Books in Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1958-1979), started at the University of Wisconsin, honored books judged worthy to sit on the shelf beside Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, meaning enduring classics. Honorees include fantasy, picture books, and classic novels (e.g., A Wizard of Earthsea, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, The Chocolate War). Readership ranges from preschool to teen.
1979
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier | Winner | Log In To Like |
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A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Island of the Grass King | Nancy Willard | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | Bernard Waber | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Road from Home | David Kherdian | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Snowman | Raymond Briggs | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Dragonwings | Laurence Yep | Winner | Log In To Like |
1978
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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The No-Return Trail | Sonia Levitin | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Mischling, Second Degree | Ilse Koehn | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Noah's Ark | Jacobus Revius | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Come to the Edge | Julia Cunningham | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Who's in Rabbit's House? | Verna Aardema | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Mr. Yowder and the Giant Bull Snake | Glen Rounds | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Manya's Story | Bettyanne Gray | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | William Steig | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Dear Bill, Remember Me? | Norma Fox Mazer | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Stevie | John Steptoe | Winner | Log In To Like |
1977
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Abel's Island | William Steig | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Sailing to Cythera and other Anatole Stories | Nancy Willard | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Slake's Limbo | Felice Holman | Winner | Log In To Like |
1976
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Duffy and the Devil | Harve Zemach | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Don't Take Teddy | Babbis Friis-Baastad | Winner | Log In To Like |
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M. C. Higgins, the Great | Virginia Hamilton | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Saturday, the Twelfth of October | Norma Fox Mazer | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Day the Circus Came to Lone Tree | Glen Rounds | Winner | Log In To Like |
1975
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Dust of the Earth | Vera and Bill Cleaver | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Pig-Tale | Lewis Carroll | Winner | Log In To Like |
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A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Sandwich | Alice Childress | Winner | Log In To Like |
1973
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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I Am David | Anne Holm | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain | Edward Ardizzone | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Anansi the Spider | Gerald McDermott | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Four Women in a Violent Time | Deborah Crawford | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Girl Who Loved the Wind | Jane Yolen | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Runaway's Diary | Marilyn Harris | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Cockleburr Quarters | Charlotte Baker | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Silver Pony | Lynd Ward | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Wanda Gág | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Jack Tar | Jean Russell Larson | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Knee High Man and Other Tales | Julius Lester | Winner | Log In To Like |
1972
1971
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Lift Every Voice and Sing | James Weldon Johnson | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Undine | Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Farmer Hoo and the Baboons | Ida Chittum | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Nonsense Book of Riddles... | Duncan Emrich | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Incredible Journey | Sheila Burnford | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Boy Alone | Reginald Ottley | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Witch's Brat | Rosemary Sutcliff | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Journey Outside | Mary Q. Steele | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Down, Down the Mountain | Ellis Credle | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Velveteen Rabbit | Margery Williams | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou | Kristin Hunter | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Endless Steppe | Esther Hautzig | Winner | Log In To Like |
1970
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Honk the Moose | Phil Stong | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Animal Family | Randall Jarrell | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Otto of the Silver Hand | Howard Pyle | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Cay | Theodore Taylor | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Egypt Game | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Gautama Buddha, In Life and Legend | Betty Kelen | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Summer I Was Lost | Phillip Viereck | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen | Alan Garner | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Gone-Away Lake | Elizabeth Enright | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Enormous Egg | Oliver Butterworth | Winner | Log In To Like |
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A Herd of Deer | Eilís Dillon | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Midnight Fox | Betsy Byars | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Sounder | William H. Armstrong | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Old Ben | Jesse Stuart | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Tomten | Astrid Lindgren | Winner | Log In To Like |
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To Be a Slave | Julius Lester | Winner | Log In To Like |
1969
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Usha the Mouse Maiden | Mehlli Gobhai | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Seventeenth Summer | Maureen Daly | Winner | Log In To Like |
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McBroom Tells the Truth | Sid Fleischman | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Story of Comock the Eskimo | Edmund Carpenter | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Wild Horses of the Red Desert | Glen Rounds | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Children of Green Knowe | Lucy M. Boston | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Edge of Two Worlds | Weyman Jones | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Little Toot | Hardie Gramatky | Winner | Log In To Like |
1968
1967
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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More Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | Winner | Log In To Like |
1966
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Banner in the Sky | James Ramsey Ullman | Winner | Log In To Like |
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An Edge of the Forest | Agnes Clifford Smith | Winner | Log In To Like |
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A Child's Garden of Verses | Robert Louis Stevenson | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Once a Mouse | Marcia Brown | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Jed | Peter Burchard | Winner | Log In To Like |
1965
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era | Sterling North | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Across Five Aprils | Irene Hunt | Winner | Log In To Like |
1964
1963
1962
1961
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Misty of Chincoteague | Marguerite Henry | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Door in the Wall | Marguerite de Angeli | Winner | Log In To Like |
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A Roundabout Turn | Robert H. Charles | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell | Winner | Log In To Like |
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When I Was A Little Boy | Erich Kästner | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Blue Willow | Doris Gates | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Grishka and the Bear | René Guillot | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Hitty, Her First Hundred Years | Rachel Field | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Moffats | Eleanor Estes | Winner | Log In To Like |
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And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street | Dr. Seuss | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Ben and Me | Robert Lawson | Winner | Log In To Like |
1960
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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The Blind Colt | Glen Rounds | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Onion John | Joseph Krumgold | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Curious George Takes a Job | H. A. Rey | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Matchlock Gun | Walter D. Edmonds | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Lavender's Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes | Kathleen Lines | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Elizabeth Foreman Lewis | Winner | Log In To Like |
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Johnny Crow's Garden: A Picture Book | L. Leslie Brooke | Winner | Log In To Like |
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The Borrowers | Mary Norton | Winner | Log In To Like |
