Caldecott Medal-winning Books

The Randolph Caldecott Medal
 The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

Caldecott Medal and Honor book winners are listed for the last five years followed by the Medal winners for 1938-2000

2006 Winner - The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster; illustrated by Chris Raschka

2006 Honor Books:
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni; illustrated by Bryan Collier
Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth
Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride by Marjorie Priceman
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems by Joyce Sidman; illustrated by Beckie Prange

2005 Winner - Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes

2005 Honor Books:
The Red Book by Barbara Lehman
Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by E. B. Lewis 
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems

2004 Winner - The Man Who Walked Between the Towersby Mordicai Gerstein

2004 Honor Books:
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

2003 Winner - My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann

2003 Honor Books:
The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt; illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi
Hondo & Fabian by Peter McCarty
Noah's Ark by Jerry Pinkney

2002 Winner - The Three Pigs by David Wiesner

2002 Honor Books:
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley; illustrated by Brian Selznick
Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport; illustrated by Bryan Collier
The Stray Dog by Marc Simont

2001 Winner - So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George; illustrated by David Small

2001 Honor Books:
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer; illustrated by Christopher Bing
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin; illustrated by Betsy Lewin
Olivia by Ian Falconer

2000     Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback

1999    Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin; illustrated by Mary Azarian

1998    Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky

1997    Golem by David Wisniewski

1996    Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

1995    Smoky Night by Eve Bunting; illustrated by David Diaz

1994    Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

1993    Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully

1992    Tuesday David Wiesner  

1991    Black and White by David Macaulay

1990    Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young

1989    Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman; illustrated by Stephen Gammell

1988    Owl Moon by Jane Yolen; illustrated by John Schoenherr

1987    Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks; illustrated by Richard Egielski

1986    The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

1985    Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

1984    The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen

1983    Shadow by Marcia Brown (original text in French by Blaise Cendrars)

1982    Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

1981    Fables by Arnold Lobel

1980    Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall; illustrated by Barbara Cooney

1979    The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble

1978    Noah's Ark by Peter Spier

1977    Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove; illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon

1976    Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema; illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon

1975    Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott

1974    Duffy and the Devil by Harve Zemach; illustrated by Margot Zemach

1973    The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel; illustrated by Blair Lent

1972    One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian

1971    A Story A Story by Gail E. Haley

1970    Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

1969    The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by Arthur Ransome; illustrated by Uri Shulevitz

1968    Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley; illustrated by Ed Emberley

1967    Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness

1966    Always Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas; illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian

1965    May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers; illustrated by Beni Montresor 

1964    Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

1963    The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

1962    Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown

1961    Baboushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins; illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov

1960    Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida; illustrated by Marie Hall Ets

1959    Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney (adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales)

1958    Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey

1957    A Tree Is Nice by Janice Udry; illustrated by Marc Simont

1956    Frog Went A-Courtin' by John Langstaff; illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky

1955    Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper by Marcia Brown (translated from Charles Perrault)

1954    Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans

1953    The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward

1952    Finders Keepers by Will, pseud. (William Lipkind); illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff)

1951    The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous

1950    Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi

1949     The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader

1948    White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt; illustrated by Roger Duvoisin

1947    The Little Island by Golden MacDonald, pseud. (Margaret Wise Brown); illustrated by Leonard Weisgard

1946    The Rooster Crows by Maude & Miska Petersham

1945    Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field; illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones

1944    Many Moons by James Thurber; illustrated by Louis Slobodkin

1943    The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

1942    Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

1941    They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson

1940    Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

1939    Mei Li by Thomas Handforth

1938    Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book text selected by Helen Dean Fish; illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop

Last updated: December 19, 2005.

 

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