Caldecott Medal Awards 1938-1949

1949
Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.

1948
When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a winter blizzard.

1947
Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches.

1946
A collection of traditional American nursery rhymes, finger games, skipping rhymes, jingles, and counting out rhymes.

1945
For sixty years children and parents have shared in the joy and inspiration of Rachel Field and Elizabeth Orton Jones's Prayer for a Child.

1944
Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.

1943
A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

1942
Mrs. Mallard leaves her home on an island in the Charles River and escorts her eight ducklings through hazardous Boston traffic to the Public Gardens where Mr. Mallard is waiting for his family to join him.

1941
Relates the story of the author's grandparents and parents, who, though not famous, helped build the United States.

1940
Text and illustrations present the life of the boy born on the Kentucky frontier who became the sixteenth president of the United States.

1939
After spending an eventful day at the fair held on New Year's Eve, Mei Li arrives home just in time to greet the Kitchen God.

1938
Animals of the Bible are presented through passages from both the Old and New Testament.