Caldecott Medal checklist
Every Caldecott Medal book on our site, newest first. Print it and tick off the ones you have read.
| Read | Year | Title | By | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Fireworks | Cátia Chien | Winner | |
| 2026 | Every Monday Mabel | Jashar Awan | Honor | |
| 2026 | Our Lake | Angie Kang | Honor | |
| 2026 | Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave | Drew Beckmeyer | Honor | |
| 2026 | Sundust | Zeke Peña | Honor | |
| 2025 | Chooch Helped | Rebecca Lee Kunz | Winner | |
| 2025 | Home in a Lunchbox | Cherry Mo | Honor | |
| 2025 | My Daddy is a Cowboy | Stephanie Seales | Honor | |
| 2025 | Noodles on a Bicycle | Gracey Zhang | Honor | |
| 2025 | Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains | Yuko Shimizu | Honor | |
| 2024 | Big | Vashti Harrison | Winner | |
| 2024 | In Every Life | Marla Frazee | Honor | |
| 2024 | Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter | Molly Mendoza | Honor | |
| 2024 | The Truth About Dragons | Julie Leung | Honor | |
| 2024 | There Was a Party for Langston | Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey | Honor | |
| 2023 | Hot Dog | Doug Salati | Winner | |
| 2023 | Ain't Burned All the Bright | Jason Reynolds | Honor | |
| 2023 | Berry Song | Michaela Goade | Honor | |
| 2023 | Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmitt Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement | Janelle Washington | Honor | |
| 2023 | Knight Owl | Christopher Denise | Honor | |
| 2022 | Watercress | Andrea Wang | Winner | |
| 2022 | Have You Ever Seen a Flower? | Shawn Harris | Honor | |
| 2022 | Mel Fell | Corey R. Tabor | Honor | |
| 2022 | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | Floyd Cooper | Honor | |
| 2022 | Wonder Walkers | Micha Archer | Honor | |
| 2021 | We Are Water Protectors | Michaela Goade | Winner | |
| 2021 | A Place Inside of Me | Zetta Elliott | Honor | |
| 2021 | Me & Mama | Cozbi A. Cabrera | Honor | |
| 2021 | Outside In | Deborah Underwood | Honor | |
| 2021 | The Cat Man of Aleppo | Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-Basha | Honor | |
| 2020 | The Undefeated | Kwame Alexander | Winner | |
| 2020 | Bear Came Along | LeUyen Pham | Honor | |
| 2020 | Double Bass Blues | Rudy Gutierrez | Honor | |
| 2020 | Going Down Home with Daddy | Daniel Minter | Honor | |
| 2019 | Hello Lighthouse | Sophie Blackall | Winner | |
| 2019 | A Big Mooncake for Little Star | Grace Lin | Honor | |
| 2019 | Alma and How She Got Her Name | Juana Martinez-Neal | Honor | |
| 2019 | Thank You, Omu! | Oge Mora | Honor | |
| 2019 | The Rough Patch | Brian Lies | Honor | |
| 2018 | Wolf in the Snow | Matthew Cordell | Winner | |
| 2018 | A Different Pond | Thi Bui | Honor | |
| 2018 | Big Cat, Little Cat | Elisha Cooper | Honor | |
| 2018 | Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut | Derrick Barnes | Honor | |
| 2018 | Grand Canyon | Jason Chin | Honor | |
| 2017 | Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat | Javaka Steptoe | Winner | |
| 2017 | Du Iz Tak? | Carson Ellis | Honor | |
| 2017 | Freedom in Congo Square | R. Gregory Christie | Honor | |
| 2017 | Leave Me Alone! | Vera Brosgol | Honor | |
| 2017 | They All Saw a Cat | Brendan Wenzel | Honor | |
| 2016 | Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear | Lindsay Mattick | Winner | |
| 2016 | Last Stop on Market Street | Matt de la Peña | Honor | |
| 2016 | Trombone Shorty | Troy Andrews | Honor | |
| 2016 | Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | Ekua Holmes | Honor | |
| 2016 | Waiting | Kevin Henkes | Honor | |
| 2015 | The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend | Dan Santat | Winner | |
| 2015 | Nana in the City | Lauren Castillo | Honor | |
| 2015 | Sam and Dave Dig a Hole | Mac Barnett | Honor | |
| 2015 | The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art | Mary GrandPré | Honor | |
| 2015 | The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus | Jen Bryant | Honor | |
| 2015 | This One Summer | Mariko Tamaki | Honor | |
| 2015 | Viva Frida | Yuyi Morales | Honor | |
| 2014 | Locomotive | Brian Floca | Winner | |
| 2014 | Flora and the Flamingo | Molly Idle | Honor | |
| 2014 | Journey | Aaron Becker | Honor | |
| 2014 | Mr. Wuffles! | David Wiesner | Honor | |
| 2013 | This is Not My Hat | Jon Klassen | Winner | |
| 2013 | Creepy Carrots! | Aaron Reynolds | Honor | |
| 2013 | Extra Yarn | Mac Barnett | Honor | |
| 2013 | Green | Laura Vaccaro Seeger | Honor | |
| 2013 | One Cool Friend | Toni Buzzeo | Honor | |
| 2013 | Sleep Like a Tiger | Mary Logue | Honor | |
| 2012 | A Ball for Daisy | Christopher Raschka | Winner | |
| 2012 | Blackout | John Rocco | Honor | |
| 2012 | Grandpa Green | Lane Smith | Honor | |
| 2012 | Me... Jane | Patrick McDonnell | Honor | |
| 2011 | A Sick Day for Amos McGee | Erin E. Stead | Winner | |
| 2011 | Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave | Bryan Collier | Honor | |
| 2011 | Interrupting Chicken | David Ezra Stein | Honor | |
| 2010 | The Lion & the Mouse | Jerry Pinkney | Winner | |
| 2010 | All the World | Marla Frazee | Honor | |
| 2010 | Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors | Pamela Zagarenski | Honor | |
| 2009 | The House in the Night | Beth Krommes | Winner | |
| 2009 | A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever | Marla Frazee | Honor | |
| 2009 | A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams | Jennifer Bryant | Honor | |
| 2009 | How I Learned Geography | Uri Shulevitz | Honor | |
| 2008 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick | Winner | |
| 2008 | First the Egg | Laura Vaccaro Seeger | Honor | |
| 2008 | Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad | Kadir Nelson | Honor | |
| 2008 | Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity | Mo Willems | Honor | |
| 2008 | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Peter Sís | Honor | |
| 2007 | Flotsam | David Wiesner | Winner | |
| 2007 | Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet | David McLimans | Honor | |
| 2007 | Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Carole Boston Weatherford | Honor | |
| 2006 | The Hello, Goodbye Window | Norton Juster | Winner | |
| 2006 | Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride | Marjorie Priceman | Honor | |
| 2006 | Rosa | Bryan Collier | Honor | |
| 2006 | Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems | illustrated by Beckie Prange | Honor | |
| 2006 | Zen Shorts | Jon J. Muth | Honor | |
| 2005 | Kitten's First Full Moon | Kevin Henkes | Winner | |
| 2005 | Coming on Home Soon | Jacqueline Woodson | Honor | |
| 2005 | Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale | Mo Willems | Honor | |
| 2005 | The Red Book | Barbara Lehman | Honor | |
| 2004 | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers | Mordicai Gerstein | Winner | |
| 2004 | Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! | Mo Willems | Honor | |
| 2004 | Ella Sarah Gets Dressed | Margaret Chodos-Irvine | Honor | |
| 2004 | What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? | Steve Jenkins and Robin Page | Honor | |
| 2003 | My Friend Rabbit | Eric Rohmann | Winner | |
| 2003 | Hondo & Fabian | Peter McCarty | Honor | |
| 2003 | Noah's Ark | Jerry Pinkney | Honor | |
| 2003 | The Spider and the Fly | Tony DiTerlizzi | Honor | |
| 2002 | The Three Pigs | David Wiesner | Winner | |
| 2002 | Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Doreen Rappaport | Honor | |
| 2002 | The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins | Barbara Kerley | Honor | |
| 2002 | The Stray Dog | Marc Simont | Honor | |
| 2001 | So You Want to Be President? | David Small | Winner | |
| 2001 | Casey at the Bat | Ernest Lawrence Thayer | Honor | |
| 2001 | Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type | Betsy Lewin | Honor | |
| 2001 | Olivia | Ian Falconer | Honor | |
| 2000 | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat | Simms Taback | Winner | |
| 2000 | A Child's Calendar | John Updike | Honor | |
| 2000 | Sector 7 | David Wiesner | Honor | |
| 2000 | The Ugly Duckling | Jerry Pinkney | Honor | |
| 2000 | When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry | Molly Bang | Honor | |
| 1999 | Snowflake Bentley | Jacqueline Briggs Martin | Winner | |
| 1999 | Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra | Brian Pinkney | Honor | |
| 1999 | No, David! | David Shannon | Honor | |
| 1999 | Snow | Uri Shulevitz | Honor | |
| 1999 | Tibet: Through the Red Box | Peter Sís | Honor | |
| 1998 | Rapunzel | Paul O. Zelinsky | Winner | |
| 1998 | Harlem | Christopher Myers | Honor | |
| 1998 | The Gardener | illustrated by David Small | Honor | |
| 1998 | There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly | Simms Taback | Honor | |
| 1997 | Golem | David Wisniewski | Winner | |
| 1997 | Hush!: A Thai Lullaby | Holly Meade | Honor | |
| 1997 | Starry Messenger | Peter Sís | Honor | |
| 1997 | The Graphic Alphabet | David Pelletier | Honor | |
| 1997 | The Paperboy | Dav Pilkey | Honor | |
| 1996 | Officer Buckle and Gloria | Peggy Rathmann | Winner | |
| 1996 | Alphabet City | Stephen T. Johnson | Honor | |
| 1996 | The Faithful Friend | Robert D. San Souci | Honor | |
| 1996 | Tops & Bottoms | Janet Stevens | Honor | |
| 1996 | Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin | Marjorie Priceman | Honor | |
| 1995 | Smoky Night | Eve Bunting | Winner | |
| 1995 | John Henry | Jerry Pinkney | Honor | |
| 1995 | Swamp Angel | Anne Isaacs | Honor | |
| 1995 | Time Flies | Eric Rohmann | Honor | |
| 1994 | Grandfather's Journey | Allen Say | Winner | |
| 1994 | In the Small, Small Pond | Denise Fleming | Honor | |
| 1994 | Owen | Kevin Henkes | Honor | |
| 1994 | Peppe the Lamplighter | Elisa Bartone | Honor | |
| 1994 | Raven: A Trickster Tale From The Pacific Northwest | Gerald McDermott | Honor | |
| 1994 | Yo! Yes? | Christopher Raschka | Honor | |
| 1993 | Mirette on the High Wire | Emily Arnold McCully | Winner | |
| 1993 | Seven Blind Mice | Ed Young | Honor | |
| 1993 | The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales | Lane Smith | Honor | |
| 1993 | Working Cotton | Carole Byard | Honor | |
| 1992 | Tuesday | David Wiesner | Winner | |
| 1992 | Tar Beach | Faith Ringgold | Honor | |
| 1991 | Black and White | David Macaulay | Winner | |
| 1991 | More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories | Vera B. Williams | Honor | |
| 1991 | Puss in Boots | Fred Marcellino | Honor | |
| 1990 | Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China | Ed Young | Winner | |
| 1990 | Bill Peet: An Autobiography | Bill Peet | Honor | |
| 1990 | Color Zoo | Lois Ehlert | Honor | |
| 1990 | Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins | Trina Schart Hyman | Honor | |
| 1990 | The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South | Robert D. San Souci | Honor | |
| 1989 | Song and Dance Man | Karen Ackerman | Winner | |
| 1989 | Free Fall | David Wiesner | Honor | |
| 1989 | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | James Marshall | Honor | |
| 1989 | Mirandy and Brother Wind | Patricia McKissack | Honor | |
| 1989 | The Boy of the Three-Year Nap | Dianne Snyder | Honor | |
| 1988 | Owl Moon | John Schoenherr | Winner | |
| 1988 | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters | John Steptoe | Honor | |
| 1987 | Hey, Al | Richard Egielski | Winner | |
| 1987 | Alphabatics | Suse MacDonald | Honor | |
| 1987 | Rumpelstiltskin | Paul O. Zelinsky | Honor | |
| 1987 | The Village of Round and Square Houses | Ann Grifalconi | Honor | |
| 1986 | The Polar Express | Chris Van Allsburg | Winner | |
| 1986 | King Bidgood's in the Bathtub | Don Wood | Honor | |
| 1986 | The Relatives Came | Cynthia Rylant | Honor | |
| 1985 | Saint George and the Dragon | Trina Schart Hyman | Winner | |
| 1985 | Hansel and Gretel | Rika Lesser | Honor | |
| 1985 | Have You Seen My Duckling? | Nancy Tafuri | Honor | |
| 1985 | The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend | John Steptoe | Honor | |
| 1984 | The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot | Alice and Martin Provensen | Winner | |
| 1984 | Little Red Riding Hood | Trina Schart Hyman | Honor | |
| 1984 | Ten, Nine, Eight | Molly Bang | Honor | |
| 1983 | Shadow | Marcia Brown | Winner | |
| 1983 | A Chair for My Mother | Vera B. Williams | Honor | |
| 1983 | When I Was Young in the Mountains | Cynthia Rylant | Honor | |
| 1982 | Jumanji | Chris Van Allsburg | Winner | |
| 1982 | A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers | Nancy Willard | Honor | |
| 1982 | On Market Street | Anita Lobel | Honor | |
| 1982 | Outside Over There | Maurice Sendak | Honor | |
| 1982 | Where the Buffaloes Begin | Olaf Baker | Honor | |
| 1981 | Fables | Arnold Lobel | Winner | |
| 1981 | Mice Twice | Joseph Low | Honor | |
| 1981 | The Bremen-Town Musicians | Ilse Plume | Honor | |
| 1981 | The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher | Molly Bang | Honor | |
| 1981 | Truck | Donald Crews | Honor | |
| 1980 | Ox-Cart Man | Donald Hall | Winner | |
| 1980 | Ben's Trumpet | Rachel Isadora | Honor | |
| 1980 | The Garden of Abdul Gasazi | Chris Van Allsburg | Honor | |
| 1980 | The Treasure | Uri Shulevitz | Honor | |
| 1979 | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | Paul Goble | Winner | |
| 1979 | Freight Train | Donald Crews | Honor | |
| 1979 | The Way to Start a Day | Peter Parnall | Honor | |
| 1978 | Noah's Ark | Peter Spier | Winner | |
| 1978 | Castle | David Macaulay | Honor | |
| 1978 | It Could Always Be Worse | Margot Zemach | Honor | |
| 1977 | Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions | Leo and Diane Dillon | Winner | |
| 1977 | Fish for Supper | M. B. Goffstein | Honor | |
| 1977 | Hawk, I'm Your Brother | Byrd Baylor | Honor | |
| 1977 | The Amazing Bone | William Steig | Honor | |
| 1977 | The Contest | Nonny Hogrogian | Honor | |
| 1977 | The Golem: A Jewish Legend | Beverly Brodsky McDermott | Honor | |
| 1976 | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | Verna Aardema | Winner | |
| 1976 | Strega Nona | Tomie dePaola | Honor | |
| 1976 | The Desert Is Theirs | Peter Parnall | Honor | |
| 1975 | Arrow to the Sun | Gerald McDermott | Winner | |
| 1975 | Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book | Muriel L. Feelings | Honor | |
| 1974 | Duffy and the Devil | Margot Zemach | Winner | |
| 1974 | Cathedral | David Macaulay | Honor | |
| 1974 | Three Jovial Huntsmen | Susan Jeffers | Honor | |
| 1973 | The Funny Little Woman | Blair Lent | Winner | |
| 1973 | Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti | Gerald McDermott | Honor | |
| 1973 | Hosie's Alphabet | Leonard Baskin | Honor | |
| 1973 | Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs | Nancy Ekholm Burkert | Honor | |
| 1973 | When Clay Sings | Tom Bahti | Honor | |
| 1972 | One Fine Day | Nonny Hogrogian | Winner | |
| 1972 | Hildilid's Night | Arnold Lobel | Honor | |
| 1972 | If All the Seas Were One Sea | Janina Domanska | Honor | |
| 1972 | Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book | Tom Feelings | Honor | |
| 1971 | A Story a Story | Gail E. Haley | Winner | |
| 1971 | Frog and Toad Are Friends | Arnold Lobel | Honor | |
| 1971 | In the Night Kitchen | Maurice Sendak | Honor | |
| 1971 | The Angry Moon | William Sleator | Honor | |
| 1970 | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | William Steig | Winner | |
| 1970 | Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse | Leo Lionni | Honor | |
| 1970 | Goggles! | Ezra Jack Keats | Honor | |
| 1970 | Pop Corn & Ma Goodness | Robert Andrew Parker | Honor | |
| 1970 | The Judge: An Untrue Tale | Margot Zemach | Honor | |
| 1970 | Thy Friend, Obadiah | Brinton Turkle | Honor | |
| 1969 | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | Arthur Michell Ransome | Winner | |
| 1969 | Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky | Blair Lent | Honor | |
| 1968 | Drummer Hoff | Barbara Emberley | Winner | |
| 1968 | Frederick | Leo Lionni | Honor | |
| 1968 | Seashore Story | Taro Yashima | Honor | |
| 1968 | The Emperor and the Kite | Jane Yolen | Honor | |
| 1967 | Sam, Bangs & Moonshine | Evaline Ness | Winner | |
| 1967 | One Wide River to Cross | Barbara Emberley | Honor | |
| 1966 | Always Room for One More | Sorche Nic Leodhas | Winner | |
| 1966 | Hide and Seek Fog | Roger Duvoisin | Honor | |
| 1966 | Just Me | Marie Hall Ets | Honor | |
| 1966 | Tom Tit Tot | Evaline Ness | Honor | |
| 1965 | May I Bring a Friend? | Beatrice Schenk De Regniers | Winner | |
| 1965 | A Pocketful of Cricket | Evaline Ness | Honor | |
| 1965 | Rain Makes Applesauce | Marvin Bileck | Honor | |
| 1965 | The Wave | illustrated by Blair Lent | Honor | |
| 1964 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | Winner | |
| 1964 | All in the Morning Early | Evaline Ness | Honor | |
| 1964 | Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes | Philip Reed | Honor | |
| 1964 | Swimmy | Leo Lionni | Honor | |
| 1963 | The Snowy Day | Ezra Jack Keats | Winner | |
| 1963 | Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present | Charlotte Zolotow | Honor | |
| 1963 | The Sun Is a Golden Earring | Bernarda Bryson | Honor | |
| 1962 | Once a Mouse | Marcia Brown | Winner | |
| 1962 | Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song | Peter Spier | Honor | |
| 1962 | Little Bear's Visit | Else Holmelund Minarik | Honor | |
| 1962 | The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up | Adrienne Adams | Honor | |
| 1961 | Baboushka and the Three Kings | Ruth Robbins | Winner | |
| 1961 | Inch by Inch | Leo Lionni | Honor | |
| 1960 | Nine Days to Christmas | Marie Hall Ets | Winner | |
| 1960 | Houses from the Sea | Alice E. Goudey | Honor | |
| 1960 | The Moon Jumpers | Janice May Udry | Honor | |
| 1959 | Chanticleer and the Fox | Barbara Cooney | Winner | |
| 1959 | The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie | Antonio Frasconi | Honor | |
| 1959 | Umbrella | Taro Yashima | Honor | |
| 1959 | What Do You Say, Dear? | Sesyle Joslin | Honor | |
| 1958 | Time of Wonder | Robert McCloskey | Winner | |
| 1958 | Anatole and the Cat | Paul Galdone | Honor | |
| 1958 | Fly High, Fly Low | Don Freeman | Honor | |
| 1957 | A Tree Is Nice | Janice May Udry | Winner | |
| 1957 | 1 Is One | Tasha Tudor | Honor | |
| 1957 | Anatole | Paul Galdone | Honor | |
| 1957 | Gillespie and the Guards | Benjamin Elkin | Honor | |
| 1957 | Lion | William Pène du Bois | Honor | |
| 1957 | Mr. Penny's Race Horse | illustrated by Marie Hall Ets | Honor | |
| 1956 | Frog Went A-Courtin' | Feodor Rojankovsky | Winner | |
| 1956 | Crow Boy | Taro Yashima | Honor | |
| 1956 | Play With Me | Marie Hall Ets | Honor | |
| 1955 | Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper | Marcia Brown | Winner | |
| 1955 | Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes | Marguerite de Angeli | Honor | |
| 1955 | The Thanksgiving Story | Alice Dalgliesh | Honor | |
| 1955 | Wheel on the Chimney | Margaret Wise Brown | Honor | |
| 1954 | Madeline's Rescue | Ludwig Bemelmans | Winner | |
| 1954 | A Very Special House | Ruth Krauss | Honor | |
| 1954 | Green Eyes | Abe Birnbaum | Honor | |
| 1954 | Journey Cake, Ho! | Robert McCloskey | Honor | |
| 1954 | The Steadfast Tin Soldier | Marcia Brown | Honor | |
| 1954 | When Will the World Be Mine? | Miriam Schlein | Honor | |
| 1953 | The Biggest Bear | Lynd Ward | Winner | |
| 1953 | Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals | Fritz Eichenberg | Honor | |
| 1953 | Five Little Monkeys | Juliet Kepes | Honor | |
| 1953 | One Morning in Maine | Robert McCloskey | Honor | |
| 1953 | Puss in Boots | Janet Brown | Honor | |
| 1953 | The Storm Book | Charlotte Zolotow | Honor | |
| 1952 | Finders Keepers | Nicholas Mordvinoff | Winner | |
| 1952 | All Falling Down | Margaret Bloy Graham | Honor | |
| 1952 | Bear Party | William Pène du Bois | Honor | |
| 1952 | Feather Mountain | Elizabeth Olds | Honor | |
| 1952 | Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo | Marie Hall Ets | Honor | |
| 1952 | Skipper John's Cook | Marcia Brown | Honor | |
| 1951 | The Egg Tree | Katherine Milhous | Winner | |
| 1951 | Dick Whittington and His Cat | Marcia Brown | Honor | |
| 1951 | If I Ran the Zoo | Dr. Seuss | Honor | |
| 1951 | T-Bone, the Baby Sitter | Clare Turlay Newberry | Honor | |
| 1951 | The Most Wonderful Doll in the World | Phyllis McGinley | Honor | |
| 1951 | The Two Reds | Nicholas Mordvinoff | Honor | |
| 1950 | Song of the Swallows | Leo Politi | Winner | |
| 1950 | America's Ethan Allen | Steward Holbrook | Honor | |
| 1950 | Bartholomew and the Oobleck | Dr. Seuss | Honor | |
| 1950 | Henry – Fisherman | Marcia Brown | Honor | |
| 1950 | The Happy Day | Ruth Krauss | Honor | |
| 1950 | The Wild Birthday Cake | Lavinia R. Davis | Honor | |
| 1949 | The Big Snow | Berta and Elmer Hader | Winner | |
| 1949 | All Around the Town | Phyllis McGinley | Honor | |
| 1949 | Blueberries for Sal | Robert McCloskey | Honor | |
| 1949 | Fish in the Air | Kurt Wiese | Honor | |
| 1949 | Juanita | Leo Politi | Honor | |
| 1948 | White Snow, Bright Snow | Roger Duvoisin | Winner | |
| 1948 | Bambino the Clown | Georges Schreiber | Honor | |
| 1948 | McElligot's Pool | Dr. Seuss | Honor | |
| 1948 | Roger and the Fox | Lavinia R. Davis | Honor | |
| 1948 | Song of Robin Hood | Virginia Lee Burton | Honor | |
| 1948 | Stone Soup | Marcia Brown | Honor | |
| 1947 | The Little Island | Margaret Wise Brown | Winner | |
| 1947 | Boats on the River | Marjorie Flack | Honor | |
| 1947 | Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street | Leo Politi | Honor | |
| 1947 | Rain Drop Splash | Alvin Tresselt | Honor | |
| 1947 | Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns | Opal Wheeler | Honor | |
| 1947 | Timothy Turtle | Al Graham | Honor | |
| 1946 | The Rooster Crows | Maud and Miska Petersham | Winner | |
| 1946 | Little Lost Lamb | Margaret Wise Brown | Honor | |
| 1946 | My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World | Rebecca Hourwich Reyher | Honor | |
| 1946 | Sing Mother Goose | Opal Wheeler | Honor | |
| 1946 | You Can Write Chinese | Kurt Wiese | Honor | |
| 1945 | Prayer for a Child | Elizabeth Orton Jones | Winner | |
| 1945 | In the Forest | Marie Hall Ets | Honor | |
| 1945 | Mother Goose | Tasha Tudor | Honor | |
| 1945 | The Christmas Anna Angel | Kate Seredy | Honor | |
| 1945 | Yonie Wondernose | Marguerite de Angeli | Honor | |
| 1944 | Many Moons | James Thurber | Winner | |
| 1944 | A Child's Good Night Book | Margaret Wise Brown | Honor | |
| 1944 | Pierre Pidgeon | Arnold E. Bare | Honor | |
| 1944 | Small Rain: Verses From The Bible | Elizabeth Orton Jones | Honor | |
| 1944 | The Good-Luck Horse | illustrated by Plato Chan | Honor | |
| 1944 | The Mighty Hunter | Berta and Elmer Hader | Honor | |
| 1943 | The Little House | Virginia Lee Burton | Winner | |
| 1943 | Dash and Dart | Mary and Conrad Buff | Honor | |
| 1943 | Marshmallow | Clare Turlay Newberry | Honor | |
| 1942 | Make Way for Ducklings | Robert McCloskey | Winner | |
| 1942 | An American ABC | Maud and Miska Petersham | Honor | |
| 1942 | In My Mother's House | Velino Herrera | Honor | |
| 1942 | Nothing at All | Wanda Gág | Honor | |
| 1942 | Paddle-to-the-Sea | Holling Clancy Holling | Honor | |
| 1941 | April's Kittens | Clare Turlay Newberry | Honor | |
| 1940 | Abraham Lincoln | Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire | Winner | |
| 1940 | Cock-a-Doodle Doo | Berta and Elmer Hader | Honor | |
| 1940 | Madeline | Ludwig Bemelmans | Honor | |
| 1940 | The Ageless Story | Lauren Ford | Honor | |
| 1939 | Mei Li | Thomas Handforth | Winner | |
| 1939 | Andy and the Lion | James Daugherty | Honor | |
| 1939 | Barkis | Clare Turlay Newberry | Honor | |
| 1939 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Wanda Gág | Honor | |
| 1939 | The Forest Pool | Laura Adams Armer | Honor | |
| 1939 | Wee Gillis | Munro Leaf | Honor | |
| 1938 | Animals of the Bible | Dorothy P. Lathrop | Winner | |
| 1938 | Four and Twenty Blackbirds | Helen Dean Fish | Honor | |
| 1938 | Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale | Boris Artzybasheff | Honor |
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