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Caldecott Medal Award Winning Books: 1950s

1950s Medal Winners

1959

Chanticleer and the Fox , illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney (Crowell)                                                                                                     

Call No: PZ8.2.C47 Ch 1989b  
1958

Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Viking)

 

Call No:  PZ7.M1336 Ti  
1957

A Tree is Nice , illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry (Harper)

 

Call No: PZ10.U4 Tr 
1956

Frog Went A-Courtin' , illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff (Harcourt)

 

Call No: Not Available (Request through Interlibrary Loan)
1955

Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper , illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown (Scribner)

 

Call No: Not Available (Request through Interlibrary Loan)
1954

Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)

 

Call No: Not Available (Request through Interlibrary Loan)
1953

The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward (Houghton)

 

Call No: PZ10.3.W214 Bi
1952

Finders Keepers , illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] (Harcourt)

 

Call No: PZ7.L6637 Fi 1989  
1951

The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous (Scribner)

 

Call No: PZ7.M596 Eg
1950

Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi (Scribner)

 

Call No: PZ7.P753 So
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