Caldecott Award Winning Illustrated Children's Books: 1938-1949

1949 winner: Illustrated by Berta and Elmer Hader. Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Winter comes to the woodland as the busy animals make their preparations.

1948 winner: Written by by Alvin Tresselt ; illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. Published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books.

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

1947 winner: Written by Golden MacDonald; illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Published by Dell.

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 winner: Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

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

1945 winner: Written by by Rachel Field; illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Published by Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers.

An illustrated bedtime prayer which gives thanks for the many aspects of a child's world.

1944 winner: Written by James Thurber; illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. Published by Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich.

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

1943 winner: Illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton. Published by Houghton Mifflin.

A cute little cottage is surrounded by a big city.

1942 winner: Illustrated by Robert McCloskey. Published by Viking Press.

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.

1941 winner: Written and illustrated by Robert Lawson. Published by Viking Press.

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

1940 winner: Illustrated by by Ingri & Edgar Parin D'Aulaire. Published by Beautiful Feet Books.

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

1939 winner: Illustrated by Thomas Handforth. Published by Doubleday.

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 winner: Text selected by Helen Dean Fish from the King James Bible; illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Published by HarperCollins.

Includes the favorite stories of the Creation, Noah's Ark, the first Christmas, and many others.