Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

Other Names: Lewis Caroll Shelf Award
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The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award was given annually from 1958 to 1979 to books deemed to possess enough of the qualities of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll to enable them to sit on the show more same book shelf. show less
Categories:
All, illustrator (1), No Category (73)
Years:
All, 1979 (5), 1978 (8), 1977 (1), 1976 (2), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (3), 1971 (3), 1970 (7), 1968 (3), 1966 (2), 1965 (6), 1964 (3), 1963 (7), 1962 (3), 1961 (5), 1960 (3), 1959 (3), 1958 (6)
WorkCategoryYear
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
1979
The Road From Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival and Hope by David Kherdian
1979
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
1979
The Island of the Grass King: The Further Adventures of Anatole by Nancy Willard
1979
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
1979
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
1978
Come to the edge by Julia Cunningham
1978
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany by Ilse Koehn
1978
The No-Return Trail by Sonia Levitin
1978
Dear Bill, Remember Me by Norma Mazer
1978
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
1978
Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
1978
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
1978
Abel's Island by William Steig
1977
Don't Take Teddy by Babbis Friis-Baastad
1976
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
1976
Sailing to Cythera, and Other Anatole Stories by Nancy Willard
1974
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
1974
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott
1973
Dorp Dead by Julia Cunningham
1972
The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton
1972
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
1972
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
1971
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig
1971
Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
1971
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
1970
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
1970
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
1970
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
1970
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1970
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
1970
The Summer I Was Lost, or Terror on the Mountain by Phillip Viereck
1970
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
1968
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
1968
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
1968
Once a Mouse... by Marcia Brown
1966
Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
1966
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
1965
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
1965
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
1965
Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
1965
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
1965
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
1965
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1964
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
1964
Rascal by Sterling North
1964
The Return of the Twelves by Pauline Clarke
1963
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
1963
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
1963
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
1963
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
1963
The Superlative Horse: A Tale of Ancient China by Jean Merrill
1963
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
1963
The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
1962
Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling
1962
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas
1962
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
1961
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
1961
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
1961
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
1961
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
1961
A penny a day by Walter De la Mare
illustrator1960
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
1960
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
1960
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
1960
The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop
1959
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
1959
The White Stag by Kate Seredy
1959
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
1958
Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time by James Cloyd Bowman
1958
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
1958
The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Cate Coblentz
1958
Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field
1958
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
1958
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