Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present
Titles above the line indicate the last 25 years

2008: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic)
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)
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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: MargaretMusgrove (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)