Complete List of Caldecott Medal Winners

• 2003 Medal Winner: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
  Honor Books:
  
  • The Spider and the Fly by Tony DiTerlizzi
  • Hondo and Fabian by Peter McCarty
  • Noah's Ark by Jerry Pinkney
• 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, by Simms 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; text: edited by Walter Lorraine
  
• 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

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