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Caldecott Award Winners and Honors: 1950-1959

Caldecott Winners at the Curriculum Center

1959 - Chanticleer and the Fox by Geoffrey Chaucer; Barbara Cooney (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Cooney Chanticleer
1958 - Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
Call Number: JFIC McCloskey Time
1957 - A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry; Marc Simont (Illustrator)
Call Number: PBK JFIC Udry
1955 - Cinderella by Marcia Brown (Illustrator)
Call Number: 398.2 PER
1954 - Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Bemelmans
1953 - The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Ward Biggest
1952 - Finders Keepers by Nicolas Mordvinoff (Illustrator); Will Lipkind
Call Number: JFIC Will Finders

Caldecott Honors at the Curriculum Center

1959 - Umbrella by Taro Yashima
Call Number: JFIC Yashima Umbrella
1959 - The House That Jack Built by Antonio Frasconi
Call Number: JFIC Frasconi
1958 - Anatole and the Cat by Eve Titus
Call Number: JFIC Titus
1985 - Fly High, Fly Low (50th Anniversary Ed. ) by Don Freeman
Call Number: JFIC Freeman Fly
1957 - Lion by William P. Dubois
Call Number: JFIC Du Bois Lion
1957 - Gillespie and the Guards by Benjamin Elkin
Call Number: JFIC Elkin Gillespie
1956 - Crow Boy by Taro Yashima
Call Number: PBK JFIC YAS
1956 - Play with Me by Marie Hall Ets (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Ets Play
1955 - Wheel on the Chimney by Margaret Wise Brown; Tibor Gergely (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Brown Wheel
1954 - Journey Cake, Ho! by Ruth Sawyer; Robert McCloskey (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Sawyer Journey
1954 - A Very Special House by Ruth Krauss; Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Krauss Very

Caldecott Honors at the Curriculum Center

1953 - The Storm Book by Charlotte Zolotow; Margaret Bloy Graham (Illustrator)
Call Number: PBK JFIC ZOL
1953 - Ape in a Cape by Fritz Eichenberg (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Eichenberg Ape
1953 - One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
Call Number: JFIC McCloskey One
1953 - Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault; Marcia Brown (Illustrator)
Call Number: 398.2 Brown Puss
1952 - All Falling Down by Gene Zion; Margaret Bloy Graham (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Zion All
1952 - Feather Mountain by Elizabeth Olds
Call Number: JFIC Olds Feather
1951 - The Most Wonderful Doll in the World by Phyllis McGinley
Call Number: FIC MCG
1951 - The Two Reds by Will (Will Lipkind); Nicolas (Nicolas Mordvinoff, Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Will Two
1951 - Dick Whittington and His Cat by Marcia Brown (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Brown
1950 - The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss; Marc Simont (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Krauss Happy
1950 - Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss (Illustrator)
Call Number: JFIC Seuss Bartholomew