 
up in Czechoslovakia and Prague. He studied filmmaking and painting in Prague and London and was sent to the United States in 1982 by the Czech government in order to film the 1984 Olympics, and stayed. Here he began to focus more on his illustration work, and one of his first jobs in America was animating a song for Bob Dylan for MTV. He lives in New York City with his wife Ten-y Lajtha, a documentary-film editor, and their children, who inspire many of his illustrations. His book Starry Messenger -- Galileo Galilei was a 1997 Caldecott Honor Book, and has been published in many languages. He has also had nearly 1,000 drawings published in The New York Times Book Review. His books include:
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
Tibet Through the Red Box: Through The Red Box (Caldecott Honor Book)
The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin (New York Times Best Illustrated Books Award)
A Small Tall Tale From The Far Far North
The Three Golden Keys
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onor Winner- Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
Mr. Willems (left) sets the stage for one of the most dramatic double-paged spreads in picture-book history in Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. Masterful photo collages take Trixie and her daddy through their now-familiar Brooklyn neighborhood to the Pre-K class where Trixie discovers that her beloved Knuffle Bunny is not “so one-of-a-kind anymore.”
About Mo Willems- #1 New York Times Best selling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))
, and now, Knuffle Bunny Too: a case of mistaken identity.
In addition to such picture books as Leonardo, the Terrible Monster (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers Awards)
; Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct
, and Time to Pee!
, Mo created the Theodor Suess Geisel Medal winning Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early readers, and published You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons, an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91.
The New York Times Book Review called Mo “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00's."
Mo’s work books have been translated into a myriad of languages, spawned Carnegie Medal winning animated shorts, and theatrical musical productions. His illustrations, wire sculpture, and carved ceramics have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the nation.
Mo began his career as a writer and animator for television, garnering six Emmy Awards for his writing on Sesame Street, creating Nickelodeon's The Off-Beats, Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City and head-writing Codename: Kids Next Door.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family.
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2007 Caldecott Medal Winner, Flotsam by David Weis
ner
Flotsam is a cinematic unfolding of discovery. A vintage camera washed up on the beach provides a young boy with a surprising view of fantastical images from the bottom of the sea. From fish-eye to lens-eye, readers see a frame-by-frame narrative of lush marinescapes ebbing and flowing from the real to the surreal.
“Telling tales through imagery is what storytellers have done through the ages. Wiesner’s wordless tale resonates with visual images that tell his story with clever wit and lively humor,” said Caldecott Medal Committee Chair Janice Del Negro.
2007 Caldecott Honor Books
Gone Wild (Caldecott Honor Book)
by David McLimans (Walker)
Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet is a black-and-white iconic alphabet that is sophisticated enough to intrigue and captivate readers of any age. A contemporary interpretation of an illuminated alphabet melds animals and letters into 26 unique and elegant graphic images.
Moses (Caldecott Honor Book)
illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun)
Nelson’s dramatic renderings evoke the spiritual and physical journey of Harriet Tubman. Emotionally powerful images combined with poetically evocative text portray a strong woman who followed her star to an extraordinary destiny.
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Caldecott Medal Winners and Honor Books 1938-present
2000's - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s
2007 Medal Winner:
Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion)
Honor Books:
- Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans (Walker)
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun)
2006 Medal Winner:
The Hello, Goodbye Window
illustrated by Chris Raschka and written by Norton Juster (Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion Books for Children)
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2005 Medal Winner:
Kitten's First Full Moon
by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins Publishers)
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2004 Medal Winner:
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
by Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)
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2003 Medal Winner:
My Friend Rabbit
by Eric Rohmann (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)
Honor Books:
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The Spider and the Fly illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi, written by Mary Howitt (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
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Hondo & Fabian by Peter McCarty (Henry Holt & Co.)
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Noah's Ark by Jerry Pinkney (Sea Star Books, a division of North-South Books Inc.)
2002 Medal Winner:
The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)
Honor Books:
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The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins illustrated by Brian Selznick, written by Barbara Kerley (Scholastic)
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Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Doreen Rappaport (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
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The Stray Dog by Marc Simont (HarperCollins)
2001 Medal Winner:
So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small, written by Judith St. George (Philomel)
Honor Books:
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Casey at the Bat illustrated by Christopher Bing, written by Ernest Thayer (Handprint)
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Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type illustrated by Betsy Lewin, written by Doreen Cronin (Simon & Schuster)
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Olivia by Ian Falconer (Atheneum)
2000 Medal Winner:
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Simms Taback (Viking)
Honor Books:
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A Child's Calendar illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Text: John Updike (Holiday House)
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Sector 7 by David Wiesner (Clarion Books)
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When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang (Scholastic)
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The Ugly Duckling illustrated by Jerry Pinkney Text: Hans Christian Andersen, adapted by Jerry Pinkney (Morrow)
1999 Medal Winner: Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian, text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton)
Honor Books:
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Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and the Orchestra illustrated by Brian Pinkney
Text: Andrea Davis Pinkney(Hyperion)
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No, David! by David Shannon (Scholastic)
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Snow by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar)
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Tibet Through the Red Box by Peter Sís (Frances Foster)
1998 Medal Winner: Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)
Honor Books:
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The Gardener illustrated by David Small
Text: Sarah Stewart (Farrar)
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Harlem illustrated by Christopher Myers
Text: Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)
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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback (Viking)
1997 Medal Winner: Golem by David Wisniewski (Clarion)
Honor Books:
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Hush! A Thai Lullaby illustrated by Holly Meade; text: Minfong Ho (Melanie Kroupa/Orchard Books)
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The Graphic Alphabet by David Pelletier (Orchard Books)
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The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey (Richard Jackson/Orchard Books)
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Starry Messenger by Peter Sís (Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux)
1996 Medal Winner: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)
Honor Books:
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Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson (Viking)
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Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman; text: Lloyd Moss (Simon & Schuster)
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The Faithful Friend, illustrated by Brian Pinkney; text: Robert D. San Souci (Simon & Schuster)
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Tops & Bottoms, adapted and illustrated by Janet Stevens (Harcourt)
1995 Medal Winner: Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting (Harcourt)
Honor Books:
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John Henry, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text: Julius Lester (Dial)
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Swamp Angel, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky; text: Anne Issacs (Dutton)
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Time Flies by Eric Rohmann (Crown)
1994 Medal Winner: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine (Houghton)
Honor Books:
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Peppe the Lamplighter, illustrated by Ted Lewin; text: Elisa Bartone (Lothrop)
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In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming (Holt)
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Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott (Harcourt)
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Owen by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
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Yo! Yes? illustrated by Chris Raschka; text: edited by Richard Jackson (Orchard)
1993 Medal Winner: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam)
Honor Books:
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, illustrated by Lane Smith; text: Jon Scieszka (Viking)
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Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young (Philomel Books)
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Working Cotton, illustrated by Carole Byard; text: Sherley Anne Williams (Harcourt)
1992 Medal Winner: Tuesday by David Wiesner
(Clarion Books)
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1991 Medal Winner: Black and White by David Macaulay (Houghton)
Honor Books:
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Puss in Boots, illustrated by Fred Marcellino; text: Charles Perrault, trans. by Malcolm Arthur (Di Capua/Farrar)
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"More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow)
1990 Medal Winner: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young (Philomel)
Honor Books:
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Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet (Houghton)
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Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert (Lippincott)
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The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text: Robert D. San Souci (Dial)
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Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: Eric Kimmel (Holiday House)
1989 Medal Winner: Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman (Knopf)
Honor Books:
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The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, illustrated by Allen Say; text: Diane Snyder (Houghton)
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Free Fall by David Wiesner (Lothrop)
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall (Dial)
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Mirandy and Brother Wind, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text: Patricia C. McKissack (Knopf)
1988 Medal Winner: Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen (Philomel)
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1987 Medal Winner: Hey, Al, illustrated by Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks (Farrar)
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The Village of Round and Square Houses by Ann Grifalconi (Little, Brown)
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Alphabatics by Suse MacDonald (Bradbury)
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Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)
1986 Medal Winner: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
Honor Books:
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The Relatives Came, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Cynthia Rylant (Bradbury)
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King Bidgood's in the Bathtub, illustrated by Don Wood; text: Audrey Wood (Harcourt)
1985 Medal Winner: Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges (Little, Brown)
Honor Books:
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Hansel and Gretel, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky; text: retold by Rika Lesser (Dodd)
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Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri (Greenwillow)
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The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend, retold and illustrated by John Steptoe (Lothrop)
1984 Medal Winner: The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen (Viking)
Honor Books:
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Little Red Riding Hood, retold and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Holiday)
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Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang (Greenwillow)
1983 Medal Winner: Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown
Original text in French: Blaise Cendrars (Scribner)
Honor Books:
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A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow)
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When I Was Young in the Mountains, illustrated by Diane Goode; text: Cynthia Rylant (Dutton)
1982 Medal Winner: Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
Honor Books:
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Where the Buffaloes Begin, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Olaf Baker (Warne)
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On Market Street, illustrated by Anita Lobel; text: Arnold Lobel (Greenwillow)
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Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak (Harper)
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A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, illustrated by Alice & Martin Provensen; text: Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
1981 Medal Winner: Fables by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
Honor Books:
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The Bremen-Town Musicians, retold and illustrated by Ilse Plume (Doubleday)
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The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly Bang (Four Winds)
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Mice Twice by Joseph Low (McElderry/Atheneum)
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Truck by Donald Crews (Greenwillow)
1980 Medal Winner: Ox-Cart Man, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald Hall (Viking)
Honor Books:
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Ben's Trumpet by Rachel Isadora (Greenwillow)
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The Garden Of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
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The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar)
1979 Medal Winner: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble (Bradbury)
Honor Books:
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Freight Train by Donald Crews (Greenwillow)
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The Way to Start a Day, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)
1978 Medal Winner: Noah's Ark by Peter Spier (Doubleday)
Honor Books:
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Castle by David Macaulay (Houghton)
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It Could Always Be Worse, retold and illustrated by Margot Zemach (Farrar)
1977 Medal Winner: Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove (Dial)
Honor Books:
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The Amazing Bone by William Steig (Farrar)
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The Contest, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (Greenwillow)
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Fish for Supper by M. B. Goffstein (Dial)
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The Golem: A Jewish Legend by Beverly Brodsky McDermott (Lippincott)
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Hawk, I'm Your Brother, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)
1976 Medal Winner: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema (Dial)
Honor Books:
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The Desert is Theirs, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)
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Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola (Prentice-Hall)
1975 Medal Winner: Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott (Viking)
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1974 Medal Winner: Duffy and the Devil, illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach (Farrar)
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1973 Medal Winner: The Funny Little Woman, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene Mosel (Dutton)
Honor Books:
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Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti, adapted and illustrated by Gerald McDermott (Holt)
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Hosie's Alphabet, illustrated by Leonard Baskin; text: Hosea, Tobias & Lisa Baskin (Viking)
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Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert; text: translated by Randall Jarrell, retold from the Brothers Grimm (Farrar)
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When Clay Sings, illustrated by Tom Bahti; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)
1972 Medal Winner: One Fine Day, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (Macmillan)
Honor Books:
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Hildilid's Night, illustrated by Arnold Lobel; text: Cheli Durán Ryan (Macmillan)
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If All the Seas Were One Sea by Janina Domanska (Macmillan)
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Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text: Muriel Feelings (Dial)
1971 Medal Winner: A Story A Story, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (Atheneum)
Honor Books:
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The Angry Moon, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by William Sleator (Atlantic)
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Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
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In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (Harper)
1970 Medal Winner: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Windmill Books)
Honor Books:
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Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats (Macmillan)
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni (Pantheon)
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Pop Corn & Ma Goodness, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker; text: Edna Mitchell Preston (Viking)
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Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle (Viking)
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The Judge: An Untrue Tale, illustrated by Margot Zemach; text: Harve Zemach (Farrar)
1969 Medal Winner: The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text: retold by Arthur Ransome (Farrar)
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1968 Medal Winner: Drummer Hoff, illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley (Prentice-Hall)
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Frederick by Leo Lionni (Pantheon)
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Seashore Story by Taro Yashima (Viking)
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The Emperor and the Kite, illustrated by Ed Young; text: Jane Yolen (World)
1967 Medal Winner: Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness (Holt)
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1966 Medal Winner: Always Room for One More, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger] (Holt)
Honor Books:
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Hide and Seek Fog, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)
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Just Me by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
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Tom Tit Tot, retold and illustrated by Evaline Ness (Scribner)
1965 Medal Winner: May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor; text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (Atheneum)
Honor Books:
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Rain Makes Applesauce, illustrated by Marvin Bileck; text: Julian Scheer (Holiday)
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The Wave, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: Margaret Hodges (Houghton)
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A Pocketful of Cricket, illustrated by Evaline Ness; text: Rebecca Caudill (Holt)
1964 Medal Winner: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Honor Books:
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Swimmy by Leo Lionni (Pantheon)
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All in the Morning Early, illustrated by Evaline Ness; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclaire Alger] (Holt)
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Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Philip Reed (Atheneum)
1963 Medal Winner: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking)
Honor Books:
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The Sun is a Golden Earring, illustrated by Bernarda Bryson; text: Natalia M. Belting (Holt)
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Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Charlotte Zolotow (Harper)
1962 Medal Winner: Once a Mouse, retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
Honor Books:
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Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song by Peter Spier (Doubleday)
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Little Bear's Visit, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Else H. Minarik (Harper)
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The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up, illustrated by Adrienne Adams; text: Alice E. Goudey (Scribner)
1961 Medal Winner: Baboushka and the Three Kings, illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text: Ruth Robbins (Parnassus)
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1960 Medal Winner: Nine Days to Christmas, illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida (Viking)
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Houses from the Sea, illustrated by Adrienne Adams; text: Alice E. Goudey (Scribner)
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The Moon Jumpers, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Janice May Udry (Harper)
1959 Medal Winner: Chanticleer and the Fox, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney (Crowell)
Honor Books:
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The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie by Antonio Frasconi (Harcourt)
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What Do You Say, Dear? illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Sesyle Joslin (W. R. Scott)
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Umbrella by Taro Yashima (Viking)
1958 Medal Winner: Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
Honor Books:
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Fly High, Fly Low by Don Freeman (Viking)
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Anatole and the Cat, illustrated by Paul Galdone; text: Eve Titus (McGraw-Hill)
1957 Medal Winner: A Tree is Nice, illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry (Harper)
Honor Books:
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Mr. Penny's Race Horse by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
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1 is One by Tasha Tudor (Walck)
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Anatole, illustrated by Paul Galdone; text: Eve Titus (McGraw-Hill)
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Gillespie and the Guards, illustrated by James Daugherty; text: Benjamin Elkin (Viking)
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Lion by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
1956 Medal Winner: Frog Went A-Courtin', illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff (Harcourt)
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1955 Medal Winner: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
Honor Books:
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Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes, illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
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Wheel On The Chimney, illustrated by Tibor Gergely; text: Margaret Wise Brown (Lippincott)
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The Thanksgiving Story, illustrated by Helen Sewell; text: Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)
1954 Medal Winner: Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
Honor Books:
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Journey Cake, Ho! illustrated by Robert McCloskey; text: Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
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When Will the World Be Mine? illustrated by Jean Charlot; text: Miriam Schlein (W. R. Scott)
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The Steadfast Tin Soldier, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: Hans Christian Andersen, translated by M. R. James (Scribner)
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A Very Special House, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Ruth Krauss (Harper)
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Green Eyes by A. Birnbaum (Capitol)
1953 Medal Winner: The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward (Houghton)
Honor Books:
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Puss in Boots, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
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One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
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Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals by Fritz Eichenberg (Harcourt)
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The Storm Book, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham; text: Charlotte Zolotow (Harper)
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Five Little Monkeys by Juliet Kepes (Houghton)
1952 Medal Winner: Finders Keepers, illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] (Harcourt)
Honor Books:
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Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
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Skipper John's Cook by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
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All Falling Down, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham; text: Gene Zion (Harper)
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Bear Party by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
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Feather Mountain by Elizabeth Olds (Houghton)
1951 Medal Winner: The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous (Scribner)
Honor Books:
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Dick Whittington and his Cat by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
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The Two Reds, ill. by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] (Harcourt)
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If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (Random House)
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The Most Wonderful Doll in the World, illustrated by Helen Stone; text: Phyllis McGinley (Lippincott)
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T-Bone, the Baby Sitter by Clare Turlay Newberry (Harper)
1950 Medal Winner: Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi (Scribner)
Honor Books:
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America's Ethan Allen, illustrated by Lynd Ward; text: Stewart Holbrook (Houghton)
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The Wild Birthday Cake, illustrated by Hildegard Woodward; text: Lavinia R. Davis (Doubleday)
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The Happy Day, illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Ruth Krauss) (Harper)
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (Random House)
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Henry Fisherman by Marcia Brown
1949 Medal Winner: The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)
Honor Books:
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Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
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All Around the Town, illustrated by Helen Stone; text: Phyllis McGinley (Lippincott)
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Juanita by Leo Politi (Scribner)
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Fish in the Air by Kurt Wiese (Viking)
1948 Medal Winner: White Snow, Bright Snow, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)
Honor Books:
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Stone Soup by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
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McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (Random House)
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Bambino the Clown by Georges Schreiber (Viking)
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Roger and the Fox, illustrated by Hildegard Woodward; text: Lavinia R. Davis (Doubleday)
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Song of Robin Hood, illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton; text: edited by Anne Malcolmson (Houghton)
1947 Medal Winner: The Little Island, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] (Doubleday )
Honor Books:
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Rain Drop Splash, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)
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Boats on the River, illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum; text: Marjorie Flack (Viking)
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Timothy Turtle, illustrated by Tony Palazzo; text: Al Graham (Welch)
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Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street by Leo Politi (Scribner)
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Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns, illustrated by Marjorie Torrey; text: selected by Opal Wheeler (Dutton)
1946 Medal Winner: The Rooster Crows by Maud & Miska Petersham (Macmillan)
Honor Books:
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Little Lost Lamb, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] (Doubleday)
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Sing Mother Goose, illustrated by Marjorie Torrey; music: Opal Wheeler (Dutton)
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My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, illustrated by Ruth Gannett; text: Becky Reyher (Lothrop)
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You Can Write Chinese by Kurt Wiese (Viking)
1945 Medal Winner: Prayer for a Child, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field (Macmillan)
Honor Books:
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Mother Goose, illustrated by Tasha Tudor (Oxford University Press)
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In the Forest by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
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Yonie Wondernose by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
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The Christmas Anna Angel, illustrated by Kate Seredy; text: Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
1944 Medal Winner: Many Moons, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber (Harcourt)
Honor Books:
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Small Rain: Verses From The Bible, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: selected by Jessie Orton Jones (Viking)
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Pierre Pidgeon, illustrated by Arnold E. Bare; text: Lee Kingman (Houghton)
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The Mighty Hunter by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)
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A Child's Good Night Book, illustrated by Jean Charlot; text: Margaret Wise Brown (W. R. Scott)
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Good-Luck Horse, illustrated by Plato Chan; text: Chih-Yi Chan (Whittlesey)
1943 Medal Winner: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton)
Honor Books:
1942 Medal Winner: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
Honor Books:
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An American ABC by Maud & Miska Petersham (Macmillan)
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In My Mother's House, illustrating by Velino Herrera; text: Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
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Paddle-To-The-Sea by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
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Nothing At All, by Wanda Gág (Coward)
1941 Medal Winner: They Were Strong and Good, by Robert Lawson (Viking)
Honor Book:
1940 Medal Winner: Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (Doubleday)
Honor Books:
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Cock-a-Doodle Doo by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)
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Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
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The Ageless Story by Lauren Ford (Dodd)
1939 Medal Winner: Mei Li by Thomas Handforth (Doubleday)
Honor Books:
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Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty (Viking)
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Barkis by Clare Turlay Newberry (Harper)
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The Forest Pool by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Wanda Gág (Coward)
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Wee Gillis, illustrated by Robert Lawson; text: Munro Leaf (Viking)
1938 Medal Winner: Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text: selected by Helen Dean Fish (Lippincott)
Honor Books:
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Four and Twenty Blackbirds, illustrated by Robert Lawson; text: compiled by Helen Dean Fish (Stokes)
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Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale, retold and illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff (Viking)
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illustrated and written by Jon J. Muth (Scholastic Press)
illustrated and written by Marjorie Priceman. (An Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
illustrated by Beckie Prange, written by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin Company)
by Barbara Lehman (Houghton Mifflin Company)
illustrated by E.B. Lewis, written by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Son's/Penguin Young Readers Group)
by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (Harcourt, Inc.)
? illustrated and written by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. (Houghton Mifflin Company)
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