Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

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 same book shelf.

Winners of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

*1958 – Carol Ryrie Brink for " Caddie Woodlawn "
*1958 – Catherine Cate Coblentz for " Blue Cat of Castle Town "
*1958 – James Cloyd Bowman for " Pecos Bill The Greatest Cowboy of All Time "
*1958 – Rachel Field for " Prayer for a Child "
*1958 – Richard & Florence Atwater for " Mr. Popper's Penguins "
*1958 – Wanda Gag for " Millions of Cats "
*1959 – Alice Dalgliesh for " The Courage of Sarah Noble "
*1959 – Kate Seredy for "The White Stag "
*1960 – Elizabeth Foreman Lewis for " Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze "
*1960 – Joseph Krumgold for " Onion John "
*1960 – Walter D. Edmonds for " The Matchlock Gun "
*1961 – Doris Gates for " Blue Willow "
*1961 – Marguerite De Angeli for " The Door in the Wall "
*1961 – Marguerite Henry for " Misty of Chincoteague "
*1961 – Rachel Field for " Hitty, Her First Hundred Years "
*1961 – Scott O'Dell for " Island of the Blue Dolphins "
*1962 – Charles Boardman Hawes for " The Dark Frigate "
*1962 – Holling C. Holling for " Paddle-to-the-Sea "
*1962 – Leclaire Alger, Sorche Nic Leodhas for " "
*1963 – Cornelia Meigs for " "
*1963 – Eloise Jarvis McGraw for " Moccasin Trail "
*1963 – George Selden, Garth Williams for " The Cricket in Times Square "
*1963 – Meindert Dejong for " The Wheel on the School "
*1963 – Robert Lawson for " Rabbit Hill "
*1963 – Pauline Clarke for "The Twelve and the Genii"
*1963 - Jean Merrill for "The Superlative Horse"cite web
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*1964 – Harold Keith for " Rifles for Watie "
*1964 – Sterling North for " "
*1965 – Irene Hunt for " Across Five Aprils "
*1965 – Jean Craighead George for " My Side of the Mountain "
*1965 – Madeleine L'Engle for " A Wrinkle in Time "
*1965 – Will James for " "
*1965 - Jean Merrill for "The Pushcart War"
*1966 – James Ramsey Ullman for " Banner in the Sky "
*1966 – Marcia Brown for " "
*1968 – E.L. Konigsburg for " From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler "
*1968 – Ruth Stiles Gannett for " My Father's Dragon "
*1970 – Elizabeth Enright for " Gone-Away Lake "
*1970 – Julius Lester for " To Be a Slave "
*1970 – Phillip Viereck for " The Summer I Was Lost "
*1970 – Randall Jarrell for " The Animal Family "
*1970 – Theodore Taylor for " The Cay "
*1970 – William H. Armstrong for " Sounder "
*1970 – Zilpha Keatley Snyder for " The Egypt Game "
*1971 – Esther Hautzig for " "
*1971 – Mary Q. Steele for " Journey Outside "
*1971 – Sheila Burnford for " The Incredible Journey "
*1972 – Julia Cunningham for " Dorp Dead "
*1972 – Robert C. O'Brien for " Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh "
*1972 – Virginia Hamilton for " The Planet of Junior Brown "
*1973 – Nancy Ekholm Burkert for " "
*1973 – Gerald McDermott for " "
*1976 – Babbis Friis-Baastad for " Don't Take Teddy "
*1976 – Virginia Hamilton for " M. C. Higgins, the Great "
*1977 – William Steig for " Abel's Island "
*1978 – Ilse Koehn for " "
*1978 – Julia Cunningham for " Come to the Edge "
*1978 – Katherine Paterson for " Bridge to Terabithia "
*1978 – Natalie Babbitt for " Tuck Everlasting "
*1978 – Norma Fox Mazer for " Dear Bill, Remember Me? "
*1978 – Peter Spier for " Noah's Ark "
*1978 – Sonia Levitin for " The No-Return Trail "
*1978 – William Steig for " Sylvester and the Magic Pebble "
*1979 – David Kherdian for " The Road From Home "
*1979 – Laurence Yep for " Dragonwings "
*1979 – Raymond Briggs for " The Snowman "
*1979 – Ursula K. Le Guin for " A Wizard of Earthsea "

References

External links

* [http://www.literatureplace.com/awards/award_title.asp?AwardTitleID=6 Incomplete list of 64 of the many more Lewis Carroll Shelf Award recipients from 1958 to 1979]
* [http://www.zeit.de/2006/24/KBE-Clarke-Beistck Article from "Der Zeit", mentioning "The Twelve and the Genii"′s award]
* [http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?bookaward=Lewis+Carroll+Shelf+Award Lewis Carroll Shelf Award at lovethebook]