* 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

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

Rugby also contains several large parks, most notably Caldecott Park near the town hall.

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

In 2000, Moyra Caldecott became one of the earliest proponents of commercial e-books, when she contracted with Mushroom eBooks to re-publish most of her titles in electronic formats.

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.

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.

* 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.

Caldecott is the most southerly village in Rutland.

One of the most consistent characters to be found in Lionni ’ s books are mice, such as the star character in his book, Frederick and Alexander in the Caldecott Honor Book, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse.

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 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.

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.

* 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.

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

* 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?

Caldecott Medal, 1989, for the book Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, Knopf, 1988

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