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Caldecott Medal Winners With An Ohio Connection

Year
Title
Illustrator

1997 Honor

The Paperboy

Dav Pilkey

1994 Honor

In the Small, Small Pond

Denise Fleming

1958

Time of Wonder

Robert McCloskey

1954 Honor

Journey Cake, Ho!

Robert McCloskey

1953 Honor

One Morning in Maine

Robert McCloskey

1942

Make Way for Ducklings

Robert McCloskey

Newbery Medal Winners With An Ohio Connection

Year
Title
Author

2001

The Wanderer

Sharon Creech

1995

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

1993

Missing May

Cynthia Rylant

1989 Honor

In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World

Virginia Hamilton

1987 Honor

A Fine White Dust

Cynthia Rylant

1983 Honor

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Virginia Hamilton

1977

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

1975

M.C. Higgins, the Great

Virginia Hamilton

1972 Honor

Incident at Hawk's Hill

Allan W. Eckert

1972 Honor

Planet of Junior Brown

Virginia Hamilton

1971 Honor

Knee Knock Rise

Natalie Babbitt

1946

Strawberry Girl

Lois Lenski

1942 Honor

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison

Lois Lenski

1937 Honor

Phebe Fairchild: Her Book

Lois Lenski

 

Ohioana Award Winners

Year
Title
Author

2002

The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin

James Cross Giblin

2001

Betsy Zane: The Rose of Fort Henry

Lynda Durrant

1999

The Beaded Moccasins: The Story of Mary Campbell

Lynda Durrant

1998

The Heart Is Big Enough

Michael J. Rosen

1997

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales

Virginia Hamilton

1996

The King's Shadow

Elizabeth Alder

1995

Jericho

Janet Hickman

1994

In the Small, Small Pond

Denise Fleming

1992

Appalachia: the Voices of Sleeping Birds

Cynthia Rylant

1990

But I'll Be Back Again

Cynthia Rylant

1991

With a Name Like Lulu, Who Needs More Trouble?

Tricia Springstubb

1989

The Tsar and the Amazing Cow

J. Patrick Lewis

1987

The Lotus Cup

Jane Louise Curry

1984

(for her body of work)

Virginia Hamilton

1982

Another Heaven, Another Earth

H. M. Hoover

1981

The Liberation of Tansy Warner

Stephanie S. Tolan

1980

(for her body of work)

Andre Norton

1978

Poor Tom's Ghost

Jane Louise Curry

1977

Deep in the Forest & Island Time

Brinton Turkle

1977

Island Time

Brinton Turkle

1976

Witch of the Cumberlands

Mary Jo Stephens

1972

Winds

Mary O'Neill

1971

Dave's Song

Robert McKay

1970

The Norman Rockwell Storybook

Jan Wahl

1969

The House of Dies Drear

Virginia Hamilton

1968

Focus the Bright Land

Elisabeth H. Friermood

1967

Walk a Narrow Bridge

Dale H. Fife

1963

Seven-Day Magic

Edward M. Eager

1962

(for her body of work)

Marguerite Vance

1961

Old Ramon

Jack W. Schaefer

1960

The Gammage Cup

Carol Kendall

1959

America's Own Mark Twain

Jeanette Eaton

1958

Time of Wonder

Robert McCloskey

1957

Knight's Castle

Edward M. Eager

1956

The Fabulous Firework Family

James Flora

1955

Prehistoric Animals

William E. Scheele

1954

Tinker's Tim & the Witches

Bertha C. Anderson

1952

Enter David Garrick

Anna Bird Stewart

1950

Island Summer

Hazel Wilson

1950

Sword in Sheath

Andre Norton

1950

Song of the Pines

Marion Havighurst

1949

Blueberries for Sal

Robert McCloskey

1949

Boom Town Boy

Lois Lenski

1948

Li Lun, Lad of Courage

Carolyn Treffinger

1948

David Livingstone, Foe of Darkness

Jeanette Eaton

1947

The Snow Owl's Secret

Harriet Evatt

1947

Meriwether Lewis, Boy Explorer

Charlotta Bebenroth

1946

The White Deer

James Thurber

1946

Splasher

Alice Crew Gall

1945

Mount Delightful

Eleanor Youmans

1945

The Great Quillow

James Thurber

1945

One God: The Way We Worship Him

Florence M. Fitch

1944

Bayou Suzette

Lois Lenski

1943

Mr. Trotter and the Five Black Cat

Eleanor Thomas

1943

Bibi: The Baker's Horse

Anna Bird Stewart

1943

The Great Lakes

Marie Emilie Gilchrist

Alice Louise Wood Memorial Award

A monetary award to an author whose body of work has made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to literature for children or young adults.

Year
Author

2002

Louise Borden

2000

Pat Mora

1999

Angela Johnson

1998

Tracey E. Dils

1997

Michael J. Rosen

1996

Denise Fleming

1995

Bonnie Pryor

1994

Natalie Babbitt

1993

Cynthia Rylant

1992

Virginia Hamilton

1991

Mildred D. Taylor

Buckeye Children's Book Award Winners with an Ohio Connection

The Buckeye Children's Book Award program is designed to encourage children in Ohio to read literature critically, to promote teacher and librarian involvement in children's literature programs, and to commend authors of such literature. The winners are nominated and chosen by Ohio children.

Year
Title
Author

Grades

2003

Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman: The Fifth Epic Novel

Dav Pilkey

Grades 3-5

2001

Adventures of Captain Underpants

Dav Pilkey

Grades 3-5

1997

Dogzilla

Dav Pilkey

Grades K-2

1997

Haunted Mask

R.L. Stine

Grades 3-5

1983

Grandpa's Ghost Stories

James Flora

Grades K-2

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