Randolph Caldecott Medal
Details
Frequency: Annual
A medal. The face shows John Gilpin on his famous ride. On the reverse, surrounded by the inscription and with a place for the name of the recipient and the year of the award, is a picture of the "four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie" and a butler presenting the "dish before the king." - - Bulletin of the American Library Association, Vol. 32, no.1, p.23.
Award Information
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The Golem: A Jewish Legend
1977 - Honor(s) The Golem is a retelling of a powerful story from Hebrew literature. The art work, which is equally powerful, is based on careful research and... |
1977 - Honor(s) | |
Hawk, I'm Your Brother
1977 - Honor(s) Hawk, I'm Your Brother is a poetic story, enhanced by fine drawings, of a boy who through his relationship with a hawk, learns the meaning... |
1977 - Honor(s) | |
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions
1977 - Winner(s) In Ashanti to Zulu, their extraordinary paintings illuminate the brief text, a description alphabetically arranged, of some of the tribes of Africa. The illustrations... |
1977 - Winner(s) | |
The Amazing Bone
1977 - Honor(s) The Amazing Bone is a fresh picture book about the adventures of a pig and her new found friend, a talking bone. Delicate color adds to... |
1977 - Honor(s) | |
The Contest
1977 - Honor(s) The Contest is a humorous story of a contest between two robbers, who are betrothed to the same woman. The illustrations are bordered with designs... |
1977 - Honor(s) | |
Fish for Supper
1977 - Honor(s) With the utmost economy of line and text, Fish for Supper takes young readers through the events of one day in the life of a... |
1977 - Honor(s) |
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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
1976 - Winner(s) The illustrations for Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears were inspired by the designs of African fabrics. Bold and stylized, using strong but muted colors... |
1976 - Winner(s) | |
The Desert is Theirs
1976 - Honor(s) The spare, clean elegance of Parnalls's line is perfectly suited to the quiet restraint of Baylor's text in The Desert Is Theirs, a book... |
1976 - Honor(s) | |
Strega Nona
1976 - Honor(s) There's an aura of medieval theatre in Tomie de Paola's adaptation of the humorous Italian folktale Strega Nona. The robust peasant humor of the... |
1976 - Honor(s) |
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Arrow to the Sun
1975 - Winner(s) "The boy became the arrow." With these words, Gerald McDermott brings Arrow to the Sun; A Pueblo Indian Tale to a climax, bu the stunning illustration... |
1975 - Winner(s) | |
Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book
1975 - Honor(s) A different mood and place are realistically yet idealistically created by Tom Feelings in Jambo Means Hello. The text is a straightforward, brief explanation... |
1975 - Honor(s) |
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Duffy and the Devil
1974 - Winner(s) The rollicking, robust pictures in Duffy and the Devil are a perfect accompaniment to the text, a retelling of the Cornish version of the widespread... |
1974 - Winner(s) | |
Three Jovial Huntsmen
1974 - Honor(s) The beautiful soft pen-and-ink drawings, with an overlay of colors, produce a lovely picture book based on the old nursery rhyme about the three hunters... |
1974 - Honor(s) | |
Cathedral
1974 - Honorable Mention(s) This picture book for all ages is a perfect example of the graphic arts. The author-artist, with great precision, has skillfully depicted the construction of... |
1974 - Honorable Mention(s) |
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Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
1973 - Honor(s) This colorful book presents a vibrant, stylized realization of its subject that evokes the classic timelessness of Ashanti folk literature. |
1973 - Honor(s) | |
Hosie's Alphabet
1973 - Honor(s) Three-year-old Hosea (Hosie) asked his father to draw this alphabet for him and with the help of his mother and brother, he actually wrote the... |
1973 - Honor(s) | |
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs
1973 - Honor(s) The Grimm Brothers' Snow White tale is retold in a translation from the original German by Randall Jarrell and illustrated with breathtakingly beautiful pictures that... |
1973 - Honor(s) | |
When Clay Sings
1973 - Honor(s) This book is a tribute to the ancient Indian artists who created the magnificent clay pottery, which we can only treasure and marvel at today. ... |
1973 - Honor(s) | |
The Funny Little Woman
1973 - Winner(s) The Funny Little Woman is a model of what a superb picture book can be--a perfect matching of art and text. The story, as retold... |
1973 - Winner(s) |
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One Fine Day
1972 - Winner(s) The story, inspired by an Armenian folktale, is rhythmic and cumulative, reminiscent of The Old Woman and Her Pig. In Hogrogian's tale, the fox... |
1972 - Winner(s) | |
Hildilid's Night
1972 - Honor(s) In Cheli Durán Ryan's folklike tale, Lobel has captured Hildilid's frantic attempts to banish the night in black and white drawings, which brighten appropriately with... |
1972 - Honor(s) | |
If All the Seas Were One Sea
1972 - Honor(s) The author's experience in textile designing seems to contribute to her unique, intricate line drawings in If All the Seas Were One Sea. |
1972 - Honor(s) | |
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
1972 - Honor(s) Subtitled Swahili Counting Book, this picture book is composed of a text by Muriel Feelings and beautiful soft lithographs by her husband. It affords an... |
1972 - Honor(s) |
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A Story A Story
1971 - Winner(s) This tale tells how Ananse, the Spider man, bargained with the Sky God to bring stories to earth for children to hear. The text, made... |
1971 - Winner(s) | |
In the Night Kitchen
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Frog and Toad are Friends
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The Angry Moon
1971 - Honor(s) In William Sleator's The Angry Moon, he adapts Tlingit Indian designs in his paintings of the sky country, Indian characters, and Alaskan settings. |
1971 - Honor(s) |
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
1970 - Winner(s) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble is a charming, tender story about the experiences of a donkey named Sylvester and his family after he finds and makes a wish... |
1970 - Winner(s) | |
Goggles!
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Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
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Pop Corn & Ma Goodness
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Thy Friend, Obadiah
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The Judge: An Untrue Tale
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1970 - Honor(s) |
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The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1969 - Winner(s) The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship is a Russian tale retold by Arthur Ransom. The gay and colorful illustrations have a vigor... |
1969 - Winner(s) | |
Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
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1969 - Honor(s) |
Title | Year | |
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Frederick
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Seashore Story
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The Emperor and the Kite
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Drummer Hoff
1968 - Winner(s) Drummer Hold is a cumulative rhythmic tale about the building of a cannon in which brightly dressed men of the militia--Private Parriage, Corporal Farrell, Sergeant... |
1968 - Winner(s) |
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Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
1967 - Winner(s) Sam, Bangs & Moonshine depicts a child's imaginative world in a strikingly free style of line and wash drawings. The delightful illustrations appear through sea... |
1967 - Winner(s) | |
One Wide River to Cross
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Always Room for One More
1966 - Winner(s) Always Room for One More is a spirited traditional verse about a Scot who can always find room for one more guest in his home. ... |
1966 - Winner(s) | |
Hide and Seek Fog
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1966 - Honor(s) | |
Just Me
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1966 - Honor(s) | |
Tom Tit Tot
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The Wave
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A Pocketful of Cricket
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May I Bring a Friend?
1965 - Winner(s) "Any friend of our friend/Is most welcome here," says the King to the Queen in May I Bring a Friend?--and so our hero brings a giraffe to... |
1965 - Winner(s) | |
Rain Makes Applesauce
1965 - Honor(s) |
1965 - Honor(s) |
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Where the Wild Things Are
1964 - Winner(s) In Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak has achieved the difficult feat of picturing a child's delight in the fantastic. Max, sent supperless to bed... |
1964 - Winner(s) | |
Swimmy
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All in the Morning Early
1964 - Honor(s) |
1964 - Honor(s) | |
Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes
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1964 - Honor(s) |
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The Snowy Day
1963 - Winner(s) A small boy's quiet delight upon waking one winter morning to find the earth covered with snow is captured with simplicity in The Snowy Day. The... |
1963 - Winner(s) | |
The Sun is a Golden Earring
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Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
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Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song
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Little Bear's Visit
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The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up
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Once a Mouse
1962 - Winner(s) With action, humor and warmth rarely achieved in woodcuts, Once a Mouse is a perfect picture book. The old folk tale of the mouse who... |
1962 - Winner(s) |
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Baboushka and the Three Kings
1961 - Winner(s) Baboushka and the Three Kings is an old Russian Christmas folk tale in which the three kings ask, Baboushka, the old woman, to join them... |
1961 - Winner(s) | |
Inch by Inch
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Nine Days to Christmas
1960 - Winner(s) Nine Days to Christmas takes place in Mexico and is a delightful story of a little girl of Mexico City who is now old enough... |
1960 - Winner(s) | |
Houses from the Sea
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The Moon Jumpers
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Umbrella
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Chanticleer and the Fox
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The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie
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What Do You Say, Dear?
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Time of Wonder
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Fly High, Fly Low
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Anatole and the Cat
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A Tree is Nice
1957 - Winner(s) A Tree is Nice is a picture book, which can be used in many ways, including the classroom; but, most important to all, it is... |
1957 - Winner(s) | |
Mr. Penny's Race Horse
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1 is One
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Anatole
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Gillespie and the Guards
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Lion
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Play With Me
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Crow Boy
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Frog Went A-Courtin'
1956 - Winner(s) Rojankovsky's gay and colorful illustrations for Frog Went A-courtin' provide a perfect setting for a story song that is more than four-hundred years old. The... |
1956 - Winner(s) |
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Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
1955 - Winner(s) The gay pictures, delicate in color and expressive in line, lend a fresh, gracious, ethereal mood to the old favorite. Because the original drawings bring... |
1955 - Winner(s) | |
Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes
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Wheel On The Chimney
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The Thanksgiving Story
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A Very Special House
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Green Eyes
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Madeline's Rescue
1954 - Winner(s) Madeline's Rescue continues the gay boarding-school adventures in Paris of the earlier Madeline, with the dog Genevieve rescuing little Madeline from the Seine. The... |
1954 - Winner(s) | |
Journey Cake, Ho!
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When Will the World Be Mine?
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The Steadfast Tin Soldier
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The Biggest Bear
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Puss in Boots
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One Morning in Maine
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Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals
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The Storm Book
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Five Little Monkeys
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Skipper John's Cook
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All Falling Down
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Bear Party
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Feather Mountain
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Finders Keepers
1952 - Winner(s) The illustrations for Finders Keepers display great originality in style and offer a combination of boldness and vitality of line. The story of two dogs, who... |
1952 - Winner(s) | |
Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo
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The Egg Tree
1951 - Winner(s) Through her beautiful pictures and simple text, Milhous has captured the spirit of the Easter tradition of making an egg tree. There is no doubt... |
1951 - Winner(s) | |
Dick Whittington and his Cat
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The Two Reds
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If I Ran the Zoo
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The Most Wonderful Doll in the World
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T-Bone, the Baby Sitter
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America's Ethan Allen
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The Wild Birthday Cake
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The Happy Day
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck
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Henry Fisherman
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Song of the Swallows
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The Big Snow
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Blueberries for Sal
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All Around the Town
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Juanita
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Fish in the Air
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White Snow, Bright Snow
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Stone Soup
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McElligot's Pool
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Bambino the Clown
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Roger and the Fox
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Song of Robin Hood
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Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns
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The Little Island
1947 - Winner(s) |
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Rain Drop Splash
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Boats on the River
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Timothy Turtle
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Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street
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The Rooster Crows
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Little Lost Lamb
1946 - Honor(s) |
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Sing Mother Goose
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My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
1946 - Honor(s) |
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You Can Write Chinese
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Prayer for a Child
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Mother Goose
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In the Forest
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Yonie Wondernose
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The Christmas Anna Angel
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Many Moons
1944 - Winner(s) |
1944 - Winner(s) | |
Small Rain: Verses From The Bible
1944 - Honor(s) |
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Pierre Pidgeon
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The Mighty Hunter
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A Child's Good Night Book
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Good-Luck Horse
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The Little House
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Dash and Dart
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Marshmallow
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In My Mother's House
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Paddle-To-The-Sea
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Nothing At All
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Make Way for Ducklings
1942 - Winner(s) The amusing story of a family of ducklings possessed of a fine disregard for the problems of Boston traffic and the feelings of Boston policemen. |
1942 - Winner(s) | |
An American ABC
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April's Kittens
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They Were Strong and Good
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Cock-a-Doodle Doo
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Abraham Lincoln
1940 - Winner(s) Biographical picture book of Abraham Lincoln. |
1940 - Winner(s) | |
Madeline
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The Ageless Story
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Wee Gillis
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Mei Li
1939 - Winner(s) Thomas Handforth had lived in the Orient for a number of years where he discovered Mei Li, a real little Chinese girl, whose story tells... |
1939 - Winner(s) | |
Andy and the Lion
1939 - Honor(s) |
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Barkis
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The Forest Pool
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Four and Twenty Blackbirds
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Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale
1938 - Honor(s) |
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Animals of the Bible
1938 - Winner(s) Illustrations in black and white of creatures chosen from both the Old and the New Testaments. |
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The artist must be a citizen or resident of the United States.
Judges will be members of the Newbery Medal Committee. If a book of the year is nominated for both the Newbery and Caldecott awards, the committee shall decide under which heading it shall be voted upon, so that the same title shall not be considered on both ballots.
A medal. The face shows John Gilpin on his famous ride. On the reverse, surrounded by the inscription and with a place for the name of the recipient and the year of the award, is a picture of the "four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie" and a butler presenting the "dish before the king." - - Bulletin of the American Library Association, Vol. 32, no.1, p.23.
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