Lewis Carroll Shelf Award - Winners

Winners

1958

• Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) ‡
• Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908), originally unillustrated
• Hugh Lofting, The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920) ‡
• A. A. Milne, The World of Pooh —Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928), illus. E. H. Shepard
• Wanda Gág, Millions of Cats (1928) ‡
• Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could (1930), illus. Lois Lenski
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods (1932); originally unillustrated
• Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (1935), illus. Kate Seredy
• Glen Rounds, Ol' Paul, The Mighty Logger (1936) ‡
• James Cloyd Bowman, Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time (1937), illus. Laura Bannon
• Richard and Florence Atwater, Mr. Popper's Penguins (1938), illus. Robert Lawson
• Esphyr Slobodkina, Caps for Sale (1938) ‡
• Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg (1940) ‡
• Rachel Field, Prayer for a Child (1944), illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones who won the annual Caldecott Medal
• Catherine Cate Coblentz, The Blue Cat of Castle Town (1949), illus. Janice Holland
• Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom (1955), illus. Edward Ardizzone
• René Guillot, The 397th White Elephant (1957)

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1959

• Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (1911)
• Maj Lindman, Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Red Shoes; originally a Swedish series (1920s)
• Laura E. Richards, Tirra Lirra: New Rhymes and Old (1932)
• Jean de Brunhoff, Story of Babar (1933); originally French, Histoire de Babar (1931) ‡
• Kate Seredy, The White Stag (1937) ‡
• Claire Huchet Bishop, The Five Chinese Brothers (1938), illus. Kurt Wiese
• Armstrong Sperry, Call It Courage (1940) ‡
• Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House (1942) ‡
• Carolyn Treffinger, Li Lun, Lad of Courage (1947), illus. Kurt Wiese
• Leon Wilson, This Boy Cody (1950), illus. Ursula Koering
• E. B. White, Charlotte's Web (1952), illus. Garth Williams
• Alice Dalgliesh, The Courage of Sarah Noble (1954), illus. Leonard Weisgard
• Philippa Pearce, The Minnow Leads to Treasure (U.S.); originally Minnow on the Say (1955)

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1960

• Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book (1894), illus. John Lockwood Kipling
• L. Leslie Brooke, Johnny Crow's Garden: A Picture Book (1903) ‡
• Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (1932), illus. Kurt Wiese
• Walter D. Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun (1941), illus. Paul Lantz
• H. A. Rey and Margret Rey, Curious George Takes a Job (1947) ‡
• Mary Norton, The Borrowers (1952), illus. Diana Stanley (U.K.), Beth and Joe Krush (U.S., 1953)
• Kathleen Lines, compiler, Lavender's Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes (1954), illustrated by Harold Jones †
• Joseph Krumgold, Onion John (1959)
• Glen Rounds, The Blind Colt (1960) ‡

‡ illustrated by the author

† The British Library Association in 1955 gave illustrator Jones special commendation for its annual Carnegie Medal in Literature and established the companion Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration.

1961

• Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1929), illus. Dorothy P. Lathrop
• Robert H. Charles, A Roundabout Turn (1930), ill. L. Leslie Brooke
• Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937) ‡
• Robert Lawson, Ben and Me (1939) ‡
• Doris Gates, Blue Willow (1940), illus. Paul Lantz
• Eleanor Estes, The Moffats (1941), illus. Louis Slobodkin
• Marguerite Henry, Misty of Chincoteague (1947)
• Marguerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall (1949) ‡
• Erich Kästner, When I Was A Boy ( ); originally German, Als ich ein kleiner Junge war (1957) —autobiography
• René Guillot, Grishka and the Bear (1960), illus. Joan Kiddell-Monroe; originally French
• Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), originally unillustrated

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1962

• Hans Christian Andersen, "Thumbelina"; originally Danish, "Tommelise" (1835), illus. Vilhelm Pedersen
• Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), illus. E. W. Kemble
• Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester (1903) ‡
• Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate (1923)
• A. A. Milne, The World of Christopher Robin —When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927), illus. E. H. Shepard
• Robert Davis, Padre Porko: The Gentlemanly Pig (1939), illus. Fritz Eichenberg
• Holling C. Holling, Paddle-to-the-Sea (1941) ‡
• Louise Rankin, Daughter of the Mountains (1948), illus. Kurt Wiese
• C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (1950), illus. Pauline Baynes
• William O. Steele, Winter Danger (1954)
• Walter de la Mare, A Penny a Day (1960 collection), illus. Paul E. Kennedy
• Leo Lionni, Inch by Inch (1960) ‡
• Sorche Nic Leodhas, Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland (1962)

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1963

• Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863)
• Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation (1881), illus. Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser
• Frank R. Stockton, The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1885)
• Kenneth Grahame, "The Reluctant Dragon" (1898), illus. Maxfield Parrish
• Cornelia Meigs, Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women (1933), biography
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling (1938)
• Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill (1944) ‡
• Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Moccasin Trail (1952)
• Meindert DeJong, The Wheel on the School (1954), illus. Maurice Sendak
• Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden (1958), illus. Susan Einzig
• Rafaello Busoni, The Man Who Was Don Quixote: The Story of Miguel Cervantes (1958), biography
• Wilhelm Hauff, Dwarf Long Nose (1960), illus. Maurice Sendak; originally German, Der Zwerg Nase (18??)
• George Selden, The Cricket in Times Square (1960), illus. Garth Williams
• Jean Merrill, The Superlative Horse: A Tale of Ancient China (1961)
• Pauline Clarke, The Return of the Twelve (U.S.); originally The Twelve and the Genii (1962), illus. Cecil Leslie
• Shirley Glubok, The Art of Ancient Egypt (1962)
• Hertha Seuberlich, Annuzza: A Girl of Romania (1962); originally German 1961(?)

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1964

• Hans Christian Andersen, "The Nightingale"; originally Danish, "Nattergalen" (1843), illus. Vilhelm Pedersen
• Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess (1905)
• Félicité Lefèvre, The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen: An Old Tale Retold (1925)
• Will James, Smoky the Cowhorse (1927), originally unillustrated
• Marjorie Flack, The Story About Ping (1933), illus. Kurt Wiese
• Ruth Sawyer, Roller Skates (1936), illus. Valenti Angelo
• Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie (1957)
• Aline Glasgow, Old Wind and Liu Li-San (1962), illus. Bernard Glasgow
• Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (1962), illus. Ellen Raskin
• Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1963)
• Helga Sandburg, Joel and the Wild Goose (1963), illus. Daly & Max Studio
• Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (1963) ‡
• Louisa R. Shotwell, Roosevelt Grady (1963), illus. Peter Burchard
• Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War (1964), illus. Ronni Solbert
• Anthony Fon Eisen, Bond of the Fire (1965),), illus. W. T. Mars

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1965

• Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain (1959)
• Sterling North, Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era (1963)
• Irene Hunt, Across Five Aprils (1964), illus. Leroy Jenkins

1966

• Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses; originally Penny Whistles (1885)
• James Ramsey Ullman, Banner in the Sky (1954)
• Agnes Clifford Smith, An Edge of the Forest (1959)
• Peter Burchard, Jed, The Story of a Yankee Soldier and a Southern Boy (1960)
• Marcia Brown, Once a Mouse: A Fable Cut in Wood from Ancient India (1961) ‡

‡ illustrated by the author

1967

• 1967 - Rudyard Kipling, More Just So Stories
• 1967 - Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer (1876)

1968

• L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900); illus. W. W. Denslow
• Rose Dobbs, No Room: An old story (1944), illus. Fritz Eichenberg
• Ruth Stiles Gannett, My Father's Dragon (1948) ‡
• Margot Benary-Isbert, The Ark (1953); originally German, Die Arche Noah (1948)
• Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders, and Hugh Smith, eds., Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle (1966) —anthology of modern poetry
• William Mayne, Earthfasts (1966)
• Barbara Emberley, Drummer Hoff (1967), illustrated by Ed Emberley who won the Caldecott Medal
• E. L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967) ‡
• George Mendoza, The Hunter I Might Have Been (1968), photographs by DeWayne Dalrymple
• Brinton Turkle, The Fiddler of High Lonesome (1968) ‡
• Jane Yolen, The Emperor and the Kite (1968), illustrated by Ed Young who won the Caldecott Medal

‡ illustrated by the author

1969

• Hardie Gramatky, Little Toot (1939) ‡
• Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer (1942)
• Lucy M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe (1954)
• Sid Fleischman, McBroom Tells the Truth (1966), illus. Kurt Werth
• Edmund Carpenter, ed., The Story of Comock the Eskimo as told to Robert Flaherty (1968), with Eskimo sketches
• Weyman Jones, Edge of Two Worlds (1968), illus. J. C. Kocsis
• Mehlli Gobhai, Usha the Mouse Maiden (1969) ‡ —Indian folk tale retold
• Glen Rounds, Wild Horses of the Red Desert (1969) ‡

‡ illustrated by the author

1970

• Howard Pyle, Otto of the Silver Hand (1888) ‡
• Phil Stong, Honk the Moose (1935), illus. Kurt Wiese
• Oliver Butterworth, The Enormous Egg (1956), illus. Louis Darling
• Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake (1957), illus. Joe and Beth Krush
• Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960)
• Randall Jarrell, The Animal Family (1965), illus. Maurice Sendak
• Phillip Viereck, The Summer I Was Lost (1965)
• Betty Kelen, Gautama Buddha, In Life and Legend (1967) —biography
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Egypt Game (1967)
• Betsy Byars, The Midnight Fox (1968), illus. Ann Grifalconi
• Astrid Lindgren, The Tomten (Swedish; English 1968?), based on the 1881 poem by Viktor Rydberg, illus. Harald Wiberg —see also Tomte
• Julius Lester, compiler, To Be a Slave (1968), illus. Tom Feelings
• William H. Armstrong, Sounder (1969), illus. James Barkley
• Eilís Dillon, A Herd of Deer (1969), U.S. edition illus. Richard Kennedy
• Theodore Taylor, The Cay (1969)
• Jesse Stuart, Old Ben (1970), illus. Richard Cuffari

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1971

• Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Undine (German, 1811)
• James Weldon Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing (1899–1900), poetry
• Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit (1922). illus. William Nicholson
• Ellis Credle, Down, Down the Mountain (1934) ‡
• Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey (1961), illus. Carl Burger
• Reginald Ottley, Boy Alone (1966); originally By the sandhills of Yamboorah (1965), illus. Clyde Pearson
• Esther Hautzig, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia (1968) —memoir
• Kristin Hunter, The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou (1968)
• Mary Q. Steele, Journey Outside (1969), illus. Rocco Negri
• Duncan Emrich, compiler, The Nonsense Book of Riddles, Rhymes, Tongue Twisters, Puzzles, and Jokes from American Folklore (1970), illus. Ib Ohlsson
• Rosemary Sutcliff, The Witch's Brat (1970), illus. Richard Lebenson
• Ida Chittum, Farmer Hoo and the Baboons (1971), illus. Glen Rounds

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1972

• Hope Newell, The Little Old Woman Who Used Her Head (1935), illus. Margaret Ruse
• Virginia Kahl, The Duchess Bakes a Cake (1955) ‡
• Nina Kosterina, The Diary of Nina Kosterina (1968); originally Russian (1964)
• Julia Cunningham, Dorp Dead (1965), illus. James J. Spanfeller
• James D. Forman, Ceremony of Innocence (1970)
• William Pène du Bois, Bear Circus (1971) ‡
• Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown (1971)
• Russell Hoban, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1971), illus. Lillian Hoban
• Alexander Key, The Forgotten Door (1971)
• Robert C. O'Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971), illus. Zena Bernstein
• Jay Williams, The Hawkstone (1971)
• Julius Lester, Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History (1972) —anthology
• Yuri Suhl, Simon Boom Gives a Wedding (1972), illus. Margot Zemach

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1973

• Edward Ardizzone, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1936) ‡
• Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking (U.S. 1950, illus. Louis S. Glanzman; originally Swedish, Pippi Långstrump (1945), illus. Ingrid Nyman —first in a series
• Anne Holm, I am David (1969), first U.S. title, North to Freedom (1965); originally Danish, David (1963)
• Deborah Crawford, Four Women in a Violent Time (1970)
• Jean Russell Larson, Jack Tar (1970), illus. Mercer Mayer
• Marilyn Harris, The Runaway's Diary (1971)
• Charlotte Baker, Cockleburr Quarters (1972)
• Nancy Ekholm Burkert, illustrator, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Fairy Tale by the Brothers Grimm (1972); translated from the German Schneewittchen (1812)
• Julius Lester, The Knee High Man and Other Tales (1972), illus. Ralph Pinto —anthology
• Gerald McDermott, Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti (1972) ‡
• Jane Yolen, The Girl Who Loved the Wind (1972), illus. Ed Young
• Lynd Ward, illustrator, The Silver Pony: A Story in Pictures (1973) —no text

1974

1975

• Babbis Friis-Baastad, Don't Take Teddy (1967); originally Norwegian, Ikke ta Bamse (1964)
• Alice Childress, A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Sandwich (1973)
• Glen Rounds, The Day the Circus Came to Lone Tree (1973) ‡
• Harve Zemach, Duffy and the Devil (1973), illus. Margot Zemach
• Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974)
• Vera and Bill Cleaver, Dust of the Earth (1975)
• Norma Fox Mazer, Saturday, the Twelfth of October (1975)

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1976

1977

• Felice Holman, Slake's Limbo (1974)
• Nancy Willard, Sailing to Cythera and other Anatole Stories (1974), illus. David McPhail
• William Steig, Abel's Island (1976) ‡

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1978

• Verna Aardena, Who's In Rabbit's House?: A Masai Tale (1977), illus. Leo and Diane Dillon
• John Steptoe, Stevie (1969) ‡
• William Steig, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1970) ‡
• Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting (1975)
• Bettyanne Gray, Manya's Story (1976), later Manya's Story: Faith and Survival in Revolutionary Russia —biography
• Norma Fox Mazer, Dear Bill, Remember Me? and other stories (1976)
• Julia Cunningham, Come to the Edge (1977)
• Ilse Koehn, Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany (1977) —autobiography
• Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia (1977), illus. Donna Diamond
• Peter Spier, Noah's Ark (1977) ‡
• Sonia Levitin, The No-Return Trail (1978) —about the Bartleson–Bidwell Party, fictionalized
• Glen Rounds, Mr. Yowder and the Giant Bull Snake (1978) ‡

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1979

• Bernard Waber, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (1965) ‡
• Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), illus. Ruth Robbins
• Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War (1974)
• Laurence Yep, Dragonwings (1975)
• Raymond Briggs, illustrator, The Snowman (1978) ‡ —no text
• David Kherdian, The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl (1979) —biography
• Nancy Willard, The Island of the Grass King: The Further Adventures of Anatole (1979), illus. David McPhail

‡ illustrated by the author