The Caldecott Medal
1961 Baboushka and the Three Kings, Nicholas Sidjakov 1960 Nine Days to Christmas, Maria H. Ets The 1959 Chanticleer and the Fox, Barbara Cooney Caldecott 1958 Time of Wonder, Robert McCloskey 1957 A Tree is Nice, Marc Simont Medal 1956 Frog Went A-Courtin’, Feodor Rojankovsky 1955 Cinderella, Marcia Brown 1954 Madeline’s Rescue, Ludwig Bemelmans 1953 The Biggest Bear, Lynd Ward Awarded annually by the 1952 Finders Keepers, Nicolas Mordvinoff Association for 1951 The Egg Tree, Katherine Milhous Library Service to 1950 Song of the Swallows, Leo Politi Children, The American 1949 The Big Snow, Berta Hader Library Association. 1948 White Snow, Bright Snow, Roger Duvoisin In 1938, the first Caldecott Medal was 1947 The Little Island, Leonard Weisgard awarded to the most distinguished Deer Park Public Library American picture book for children 1946 The Rooster Crows, Maud Petersham 3009 Center published in the United States during 1945 Prayer for a Child, Elizabeth O. Jones Deer Park, TX 77536 the preceding year. The name of Ralph Caldecott, the famous English 1944 Many Moons, Louis Slobodkin 281-478-7208 illustrator, was chosen for the medal 1943 The Little House, Virginia L. Burton www.deerparktx.gov/library because his work best represented the “joyousness of picture books as 1942 Make Way for the Ducklings, Robert Hours: McCloskey well as their beauty.” Monday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm 1941 They Were Strong and Good, Robert Lawson Tuesday 10:00 am - 9:00 pm 1940 Abraham Lincoln, Ingri d’Aulaire Wednesday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Thursday 10:00 am -
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