Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present

2007: Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion)

2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated by Chris Raschka, written by Norton Juster (Michael di Capua/Hyperion)

2005: Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollinsPublishers)

2004: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)

2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)

2002: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)

2001: So You Want to Be President? illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St. George (Philomel Books)

2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback (Viking)

1999: Snowflake Bentley illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton)

1998: Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)

1997: Golem by David Wisniewski (Clarion)

1996: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)

1995: Smoky Night illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting (Harcourt)

1994: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine (Houghton)

1993: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam)

1992: Tuesday by David Wiesner (Clarion Books)

1991: Black and White by David Macaulay (Houghton)

1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young (Philomel)

1989: Song and Dance Man illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman (Knopf)

1988: Owl Moon illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen (Philomel)

1987: Hey, Al illustrated by Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks (Farrar)

1986: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)

1985: Saint George and the Dragon illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges (Little, Brown)

1984: The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen (Viking)

1983: Shadow translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown; original text in French: Blaise Cendrars (Scribner)

1982: Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)

1981: Fables by Arnold Lobel (Harper)

1980: Ox-Cart Man illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald Hall (Viking)

1979: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble (Bradbury)

1978: Noah's Ark by Peter Spier (Doubleday)

1977: Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove (Dial)

1976: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema (Dial)

1975: Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott (Viking)

1974: Duffy and the Devil illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach (Farrar)

1973: The Funny Little Woman illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene Mosel (Dutton)

1972: One Fine Day retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (Macmillan)

1971: A Story A Story retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (Atheneum)

1970: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Windmill Books)

1969: The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text: retold by Arthur Ransome (Farrar)

1968: Drummer Hoff illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley (Prentice-Hall)

1967: Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness (Holt)

1966: Always Room for One More illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger] (Holt)

1965: May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor; text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (Atheneum)

1964: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Harper)

1963: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking)

1962: Once a Mouse retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown (Scribner)

1961: Baboushka and the Three Kings illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text: Ruth Robbins (Parnassus)

1960: Nine Days to Christmas illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida (Viking)

1959: Chanticleer and the Fox illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney (Crowell)

1958: Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Viking)

1957: A Tree Is Nice illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry (Harper)

1956: Frog Went A-Courtin' illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff) (Harcourt)

1955: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown (Scribner)

1954: Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)

1953: The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward (Houghton)

1952: Finders Keepers illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] (Harcourt)

1951: The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous (Scribner)

1950: Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi (Scribner)

1949: The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)

1948: White Snow, Bright Snow illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)

1947: The Little Island illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] (Doubleday)

1946: The Rooster Crows by Maud & Miska Petersham (Macmillan)

1945: Prayer for a Child illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field (Macmillan)

1944: Many Moons illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber (Harcourt)

1943: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton)

1942: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Viking)

1941: They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson (Viking)

1940: Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (Doubleday)

1939: Mei Li by Thomas Handforth (Doubleday)

1938: Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text: selected by Helen Dean Fish (Lippincott)