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Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal |
All items prefixed with an asterisk (*) are held by James G. Gee Library, Texas A&M University--Commerce
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a bronze medal, honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. Between 1960 and 1980, the Wilder Award was given every five years. Since 1983, it has been awarded every three years.
2001 Award Winners: Milton Meltzer
(Books in Shelved Order)
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime [No Holding]
*In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro [Yth 301.451 M496i]
*Time of Trial, Time of Hope, the Negro in America 1919-1941 [Yth 301. 451 M4964t]
*The Terrorists [Yth 303.6 M496t]
*The Hispanic Americans [Yth 305.8 M496h]
*All Times, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery [Juv 306.3 M496a]
*The Human Rights Book [Yth 323.4 M496h 1979]
*Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers
[Yth 327.3 M496a]
*The Amazing Potato: A Story in Which the Incas, Conquistadors, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Jefferson, Wars, Famines, Immigrants and French Fries All Play a Part [Juv 635 M496a]
*The Eye of Conscience: Photographers and Social Change [Yth 778.9 M496e]
*Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment (co-authored with Langston Hughes) [Yth 790.2 H874b]
Ten Queens: Portraits of Women of Power
[Juv. 920.72 M496t]
*Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust [Yth 940.53 M496n]
*Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust [Yth 940.53 M496r]
*The Black American: A History in Their Own Words (ed. by Meltzer)
The Jewish-Americans: A History in Their Own Words—1650-1950 [Yth 973 M496bj]
Milestone to American Liberty [Yth 973 M496m]
*Hunted Like a Wolf: The Story of the Seminole War [Yth 973.5 M496h]
*Columbus and the World Around Him [Yth Bio C722m]
*Langston Hughes: A Biography [Yth Bio H874m]
*Thomas Jefferson: The Revolutionary Aristocrat [Yth Bio J35m]
*Milestone to American Liberty: The Foundation of the Republic [Mains Stacks E173 .M37]
*Nonfiction for the Classroom: Milton Meltzer on Writing, History, and Social Responsibility [Main Stacks E175 .M45 1994]
*Remember the Days: A Short History of the Jewish American [Main Stacks E184 .J5 M45]
*A Pictorial History of the Negro in America (co-authored with Langston Hughes) [Main stacks E185 .H83 1968]
*Mark Twain Himself [Main Stacks PS 1331 .M38]
*Child, Lydia Maria Francis 1802-1880 (ed. by Meltzer)[Main stacks--PS1293.z5 A4 1982]
*A Thoreau Profile [Main Stacks PS3053 .M4 1962]
*Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life [Main Stacks Tr140 .L344 1978]
1998: Russell Freedman
*Animal Instincts [Juv 591.5 F877a]
*Animal Fathers [Juv 596 F875a]
*2000 Years of Space Travel [Yth 629.455 F875t]
*Buffalo Hunt [Juv 970 F875B]
*Children of the Wild West [Juv 978 F875b]
*Cowboys of the Wild West [Juv 978 F875c]
*Eleanor Roosevelt [Yth Bio R71fr]
*Franklin Delano Roosevelt [Yth Bio R67zf]
*Babe Didrikson Zaharias [Juv Bio Za13f]
1999: Virginia Hamilton
*Arilla Sun Down [Yth H183a]
*The Ali Jahdu Storybook [Juv H183al]
*Cousins [Yth H183c]
*Drylongso [Juv H183Dr]
*Anthony Burns [Yth 301.45 D852w]
*Her Stories [Juv 398.2 H18h]
*Discover New Ways . . . Centers, Tasks, Games [Curr Lib 372.1 H18d]
1992: Marcia Brown
*All Butterflies [Juv B81a]
*The Blue Jackal [Juv B8143b]
*Felice [Juv B8143f]
*How, Hippo [Juv B8143h]
*Henry, Fisherman [Juv B8142h]
*Listen to a Shape [Juv 153.7 B814l]
*Peter Piper’s Alphabet [Juv 811 B798p]
*Lotus Seeds [Main Stacks NC9755 .B74Az]
1989: Elizabeth George Speare
*The Bronze Bow [Yth Sp31b Newbery]
*Calico Captive [Yth Sp31c]
*The Sign of the Beaver [Juv Sp31s]
*The Witch of Blackbird Pond [Juv Sp31w Newbery]
*Life in Colonial America [Juv 917.3 Sp31l]
1986: Jean Fritz
Brady [Juv F919b]
The Cabin Faced West [Juv F919c]
Early Thunder [Juv F919e]
The Good Giants and the Bad Pukwudgies [Juv F919g]
China Homecoming [Yth 951.2 F919c]
China’s Long March [Yth 951.04 F919c]
And Then What Happened [Juv 973.3 F919a]
I, Adam [Juv F919li]
The Great Little Madison [Juv Bio M263f]
Bully for you, Teddy Roosevelt [Juv Bio R67Fr]
The Double Life of Pocahontas [Juv Bio P75f]
1983: Maurice Sendak
(Authored by Maurice Sendak)
*Alligators All Around: An Alphabet [Juv Se 55a]
*Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months [Juv Se 55c]
*Hector Protector, and As I Went Over the Water [Juv Se55e]
*Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or, There Must be More to Life [Juv Se55h]
*In the Night Kitchen [Juv Se55i]
*One was Johnny: A Counting Book [Juv Se55o]
*Outside Over There [Juv Se55ou]
*Pierre; A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and A Prologue [Juv Se55p]
*The Sign on Rosie’s [Juv Se55s]
*Where the Wild Things Are [Juv Se55w]
*We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes [Juv Se55we]
*Caldecott and Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures [Main Stacks Pn1009. A15426]
*Pictures by Maurice Sendak [Main Stacks Wc975.5 S44A5]
*Nutshell Library [Pzy .S47w4 Archive—Non-Circ]
(Illustrated by Maurice Sendak)
None given this year
1980: Theodor S. Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
*And to Think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street [Juv G27a]
*Bartholomew and the Cobleck [Juv G27b]
*The Butter Battle Book [Juv G27Bu]
*The Cat in the Hat [Juv G27c]
*The Cat in the Hat Comes Back [Juv G27Ca]
*Daisy-head Mayize [Juv G27Da]
*The Eye Book [Juv G27e]
*The Foot Book [Juv G27f]
*The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins [Juv G27Fi]
1975: Beverly Cleary
*Beezus and Ramona [Juv C58b]
*Dear Mr. Henshaw [Juv C58b Newbery]
*Ellen Tebbits [Juv C58e]
*Henry Huggins [Juv C58h]
*Henry and the Clubhouse [Juv C58hc]
*Henry and Ribsy [Juv C58he]
*Henry and Beezus [JuvC58hen]
*Jean and Johnny [Yth C58j]
*The Luckiest Girl [Juv C58l]
*The Mouse and the Motorcycle [Juv C58m]
*Mitch and Amy [Juv C58mi]
*The Real Hole [Juv C58o]
*Otis Spofford [Juv C58ot]
*Henry and the Paper Route [Juv C58p]
*Ribsy [Juv C58r]
*Ramona and Her Father [Juv C58ra]
*Ralph S. Mouse [Juv C58 ral]
*Ramona Forever [Juv C58rar]
*Ramona the Brave [Juv C58rb]
*Ramona the Pest [Juv C58ro]
*Ramona Quimby, age 8 [Juv C58rq]
*Runaway Ralph [Juv C58run]
*Socks [C58so]
*Strider [Juv C58st]
*A Girl from Yamhill [Yth Bio C58]
1970: E[lywn] B[rooks] White
*Trumpet of the Swan [Juv W58lt]
*Charlotte’s Web [Juv W58lc]
*Letters of E.B. White [Yth 818.5 W582l]
1965: Ruth Sawyer
*The Christmas Anna Angel [Juv Sa9c]
*The Enchanted Schoolhouse [Juv Sa9e]
*Journey Cake, Ho! [Juv Sa9j]
*Joy to the World [JuvSa9jo]
*The Long Christmas [JuvSa9l]
*The Least One [Juv Sa9le]
*The Little Red Horse [JuvSa9lt]
*Maggie Rose [JuvSa9m]
*My Spain [Main Stacks Bp42.S29]
*Folkhouse, the Autobiography of a Name [Main Stacks Pze.Sz7zfk]
1960: Clara Ingram Judson
*Andrew Carnegie [Juv Bio C215i]
*Benjamin Franklin [Juv Bio F85i]
*Boat Builder [Yth Bio F959i]
*Mr. Justice Holmes [Yth Bio H732i]
*Andrew Carnegie, Frontier Statesman [Yth Bio J13ju]*The Green Ginger Jar [Yth J926]
*Petar’s Treasure [Juv Ja2p]
*City Neighbor [Juv 923.673 Ja 22c]
*Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People [Juv Bio L63i]*George Washington [Juv Bio W27i]
1954: Laura Ingalls Wilder
*By the Shores of Silver Lake [Juv W64b]
*Little House in the Big Woods [Yth W64c]
*Farmer Boy [Juv W64f]
*The First Four Years [Juv W64i]
*Little Town on the Prairie [Juv W64li]
*On the Banks of Plum Creek [Juv W64o]
*A Little House Sampler [Ps3545 I342z415 1988]
This page compiled by Marsha Keenan Last update February 2002