;1958 •
Beatrix Potter,
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902[1893]) ‡ •
Kenneth Grahame,
The Wind in the Willows (1908), originally unillustrated •
Hugh Lofting,
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920) ‡ •
A. A. Milne,
The World of Pooh – comprising
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and
The House at Pooh Corner (1928), illus. E. H. Shepard •
Wanda Gág,
Millions of Cats (1928) ‡ •
Watty Piper,
The Little Engine That Could (1930), illus. Lois Lenski •
Laura Ingalls Wilder,
Little House in the Big Woods (1932), illus. Helen Sewell •
Carol Ryrie Brink,
Caddie Woodlawn (1935), illus. Kate Seredy •
Glen Rounds, ''
Ol' Paul, the Mighty Logger'' (1936) ‡ •
James Cloyd Bowman,
Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time (1937), illus. Laura Bannon •
Richard and Florence Atwater,''
Mr. Popper's Penguins'' (1938), illus. Robert Lawson •
Esphyr Slobodkina,
Caps for Sale (1938) ‡ •
Dr. Seuss,
Horton Hatches the Egg (1940) ‡ •
Rachel Field,
Prayer for a Child (1944), illustrated by
Elizabeth Orton Jones who won the annual Caldecott Medal for that work •
Catherine Cate Coblentz,
The Blue Cat of Castle Town (1949), illus. Janice Holland •
Eleanor Farjeon,
The Little Bookroom (1955), illus. Edward Ardizzone •
René Guillot,
The 397th White Elephant (1957), illus. Christian Heinrich : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1959 •
Frances Hodgson Burnett,
The Secret Garden (1911) •
Maj Lindman,
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Red Shoes; originally a Swedish series (1920s) •
Laura E. Richards,
Tirra Lirra: New Rhymes and Old (1932) •
Jean de Brunhoff,
Story of Babar (1933); originally French,
Histoire de Babar (1931) ‡ •
Kate Seredy,
The White Stag (1937) ‡ •
Claire Huchet Bishop,
The Five Chinese Brothers (1938), illus. Kurt Wiese •
Armstrong Sperry,
Call It Courage (1940) ‡ •
Virginia Lee Burton,
The Little House (1942) ‡ •
Carolyn Treffinger,
Li Lun, Lad of Courage (1947), illus. Kurt Wiese •
Leon Wilson,
This Boy Cody (1950), illus. Ursula Koering •
E. B. White, ''
Charlotte's Web'' (1952), illus. Garth Williams •
Alice Dalgliesh,
The Courage of Sarah Noble (1954), illus. Leonard Weisgard •
Philippa Pearce,
The Minnow Leads to Treasure (US); originally
Minnow on the Say (1955) : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1960 •
Rudyard Kipling,
The Jungle Book (1894), illus.
John Lockwood Kipling •
L. Leslie Brooke, ''Johnny Crow's Garden: A Picture Book'' (1903) ‡ •
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis,
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (1932), illus. Kurt Wiese •
Walter D. Edmonds,
The Matchlock Gun (1941), illus. Paul Lantz •
H. A. Rey and
Margret Rey,
Curious George Takes a Job (1947) ‡ •
Mary Norton,
The Borrowers (1952), illus. Diana Stanley (UK), Beth and Joe Krush (US, 1953), first of the series of five novels and one short story
The Borrowers • Kathleen Lines, compiler, ''Lavender's Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes'' (1954), illustrated by
Harold Jones † •
Joseph Krumgold,
Onion John (1959) •
Glen Rounds,
The Blind Colt (1960) ‡ : ‡ illustrated by the author † The British
Library Association in 1955 gave illustrator Jones special commendation for its annual
Carnegie Medal and established the companion
Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration. ;1961 •
Rachel Field,
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1929), illus. Dorothy P. Lathrop •
Robert H. Charles,
A Roundabout Turn (1930), illus.
L. Leslie Brooke •
Dr. Seuss,
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937) ‡ •
Robert Lawson,
Ben and Me (1939) ‡ •
Doris Gates,
Blue Willow (1940), illus. Paul Lantz •
Eleanor Estes,
The Moffats (1941), illus. Louis Slobodkin •
Marguerite Henry,
Misty of Chincoteague (1947) •
Marguerite de Angeli,
The Door in the Wall (1949) ‡ •
Erich Kästner,
When I Was A Little Boy (1959); originally German,
Als ich ein kleiner Junge war (1957) – autobiography •
René Guillot,
Grishka and the Bear (1959), illus.
Joan Kiddell-Monroe; originally French,
Grichka et son ours (1958) •
Scott O'Dell,
Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), originally unillustrated : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1962 •
Hans Christian Andersen,
Thumbelina; originally Danish,
Tommelise (1835), illus. Vilhelm Pedersen •
Mark Twain,
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), illus. E. W. Kemble •
Beatrix Potter,
The Tailor of Gloucester (1903[1902]) ‡ •
Charles Boardman Hawes,
The Dark Frigate (1923) •
A. A. Milne,
The World of Christopher Robin – comprising
When We Were Very Young (1924) and
Now We Are Six (1927), illus. E. H. Shepard • Robert Davis,
Padre Porko: The Gentlemanly Pig (1939), illus.
Fritz Eichenberg •
Holling C. Holling,
Paddle-to-the-Sea (1941) ‡ •
Louise Rankin,
Daughter of the Mountains (1948), illus. Kurt Wiese •
C. S. Lewis,
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (1950), illus. Pauline Baynes •
William O. Steele,
Winter Danger (1954) •
Walter de la Mare,
A Penny a Day (1960 collection), illus. Paul E. Kennedy •
Leo Lionni,
Inch by Inch (1960) ‡ •
Sorche Nic Leodhas,
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland (1962) : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1963 •
Charles Kingsley,
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863) •
Joel Chandler Harris,
Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation (1881[1880]), illus. Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser •
Frank R. Stockton,
The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1885) •
Kenneth Grahame,
The Reluctant Dragon (1898), illus. Maxfield Parrish •
Cornelia Meigs,
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women (1933), biography •
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,
The Yearling (1938) •
Robert Lawson,
Rabbit Hill (1944) ‡ •
Eloise Jarvis McGraw,
Moccasin Trail (1952) •
Meindert DeJong,
The Wheel on the School (1954), illus. Maurice Sendak •
Philippa Pearce, ''
Tom's Midnight Garden'' (1958), illus. Susan Einzig • ,
The Man Who Was Don Quixote: The Story of Miguel Cervantes (1958), biography •
Wilhelm Hauff,
Dwarf Long Nose (1960), illus. Maurice Sendak; originally German,
Der Zwerg Nase (1826) •
George Selden,
The Cricket in Times Square (1960), illus. Garth Williams •
Jean Merrill,
The Superlative Horse: A Tale of Ancient China (1961) •
Pauline Clarke,
The Return of the Twelve (US); originally
The Twelve and the Genii (1962), illus. Cecil Leslie •
Shirley Glubok,
The Art of Ancient Egypt (1962) •
Hertha Seuberlich,
Annuzza: A Girl of Romania (1962); originally German 1961(?) : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1964 •
Hans Christian Andersen,
The Nightingale; originally Danish,
Nattergalen (1843), illus. Vilhelm Pedersen •
Frances Hodgson Burnett,
A Little Princess (1905[1888]), illus. 1905 by Ethel Franklin Betts •
Félicité Lefèvre,
The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen: An Old Tale Retold (1925) •
Will James,
Smoky the Cowhorse (1927), originally unillustrated •
Marjorie Flack,
The Story About Ping (1933), illus. Kurt Wiese •
Ruth Sawyer,
Roller Skates (1936), illus. Valenti Angelo •
Harold Keith,
Rifles for Watie (1957) •
Aline Glasgow,
Old Wind and Liu Li-San (1962), illus. Bernard Glasgow •
Madeleine L'Engle,
A Wrinkle in Time (1962), illus. Ellen Raskin •
Joan Aiken,
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1963) •
Helga Sandburg,
Joel and the Wild Goose (1963), illus.
Thomas Aquinas Daly •
Maurice Sendak,
Where the Wild Things Are (1963) ‡ •
Louisa R. Shotwell,
Roosevelt Grady (1963), illus.
Peter Burchard •
Jean Merrill,
The Pushcart War (1964), illus. Ronni Solbert : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1965 •
Jean Craighead George,
My Side of the Mountain (1959) •
Sterling North,
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era (1963) •
Irene Hunt,
Across Five Aprils (1964), illus. Leroy Jenkins ;1966 •
Robert Louis Stevenson, ''
A Child's Garden of Verses; originally Penny Whistles'' (1885) •
James Ramsey Ullman,
Banner in the Sky (1954) •
Agnes Clifford Smith,
An Edge of the Forest (1959) •
Peter Burchard,
Jed, The Story of a Yankee Soldier and a Southern Boy (1960) •
Marcia Brown,
Once a Mouse: A Fable Cut in Wood from Ancient India (1961) ‡ : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1967 • 1967 –
Rudyard Kipling,
More Just So Stories • 1967 –
Mark Twain,
Tom Sawyer (1876) ;1968 •
L. Frank Baum,
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900); illus. W. W. Denslow •
Rose Dobbs,
No Room: An old story (1944), illus.
Fritz Eichenberg •
Ruth Stiles Gannett, ''
My Father's Dragon'' (1948) ‡ •
Margot Benary-Isbert,
The Ark (1953); originally German,
Die Arche Noah (1948) • Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders, and Hugh Smith, eds.,
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... and other Modern Verse (1966) – anthology of modern poetry •
William Mayne,
Earthfasts (1966) • Barbara Emberley,
Drummer Hoff (1967), illustrated by
Ed Emberley who won the Caldecott Medal for that work •
E. L. Konigsburg,
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967) ‡ •
George Mendoza,
The Hunter I Might Have Been (1968), photographs by DeWayne Dalrymple •
Brinton Turkle,
The Fiddler of High Lonesome (1968) ‡ •
Jane Yolen,
The Emperor and the Kite (1968), illustrated by
Ed Young who won the Caldecott Medal for that work : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1969 •
Hardie Gramatky,
Little Toot (1939) ‡ •
Maureen Daly,
Seventeenth Summer (1942) •
Lucy M. Boston,
The Children of Green Knowe (1954) •
Sid Fleischman,
McBroom Tells the Truth (1966), illus. Kurt Werth •
Edmund Carpenter, ed.,
The Story of Comock the Eskimo as told to Robert Flaherty (1968), with Eskimo sketches •
Weyman Jones,
Edge of Two Worlds (1968), illus. J. C. Kocsis •
Mehlli Gobhai,
Usha the Mouse Maiden (1969) ‡ – Indian folk tale retold •
Glen Rounds,
Wild Horses of the Red Desert (1969) ‡ : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1970 •
Howard Pyle,
Otto of the Silver Hand (1888) ‡ •
Phil Stong,
Honk the Moose (1935), illus. Kurt Wiese •
Oliver Butterworth,
The Enormous Egg (1956), illus. Louis Darling •
Elizabeth Enright,
Gone-Away Lake (1957), illus. Joe and Beth Krush •
Alan Garner,
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) •
Randall Jarrell,
The Animal Family (1965), illus.
Maurice Sendak •
Phillip Viereck,
The Summer I Was Lost (1965) • Betty Kelen,
Gautama Buddha, In Life and Legend (1967) – biography •
Zilpha Keatley Snyder,
The Egypt Game (1967) •
Betsy Byars,
The Midnight Fox (1968), illus. Ann Grifalconi •
Astrid Lindgren,
The Tomten (Swedish; English 1968?), based on the 1881 poem by Viktor Rydberg, illus.
Harald Wiberg – see also
Tomte •
Julius Lester, compiler,
To Be a Slave (1968), illus.
Tom Feelings •
William H. Armstrong,
Sounder (1969), illus.
James Barkley •
Eilís Dillon,
A Herd of Deer (1969), US edition illus. Richard Kennedy •
Theodore Taylor,
The Cay (1969) •
Jesse Stuart,
Old Ben (1970), illus. Richard Cuffari : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1971 •
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué,
Undine (German, 1811) •
James Weldon Johnson,
Lift Every Voice and Sing (1899–1900), poetry •
Margery Williams,
The Velveteen Rabbit (1922). illus. William Nicholson •
Ellis Credle,
Down, Down the Mountain (1934) ‡ •
Sheila Burnford,
The Incredible Journey (1961), illus. Carl Burger •
Reginald Ottley,
Boy Alone (1966); originally
By the Sandhills of Yamboorah (1965), illus. Clyde Pearson •
Esther Hautzig,
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia (1968) – memoir •
Kristin Hunter,
The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou (1968) •
Mary Q. Steele,
Journey Outside (1969), illus. Rocco Negri •
Duncan Emrich, compiler,
The Nonsense Book of Riddles, Rhymes, Tongue Twisters, Puzzles, and Jokes from American Folklore (1970), illus. Ib Ohlsson •
Rosemary Sutcliff, ''The Witch's Brat'' (1970), illus. Richard Lebenson •
Ida Chittum,
Farmer Hoo and the Baboons (1971), illus. Glen Rounds : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1972 •
Hope Newell,
The Little Old Woman Who Used Her Head (1935), illus. Margaret Ruse •
Virginia Kahl,
The Duchess Bakes a Cake (1955) ‡ •
Nina Kosterina,
The Diary of Nina Kosterina (1968); originally Russian (1964) •
Julia Cunningham,
Dorp Dead (1965), illus. James J. Spanfeller •
James D. Forman,
Ceremony of Innocence (1970) •
Jan Adkins,
The Art and Industry of Sand Castles: Being an Illustrated Guide ... (1971) ‡ •
William Pène du Bois,
Bear Circus (1971) ‡ •
Virginia Hamilton,
The Planet of Junior Brown (1971) •
Russell Hoban, ''
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas'' (1971), illustrated by
Lillian Hoban •
Alexander Key,
The Forgotten Door (1971) •
Robert C. O'Brien,
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971), illus. Zena Bernstein •
Jay Williams,
The Hawkstone (1971) •
Julius Lester,
Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History (1972) – anthology •
Yuri Suhl,
Simon Boom Gives a Wedding (1972), illus.
Margot Zemach : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1973 •
Edward Ardizzone,
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1936) ‡ •
Astrid Lindgren,
Pippi Longstocking (US 1950), illus.
Louis S. Glanzman; originally Swedish,
Pippi Långstrump (1945), illus. Ingrid Nyman – first in a series •
Anne Holm,
I Am David (1969), first US title,
North to Freedom (1965); originally Danish,
David (1963) •
Deborah Crawford,
Four Women in a Violent Time (1970) •
Jean Russell Larson,
Jack Tar (1970), illus.
Mercer Mayer •
Marilyn Harris, ''The Runaway's Diary'' (1971) •
Charlotte Baker,
Cockleburr Quarters (1972) •
Nancy Ekholm Burkert, illustrator,
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Fairy Tale by the Brothers Grimm (1972); translated from the German
Schneewittchen (1812) •
Julius Lester,
The Knee High Man and Other Tales (1972), illus. Ralph Pinto – anthology •
Gerald McDermott,
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (1972) ‡ •
Jane Yolen,
The Girl Who Loved the Wind (1972), illus. Ed Young •
Lynd Ward, illustrator,
The Silver Pony: A Story in Pictures (1973) – no text ;1974 : No award ;1975 • Lewis Carroll,
The Pig-Tale (1975[1893]), illustrated by Leonard B. Lubin – picture book with text by Carroll, verse from
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, chapter 23 (1893) •
Alice Childress, ''
A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Sandwich'' (1973) •
Vera and Bill Cleaver,
Dust of the Earth (1975) • Leonard B. Lubin, illustrator,
The Pig-Tale (1975), 1893 poem by Lewis Carroll,
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, chapter 23 ;1976 •
Babbis Friis-Baastad, ''Don't Take Teddy
(1967); originally Norwegian, Ikke ta Bamse'' (1964) •
Glen Rounds,
The Day the Circus Came to Lone Tree (1973) ‡ • Harve Zemach,
Duffy and the Devil (1973), illus.
Margot Zemach •
Virginia Hamilton,
M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974) •
Norma Fox Mazer,
Saturday, the Twelfth of October (1975) : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1977 •
Felice Holman, ''
Slake's Limbo'' (1974) •
Nancy Willard,
Sailing to Cythera and other Anatole Stories (1974), illus. David McPhail •
William Steig, ''
Abel's Island'' (1976) ‡ : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1978 •
Verna Aardema, ''Who's in Rabbit's House?: A Masai Tale'' (1977[1969]), illus. Leo and Diane Dillon •
John Steptoe,
Stevie (1969) ‡ •
William Steig,
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1970) ‡ •
Natalie Babbitt,
Tuck Everlasting (1975) •
Bettyanne Gray, ''Manya's Story
(1976), later Manya's Story: Faith and Survival in Revolutionary Russia'' – biography •
Norma Fox Mazer,
Dear Bill, Remember Me? and other stories (1976) •
Julia Cunningham,
Come to the Edge (1977) •
Ilse Koehn,
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany (1977) – autobiography •
Katherine Paterson,
Bridge to Terabithia (1977), illus. Donna Diamond •
Peter Spier, ''
Noah's Ark'' (1977) ‡ •
Sonia Levitin,
The No-Return Trail (1978) – about the
Bartleson–Bidwell Party, fictionalized •
Glen Rounds,
Mr. Yowder and the Giant Bull Snake (1978) ‡ : ‡ illustrated by the author ;1979 •
Bernard Waber,
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (1965) ‡ •
Ursula K. Le Guin,
A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), illus. Ruth Robbins •
Robert Cormier,
The Chocolate War (1974) •
Laurence Yep,
Dragonwings (1975) •
Raymond Briggs, illustrator,
The Snowman (1978) ‡ – no text •
David Kherdian,
The Road from Home (1979) – fictionalized biography •
Nancy Willard,
The Island of the Grass King: The Further Adventures of Anatole (1979), illus. David McPhail : ‡ illustrated by the author ==References==