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Caldecott Medal Winners 1938-2007
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

2001

 So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St. George

2000

 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat bySimms Taback

1999

 Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

1998

 Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky

1997

 Golem by David Wisniewski

1996

 Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

1995

 Smoky Night , illustrated by David Diaz; text Eve Bunting

1994

 Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say                                        

1993

  Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully

1992

  Tuesday by David Wiesner

1991

  Black and White by David Macaulay

1990

  Lon Po Po  A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young

1989

  Song and Dance Man , illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text  Karen Ackerman

1988

  Owl Moon , illustrated by John Schoenherr; text Jane Yolen

1987

  Hey, Al , illustrated by Richard Egielski; text Arthur Yorinks

1986

  The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

1985

  Saint George and the Dragon , illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text retold by Margaret Hodges

1984

  The Glorious Flight Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen

1983

  Shadow , translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown; original text in French Blaise Cendrars

1982

  Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

1981

  Fables by Arnold Lobel

1980

  Ox-Cart Man , illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text Donald Hall

1979

  The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble

1978

  Noah's Ark by Peter Spier

1977

  Ashanti to Zulu African Traditions , illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text Margaret Musgrove

1976

  Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears , illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text retold by Verna Aardema

1975

  Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott

1974

  Duffy and the Devil , illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach

1973

  The Funny Little Woman , illustrated by Blair Lent; text retold by Arlene Mosel

1972

  One Fine Day , retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian

1971

  A Story A Story , retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley

1970

  Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

1969

  The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship , illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text retold by Arthur Ransome

1968

  Drummer Hoff , illustrated by Ed Emberley; text adapted by Barbara Emberley

1967

  Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness

1966

  Always Room for One More , illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger]

1965

  May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor; text Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

1964

  Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

1963

  The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

1962

  Once a Mouse , retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown

1961

  Baboushka and the Three Kings , illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text Ruth Robbins

1960

  Nine Days to Christmas , illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida

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

  Madeline'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

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

Newbery Medal Winners, 1922-2007
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