* 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.

* Caldecott Medal for outstanding American picture books

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.

* Moyra Caldecott: Akhenaten: Son of the Sun ( 1989 ; eBook, 2000, ISBN 1-899142-86-X ; 2003, ISBN 1-899142-25-8 )

* Bill Peet: An Autobiography ( book ), ( ISBN 0395509327 ), 1989 ; a Caldecott Honor Book for 1990.

Her picture-book Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, won the 1989 Caldecott Medal.

Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun is a novel written by Moyra Caldecott in 1989.

Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is a novel written by Moyra Caldecott in 1989.

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.

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.

* Jerry Pinkney, Caldecott award-winning children's book illustrator

* Randolph Caldecott ( 1846 – 86 ), artist and book illustrator, was born in Bridge Street, Chester.

Children's book illustration by Randolph Caldecott ; engraving and printing by Edmund Evans, 1887

Through the 1880s and 1890s, her only rivals in popularity in children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott.

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

* Margaret Hodges retold the legend in a 1984 children's book ( Saint George and the Dragon ) with Caldecott Medal-winning illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman.

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.

That was the setting for his Caldecott Honor book, Blueberries for Sal, whose characters little Sal and her mother are reputed to be based on McCloskey's wife and eldest daughter Sally.

Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, John Tenniel, Aubrey Beardsley, Roger Hargreaves, Arthur Rackham, John Leech, George Cruikshank and Beatrix Potter were notable book illustrators.

He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble ( 1969 ), won the Caldecott Medal.

His book The Hello, Goodbye Window, published May 15, 2005, won the Caldecott Medal for Chris Raschka's illustration in 2006.

Her book, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears ( 1975 ), illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, received the Caldecott Medal in 1976 and the Brooklyn Art Books for Children Award in 1977. Who's in Rabbit's House?

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* Moyra Caldecott, The Winged Man is a fictional account of the life of Bladud.

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.

* Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration – Mordicai Gerstein, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers