Caldecott Winners and Honors: 1960s Caldecott Winners

A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

Relates the experiences of a little girl as she learns to tell the difference between make-believe and real life.

In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room for another person and invites in everyone who passes by.

A well-mannered little boy, frequently invited to visit the king and queen, always asks to bring a friend--and the friends are always wild animals--and always well-behaved.

A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.

The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

As it changes from mouse, to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain.

An old woman who was too busy to travel with the Wise Men to find the Child now searches endlessly for Him each Christmas season.

Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.