Caldecott Award Winners 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. For more information about this awards and other literary awards go online to: http://www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html Back to Award Winning Reading

1938 j 220 L
Animals of the Bible - Helen Dean Fish/Dorothy P. Lathrop

1939 jE H
Mei Li - Thomas Handforth

1940 jB L
Abraham Lincoln - Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

1941 j 920 L
They Were Strong and Good - Robert Lawson

1942 jE M
Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey

1943 jE B
The Little House - Virginia Lee Burton

1944 jF T
Many Moons - James Thurber/Louis Slobodkin

1945 j 264 F
Prayer for a Child - Rachel Field/ Elizabeth Orton Jones

1946 j 398.8 P
The Rooster Crows - Maude and Mishka Petersham

1947 jE B
The Little Island - Margaret Wise Brown/ Leonard Weisgard

1948 jE T
White Snow, Bright Snow - Alvin Tresselt/Roger Duvoisin

1949 jE H
The Big Snow - Berta and Elmer Hader

1950 jE P
Song of the Swallows - Leo Politi

1951 jF M Holiday
The Egg Tree - Katherine Milhous

1952 jE W
Finders Keepers - Will Lipkind/Nicolas Mordvinoff

1953 jE W
The Biggest Bear - Lynd Ward

1954 jE B
Madeline's Rescue - Ludwig Bemelmans

1955 j 398.4 P
Cinderella - Charles Perrault/Marcia Brown

1956 jE R
Frog Went A-Courtin' - John Langstaff/Feodor Rojankowsky

1957 jE U
A Tree is Nice - Janice Udry/Marc Simont

1958 jE M
Time of Wonder - Robert McCloskey

1959 jE C
Chanticleer and the Fox - Geoffrey Chaucer/Barbara Cooney

1960 jE E Holiday
Nine Days to Christmas - Marie Hall Ets/Aurora Labastida

1961 j 398.2 R Holiday
Baboushka and the Three Kings - Ruth Robbins/Nicolas Sidjakov

1962 jE H
Once a Mouse - Hitopadesa/Marcia Brown

1963 jE K
The Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats

1964 jE S
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

1965 jE D
May I Bring A Friend? - Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

1966 jE L
Always Room for One More - Sorche Nic Leodhas/Nonny Hogrorian

1967 jE N
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine - Evaline Ness

1968 jE E
Drummer Hoff - Barbara and Ed Emberley

1969 jE R
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship - Arthur Ransome/Uri Shulevitz

1970 jE S
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble - William Steig

1971 jE H
Story A Story - Gail E. Haley

1972 jE H
One Fine Day - Nonny Hogrorian

1973 jE M
The Funny Little Woman - Arlene Mosel/Blair Lent

1974 j 398.2 Z
Duffy and the Devil - Harve and Margot Zemach

1975 j 398.2 M
Arrow to the Sun - Gerald McDermott

1976 j 398.2 A
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in A People's Ears - Verna Aardema

1977 j 960 M
Ashanti to Zulu - Margaret Musgrove

1978 jE R
Noah's Ark - Jacobus Revius

1979 jE G
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses - Paul Goble

1980 jE H
Ox-Cart Man - Donald Hall/Barbara Cooney

1981 jF L
Fables - Arnold Lobel

1982 jE V
Jumanji - Chris Van Allsburg

1983 jE C
Shadow - Blaise Cendrars/Marcia Brown

1984 j 629.13 P
The Glorious Flight - Alice and Martin Provensen

1985 j 398.2 H
Saint George and the Dragon - Margaret Hodges

1986 jE V Holiday
The Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg

1987 jE Y
Hey, Al - Arthur Yorinks/Richard Egielski

1988 jE Y
Owl Moon - Jane Yolen/John Schoenherr

1989 jE A
Song and Dance Man - Karen Ackerman/Stephen Gammell

1990 jE Y
Lon Po Po - Ed Young

1991 jE M
Black and White - David Macauley

1992 jE W
Tuesday - David Wiesner

1993 jE M
Mirette on the HighWire - Emily Arnold McCully

1994 jE S
Grandfather's Journey - Allen Say

1995 jE B
Smoky Night - Eve Bunting

1996 jE R
Officer Buck & Gloria - Peggy Ransome

1997 j398.2 W
Golem - David Wisniewski

1998 j 398.2 Z
Rapunzel - Paul O. Zelinsky

1999 jB B
Snowflake Bentley - Jacqueline Briggs Martin/Mary Azarian

2000 jE T
Joseph had a Little Overcoat - Simms Taback

2001 j973.099 S
So You Want to be President - Judith St. George/David Small

2002 The Three Pigs by David Wiesner Clarion/Houghton Mifflin

2003 jE R
My Friend Rabbit illustrated and written by Eric Rohmann 

2004 791.3G 
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Morticai Gerstein

2005 jE H  
Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes