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2004
Medal Winner:
The Man Who
Walked Between
the Towers 
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by Mordicai
Gerstein
Honor
Books:
Ella Sarah
Gets Dressed
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by
Margaret Chodos-Irvine
What Do You Do
with a Tail Like
This?
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by Steve Jenkins and
Robin Page
Don't Let the
Pigeon Drive the
Bus
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by
Mo Willems
2003
Medal Winner:
My Friend
Rabbit
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by Eric Rohmann
Honor
Books:
The Spider and
the Fly
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by Tony
DiTerlizzi & Mary Howitt
Hondo &
Fabian
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by Peter McCarty
Noah's Ark
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by Jerry Pinkney
2002
Medal Winner:
The Three Pigs
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by David Wiesner
Honor
Books:
The
Dinosaurs of Waterhouse
Hawkins
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by Brian Selznick &
Barbara Kerley
Martin's Big
Words: the
Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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by Bryan Collier &
Doreen Rappaport
The Stray Dog
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by Marc
Simont
2001
Medal Winner:
So You Want to
Be President?
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by
David Small & Judith St. George
Honor
Books:
Casey at the
Bat
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by Christopher Bing & Ernest Thayer
Click, Clack,
Moo: Cows
that Type
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by Betsy Lewin &
Doreen Cronin
Olivia
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by Ian Falconer
2000
Medal Winner:
Joseph Had a
Little Overcoat
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by Simms Taback
Honor
Books:
A Child's
Calendar
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by Trina Schart Hyman & John
Updike
Sector 7
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by David Wiesner
When Sophie
Gets Angry
- Really, Really Angry
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by Molly
Bang
The Ugly
Duckling
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by Jerry Pinkney
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Winners from
earlier years are listed below
We will be adding
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soon!
1999 Medal Winner:
Snowflake Bentley, by Mary Azarian & Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Honor Books:
* Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and the Orchestra
by Brian Pinkney & Andrea Davis Pinkney
* No, David! by David Shannon
* Snow by Uri Shulevitz
* Tibet Through the Red Box by Peter Sis
1998 Medal Winner:
Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky
Honor Books:
* The Gardener by David Small & Sarah
Stewart
* Harlem by Christopher Myers & Walter Dean
Myers
* There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms
Taback
1997 Medal Winner:
Golem by David Wisniewski
Honor Books:
* Hush! A Thai Lullaby by Holly Meade & Minfong
Ho
* The Graphic Alphabet by David Pelletier
* The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey
* Starry Messenger by Peter Sís
1996 Medal Winner:
Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
Honor Books:
* Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson
* Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin, by Marjorie Priceman
& Lloyd Moss
* The Faithful Friend, by Brian Pinkney & Robert
D. San Souci
* Tops & Bottoms, adapted and by Janet
Stevens
1995 Medal Winner:
Smoky Night, by David Diaz & Eve Bunting
Honor Books:
* John Henry, by Jerry Pinkney & Julius
Lester
* Swamp Angel, by Paul O. Zelinsky & Anne
Issacs
* Time Flies by Eric Rohmann
1994 Medal Winner:
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say & Walter Lorraine
Honor Books:
* Peppe the Lamplighter, by Ted Lewin & Elisa
Bartone
* In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
* Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
by Gerald McDermott
* Owen by Kevin Henkes
* Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka & Richard
Jackson
1993 Medal Winner:
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
Honor Books:
* The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid
Tales, by Lane Smith & Jon
Scieszka
* Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
* Working Cotton, by Carole Byard & Sherley
Anne Williams
1992 Medal Winner:
Tuesday by David Wiesner
Honor Book:
* Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
1991 Medal Winner:
Black and White by David Macaulay
Honor Books:
* Puss in Boots, by Fred Marcellino & Charles
Perrault, trans. by Malcolm Arthur
* "More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love
Stories
by Vera B. Williams
1990 Medal Winner:
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
Honor Books:
* Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
* Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert
* The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American
South, by J.Pinkney & R.San Souci
* Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, by Trina Schart
Hyman & Eric Kimmel
1989 Medal Winner:
Song and Dance Man, by Stephen Gammell & Karen Ackerman
Honor Books:
* The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, by Allen Say &
Diane Snyder
* Free Fall by David Wiesner
* Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James
Marshall
* Mirandy and Brother Wind, by Jerry Pinkney &
Patricia C. McKissack
1988 Medal Winner:
Owl Moon, by John Schoenherr & Jane Yolen
Honor Book:
* Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
by John Steptoe
1987 Medal Winner:
Hey, Al, by Richard Egielski & Arthur Yorinks
Honor Books:
* The Village of Round and Square Houses by Ann
Grifalconi
* Alphabatics by Suse MacDonald
* Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky
1986 Medal Winner:
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Honor Books:
* The Relatives Came, by Stephen Gammell &
Cynthia
Rylant
* King Bidgood's in the Bathtub, by Don Wood &
Audrey Wood
1985 Medal Winner:
Saint George and the Dragon, by Trina Schart Hyman & retold
by
Margaret Hodges
Honor Books:
* Hansel and Gretel, by Paul O. Zelinsky &
retold
by Rika Lesser
* Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri
* The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American
Legend, retold and by John Steptoe
1984 Medal Winner:
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice
&
Martin Provensen
Honor Books:
* Little Red Riding Hood, retold and by Trina Schart
Hyman
* Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
1983 Medal Winner:
Shadow, translated by Marcia Brown
Honor Books:
* A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
* When I Was Young in the Mountains, by Diane Goode
& Cynthia Rylant
1982 Medal Winner:
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
Honor Books:
* Where the Buffaloes Begin, by Stephen Gammell
& Olaf Baker
* On Market Street, by Anita Lobel & Arnold
Lobel
* Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak
* A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent
and Experienced Travelers, by Alice
& Martin Provensen & Nancy Willard
1981 Medal Winner:
Fables by Arnold Lobel
Honor Books:
* The Bremen-Town Musicians, retold and by Ilse
Plume
* The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly
Bang
* Mice Twice by Joseph Low
* Truck by Donald Crews
1980 Medal Winner:
Ox-Cart Man, by Barbara Cooney & Donald Hall
Honor Books:
* Ben's Trumpet by Rachel Isadora
* The Garden Of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van
Allsburg
* The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz
1979 Medal Winner:
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
Honor Books:
* Freight Train by Donald Crews
* The Way to Start a Day, by Peter Parnall &
Byrd Baylor
1978 Medal Winner:
Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
Honor Books:
* Castle by David Macaulay
* It Could Always Be Worse, retold and by Margot
Zemach
1977 Medal Winner:
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions, by Leo & Diane Dillon
&
Margaret Musgrove
Honor Books:
* The Amazing Bone by William Steig
* The Contest, retold and by Nonny Hogrogian
* Fish for Supper by M. B. Goffstein
* The Golem: A Jewish Legend by Beverly Brodsky
McDermott
* Hawk, I'm Your Brother, by Peter Parnall &
Byrd Baylor
1976 Medal Winner:
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, by Leo & Diane Dillon
&
retold by Verna Aardema
Honor Books:
* The Desert is Theirs, by Peter Parnall & Byrd
Baylor
* Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola
1975 Medal Winner:
Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
Honor Books:
* Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book, by
Tom Feelings & Muriel Feelings
1974 Medal Winner:
Duffy and the Devil, by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach
Honor Books:
* Three Jovial Huntsmen by Susan Jeffers
* Cathedral by David Macaulay
1973 Medal Winner:
The Funny Little Womanby Blair Lent & retold by Arlene Mosel
Honor Books:
* Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti,
adapted
and illustrated by Gerald McDermott
* Hosie's Alphabetby Leonard Baskin & Hosea,
Tobias & Lisa Baskin
* Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs by Nancy Ekholm
Burkert & Randall Jarrell
* When Clay Sings by Tom Bahti & Byrd
Baylor
1972 Medal Winner:
One Fine Day, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian
Honor Books:
* Hildilid's Night by Arnold Lobel & Cheli Durán
Ryan
* If All the Seas Were One Sea by Janina
Domanska
* Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book by Tom
Feelings
& Muriel Feelings
1971 Medal Winner:
A Story A Story, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley
Honor Books:
* The Angry Moon by Blair Lent & retold by
William
Sleator
* Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
* In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
1970 Medal Winner:
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
Honor Books:
* Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats
* Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo
Lionni
* Pop Corn & Ma Goodness by Robert Andrew Parker
& Edna Mitchell Preston
* Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle
* The Judge: An Untrue Tale by Margot Zemach &
Harve Zemach
1969 Medal Winner:
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by Uri Shulevitz &
retold by Arthur Ransome
Honor Books:
* Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky by Blair
Lent & Elphinstone Dayrell
1968 Medal Winner:
Drummer Hoff by Ed Emberley & adapted by Barbara Emberley
Honor Books:
* Frederick by Leo Lionni
* Seashore Story by Taro Yashima
* The Emperor and the Kite by Ed Young & Jane
Yolen
1967 Medal Winner:
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness
Honor Book:
* One Wide River to Cross by Ed Emberley &
adapted
by Barbara Emberley
1966 Medal Winner:
Always Room for One More by Nonny Hogrogian & Sorche Nic
Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger]
Honor Books:
* Hide and Seek Fog by Roger Duvoisin & Alvin
Tresselt
* Just Me by Marie Hall Ets
* Tom Tit Tot, retold and illustrated by Evaline
Ness
1965 Medal Winner:
May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor &
Beatrice
Schenk de Regniers
Honor Books:
* Rain Makes Applesauce by Marvin Bileck &
Julian
Scheer
* The Wave by Blair Lent & Margaret Hodges
* A Pocketful of Cricket by Evaline Ness &
Rebecca
Caudill
1964 Medal Winner:
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Honor Books:
* Swimmy by Leo Lionni
* All in the Morning Early by Evaline Ness &
Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclaire
Alger
* Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes by Philip
Reed
1963 Medal Winner:
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Honor Books:
* The Sun is a Golden Earring by Bernarda Bryson
& Natalia M. Belting
* Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Presentby Maurice Sendak
& Charlotte Zolotow
1962 Medal Winner:
Once a Mouse, retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown
Honor Books:
* Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song by
Peter Spier
* Little Bear's Visit by Maurice Sendak & Else
H. Minarik
* The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up by Adrienne Adams
& Alice E. Goudey
1961 Medal Winner:
Baboushka and the Three Kings by Nicolas Sidjakov & Ruth
Robbins
Honor Book:
* Inch by Inch, by Leo Lionni
1960 Medal Winner:
Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets & Marie Hall Ets and
Aurora Labastida
Honor Books:
* Houses from the Sea by Adrienne Adams & Alice
E. Goudey
* The Moon Jumpers by Maurice Sendak & Janice
May Udry
1959 Medal Winner:
Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney & adapted from
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney
Honor Books:
* The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques
A Batie by Antonio Frasconi
* What Do You Say, Dear? illustrated by Maurice
Sendak & Sesyle Joslin
* Umbrella by Taro Yashima
1958 Medal Winner:
Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
Honor Books:
* Fly High, Fly Low by Don Freeman
* Anatole and the Cat by Paul Galdone & Eve
Titus
1957 Medal Winner:
A Tree is Nice by Marc Simont & Janice Udry
Honor Books:
* Mr. Penny's Race Horse by Marie Hall Ets
* 1 is One by Tasha Tudor
* Anatole by Paul Galdone & Eve Titus
* Gillespie and the Guards by James Daugherty &
Benjamin Elkin
* Lion by William Pène du Bois
1956 Medal Winner:
Frog Went A-Courtin' by Feodor Rojankovsky & retold by John
Langstaff
Honor Books:
* Play With Me, by Marie Hall Ets
* Crow Boy by Taro Yashima
1955 Medal Winner:
Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper by Marcia Brown &
translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown
Honor Books:
* Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes by
Marguerite
de Angeli
* Wheel On The Chimney by Tibor Gergely &
Margaret
Wise Brown
* The Thanksgiving Story by Helen Sewell & Alice
Dalgliesh
1954 Medal Winner:
Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
Honor Books:
* Journey Cake, Ho! illustrated by Robert McCloskey
& Ruth Sawyer
* When Will the World Be Mine? illustrated by Jean
Charlot & Miriam Schlein
* The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Marcia Brown &
Hans Christian Andersen, translated
by M. R. James
* A Very Special House by Maurice Sendak & Ruth
Krauss
* Green Eyes by A. Birnbaum
1953 Medal Winner:
The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
Honor Books:
* Puss in Boots by Marcia Brown & translated
from Charles Perrault by Marcia
Brown
* One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey
* Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals by Fritz
Eichenberg
* The Storm Book by Margaret Bloy Graham &
Charlotte
Zolotow
* Five Little Monkeys by Juliet Kepes
1952 Medal Winner:
Finders Keepers by Nicolas Mordvinoff & William Lipkind
Honor Books:
* Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo by Marie Hall Ets
* Skipper John's Cook by Marcia Brown
* All Falling Down by Margaret Bloy Graham &
Gene Zion
* Bear Party by William Pène du Bois
* Feather Mountain by Elizabeth Olds
1951 Medal Winner:
The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
Honor Books:
* Dick Whittington and his Cat by Marcia Brown
* The Two Reds, ill. by Nicholas Mordvinoff &
William Lipkind
* If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor
Seuss Geisel]
* The Most Wonderful Doll in the World by Helen
Stone & Phyllis McGinley
* T-Bone, the Baby Sitter by Clare Turlay
Newberry
1950 Medal Winner:
Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
Honor Books:
* America's Ethan Allen by Lynd Ward & Stewart
Holbrook
* The Wild Birthday Cake by Hildegard Woodward &
Lavinia R. Davis
* The Happy Day by Marc Simont & Ruth
Krauss)
* Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss, pseud.
[Theodor Seuss Geisel]
* Henry Fisherman by Marcia Brown
1949 Medal Winner:
The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader
Honor Books:
* Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
* All Around the Town by Helen Stone & Phyllis
McGinley
* Juanita by Leo Politi
* Fish in the Air by Kurt Wiese
1948 Medal Winner:
White Snow, Bright Snow by Roger Duvoisin & Alvin Tresselt
Honor Books:
* Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
* McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor
Seuss Geisel]
* Bambino the Clown by Georges Schreiber
* Roger and the Fox by Hildegard Woodward &
Lavinia R. Davis
* Song of Robin Hood by Virginia Lee Burton &
edited by Anne Malcolmson
1947 Medal Winner:
The Little Island by Leonard Weisgard & Golden MacDonald,
pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown]
Honor Books:
* Rain Drop Splash by Leonard Weisgard & Alvin
Tresselt
* Boats on the River by Jay Hyde Barnum &
Marjorie
Flack
* Timothy Turtle by Tony Palazzo & Al
Graham
* Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street by Leo
Politi
* Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved
Hymns by Marjorie Torrey &
selected by Opal Wheeler
1946 Medal Winner:
The Rooster Crows by Maude & Miska Petersham
Honor Books:
* Little Lost Lamb by Leonard Weisgard & Golden
MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret
Wise Brown]
* Sing Mother Goose by Marjorie Torrey; music: Opal
Wheeler
* My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
by Ruth Gannett & Becky
Reyher
* You Can Write Chinese by Kurt Wiese
1945 Medal Winner:
Prayer for a Child by Elizabeth Orton Jones & Rachel Field
Honor Books:
* Mother Gooseby Tasha Tudor
* In the Forest by Marie Hall Ets
* Yonie Wondernose by Marguerite de Angeli
* The Christmas Anna Angel by Kate Seredy &
Ruth Sawyer
1944 Medal Winner:
Many Moons by Louis Slobodkin & James Thurber
Honor Books:
* Small Rain: Verses From The Bible by Elizabeth
Orton Jones & selected by Jessie
Orton Jones
* Pierre Pigeon by Arnold E. Bare & Lee
Kingman
* The Mighty Hunter by Berta & Elmer Hader
* A Child's Good Night Book by Jean Charlot &
Margaret Wise Brown
* Good-Luck Horse by Plato Chan & Chih-Yi
Chan
1943 Medal Winner:
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Honor Books:
* Dash and Dart by Mary & Conrad Buff
* Marshmallow by Clare Turlay Newberry
1942 Medal Winner:
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Honor Books:
* An American ABC by Maud & Miska
Petersham
* In My Mother's House, illustrating by Velino
Herrera
& Ann Nolan Clark
* Paddle-To-The-Sea by Holling C. Holling
* Nothing At All, by Wanda Gág
1941 Medal Winner:
They Were Strong and Good, by Robert Lawson
Honor Book:
* April's Kittens by Clare Turlay Newberry
1940 Medal Winner:
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Honor Books:
* Cock-a-Doodle Doo by Berta & Elmer Hader
* Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
* The Ageless Story by Lauren Ford
1939 Medal Winner:
Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
Honor Books:
* Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty
* Barkis by Clare Turlay Newberry
* The Forest Pool by Laura Adams Armer
* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Wanda Gág
* Wee Gillis by Robert Lawson & Munro Leaf
1938 Medal Winner:
Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book by Dorothy P. Lathrop &
selected by Helen Dean Fish
Honor Books:
* Four and Twenty Blackbirdsby Robert Lawson &
compiled by Helen Dean Fish
* Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale, retold and
illustrated
by Boris Artzybasheff
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