* 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.

* 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.

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.

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

He has been compared with Randolph Caldecott, with which it has much in common ; but Dobson's humour was not so " rollicking " and his portraiture not so broad as that of the illustrator of John Gilpin.

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.

Make Way for Ducklings was the 1942 Caldecott Medal winner.

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With Edith Anstree out of sight and out of mind, he met one of his avid readers, a girl of similar age, Ivy Maude Caldecott, whose father was a Methodist minister, the Reverend William Shaw Caldecott.

Infuriated, Caldecott did indeed book passage back to England, but was further outraged by the lack of penitently weeping family on the Cape Town docks ; the realisation they were gladder to get rid of him than he was to go was an unpalatable epiphany.

Upon returning, he was able to meet briefly his healthy baby son, Bryan Edgar Wallace, before Ivy left with Bryan for South Africa, where her ill mother Marion Caldecott, mistakenly believing she was terminally ill, had expressed a wistful desire to see her grandson.

Unlike in 1902, in 1908 there was no way to hide the calamity from Ivy, emotionally vulnerable from giving birth to the couple's third child Patricia Marion Caldecott Wallace, and soon they had to move to a virtual slum.

The decision was also made to open both Caldecott, and Haw Par Villa stations ( previously Thomson and West Coast ), initially planned as shell stations, together with the whole line, leaving only Bukit Brown Station closed.

At the time, Ceylon was a British colony and the then governor Sir Andrew Caldecott ceremoniously opened the bank on 1 August.

Caldecott ( 1987 ) has proposed that a Joint Management Commission for Brunei Bay be established, with the participation of the national governments of Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia, and the state governments of Sarawak and Sabah.

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

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.

The Caldecott Medal is an award for children's book illustration.

They went on to create Abraham Lincoln ( 1939 ) that received the coveted Caldecott Medal in 1940, and the 1953 Boy's Club award went to their version of Buffalo Bill ( 1952 ).

He won a number of awards, including a Library of Congress Award for wood engraving, the Caldecott Medal for America's Ethan Allen in 1950 and The Biggest Bear in 1953, and a Rutgers University award for Distinguished Contribution to Children's Literature.

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

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.

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.

It won him the Caldecott Medal ( 1970 ), his first of many Caldecott and Newbery Medal honors.

Orinda's popularity as a year-round residence grew after the 1937 completion of the Caldecott Tunnel, which provided easier access to the west.

He twice won the Caldecott Medal, for Jumanji ( 1982 ) and The Polar Express ( 1985 ), both of which he wrote and illustrated, and both of which were later adapted into successful motion pictures.

After this, SR 24 crosses the Contra Costa County county line through the triple-bore Caldecott Tunnel and offers some attractive views of the hilly terrain through which it passes.

Highway 24 was designated in 1932 in conjunction with the ongoing construction of the Broadway Low Level Tunnel ( subsequently renamed the Caldecott Tunnel ) which opened in 1937, connecting with the new Eastshore Highway and the approaches to the new Bay Bridge by way of Ashby Avenue through Berkeley west of the Berkeley Hills, and routed along Mount Diablo Boulevard through Contra Costa County east of the hills.

This new freeway, which ran from the Caldecott Tunnel through downtown Oakland to the MacArthur and Nimitz Freeways, was designated Route 24 and Ashby was re-designated Route 13.

) The tunnel is named after Thomas E. Caldecott ( 1878 – 1951 ), mayor of Berkeley from 1930 – 1932, member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors 1933-1945, and president of Joint Highway District 13, which built the first two bores.

It was revived in 1871 with a proposal which described a route running from the end of Broadway, similar to the actual routing of today's Caldecott Tunnel although it is not clear from the description exactly which canyon was being referred to.

Akhenaten: Son Of The Sun is part of Moyra Caldecott ’ s Egyptian sequence, which also includes Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun and Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra.

Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun is part of Moyra Caldecott ’ s Egyptian sequence, which also includes Akhenaten: Son of the Sun and Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra.

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.

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 book, which received the 1942 Caldecott Medal for its illustrations, has continued to garner praise sixty years after its first publishing.

The longest road tunnel in the San Francisco Bay Area as of October 2011 at 3, 771 feet long is the westbound bore of the Caldecott Tunnel, which links the major central Contra Costa County communities of Concord and Walnut Creek with Oakland and the Bay Bridge on the western side.

The centre bores carry reversible lanes which switch direction in anticipation of commuter flows, similar to those of Caldecott Tunnel in Oakland, California.

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.

Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is part of Moyra Caldecott ’ s Egyptian sequence, which also includes Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun and Akhenaten: Son of the Sun.