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| Caldecott Medal Winners 1938-2012 | ||
| 2012 | A Ball for Daisy written and illustrated by Chris Raschka | |
| 2011 | A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stea, illustrated by Erin E. Stead. | |
| 2010 | The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney | |
| 2009 | House in the Night by Susie Marie Swanson | |
| 2008 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick | |
| 2007 | Flotsam by David Weisner | |
| 2006 | The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster, illustrated by Chris Raschka | |
2005 |
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Hankes | |
2004 |
The Man Who Walked Between The Towers by Mordicai Gerstein | |
2003 |
My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann | |
2002 |
The Three Pigs by David Wiesner |
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2001 |
So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St. George |
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2000 |
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat bySimms Taback |
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1999 |
Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin |
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1998 |
Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky |
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1997 |
Golem by David Wisniewski |
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1996 |
Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann |
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1995 |
Smoky Night , illustrated by David Diaz; text Eve Bunting |
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1994 |
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say |
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1993 |
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully |
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1992 |
Tuesday by David Wiesner |
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1991 |
Black and White by David Macaulay |
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1990 |
Lon Po Po A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young |
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1989 |
Song and Dance Man , illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text Karen Ackerman |
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1988 |
Owl Moon , illustrated by John Schoenherr; text Jane Yolen |
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1987 |
Hey, Al , illustrated by Richard Egielski; text Arthur Yorinks |
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1986 |
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg |
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1985 |
Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text retold by Margaret Hodges |
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1984 |
The Glorious Flight Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen |
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1983 |
Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown; original text in French Blaise Cendrars |
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1982 |
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg |
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1981 |
Fables by Arnold Lobel |
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1980 |
Ox-Cart Man , illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text Donald Hall |
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1979 |
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble |
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1978 |
Noah's Ark by Peter Spier |
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1977 |
Ashanti to Zulu African Traditions, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text Margaret Musgrove |
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1976 |
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text retold by Verna Aardema |
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1975 |
Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott |
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1974 |
Duffy and the Devil , illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach |
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1973 |
The Funny Little Woman , illustrated by Blair Lent; text retold by Arlene Mosel |
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1972 |
One Fine Day , retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian |
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1971 |
A Story A Story , retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley |
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1970 |
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig |
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1969 |
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship , illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text retold by Arthur Ransome |
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1968 |
Drummer Hoff , illustrated by Ed Emberley; text adapted by Barbara Emberley |
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1967 |
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness |
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1966 |
Always Room for One More , illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger] |
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1965 |
May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor; text Beatrice Schenk de Regniers |
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1964 |
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak |
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1963 |
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats |
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1962 |
Once a Mouse , retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown |
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1961 |
Baboushka and the Three Kings , illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text Ruth Robbins |
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1960 |
Nine Days to Christmas , illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida |
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1959 |
Chanticleer and the Fox , illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney |
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1958 |
Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey |
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1957 |
A Tree Is Nice , illustrated by Marc Simont; text Janice Udry |
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1956 |
Frog Went A-Courtin' , illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text retold by John Langstaff |
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1955 |
Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper , illustrated by Marcia Brown; text translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown |
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1954 |
Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans |
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1953 |
The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward |
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1952 |
Finders Keepers , illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] |
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1951 |
The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous |
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1950 |
Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi |
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1949 |
The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader |
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1948 |
White Snow, Bright Snow , illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text Alvin Tresselt |
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1947 |
The Little Island , illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] |
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1946 |
The Rooster Crows by Maude & Miska Petersham |
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1945 |
Prayer for a Child , illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text Rachel Field |
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1944 |
Many Moons , illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text James Thurber |
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1943 |
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton |
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1942 |
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey |
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1941 |
They Were Strong and Good , by Robert Lawson |
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1940 |
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire |
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1939 |
Mei Li by Thomas Handforth |
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1938 |
Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book , illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text selected by Helen Dean Fish |
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| Newbery Medal Winners, 1922-2012 | ||
| 2012 | Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos | |
| 2011 | Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool | |
| 2010 | When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead | |
| 2009 | The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean | |
| 2008 | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz | |
| 2007 | The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron | |
| 2006 | Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins | |
| 2005 | Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata | |
| 2004 | The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering | |
| 2003 | Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi | |
| 2002 | A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park | |
| 2001 | A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck | |
| 2000 | Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis | |
| 1999 | Holes by Louis Sachar | |
| 1998 | Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse | |
| 1997 | The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg | |
| 1996 | The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman | |
| 1995 | Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech | |
| 1994 | The Giver by Lois Lowry | |
| 1993 | Missing May by Cynthia Rylant | |
| 1992 | Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| 1991 | Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli | |
| 1990 | Number the Stars by Lois Lowry | |
| 1989 | Joyful Noise Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman | |
| 1988 | Lincoln A Photobiography by Russell Freedman | |
| 1987 | The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman | |
| 1986 | Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan | |
| 1985 | The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley | |
| 1984 | Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary | |
| 1983 | Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt | |
| 1982 | A Visit to William Blake's Inn Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard | |
| 1981 | Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson | |
| 1980 | A Gathering of Days A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos | |
| 1979 | The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin | |
| 1978 | Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson | |
| 1977 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor | |
| 1976 | The Grey King by Susan Cooper | |
| 1975 | M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton | |
| 1974 | The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox | |
| 1973 | Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George | |
| 1972 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien | |
| 1971 | Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars | |
| 1970 | Sounder by William H. Armstrong | |
| 1969 | The High King by Lloyd Alexander | |
| 1968 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg | |
| 1967 | Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt | |
| 1966 | I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino | |
| 1965 | Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska | |
| 1964 | It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville | |
| 1963 | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 1962 | The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare | |
| 1961 | Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell | |
| 1960 | Onion John by Joseph Krumgold | |
| 1959 | The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare | |
| 1958 | Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith | |
| 1957 | Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson | |
| 1956 | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham | |
| 1955 | The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong | |
| 1954 | ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold | |
| 1953 | Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark | |
| 1952 | Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes | |
| 1951 | Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates | |
| 1950 | The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli | |
| 1949 | King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry | |
| 1948 | The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois | |
| 1947 | Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey | |
| 1946 | Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski | |
| 1945 | Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson | |
| 1944 | Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes | |
| 1943 | Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray | |
| 1942 | The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds | |
| 1941 | Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry | |
| 1940 | Daniel Boone by James Daugherty | |
| 1939 | Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright | |
| 1938 | The White Stag by Kate Seredy | |
| 1937 | Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer | |
| 1936 | Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink | |
| 1935 | Dobry by Monica Shannon | |
| 1934 | Invincible Louisa The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs | |
| 1933 | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis | |
| 1932 | Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer | |
| 1931 | The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth | |
| 1930 | Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field | |
| 1929 | The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly | |
| 1928 | Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji | |
| 1927 | Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James | |
| 1926 | Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman | |
| 1925 | Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger | |
| 1924 | The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes | |
| 1923 | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting | |
| 1922 | The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon | |