• 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
  • Honors:
    
    • The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
    • Hoot by Carl Hiassen
    • Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
    • A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
    • Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
• 2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• 2001: A Year Down Yonder Richard Peck
• 2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• 1999: Holes by Louis Sachar
• 1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
• 1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
• 1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• 1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
• 1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry
• 1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
• 1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• 1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• 1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• 1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
• 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• 1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
• 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• 1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
• 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
• 1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight
• 1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
• 1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
• 1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girls' Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
• 1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• 1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• 1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
• 1975: M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
• 1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
• 1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• 1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
• 1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
• 1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong
• 1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander
• 1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
• 1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
• 1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizebeth Borton de Trevino
• 1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
• 1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
• 1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
• 1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
• 1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• 1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
• 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• 1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
• 1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginaia Sorenson
• 1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
• 1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong
• 1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
• 1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
• 1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
• 1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
• 1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
• 1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
• 1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
• 1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
• 1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
• 1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
• 1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• 1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
• 1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
• 1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
• 1940: Daniel Boone by James Daughterty
• 1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
• 1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy
• 1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
• 1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
• 1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon
• 1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
• 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
• 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
• 1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
• 1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
• 1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
• 1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
• 1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
• 1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
• 1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
• 1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon

Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938-Present:

• 2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
  • Honors:
    
    • The Spider and the Fly illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi, based on a tale by Mary Howitt
    • Hondo & Fabian by Peter McCarty
    • Noah's Ark by Jerry Pinkney
• 2002: The Three Little Pigs by David Weisner
• 2001: So You Want to be President? illustrated by David Small, text by Judith St. George
• 2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
• 1999:Snowflake Bentley illustrated by Mary Azarian, text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
• 1998: Rapunzel illustrated and retold by Paul O. Zelinsky
• 1997: Golem by David Wisniewski
• 1996: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
• 1995: Smoky Night illustrated by David Diaz, text by Eve Bunting
• 1994: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
• 1993: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
• 1992: Tuesday by David Wiesner
• 1991: Black and White by David Macaulay
• 1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
• 1989: Song and Dance Man illustrated by Stephen Gammell, text by Karen Ackerman
• 1988: Owl Moon illustrated by John Schoenherr, text by Jane Yolen
• 1987: Hey, Al illustrated by Richard Egielski, text by Arthur Yorinks
• 1986: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• 1985: Saint George and the Dragon illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, retold by Margaret Hodges
• 1984: The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot by Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen
• 1983: Shadow translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown, text by Blaise Cendrars
• 1982: Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
• 1981:Fables by Arnold Lobel
• 1980: Ox-Cart Man illustrated by Barbara Cooney, text by Donald Hall
• 1979: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
• 1978: Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
• 1977: Ashanti to Zulu illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon, text by Margaret Musgrove
• 1976: Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon, retold by Verna Aardema
• 1975: Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
• 1974: Duffy and the Devil illustrated by Margot-Zemach, retold by Harve Zemach
• 1973: The Funny Little Woman illustrated by Blair Lent, retold by Arlene Mosel
• 1972: One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian
• 1971: A Story, A Story by Gail E. Haley
• 1970: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
• 1969: The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship illustrated by Uri Shulevitz, retold by Arthur Ransome
• 1968: Drummer Hoff illustrated by Ed Emberley, adapted by Barbara Emberley
• 1967: Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness
• 1966: Always Room for One More illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian, text by Sorche Nic Leodhas
• 1965: May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor, text by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
• 1964: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• 1963: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• 1962: Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown
• 1961: Baboushka and the Three Kings illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov, texxt by Ruth Robbins
• 1960: Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida
• 1959: Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney
• 1958: Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
• 1957: A Tree Is Nice illustrated by Marc Simont, text by Janice Udry
• 1956: Frog Went A-Courtin' illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky, retold by John Langstaff
• 1955: Cinderella illustrated and retold by Marcia Brown
• 1954: Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
• 1953: The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
• 1952: Finders Keepers illustrated by Nicolas Mordvinoff, text by Wll Lipkind
• 1951: The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:

2003 Award Winner:

• Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers

• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr
• Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

• A Step from Heaven by An Na

• Kit's Wilderness by David Almond

• Monster by Walter Dean Myers