Leo and Diane Dillon
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Leo (March 2, 1933 – May 26, 2012) and Diane Dillon (née Sorber; born March 13, 1933) were an American husband and wife team of illustrators. They won two consecutive Caldecott Medals (for Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears and Ashanti To Zulu: African Traditions); the couple remain the only two individuals to have won two consecutive Cadlecott Medals.
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Picture books illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
- 1970 The Ring in the Prairie - Author: John Bierhorst / Dial Press
- 1972 Honey, I Love - Author: Eloise Greenfield / Viking
- 1974 Whirlwind Is a Ghost Dancing - Compiled by: Natalia Maree Belting / Dutton
- 1974 Songs and Stories from Uganda - Authors: W. Moses Serwadda, Hewitt Pantaleoni / World Music Press
- 1974 The Third Gift - Author: Jan R. Carew / Little Brown
- 1975 The Hundred Penny Box - Author: Sharon Bell Mathis / Viking
- 1975 Song of the Boat - Author: Lorenz B. Graham / Crowell
- 1976 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears - Author: Verna Aardema / Dial Press
- 1977 Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions - Author: Margaret Musgrove / Dial Press
- 1977 Who’s in Rabbit’s House: A Masai Tai - Author: Verna Aardema / Dial Press
- 1980 Two Pair of Shoes - Author: P.L. Travers / Viking Press
- 1980 Children of the Sun - Author: Jan R. Carew / Little Brown
- 1985 Brother to the Wind - Author: Mildred Pitts Walter / Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
- 1986 All in a Day Authors: Mitsumasa Anno, Raymond Briggs / Hamish Hamilton (London) (Translation of: Marui chiky¯u no maru ichinichi.) - illustrations by 10 artists, including the Dillons
- 1987 The Porcelain Cat - Author: Hearn, Michael Patrick Little Brown
- 1989 The Color Wizard - Author: Barbara Brenner / Bantam Little Rooster
- 1990 The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks - Author: Katherine Paterson / Lodestar
- 1990 Aïda - Author: Leontyne Price / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- 1991 The Race of the Golden Apples - Author: Claire Martin / Dial Books for Young Readers
- 1991 Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch - Author: Nancy Willard / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- 1992 Northern Lullaby - Author: Nancy White Carlstrom / Putnam
- 1992 Switch on the Night - Author: Ray Bradbury / Knopf
- 1993 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice - Author: Nancy Willard / Scholastic/Blue Sky Press
- 1994 What Am I ? - Author: N.N. Charles Scholastic/Blue Sky Press
- 1997 To Everything There is a Season Authors: L&D Dillon / Scholastic/Blue Sky Press
- 1999 Wind Child - Author: Shirley Rousseau Murphy / HarperCollins
- 2000 Switch on the Night reissued - Author: Ray Bradbury / Knopf
- 2000 The Girl Who Spun Gold - Author: Virginia Hamilton / Scholastic/Blue Sky Press
- 2001 Two Little Trains - Author: Margaret Wise Brown / HarperCollins
- 2002 Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles—Think of That - Authors and Illustrators: Leo and Diane Dillon / Scholastic/Blue Sky Press
- 2003 One Winter’s Night - Author: John Herman / Philomel
- 2004 Where Have You Been? - Author: Margaret Wise Brown / HarperCollins
- 2005 The People Could Fly - The Picture Book
- 2005 Earth Mother - Author: Ellen B. Jackson / Walker & Company
- 2006 Whirlwind is a Spirit Dancing - Author: Natalia Maree Belting; Bruchac, Joseph / Milk & Cookies Press (NOTE: illustrations reprinted from 1974 title, Whirlwind is a Ghost Dancing)
- 2007 Mother Goose numbers on the loose / Harcourt
- 2007 Jazz on a Saturday Night / Blue Sky Press
- 2009 The Secret River - Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings / Atheneum Books for Young Readers (reissue)
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Chapter books illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
- 1964 The Sea and the Jungle - Author:H. M. Tomilson / Time/ Time Reading Program Special Edition
- 1964 Hakon of Rogen’s Saga - Author: Erik Christian Haugaard / Houghton Mifflin
- 1965 A Slave’s Tale Haugaard - Author: Erik Christian Haugaard / Houghton Mifflin
- 1967 Claymore and Kilt - Author: Sorche Nic Leodhas Holt, Rinehart, Winston
- 1968 Shamrock and Spear Pilkington Holt, Rinehart, Winston
- 1968 The Rider and His Horse - Author: Erik Christian Haugaard / Houghton Mifflin
- 1971 The Untold Tale - Author: Erik Christian Haugaard / Houghton Mifflin
- 1971 The Search Murray/Thomas Scholastic
- 1974 Burning Star - Author: Eth Clifford / Houghton Mifflin
- 1977 The Planets / Time Life books
- 1979 A Wrinkle In Time-Madeleine L'Engle
- 1985 The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales - Author: Virginia Hamilton / Knopf
- 1988 Sing A Song of Popcorn de Regniers Scholastic
- 1989 Moses’ Ark Bach/Exum Delacourte
- 1991 Miriam’s Well - Authors: Alice Bach, J Cheryl Exum / Delacourte Press
- 1992 Many Thousand Gone - Author: Virginia Hamilton / Knopf
- 1993 It's Kwaanza Time Goss Putnam
- 1995 Her Stories - Author: Virginia Hamilton / Scholastic/Blue Sky Press
- 1997 The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese - Author: Howard A. Norman / Harcourt Brace & Co
- 2000 20,000 League Under the sea - Author: Jules Verne / HarperCollins
- 2001 Mansa Musa - Author: Khephra Burns / Harcourt Brace & Co
- 2004 Between Heaven and Earth: Bird Tales From Around The World - Author: Howard A. Norman / Harcourt Brace & Co
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