| | Caldecott Medal Winners 1938 - 1958

- 1938 Lathrop, Dorothy P. Animals of the Bible. J 220.8 LAT
- 1939 Handforth, Thomas. Mei Li. E HAN
- 1940 D'Aulaire, Ingri, and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire. Abraham Lincoln. JB LINCOLN 1957
- 1941 Lawson, Robert. They Were Good and Strong. E LAW
- 1942 McCloskey, Robert. Make Way for Ducklings. E MCC
- 1943 Burton, Virginia Lee. The LIttle House. J Burton
- 1944 Slobodkin, Louis. Many Moons, by JamesThurber. J THURBER
- 1945 Jones, Elizabeth Orton. Prayer for a Child, by Rachel Lyman Field. J 249 Fie
- 1946 Petersham, Maud, and Miska Petersham. The Rooster Crows. J 811 PET
- 1947 Weisgard, Leonard. The Little Island, by Golden MacDonald. E MAC
- 1948 Duvoisin, Roger. White Snow, Bright Snow, by Alvin R. Tresselt. J TRE
- 1949 Hader, Berta, and Elmer Hader. The Big Snow. E HAD
- 1950 Politi, Leo. The Song of the Swallows. E POL
- 1951 Milhous, Katherine. The Egg Tree. J MILHOUS
- 1952 Mordvinoff, Nicolas. Finders Keepers, by William Lipkind. E LIP
- 1953 Ward, Lynd K. The Biggest Bear. E WAR
- 1954 Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madelein's Rescue. E BEM
- 1955 Brown, Marcia. Cinderella; or, the Little Glass Slipper. J 398 CIN
- 1956 Rojankovsky, Feodor. Frog Went A-Courtin', by John Langstaff. E LAN
- 1957 Simont, Marc. A Tree Is Nice, by Janice May Udry. E UDR
- 1958 McCloskey, Robert. Time of Wonder. E MCC
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