Picture book
In 1938, the American Library Association (ALA) began presenting annually the Caldecott Medal to the most distinguished children's book illustration published in the year. The Caldecott Medal was established as a sister award to the ALA's Newbery Medal, which was awarded to a children's books "for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year" and presented annually beginning in 1922. During the mid-forties to early fifties, honorees included Marcia Brown, Barbara Cooney, Roger Duvoisin, Berta and Elmer Hader, Robert Lawson, Robert McCloskey, Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak, Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Leo Politi, Tasha Tudor, and Leonard Weisgard.
John Moore Caldicott
Caldicott was made Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 9 June 1955 and appointed Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the British Empire in the Queen's New Year's Honours list of 1964. He was granted retention of the title Honourable from 31 December 1963, having served for more than three years as Ministers of the Federal Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.