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*** Caldecott Winner                        * Caldecott Honor
                  
(the following year)                                         (the following year)         

 

Country Noisy Book
by Margaret Wise Brown with
 illustrations by Leonard Weisgard

c. 1940
Harper & Row
Edition uncertain, no further dates/printings listed

 

 

 

Lentil
by Robert McCloskey
First Book by this Two-time Caldecott Winner and legendary Author/Illustrator

c.1940
The Viking Press
Children's Choice 
Book Club Edition
Further Links about author:
Biography
Interview

 

Donkey-Donkey
by Roger Duvoisin

c.1940
Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.
renewed 1968
Parents Magazine Press Edition

 

 

 

 

The Thirsty Pony
Story and Pictures
 by Paul Laune

c.1940
Grosset & Dunlap
First Edition

 

 

 

 

 

*** Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
First Caldecott Winner by the author/Illustrator
**January1, 2003**
Proclaimed the Official Massachusetts State Book

c. 1941
The Viking Press
1972 paperback edition
Further Links about author:
Biography
Obituary
Interview

 

* Nothing At All
by Wanda Gag

c.1941
Coward, McCann& 
Geoghegan, Inc.
Seventeenth Impression
Further Links about Author:
Biography
Wanda Gag House

 

 

 

* In My Mother's House
by Ann Nolan Clark
Illustrated by Velino Herrera

c. 1941
The Viking Press
Ninth Printing March 1960

 

Down by the Sea
by Mary Coplan, Chrystie
 Stokes, and Lillian Moore

c. 1941
Lyons and Carhahan
First Edition

(picture coming)

 

 

 

Paddle to the Sea
Written and Illustrate
 by Holling Clancy Holling

1941
Houghton Mifflin Co.
First Edition

*** Many Moons
by James Thurber
Illustrated by Louis Slobodkin

c.1943 by James Thurber
c. 1971 by Helen Thurber
Harcourt, Brace, & World

 

Katy and the Big Snow
Story and Pictures
by Virgina Lee Burton 

c.1943
Houghton Mifflin Company
Edition uncertain, no further
dates/printings listed

 

Poodey
by Margaret Friske
and Katherine Evans

c,1945
Wilcox &Follett, Co.
Edition Uncertain
no further edition/printings noted


me too
words/pictures by Fritz Willis

c.1945
The Mistletoe Press
 The Marcel Rodd Company
First edition

 

 

cancan
story/pictures by Fritz Willis

c. 1945
The Mistletoe Press
The Marcel Rodd Company
 First edition

 

*** The Little Island
Golden MacDonald
 and Leonard Weisgard

c.1946
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
4th Printing, 1971. Paperback

 

* Rain Drop Splash
Story by Alvin Tresselt
Pictures by Leonard Weisgard

c.1946
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
23rd printing

 


A Child's Book of Birds
by Luis M. Henderson

c. 1946
Pied Piper Books
First edition


Cap'n Dow and the Hole
in the Doughnut

by Le Grand

c.1946
Abingdon Press
Edition uncertain
no further editions, printings noted

 

The Fat Baron
Written by Clip Boutell
Pictures by Frank Lieberman

c.1946
Houghton Mifflin
Apparent First Edition

 

 

Chicken Little
Count to Ten
B
y Margaret Frisky
Pictures by Katherine Evans

c.1946

 

 

 

Red Mittens
Story and Pictures
by Laura Bannon

c. 1946
Houghton Mifflin
1965 First Cadmus Edition
E. M. Hale and Company

 

*** White Snow Bright Snow
Alvin Tresselt
Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin

c.1947
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Inc
Fourteenth Printing, Feb 1963

 

 

* Stone Soup
by Marcia Brown

c 1947

Further information uncertain
(title page missing)
Further links about Author:
Images from Collection
Marcia Brown

 

Jolly Blue Boat
Story and Pictures
 by John and Jane Courtright

c.1947
Children's Press
1962 edition, third printing

 

 

The Smart Little Boy
 and His Smart Little Kitty
Story by Louise Woodcock
Pictures by Lucienne Bloch

c. 1947
William R. Scott, Inc.
1961 First Cadmus Edition
E. M. Hale and Company

 

*** The Big Snow
by Berta and Elmer Hader

c.1948, 1976
Macmillan Publishing Co
First Scholastic Printing, 1990

 

Smudge
Story and Pictures
by Clare Turlay Newberry

c.1948
Harper & Brothers Publishers
Special Cadmus Edition
E. M. Hale and Company

 

Mary Ann's First Picture
Written and Illustrated
by Winifred Bromhall

c. 1948
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Special Cadmus Edition
E. M. Hale and Company

 

Country Fireman
Written by Jerrold Beim
Illustrated by Leonard Shortfall

c. 1948
William Morrow & Company
Apparent First Edition

No further editions/
printings noted

 

*** Song of the Swallows
by Leo Politi

c.1948/1949
Charles Scribner's Sons
Aladdin Books Edition, paperback

 


* The Happy Day
by Ruth Krauss
Pictures by Marc Simont

c. 1949
Harper, Row, Publishers
Scholastic Book Services
 4th printing

 

 

The Smallest Boy in the Class
by Jerrold Beim
Illustrated by Meg Wohlberg

c.1949
William Morrow
Apparent First Edition
 No further editions/printings noted

 

The Picture Book of Illinois
Story by Bernadine Bailey
Pictures by Kurt Wiese

c. 1949
Albert Whitman and Company
First Edition

 

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