Caldecott Winners and Honors: 1940s Caldecott Winners

Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.

When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a winter blizzard.

Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches.

A collection of traditional American nursery rhymes, finger games, skipping rhymes, jingles, and counting-out rhymes.

An illustrated bedtime prayer which gives thanks for the many aspects of a child's world.

Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her. But the great-great grandaughter of the original owner comes to her rescue.

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.

Relates the story of the author's grandparents and parents, who, though not famous, helped build the United States.

Text and illustrations present the life of the boy born on the Kentucky frontier who became the sixteenth president of the United States.