* Arnold Lobel ( 1933 – 87 ), author of Fables, winner 1981 Caldecott Medal.

The book won a Caldecott Medal in 1947.

They include the Newbery Medal for writing, Michael L. Printz Award for writing for teens, Caldecott Medal for illustration, Golden Kite Award in various categories from the SCBWI, Sibert Medal for informational, Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for beginning readers, Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for impact over time, Batchelder Award for works in translation, Coretta Scott King Award for work by an African-American writer, and the Belpre Medal for work by a Latino writer.

* Verna Aardema Vugteveen, Children's author, winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1976.

* Richard Egielski ( born 1952 ), awarded the 1987 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in the book Hey, Al, written by Arthur Yorinks.

The Caldecott Medal ( established 1938 ) and Kate Greenaway Medal ( established 1955 ) are awarded annually for illustrations in children's literature.

In 1938 to Dorothy Lathrop was awarded the first Caldecott Medal for her illustrations in Animals of the Bible, written by Helen Dean Fish.

Thomas Handforth won the second Caldecott Medal in 1939, for Mei Li, which he also wrote.

Ludwig Bemelmans ' Madeline was published in 1939 and was selected as a Caldecott Medal runner-up, today known as a Caldecott Honor book.

In 1938, the American Library Association ( ALA ) began presenting annually the Caldecott Medal to the most distinguished children's book illustration published in the year.

The Caldecott Medal was established as a sister award to the ALA's Newbery Medal, which was awarded to a children's books " for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year " and presented annually beginning in 1922.

* Caldecott Medal: Barbara Cooney, Ox-Cart Man

The Newbery and the Caldecott Medal are considered the two most prestigious awards for children's literature in the United States.

The Caldecott Medal annually recognizes " the most distinguished picture book for children " published in the United States, beginning with 1937 publications.

Beside the Caldecott Medal, the committee awards a variable number of citations to worthy runners-up, called the Caldecott Honors or Caldecott Honor Books.

By the 1860s top artists in the west were illustrating for children, including Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway and John Tenniel.

The award is named for Randolph Caldecott, a nineteenth-century English illustrator.

* American Library Association: Caldecott Medal Winners for 1938 to the present.

Among the highlights of his career were winning the Newbery Medal in 1948 for The Twenty-One Balloons, and Caldecott Honors in 1952 for Bear Party and 1957 for Lion.

The children's picture book Make Way for Ducklings, published in 1941 and winner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal for its illustrations, is the story of a pair of Mallards who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden in Massachusetts.

The Caldecott and Newbery Medals are the most prestigious American children's book awards.

McCloskey wrote and illustrated eight books, two of which won the Caldecott Medal, the American Library Association's annual award of distinction for children's book illustration.

His first picture book, The Snowy Day, was awarded the Caldecott Medal and is considered one of the most important American books of the 20th century.

Simms Taback ( February 13, 1932 – December 25, 2011 ) was an American author, graphic artist, and illustrator and winner of the Caldecott Medal.

She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.

The Snowy Day, 1962 Two years later, Viking published The Snowy Day, which received the prestigious Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book for children in 1963.

In 1869 Caldecott exhibited a picture in the Royal Manchester Institute.

In 1999 she won the Caldecott Medal for her book, Snowflake Bentley, a picture book of the life of Wilson Bentley.

Ted was followed with his spooky-themed picture book of Mary Howitt's classic poem The Spider and the Fly, which became a New York Times best-seller, and for which DiTerlizzi was awarded the 2003 Caldecott Honor Medal.

She spent much time in bed at home amusing herself with painting books and a nursery library that included the works of Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott – two artists who exerted strong influences on her later art.

The best of these were illustrated by the triumvirate of English illustrators Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, and Kate Greenaway whose association with colour printer and wood engraver Edmund Evans produced books of great quality.

Research by Dr. David Anderson and Dr. Mykol Hamilton has documented the under-representation of female characters in 200 top-selling children's books from 2001 and a seven-year sample of Caldecott award-winning books.

Marc Simont, another Caldecott Medal winner, said of McCloskey in a Horn Book Magazine article: " Bob McCloskey ’ s talent for devising mechanical contraptions is topped only by his ability to turn out books that carry off the Caldecott Medal.

Its books have won the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and include such books as The Twenty-One Balloons, written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois, ( 1947, Newbery medal winner for 1948 ), Corduroy, Make Way for Ducklings, The Stinky Cheese Man By Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith 1993, The Outsiders, Pippi Longstocking, and The Story of Ferdinand.

In addition to poetry, he has also written several collections of essays ( among them Life Work and String Too Short to be Saved ), children's books ( notably Ox-Cart Man, which won the Caldecott Medal ), and a number of plays.

Two books in the series were nominated for the Caldecott Medal: Anatole in 1957 and Anatole and the Cat in 1958, and were subsequently named Caldecott Honor books.

* The Snowy Day was awarded the Caldecott Medal and named one of the 150 most influential books of the 20th century by the New York Public Library.

Taback has illustrated over 35 books, including the Caldecott Medal winning Joseph Had a Little Overcoat and the Caldecott Honor book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.

Caldecott greatly influenced illustration of children's books during the nineteenth century.

In 1877 Edmund Evans, who was a leading colour printer using coloured woodblocks, lost the services of Walter Crane as his children's book illustrator and asked Caldecott to do illustrations for two books for Christmas.

In another milieu Caldecott followed The Harz Mountains with illustrations for two books by Washington Irving, three for Juliana Ewing, another of Henry Blackburn's, one for Captain Frederick Marryat and for other authors.

Her books Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Nothing at All each won a Caldecott Honor Award.

His work on children's books included his 1953 Caldecott Medal winning book The Biggest Bear, and his work on Esther Forbes ' Johnny Tremain.