Caldecott Award Winning Illustrated Children's Books: 1980-1989

1989 winner: Written by Karen Ackerman; illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Published by Knopf.

Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.

1988 winner: Written by Jane Yolen; illustrated by John Schoenherr. Published by Philomel Books.

On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.

1987 winner: Written by Arthur Yorinks; illustrated by Richard Egielski. Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Janitor Al and his dog Eddie are transported from their hard city life to a gorgeous island in the sky, only to discover that there is no place like home.

1986 winner: Written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. Published by Houghton Mifflin.

A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

1985 winner: Adapted by Margaret Hodges from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. Published by Little, Brown.

Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.

1984 winner: Illustrated by Alice and Marin Provensen. Published by Viking Press.

A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900s.

1983 winner: Translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown from the French of Blaise Cendrars. Published by Scribner's.

Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.

1982 winner: Written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. Published by Houghton Mifflin Co.

Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.

1981 winner: Written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel. Published by Harper & Row.

Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.

1980 winner: Written by Donald Hall; illustrated by Barbara Cooney. Published by Viking Press.

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.