Caldecott Medal Recipients

Year

Illustrator

Winning Book

1938	Dorothy P. Lathrop	Animals of the Bible
1939	Thomas Handforth	Mei Lei
1940	Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire	Abraham Lincoln
1941	Robert Lawson	They Were Strong and Good
1942	Robert McCloskey	Make Way for Ducklings
1943	Virginia Lee Burton	The Little House
1944	Louis Slobodkin	Many Moons
1945	Elizabeth Orton Jones	Prayer for a Child
1946	Maud and Miska Petersham	The Rooster Crows
1947	Leonard Weisgard	The Little Island
1948	Roger Duvoisin	White Snow, Bright Snow
1949	Berta and Elmer Hader	The Big Snow
1950	Leo Politi	Song of the Swallows
1951	Katherine Milhous	The Egg Tree
1952	Nicolas Mordvinoff	Finders Keepers
1953	Lynd Ward	The Biggest Bear
1954	Ludwig Bemelmans	Madeline's Rescue
1955	Marcia Brown	Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
1956	Feodor Rojankovsky	Frog Went A-Courtin'
1957	Marc Simont	A Tree Is Nice
1958	Robert McCloskey	Time of Wonder
1959	Barbara Cooney	Chanticleer and the Fox
1960	Marie Hall Ets	Nine Days to Christmas
1961	Nicolas Sidjakov	Baboushka and the Three Kings
1962	Marcia Brown	Once a Mouse
1963	Ezra Jack Keats	The Snowy Day
1964	Maurice Sendak	Where the Wild Things Are
1965	Beni Montresor	May I Bring a Friend?
1966	Nonny Hogrogian	Always Room for One More
1967	Evaline Ness	Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
1968	Ed Emberley	Drummer Hoff
1969	Uri Shulevitz	The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1970	William Steig	Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
1971	Gail E. Haley	A Story A Story
1972	Nonny Hogrogian	One Fine Day
1973	Blair Lent	The Funny Little Woman
1974	Margot Zemach	Duffy and the Devil
1975	Gerald McDermott	Arrow to the Sun
1976	Leo and Diane Dillon	Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
1977	Leo and Diane Dillon	Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions
1978	Peter Spier	Noah's Ark
1979	Paul Goble	The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
1980	Barbara Cooney	Ox-Cart Man
1981	Arnold Lobel	Fables
1982	Chris Van Allsburg	Jumanji
1983	Marcia Brown	Shadow
1984	Alice and Martin Provensen	The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot
1985	Trina Schart Hyman	Saint George and the Dragon
1986	Chris Van Allsburg	The Polar Express
1987	Richard Egielski	Hey, Al
1988	John Schoenherr	Owl Moon
1989	Stephen Gammell	Song and Dance Man
1990	Ed Young	Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
1991	David Macaulay	Black and White
1992	David Wiesner	Tuesday
1993	Emily Arnold McCully	Mirette on the High Wire
1994	Allen Say	Grandfather's Journey
1995	David Diaz	Smoky Night
1996	Peggy Rathmann	Officer Buckle and Gloria
1997	David Wisniewski	Golem
1998	Paul Zelinsky	Rapunzel
1999	Mary Azarian (illustration), Jacqueline Briggs Martin (text)	Snowflake Bentley
2000	Simms Taback	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
2001	David Small	So You Want to Be President?
2002	David Wiesner	The Three Pigs
2003	Eric Rohmann	My Friend Rabbit
2004	Mordicai Gerstein	The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
2005	Kevin Henkes	Kitten's First Full Moon
2006	Chris Raschka	The Hello, Goodbye Window
2007	David Wiesner	Flotsam
2008	Brian Selznick	The Invention of Hugo Cabret