Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present

2009: The House in the Nihgt by Susan Marie Swanson (Houghton Mifflin )

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 Moonby 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 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 Eval!ine 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)