Caldecott Honor Winners

1938 - 1969

Other Caldecott Links

1969	Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky	Blair Lent
1968	Frederick	Leo Lionni
	Seashore Story	Taro Yashima
	The Emperor and the Kite	Ed Young
1967	One Wide River to Cross	Ed Emberley
1966	Hide and Seek Fog	Roger Duvoisin
	Just Me	Marie Hall Ets
	Tom Tit Tot	Evaline Ness
1965	Rain Makes Applesauce	Marvin Bileck
	The Wave	Blair Lent
	A Pocketful of Cricket	Evaline Ness
1964	Swimmy	Leo Lionni
	All in the Morning Early	Evaline Ness
	Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes	Phillip Reed
1963	The Sun is a Golden Earring	Bernarda Bryson
	Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present	Maurice Sendak
1962	Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night	Peter Spier
	Little Bear's Visit	Maurice Sendak
	The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up	Adrienne Adams
1961	Inch By Inch	Leo Lionni
1960	Houses from the Sea	Adrienne Adams
	The Moon Jumpers	Maurice Sendak
1959	The House That Jack Built	Antonio Frasconi
	What Do You Say Dear?	Maurice Sendak
	Umbrella	Taro Yashima
1958	Fly High, Fly Low	Don Freeman
	Anatole and the Cat	Paul Galdone
1957	Mr. Penny's Race Horse	Marie Hall Ets
	1 is One	Tasha Tudor
	Anatole	Paul Galdone
	Gillespie and the Guards	James Daughtery
	Lion	William Pene Dubois
1956	Play With Me	Marie Hall Ets
	Crow Boy	Taro Yashima
1955	Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes	Marguerite de Angeli
	Wheel on the Chimney	Tibor Gergely
	The Thanksgiving Story	Helen Sewell
1954	Journey Cake, Ho	Robert McCloskey
	When Will the World Be Mine?	Jean Charlot
	The Steadfast Tin Soldier	Marcia Brown
	A Very Special House	Maurice Sendak
	Green Eyes	A. Birnbaum
1953	Puss in Boots	Marcia Brown
	One Morning in Maine	Robert McCloskey
	Ape in a Cape	Fritz Eichenberg
	The Storm Book	Margaret Bloy Graham
	Five Little Monkeys	Juliet Kepes
1952	Mr. T.W. Anthony Woo	Marie Hall Ets
	Skipper John's Cook	Marcia Brown
	All Falling Down	Margaret Bloy Graham
	Bear Party	William Pene Dubois
	Feather Mountain	Elizabeth Olds
1951	Dick Whittington and His Cat	Marcia Brown
	The Two Reds	Nicolas
	If I Ran the Zoo	Dr. Seuss
	The Most Wonderful Doll in the World	Helen Stone
	T-Bone, the Babysitter	Clare Turley Newberry
1950	America's Ethan Allen	Lynd Ward
	The Wild Birthday Cake	Hildegard Woodward
	The Happy Day	Marc Simont
	Bartholomew and the Oobleck	Dr. Seuss
	Henry Fisherman	Marcia Brown
1949	Blueberries for Sale	Robert McCloskey
	All Around Town	Helen Stone
	Juanita	Leo Politi
	Fish in the Air	Kurt Wiese
1948	Stone Soup	Marcia Brown
	McElligot's Pool	Dr. Seuss
	Bambino the Clown	George Schreiber
	Roger and the Fox	Hildegard Woodward
	Song of Robin Hood	Virginia Lee Burton
1947	Rain Drop Splash	Leonard Weisgard
	Boats on the River	Jay Hyde Barnum
	Timothy Turtle	Tony Palazzo
	Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street	Leo Politi
	Sing in Praise	Margaret Torrey
1946	Little Lost Lamb	Weisgard, Leonard (illus)
	Sing Mother Goose	Margaret Torrey
	My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman	Ruth Gannett
	You Can Write Chinese	Kurt Wiese
1945	Mother Goose	Tasha Tudor
	In the Forest	Marie Hall Ets
	Yonie Wondernose	Marguerite de Angeli
	The Christmas Anna Angel	Kate Seredy
1944	Small Rain	Elizabeth Orton Jones
	Pierre Pigeon	Arnold Bare
	The Mighty Hunter	Berta and Elmer Hader
	A Child's Good Night Book	Jean Charlot
	Good-Luck Horse	Plato Chan
1943	Dash and Dart	Mary and Conrad Buff
	Marshmallow	Clare Turley Newberry
1942	An American ABC	Mauder and Miska Petersham
	In My Mother's House	Velino Herrera
	Paddle-to-the-Sea	Holling C. Holling
	Nothing at All	Wanda Gag
1941	April's Kittens	Clare Turley Newberry
1940	Cock-a-Doodle Doo	Berta and Elmer Hader
	Madeline	Ludwig Bemelmans
	The Ageless Story	Lauren Ford
1939	Andy and the Lion	James Daughtery
	Barkis	Clare Turley Newbery
	The Forest Pool	Laura Adams Armer
	Snow White and the Seven Dwarves	Wanda Gag
	Wee Gillis	Robert Lawson
1938	Four and Twenty Blackbirds	Robert Lawson
	Seven Simeons	Boris Artzybasheff