1969
Winner
The Fool of the World and the Flying
Ship retold by Arthur Ransome
Honors
Why the Sun and Moon Live in the
Sky by Elphinstone Dayrell
1968
Winner
Drummer Hoff adapted by Barbara
Emberley illustrated by Ed Emberley
Honors
Frederick by Leo Lionni
Seashore Story by Taro Yashima
The Emperor and the Kite by Jane
Yolen illustrated by Ed Young
1967
Winner
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline
Ness
Honors
One Wide River to Cross, adapted
by Barbara Emberley, illustrated
by Ed Emberley
1966
Winner
Always Room For One More, by
Sorche Nic Leodhas, illustrated by
Nonny Hogrogian
Honors
Hide and Seek Fog by Alvin
Tresselt, illustrated by Roger
Duvoisin
Just Me by Marie Hall Ets
Tom Tit Tot retold and illustrated by
Evaline Ness
1965
Winner
May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice
Schenk de Regniers, illustrated by
Beni Montresor
Honors
Rain Makes Applesauce by Julian
Scheer, illustrated by Marvin
Bileck
The Wave by Margaret Hodges,
illustrated by Blair Lent
A Pocketful of Cricket by Rebecca
Caudill, illustrated by Evaline
Ness
1964
Winner
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice
Sendak
Honors
Swimmy by Leo Lionni
All in the Morning Early by Sorche
Nic Leodhas, illustrated by
Evaline Ness
Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes
illustrated by Philip Reed
1963
Winner
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Honors
The Sun is a Golden Earring by
Natalia M. Belting, illustrated by
Bernarda Bryson
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated
by Maurice Sendak
1962
Winner
Once a Mouse retold and illustrated by
Marcia Brown
Honors
Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An
Old Song by Peter Spier
Little Bear's Visit by Else H.
Minarik, illustrated by Maurice
Sendak
The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up
by Alice E. Goudey, illustrated by
Adrienne Adams
1961
Winner
Baboushka and the Three Kings by
Ruth Robbins, illustrated by Nicolas
Sidjakov
Honors
Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
1960
Winner
Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall
Ets and Aurora Labastida
Honors
Houses from the Sea Alice E.
Goudey, illustrated by Adrienne
Adams
The Moon Jumpers by Janice May
Udry, illustrated by Maurice
Sendak
1959
Winner
Chanticleer and the Fox adapted by
Barbara Cooney adapted from
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Honors
The House that Jack Built: La
Maison Que Jacques A Batie by
Antonio Frasconi
What Do You Say, Dear? by
Sesyle Joslin, illustrated by
Maurice Sendak
Umbrella by Taro Yashima
1958
Winner
Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
Honors
Fly High, Fly Low by Don Freeman
Anatole and the Cat by Eve Titus,
illustrated by Paul Galdone
1957
Winner
A Tree is Nice by Janice Udry,
illustrated by Marc Simont
Honors
Mr. Penny's Race Horse by Marie
Hall Ets
1 is One by Tasha Tudor
Anatole by Eve Titus, illustrated by
Paul Galdone
Gillespie and the Guards by
Benjamin Elkin, illustrated by
James Daugherty
Lion by William Pène du Bois
1956
Winner
Frog Went A-Courtin' retold by John
Langstaff, illustrated by Feodor
Rojankovsky
Honors
Play With Me by Marie Hall Ets
Crow Boy by Taro Yashima
1955
Winner
Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
translated by Marcia Brown from
Charles Perrault
Honors
Book of Nursery and Mother Goose
Rhymes illustrated by Marguerite
de Angeli
Wheel On The Chimney by
Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated
by Tibor Gergely
The Thanksgiving Story by Alice
Dalgliesh, illustrated by Helen
Sewell
1954
Winner
Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig
Bemelmans
Honors
Journey Cake, Ho! by Ruth
Sawyer, illustrated by Robert
McCloskey
When Will the World Be Mine? by
Miriam Schlein, illustrated by
Jean Charlot
The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans
Christian Anderson, translated by
M.R. James, illustrated by Marcia
Brown
A Very Special House by Ruth
Krauss, illustrated by Maurice
Sendak
Green Eyes by A. Birnbaum
1953
Winner
The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
Honors
Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault,
translated and illustrated 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 Charlotte
Zolotow, illustrated by Margaret
Bloy Graham
Five Little Monkeys by Juliet
Kepes
1952
Winner
Finders Keepers by William Lipkind,
illustrated by Nicolas Mordvinoff
Honors
Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo by Marie
Hall Ets
Skipper John's Cook by Marcia
Brown
All Falling Down by Gene Zion,
illustrated by Margaret Bloy
Graham
Bear Party by William Pène du
Bois
Feather Mountain by Elizabeth
Olds
1951
Winner
The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
Honors
Dick Whittington and his Cat by
Marcia Brown
The Two Reds by William Lipkind,
illustrated by Nicolas Mordinoff
If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss
The Most Wonderful Doll in the
World by Phyllis McGinley,
illustrated by Helen Stone
T-Bone, the Baby Sitter by Clare
Turlay Newberry
1950
Winner
Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
Honors
America's Ethan Allen by Stewart
Holbrook, illustrated by Lynd
Ward
The Wild Birthday Cake by Lavina
R. Davis, illustrated by Hildegard
Woodward
The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss,
illustrated by Marc Simont
Bartholomew and the Oobleck by
Dr. Seuss
Henry Fisherman by Marcia Brown
1949
Winner
The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer
Hader
Honors
Blueberries for Sal by Robert
McCloskey
All Around the Town by Phyllis
McGinley, illustrated by Helen
Stone
Juanita by Leo Politi
Fish in the Air by Kurt Wiese
1948
Winner
White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin
Tresselt, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin
Honors
Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss
Bambino the Clown by Georges
Schreiber
Roger and the Fox by Lavinia R.
Davis, illustrated by Hildegard
Woodward
Song of Robin Hood edited by
Anne Malcomson, illustrated by
Virginia Lee Burton
1947
Winner
The Little Island by Golden
Macdonald, illustrated by Leonard
Weisgard
Honors
Rain Drop Splash by Alvin Tresselt,
illustrated by Leonard Weisgard
Boats on the River by Marjorie
Flack, illustrated by Jay Hyde
Barnum
Timothy Turtle by Al Graham,
illustrated by Tony Palazzo
Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street
by Leo Politi
Sing in Praise: A Collection of the
Best Loved Hymns selected by
Opal Wheeler, illustrated by
Marjorie Torrey
1946
Winner
The Rooster Crows by Maud & Miska
Petersham
Honors
Little Lost Lamb by Golden
MacDonald, illustrated by
Leonard Weisgard
Sing Mother Goose illustrated by
Marjorie Torrey, music by Opal
Wheeler
My Mother is the Most Beautiful
Woman in the World by Becky
Reyher, illustrated by Ruth
Gannett
You Can Write Chinese by Kurt
Wiese
1945
Winner
Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field,
illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones
Honors
Mother Goose illustrated by Tasha
Tudor
In the Forest by Marie Hall Ets
Yonie Wondernose by Marguerite
de Angeli
The Christmas Anna Angel by
Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Kate
Seredy
1944
Winner
Many Moons by James Thurber,
illustrated by Louis Slobodkin
Honors
Small Rain: Verses From The
Bible selected by Jessie Orton
Jones, illustrated by Elizabeth
Orton Jones
Pierre Pidgeon by Lee Kingman,
illustrated by Arnold E. Bare
The Mighty Hunter by Berta &
Elmer Hader
A Child's Good Night Book by
Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated
by Jean Charlot
Good-Luck Horse by Chih-Yi Chan,
illustrated by Plato Chan
1943
Winner
The Little House by Virginia Lee
Burton
Honors
Dash and Dart by Mary & Conrad
Buff
Marshmallow by Clare Turlay
Newberry
1942
Winner
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert
McCloskey
Honors
An American ABC by Maud &
Miska Petersham
In My Mother's House by Ann
Molan Clark, illustrated by Velino
Herrera
Paddle-To-The-Sea by Holling C.
Holling
Nothing At All by Wanda Gág
1941
Winner
They Were Strong and Good by
Robert Lawson
Honors
April's Kittens by Clare Turlay
Newberry
1940
Winner
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar
Parin d'Aulaire
Honors
Cock-a-Doodle Doo by Berta &
Elmer Hader
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
The Ageless Story by Lauren Ford
1939
Winner
Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
Honors
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 Munro Leaf,
illustrated by Robert Lawson
1938
Winner
Animals of the Bible, A Picture
Book by Helen Dean Fish, illustrated
by Dorothy P. Lathrop
Honors
Four and Twenty Blackbirds by
Helen Dean Fish, illustrated by
Robert Lawson
Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale
retold and illustrated by Boris
Artzybasheff