Books/Award Winners

The Caldecott Medal

The Caldecott Medal is awarded by the American Library Association to recognize the artists who illustrate picture books for children.  All Caldecott Medal winners are wonderful children's books with impressive illustrations. 

 

 

 

 

 

2007 Caldecott Medal Winner

 

Flotsam

by David Wiesner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006 Caldecott Medal Winner

 

The Hello, Goodbye Window

by Norton Juster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005 Caldecott Medal Winner

 Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow

Books/HarperCollinsPublishers)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2004 Caldecott Medal Winner

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003 Caldecott Medal Winner

My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002 Caldecott Medal Winner

The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001 Caldecott Medal Winner

So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St. George (Philomel Books)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2000 Caldecott Medal Winner

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Simms Taback (Viking)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1999 Caldecott Medal Winner

Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1998 Caldecott Medal Winner

Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1997 Caldecott Medal Winner

Golem by David Wisniewski (Clarion)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1996 Caldecott Medal Winner

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1995 Caldecott Medal Winner

Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting (Harcourt)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1994 Caldecott Medal Winner

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine (Houghton)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1993 Caldecott Medal Winner

Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1992 Caldecott Medal Winner

Tuesday by David Wiesner (Clarion Books)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1991 Caldecott Medal Winner

 Black and White by David Macaulay (Houghton)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1990 Caldecott Medal Winner

Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young (Philomel)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1989 Caldecott Medal Winner

Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman (Knopf)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1988 Caldecott Medal Winner

Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen (Philomel)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1987 Caldecott Medal Winner

Hey, Al, illustrated by Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks (Farrar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1986 Caldecott Medal Winner

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1985 Caldecott Medal Winner

Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges (Little, Brown)

 

 

 

 

 

1984 Caldecott Medal Winner

The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen (Viking)

 

 

 

 

 

1983 Caldecott Medal Winner

Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown; original text in French: Blaise Cendrars (Scribner)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1982 Caldecott Medal Winner

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1981 Caldecott Medal Winner

Fables by Arnold Lobel (Harper)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1980 Caldecott Medal Winner

Ox-Cart Man, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald Hall (Viking)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1979 Caldecott Medal Winner

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble (Bradbury)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1978 Caldecott Medal Winner

Noah's Ark by Peter Spier (Doubleday)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1977 Caldecott Medal Winner

Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove (Dial)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1976 Caldecott Medal Winner

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema (Dial)

 

 

 

 

 

1975 Caldecott Medal Winner

Arrow to the Sun:  A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald McDermott (Viking)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1974 Caldecott Medal Winner

Duffy and the Devil, illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach (Farrar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1973 Caldecott Medal Winner

The Funny Little Woman, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene Mosel (Dutton)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1972 Caldecott Medal Winner

One Fine Day, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (Macmillan)

 

 

 

 

 

1971: A Story A Story, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (Atheneum)

 

 

 

1970 Caldecott Medal Winner Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Windmill Books)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1969: The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text: retold by Arthur Ransome (Farrar)

 

1968: Drummer Hoff, illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley (Prentice-Hall)

 

1967: Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness (Holt)

 

1966: Always Room for One More, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger] (Holt)

 

1965: May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor; text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (Atheneum)

 

 

 

1964 Caldecott Medal Winner

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Harper)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1963 Caldecott Medal Winner

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1962: Once a Mouse, retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown (Scribner)

 

1961: Baboushka and the Three Kings, illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text: Ruth Robbins (Parnassus)

 

1960: Nine Days to Christmas, illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida (Viking)

 

1959: Chanticleer and the Fox, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney (Crowell)

 

 

 

1958: Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Viking)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1957: A Tree Is Nice, illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry (Harper)

 

1956: Frog Went A-Courtin', illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff) (Harcourt)

 

1955: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown (Scribner)

 

 

 

1954: Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1953: The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward (Houghton)

 

1952: Finders Keepers, illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind] (Harcourt)

 

1951: The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous (Scribner)

 

1950: Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi (Scribner)

 

1949: The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader (Macmillan)

 

1948: White Snow, Bright Snow, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)

 

1947: The Little Island, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] (Doubleday)

 

1946: The Rooster Crows by Maude & Miska Petersham (Macmillan)

 

1945: Prayer for a Child, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field (Macmillan)

 

1944: Many Moons, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber (Harcourt)

 

1943: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton)

 

 

 

1942: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Viking)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1941: They Were Strong and Good, by Robert Lawson (Viking)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940: Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (Doubleday)

 

1939: Mei Li by Thomas Handforth (Doubleday)

 

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