🥇 Caldecott Medalists 🥇
A Branch of August's Bookshelf

Selected children's titles from the National Emergency Library,
via archive.org, freely available with the use of a virtual library card

Curated by Jim Cocola, Associate Head for the Humanities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

📚🎨🥇 Caldecott Medalists 🥇🎨📚

American Library Association award to the
"most distinguished American picture book for children"

2013: This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press)	2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated by Chris Raschka, written by Norton Juster (Michael di Capua/Hyperion)	2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback (Viking)

1999: Snowflake Bentley illustrated by Mary Azarian, written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton)	1995: Smoky Night illustrated by David Diaz, written by Eve Bunting (Harcourt)	1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young (Philomel)

1987: Hey, Al illustrated by Richard Egielski, written by Arthur Yorinks (Farrar)	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, written by Margaret Musgrove (Dial)	1971: A Story A Story by Gail E. Haley (Atheneum)	1970: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Windmill Books)

1968: Drummer Hoff illustrated by Ed Emberley, written by Barbara Emberley (Prentice-Hall) (Dial)	1966: Always Room for One More illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian, written by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger] (Holt)	1962: Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown (Scribner)

1961: Baboushka and the Three Kings illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov, written by Ruth Robbins (Parnassus)	1960: Nine Days to Christmas illustrated by Marie Hall Ets, written by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida (Viking)	1957: A Tree Is Nice illustrated by Marc Simont, written by Janice Udry (Harper)

1956: Frog Went A-Courtin' illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky, written by John Langstaff (Harcourt)	1951: The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous (Scribner)	1949: The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)

1948: White Snow, Bright Snow illustrated by Roger Duvoisin, written by Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)	1947: The Little Island illustrated by Leonard Weisgard written by Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] (Doubleday)	1946: The Rooster Crows by Maud & Miska Petersham (Macmillan)

1944: Many Moons illustrated by Louis Slobodkin written by James Thurber (Harcourt)	1943: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton)	1942: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (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 written by Helen Dean Fish (Lippincott)