Caldecott Medal Winners from 1938 to 1970

A complete list of Caldecott Medal Winners for excellence in children's picture books (continued):

• 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)