Caldecott Award Winning Illustrated Children's Books: 1950-1959

1959 winner: Original story by Geoffrey Chaucer; adapted and illustrated by Barbara Cooney. Published by HarperCollins.


This is an adaptation of the 'Nun's priest's tale' from the Canterbury tales.

1958 winner: Illustrated by Robert McCloskey. Published by Viking Press.

Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.

1957 winner: Written by Janice May Udry; illustrated by Marc Simont. Published by HarperCollins.

Lovingly describes what makes trees nice.

1956 winner: Retold by John Langstaff; illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.

1955 winner: Illustrated by Marcia Brown. Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

A translations from the French of Charles Perrault. In her haste to leave the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.

1954 winner: Written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. Published by Viking Press.

A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine, becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by the trustees, and returns with a surprise.

1953 winner: Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Published by Houghton Mifflin.

Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.

1952 winner: Written by William Lipkind; iIllustrated by Nicholas Mordvinoff. Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Two dogs each claim a bone they have found and ask passersby for help in deciding ownership.

1951 winner: Written and illustrated by Katherine Milhous. Published by Atheneum.

One Easter morning, an egg hunt lead to a discovery of some vey special eggs and a new Easter tradition.

1950 winner: Illustrated by Leo Politi. Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Sad when the swallows leave for the winter, young Juan prepares to welcome them back to the old California Mission at Capistrano on St. Joseph's Day the next spring.