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The Caldecott Medal, named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, is awarded each year by the Association for Library Service to Children to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. |
| 2006 | The Hello,
Goodbye Window by Norton Juster, illustrated by Chris Raschka |
| 2005 | Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes |
| 2004 | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein |
| 2003 | My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohman |
| 2002 | The Three Pigs by David Wiesner |
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2001 |
So
You Want to Be President by Judith St. George, |
| 2000 | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback |
| 1999 | Snowflake
Bentley
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Mary Azaria |
| 1998 | Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky |
| 1997 | Golem by David Wisniewski |
| 1996 | Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann |
| 1995 | Smoky Night by Eve Bunting, illustrated by David Diaz |
| 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 by Ed Young |
| 1989 | Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman, illustrated by Stephen Gammell |
| 1988 | Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr |
| 1987 | Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks, illustrated by Richard Egielski |
| 1986 | The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1985 |
Saint
George and the Dragon retold by Margaret Hodges, |
| 1984 | The
Glorious Flight : Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provenson |
| 1983 |
Shadow by Blaise Cendrars, illustrated by Marcia Brown |
| 1982 | Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1981 | Fables by Arnold Lobel |
| 1980 | Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall, illustrated by Barbara Cooney |
| 1979 | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble |
| 1978 | Noah’s Ark by Peter Spier |
| 1977 | Ashanti to Zulu by Margaret Musgrove, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon |
| 1976 | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears retold by Verna Aardema, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon |
| 1975 | Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott |
| 1974 | Duffy
and the Devil retold by Harve Zemach, illustrated by Margot Zemach |
| 1973 | The Funny Little Woman by Lafcadio Hearn, illustrated by Blair Lent |
| 1972 | One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian |
| 1971 | A Story A Story by Gaile E. Haley |
| 1970 | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig |
| 1969 | The
Fool of the World and the Flying Ship retold by Arthur
Ransome, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz |
| 1968 | Drummer Hoff adapted by Barbara Emberley, illustrated by E Emberley |
| 1967 | Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness |
| 1966 | Always
Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian |
| 1965 | May
I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, illustrated by Beni Montresor |
| 1964 | Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak |
| 1963 | The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats |
| 1962 | Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown |
| 1961 | Baboushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins |
| 1960 | Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida |
| 1959 | Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney |
| 1958 | Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey |
| 1957 | A Tree is Nice by Janice Udry |
| 1956 | Frog
Went A-Courtin’ retold by John Langstaff, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky |
| 1955 | Cinderella illustrated and retold from Perrault by Marcia Brown |
| 1954 | Madeline’s Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans |
| 1953 | The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward |
| 1952 | Finders Keepers by Will Lipkind, illustrated by Nicolas Mordvinoff |
| 1951 | The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous |
| 1950 | Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi |
| 1949 | The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader |
| 1948 | White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin |
| 1947 | The Little Island by Golden MacDonald, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard |
| 1946 | The Rooster Crows by Maude and Miska Petersham |
| 1945 | Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones |
| 1944 | Many Moons by James Thurber, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin |
| 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 and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire |
| 1939 | Mei Li by Thomas Handforth |
| 1938 | Animals of the Bible by Helen Dean Fish |
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