1993 Medal Winner: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam)
Honor Books:

• The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, illustrated by Lane Smith; text: Jon Scieszka (Viking)
• Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young (Philomel Books)
• Working Cotton, illustrated by Carole Byard; text: Sherley Anne Williams (Harcourt)

1992 Medal Winner: Tuesday by David Wiesner
(Clarion Books)
Honor Book:

• Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (Crown Publishers, Inc., a Random House Co.)

1991 Medal Winner: Black and White by David Macaulay (Houghton)
Honor Books:

• Puss in Boots, illustrated by Fred Marcellino; text: Charles Perrault, trans. by Malcolm Arthur (Di Capua/Farrar)
• "More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow)

1990 Medal Winner: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young (Philomel)
Honor Books:

• Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet (Houghton)
• Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert (Lippincott)
• The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text: Robert D. San Souci (Dial)
• Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: Eric Kimmel (Holiday House)

The 1980s / Top of list

1989 Medal Winner: Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman (Knopf)
Honor Books:

• The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, illustrated by Allen Say; text: Diane Snyder (Houghton)
• Free Fall by David Wiesner (Lothrop)
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall (Dial)
• Mirandy and Brother Wind, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; text: Patricia C. McKissack (Knopf)

1988 Medal Winner: Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen (Philomel)
Honor Book:

• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe (Lothrop)

1987 Medal Winner: Hey, Al, illustrated by Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks (Farrar)
Honor Books:

• The Village of Round and Square Houses by Ann Grifalconi (Little, Brown)
• Alphabatics by Suse MacDonald (Bradbury)
• Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)

1986 Medal Winner: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
Honor Books:

• The Relatives Came, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Cynthia Rylant (Bradbury)
• King Bidgood's in the Bathtub, illustrated by Don Wood; text: Audrey Wood (Harcourt)

1985 Medal Winner: Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges (Little, Brown)
Honor Books:

• Hansel and Gretel, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky; text: retold by Rika Lesser (Dodd)
  
• Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri (Greenwillow)
• The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend, retold and illustrated by John Steptoe (Lothrop)

1984 Medal Winner: The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen (Viking)
Honor Books:

• Little Red Riding Hood, retold and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Holiday)
• Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang (Greenwillow)

1983 Medal Winner: Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown
Original text in French: Blaise Cendrars (Scribner)
Honor Books:

• A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow)
  
• When I Was Young in the Mountains, illustrated by Diane Goode; text: Cynthia Rylant (Dutton)

1982 Medal Winner: Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
Honor Books:

• Where the Buffaloes Begin, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Olaf Baker (Warne)
  
• On Market Street, illustrated by Anita Lobel; text: Arnold Lobel (Greenwillow)
• Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak (Harper)
• A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, illustrated by Alice & Martin Provensen; text: Nancy Willard (Harcourt)

1981 Medal Winner: Fables by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
Honor Books:

• The Bremen-Town Musicians, retold and illustrated by Ilse Plume (Doubleday)
• The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly Bang (Four Winds)
• Mice Twice by Joseph Low (McElderry/Atheneum)
• Truck by Donald Crews (Greenwillow)

1980 Medal Winner: Ox-Cart Man, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald Hall (Viking)
Honor Books:

• Ben's Trumpet by Rachel Isadora (Greenwillow)
• The Garden Of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
• The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar)

The 1970s / Top of list

1979 Medal Winner: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble (Bradbury)
Honor Books:

• Freight Train by Donald Crews (Greenwillow)
• The Way to Start a Day, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)

1978 Medal Winner: Noah's Ark by Peter Spier (Doubleday)
Honor Books:

• Castle by David Macaulay (Houghton)
• It Could Always Be Worse, retold and illustrated by Margot Zemach (Farrar)

1977 Medal Winner: Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove (Dial)
Honor Books:

• The Amazing Bone by William Steig (Farrar)
• The Contest, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (Greenwillow)
• Fish for Supper by M. B. Goffstein (Dial)
• The Golem: A Jewish Legend by Beverly Brodsky McDermott (Lippincott)
• Hawk, I'm Your Brother, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)

1976 Medal Winner: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema (Dial)
Honor Books:

• The Desert is Theirs, illustrated by Peter Parnall; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)
• Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola (Prentice-Hall)

1975 Medal Winner: Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott (Viking)
Honor Books:

• Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text: Muriel Feelings (Dial)

1974 Medal Winner: Duffy and the Devil, illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach (Farrar)
Honor Books:

• Three Jovial Huntsmen by Susan Jeffers (Bradbury)
• Cathedral by David Macaulay (Houghton)

1973 Medal Winner: The Funny Little Woman, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene Mosel (Dutton)
Honor Books:

• Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti, adapted and illustrated by Gerald McDermott (Holt)
• Hosie's Alphabet, illustrated by Leonard Baskin; text: Hosea, Tobias & Lisa Baskin (Viking)
• Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert; text: translated by Randall Jarrell, retold from the Brothers Grimm (Farrar)
• When Clay Sings, illustrated by Tom Bahti; text: Byrd Baylor (Scribner)

1972 Medal Winner: One Fine Day, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (Macmillan)
Honor Books:

• Hildilid's Night, illustrated by Arnold Lobel; text: Cheli Durán Ryan (Macmillan)
• If All the Seas Were One Sea by Janina Domanska (Macmillan)
• Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book, illustrated by Tom Feelings; text: Muriel Feelings (Dial)

1971 Medal Winner: A Story A Story, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (Atheneum)
Honor Books:

• The Angry Moon, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by William Sleator (Atlantic)
• Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (Harper)

1970 Medal Winner: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Windmill Books)
Honor Books:

• Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats (Macmillan)
  Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni (Pantheon)
• Pop Corn & Ma Goodness, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker; text: Edna Mitchell Preston (Viking)
• Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle (Viking)
  
• The Judge: An Untrue Tale, illustrated by Margot Zemach; text: Harve Zemach (Farrar)

The 1960s / Top of list

1969 Medal Winner: The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text: retold by Arthur Ransome (Farrar)
Honor Books:

• Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: Elphinstone Dayrell (Houghton)

1968 Medal Winner: Drummer Hoff, illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley (Prentice-Hall)
Honor Books:

• Frederick by Leo Lionni (Pantheon)
• Seashore Story by Taro Yashima (Viking)
• The Emperor and the Kite, illustrated by Ed Young; text: Jane Yolen (World)

1967 Medal Winner: Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness (Holt)
Honor Book:

• One Wide River to Cross, illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley (Prentice-Hall)

1966 Medal Winner: Always Room for One More, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger] (Holt)
Honor Books:

• Hide and Seek Fog, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)
• Just Me by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
• Tom Tit Tot, retold and illustrated by Evaline Ness (Scribner)

1965 Medal Winner: May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor; text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (Atheneum)
Honor Books:

• Rain Makes Applesauce, illustrated by Marvin Bileck; text: Julian Scheer (Holiday)
• The Wave, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: Margaret Hodges (Houghton)
• A Pocketful of Cricket, illustrated by Evaline Ness; text: Rebecca Caudill (Holt)

1964 Medal Winner: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Harper)
Honor Books:

• Swimmy by Leo Lionni (Pantheon)
• All in the Morning Early, illustrated by Evaline Ness; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclaire Alger] (Holt)
• Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Philip Reed (Atheneum)

1963 Medal Winner: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking)
Honor Books:

• The Sun is a Golden Earring, illustrated by Bernarda Bryson; text: Natalia M. Belting (Holt)
• Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Charlotte Zolotow (Harper)

1962 Medal Winner: Once a Mouse, retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
Honor Books:

• Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song by Peter Spier (Doubleday)
• Little Bear's Visit, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Else H. Minarik (Harper)
• The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up, illustrated by Adrienne Adams; text: Alice E. Goudey (Scribner)

1961 Medal Winner: Baboushka and the Three Kings, illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text: Ruth Robbins (Parnassus)
Honor Book:

• Inch by Inch, by Leo Lionni (Obolensky)

1960 Medal Winner: Nine Days to Christmas, illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida (Viking)
Honor Books:

• Houses from the Sea, illustrated by Adrienne Adams; text: Alice E. Goudey (Scribner)
• The Moon Jumpers, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Janice May Udry (Harper)

The 1950s / Top of list

1959 Medal Winner: Chanticleer and the Fox, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney (Crowell)
Honor Books:

• The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie by Antonio Frasconi (Harcourt)
• What Do You Say, Dear? illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Sesyle Joslin (W. R. Scott)
• Umbrella by Taro Yashima (Viking)

1958 Medal Winner: Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
Honor Books:

• Fly High, Fly Low by Don Freeman (Viking)
• Anatole and the Cat, illustrated by Paul Galdone; text: Eve Titus (McGraw-Hill)

1957 Medal Winner: A Tree is Nice, illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry (Harper)
Honor Books:

• Mr. Penny's Race Horse by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
• 1 is One by Tasha Tudor (Walck)
• Anatole, illustrated by Paul Galdone; text: Eve Titus (McGraw-Hill)
• Gillespie and the Guards, illustrated by James Daugherty; text: Benjamin Elkin (Viking)
• Lion by William Pène du Bois (Viking)

1956 Medal Winner: Frog Went A-Courtin', illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff (Harcourt)
Honor Books:

• Play With Me, by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
• Crow Boy by Taro Yashima (Viking)

1955 Medal Winner: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
Honor Books:

• Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes, illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
• Wheel On The Chimney, illustrated by Tibor Gergely; text: Margaret Wise Brown (Lippincott)
• The Thanksgiving Story, illustrated by Helen Sewell; text: Alice Dalgliesh (Scribner)

1954 Medal Winner: Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
Honor Books:

• Journey Cake, Ho! illustrated by Robert McCloskey; text: Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
• When Will the World Be Mine? illustrated by Jean Charlot; text: Miriam Schlein (W. R. Scott)
• The Steadfast Tin Soldier, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: Hans Christian Andersen, translated by M. R. James (Scribner)
• A Very Special House, illustrated by Maurice Sendak; text: Ruth Krauss (Harper)
• Green Eyes by A. Birnbaum (Capitol)

1953 Medal Winner: The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward (Houghton)
Honor Books:

• Puss in Boots, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
• One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
• Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals by Fritz Eichenberg (Harcourt)
• The Storm Book, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham; text: Charlotte Zolotow (Harper)
• Five Little Monkeys by Juliet Kepes (Houghton)

1952 Medal Winner: Finders Keepers, illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] (Harcourt)
Honor Books:

• Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
• Skipper John's Cook by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
• All Falling Down, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham; text: Gene Zion (Harper)
• Bear Party by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
• Feather Mountain by Elizabeth Olds (Houghton)

1951 Medal Winner: The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous (Scribner)
Honor Books:

• Dick Whittington and his Cat by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
• The Two Reds, ill. by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] (Harcourt)
• If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (Random House)
• The Most Wonderful Doll in the World, illustrated by Helen Stone; text: Phyllis McGinley (Lippincott)
• T-Bone, the Baby Sitter by Clare Turlay Newberry (Harper)

1950 Medal Winner: Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi (Scribner)
Honor Books:

• America's Ethan Allen, illustrated by Lynd Ward; text: Stewart Holbrook (Houghton)
• The Wild Birthday Cake, illustrated by Hildegard Woodward; text: Lavinia R. Davis (Doubleday)
• The Happy Day, illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Ruth Krauss) (Harper)
• Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (Random House)
• Henry Fisherman by Marcia Brown

The 1940s / Top of list

1949 Medal Winner: The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)
Honor Books:

• Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
• All Around the Town, illustrated by Helen Stone; text: Phyllis McGinley (Lippincott)
• Juanita by Leo Politi (Scribner)
• Fish in the Air by Kurt Wiese (Viking)

1948 Medal Winner: White Snow, Bright Snow, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)
Honor Books:

• Stone Soup by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
• McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (Random House)
• Bambino the Clown by Georges Schreiber (Viking)
• Roger and the Fox, illustrated by Hildegard Woodward; text: Lavinia R. Davis (Doubleday)
• Song of Robin Hood, illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton; text: edited by Anne Malcolmson (Houghton)

1947 Medal Winner: The Little Island, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] (Doubleday )
Honor Books:

• Rain Drop Splash, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)
• Boats on the River, illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum; text: Marjorie Flack (Viking)
• Timothy Turtle, illustrated by Tony Palazzo; text: Al Graham (Welch)
• Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street by Leo Politi (Scribner)
• Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns, illustrated by Marjorie Torrey; text: selected by Opal Wheeler (Dutton)

1946 Medal Winner: The Rooster Crows by Maud & Miska Petersham (Macmillan)
Honor Books:

• Little Lost Lamb, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] (Doubleday)
• Sing Mother Goose, illustrated by Marjorie Torrey; music: Opal Wheeler (Dutton)
• My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, illustrated by Ruth Gannett; text: Becky Reyher (Lothrop)
• You Can Write Chinese by Kurt Wiese (Viking)

1945 Medal Winner: Prayer for a Child, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field (Macmillan)
Honor Books:

• Mother Goose, illustrated by Tasha Tudor (Oxford University Press)
• In the Forest by Marie Hall Ets (Viking)
• Yonie Wondernose by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
• The Christmas Anna Angel, illustrated by Kate Seredy; text: Ruth Sawyer (Viking)

1944 Medal Winner: Many Moons, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber (Harcourt)
Honor Books:

• Small Rain: Verses From The Bible, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: selected by Jessie Orton Jones (Viking)
• Pierre Pidgeon, illustrated by Arnold E. Bare; text: Lee Kingman (Houghton)
• The Mighty Hunter by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)
• A Child's Good Night Book, illustrated by Jean Charlot; text: Margaret Wise Brown (W. R. Scott)
• Good-Luck Horse, illustrated by Plato Chan; text: Chih-Yi Chan (Whittlesey)

1943 Medal Winner: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton)
Honor Books:

• Dash and Dart by Mary & Conrad Buff (Viking)
• Marshmallow by Clare Turlay Newberry (Harper)

1942 Medal Winner: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
Honor Books:

• An American ABC by Maud & Miska Petersham (Macmillan)
• In My Mother's House, illustrating by Velino Herrera; text: Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
• Paddle-To-The-Sea by Holling C. Holling (Houghton)
• Nothing At All, by Wanda Gág (Coward)

1941 Medal Winner: They Were Strong and Good, by Robert Lawson (Viking)
Honor Book:

• April's Kittens by Clare Turlay Newberry (Harper)

1940 Medal Winner: Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (Doubleday)
Honor Books:

• Cock-a-Doodle Doo by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)
• Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
• The Ageless Story by Lauren Ford (Dodd)

The 1930s / Top of list

1939 Medal Winner: Mei Li by Thomas Handforth (Doubleday)
Honor Books:

• Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty (Viking)
• Barkis by Clare Turlay Newberry (Harper)
• The Forest Pool by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Wanda Gág (Coward)
• Wee Gillis, illustrated by Robert Lawson; text: Munro Leaf (Viking)

1938 Medal Winner: Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text: selected by Helen Dean Fish (Lippincott)
Honor Books:

• Four and Twenty Blackbirds, illustrated by Robert Lawson; text: compiled by Helen Dean Fish (Stokes)
• Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale, retold and illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff (Viking)

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