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Dinosaur Caldecott & Newbery Award Winning Books
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Caldecott Medal  Caldecott Medal Books  Caldecott Medal
2006: Hello, Goodbye Window Norton Juster Illustrated by Chris Roschka
2005: Kitten's First Full Moon Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollinsPublishers)
2004: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)
2003: My Friend Rabbit Eric Rohmann (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)
2002: The Three Little Pigs David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)
2001: So You Want to be President? illustrated by David Small, text by Judith St. George  (Philomel)
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 & 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 Maude & 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)

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Newbery Medal  Newbury Medal Books  Newbery Medal

2006: Criss Cross Lynn Rae Perkins
2005: Kira-Kira Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
2004:
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering (Candlewick Press)
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (YA)
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck by Richard Peck
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
1981: Jacob Have I Lovedby Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
1967: Up a Road Slowly
by Irene Hunt (Follett)
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell)
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson (Harcourt)
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton)
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Lippincott)
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)

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