The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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	Surprise! It's a Caldecott ... selected by Janice M. DelNegro

The room is very crowded when the chair of the Caldecott committee makes the big announcement, and it is seldom that that announcment doesn't evoke gasps of surprise from both librarians and publishers. Over the years the Caldecott medal and honor winner s have increased in prestige and importance. They are a mark of quality, it's true, but they are also a mark of marketability, especially since publishers can, unfortunately, no longer keep a backlist of any great substance. A medal or honor winning boo k guarantees sales, not just for the winning year, but for years afterward as well. Librarians want them; teachers want them; parents want them. But do children want them? That's another question entirely, and one with which every committee struggles.

This month I would like to highlight Caldecott medal and honor winners that have found favor with both grown-ups and children. What these individually unique titles have in common is that they all combine distinguished illustration and design with a stro ng story, a narrative that more than holds its own with stellar visuals. We tell stories for many reasons, and in many ways. This selection of Caldecott medal and honor books exemplifies the importance of story, both illustrated and written. I have tri ed not to belabor the obvious or duplicate illustrators (but that proved nearly impossible in the cases of Marcia Brown, John Steptoe, William Steig, and Paul Zelinsky). Please note: since this is a longer list than usual, it is sans annotations, and it is in chronological, not alphabetical, order. While it's too soon to tell how the 1999 Caldecott medal winner and honor books will fare out in the wide world, just for the record--my money is on the guy with the camera, Snowflake Bentley.

--Janice M. Del Negro, Editor

• Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline. Viking, 1939. ( 1940 Honor)
  
• McCloskey, Robert. Make Way for Ducklings. Viking, 1941. (1942 Medal)
  
• Burton, Virgina Lee. The Little House. Houghton, 1942. (1943 Medal)
  
• Thurber, James. Many Moons. Illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. Harcourt, 1943. (1944 Medal)
  
• Tresselt, Alvin. Rain Drop Splash. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Lothrop, 1946. (1947 Honor)
  
• Brown, Marcia. Stone Soup. Scribner, 1947. (1948 Honor)
  
• Krauss, Ruth. The Happy Day. Illustrated by Marc Simont. Harper, 1949. (1950 Honor)
  
• Langstaff, John, ad. Frog Went A-Courtin'. Illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. Harcourt, 1955. (1956 Medal)
  
• Lionni, Leo. Inch by Inch. Obolensky, 1960. (1961 Honor)
  
• Keats, Ezra Jack. Snowy Day. Viking, 1962. (1963 Medal)
  
• Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper, 1963. (1964 Medal)
  
• Dayrell, Elphinstone. Why the Sun and Moon Live in the Sky. Illustrated by Blair Lent. Houghton, 1968. (1969 Honor)
  
• Steig, William. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. Windmill, 1969. (1970 Medal)
  
• Lobel, Arnold. Frog and Toad are Friends. Harper, 1970. (1971 Honor)
  
• de Paola, Tomie. Strega Nona. Prentice-Hall, 1975. (1976 Honor)
  
• Aardema, Verna. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Dial, 1975. (1976 Medal)
  
• Steig, William. The Amazing Bone. Farrar, 1976. (1977 Honor)
  
• Willard, Nancy. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers. Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen. Harcourt, 1981. (1982 Honor)
  
• Williams, Vera. A Chair for My Mother. Greenwillow, 1982. (1983 Honor)
  
• Bang, Molly. Ten, Nine, Eight. Greenwillow, 1983. (1984 Honor)
  
• Steptoe, John. The Story of Jumping Mouse. Lothrop, 1984. (1985 Honor)
  
• Wood, Audrey. King Bidgood's in the Bathtub. Illustrated by Don Wood. Harcourt, 1985. (1986 Honor)
  
• Rylant, Cynthia. The Relatives Came. Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. Bradbury, 1985. (1986 Honor)
  
• Steptoe, John. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters. Lothrop, 1987. (1988 Honor)
  
• Marshall, James, ad. Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Dial, 1988. (1989 Honor)
  
• Kimmel, Eric. Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. Holiday House, 1989. (1990 Honor)
  
• San Souci, Robert, ad. The Talking Eggs. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial, 1989. (1990 Honor)
  
• Young, Ed. Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China. Philomel, 1989. (1990 Medal)
  
• Williams, Vera B. "More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories. Greenwillow, 1990. (1991 Honor)
  
• Lester, Julius. John Henry. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial, 1994. (1995 Honor)
  
• Issacs, Anne. Swamp Angel. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. Dutton, 1994. (1995 Honor)
  
• Pilkey, Dav. The Paperboy. Jackson/Orchard, 1996. (1997 Honor)
  
• Wisniewski, David. The Golem. Clarion, 1996. (1997 Medal)
  
• Stewart, Sarah. The Gardener. Illustrated by David Small. Farrar, 1997. (1998 Honor)
  
• Zelinsky, Paul O., ad. Rapunzel. Dutton, 1996. (1998 Medal)

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