Caldecott Medal | |
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Awarded for | Most distinguished American picture book for children |
Presented by | Association for Library Service to Children |
Country | United States |
First awarded | 1938 |
Official website | Caldecott Medal - official page |
The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year. The award was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. The Caldecott and the Newbery Medals are the most prestigious American children's book awards.
The Caldecott Medal was designed by Rene Paul Chambellan in 1937. The scene on the face of the medal is derived from Randolph Caldecott's illustrations for The Diverting History of John Gilpin, in which Gilpin is astride a runaway horse. The story, in turn, was based on a poem from 1782 by William Cowper.[1][2] The reverse of the medal depicts another of Caldecott's illustrations, "Four and twenty blackbirds bak'd in a pie."
In addition to the Caldecott medal, the committee awards additional citations referred to as the Caldecott Honor to worthy runners-up.
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The committee that decides on the Caldecott Award winner comprises 15 members. 8 are elected by the entire membership of the ALSC and 7 members are appointed by the ALSC President, including the committee's chairperson.[4] Many publishers send committee members copies of books. In 2009 committee members each received more than 700 titles.[5] To help identify possible contenders, the chairperson will generally ask for committee members to identify strong contenders each month.[6] During fall, each member of the committee may formally nominate seven books.[5]
Note: Winners are highlighted in yellow.
Year | Illustrator | Book | Citation |
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1938 | Dorothy P. Lathrop | Animals of the Bible | Winner |
1938 | Robert Lawson | Four and Twenty Blackbirds | Honor |
1938 | Boris Artzybasheff | Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale | Honor |
1939 | Thomas Handforth | Mei Li | Winner |
1939 | James Daugherty | Andy and the Lion | Honor |
1939 | Clare Turlay Newberry | Barkis | Honor |
1939 | Laura Adams Armer | The Forest Pool | Honor |
1939 | Wanda Gág | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Honor |
1939 | Robert Lawson | Wee Gillis | Honor |
1940 | Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire | Abraham Lincoln | Winner |
1940 | Berta and Elmer Hader | Cock-a-Doodle Doo | Honor |
1940 | Ludwig Bemelmans | Madeline | Honor |
1940 | Lauren Ford | The Ageless Story | Honor |
1941 | Robert Lawson | They Were Strong and Good | Winner |
1941 | Holling C. Holling | Paddle-to-the-Sea | Honor |
1941 | Clare Turlay Newberry | April's Kittens | Honor |
1942 | Robert McCloskey | Make Way for Ducklings | Winner |
1942 | Maud and Miska Petersham | An American ABC | Honor |
1942 | Velino Herrera | In My Mother's House | Honor |
1942 | Wanda Gág | Nothing At All | Honor |
1943 | Virginia Lee Burton | The Little House | Winner |
1943 | Mary and Conrad Buff | Dash and Dart | Honor |
1943 | Clare Turlay Newberry | Marshmallow | Honor |
1944 | Louis Slobodkin | Many Moons | Winner |
1944 | Elizabeth Orton Jones | Small Rain: Verses From The Bible | Honor |
1944 | Arnold E. Bare | Pierre Pidgeon | Honor |
1944 | Berta and Elmer Hader | The Mighty Hunter | Honor |
1944 | Jean Charlot | A Child's Good Night Book | Honor |
1944 | Plato Chan | Good-Luck Horse | Honor |
1945 | Elizabeth Orton Jones | Prayer for a Child | Winner |
1945 | Tasha Tudor | Mother Goose | Honor |
1945 | Marie Hall Ets | In the Forest | Honor |
1945 | Marguerite de Angeli | Yonie Wondernose | Honor |
1945 | Kate Seredy | The Christmas Anna Angel | Honor |
1946 | Maud and Miska Petersham | The Rooster Crows | Winner |
1946 | Leonard Weisgard | Little Lost Lamb | Honor |
1946 | Marjorie Torrey | Sing Mother Goose | Honor |
1946 | Ruth Gannett | My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World | Honor |
1946 | Kurt Wiese | You Can Write Chinese | Honor |
1947 | Leonard Weisgard | The Little Island | Winner |
1947 | Leonard Weisgar | Rain Drop Splash | Honor |
1947 | Jay Hyde Barnum | Boats on the River | Honor |
1947 | Tony Palazzo | Timothy Turtle | Honor |
1947 | Leo Politi | Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street | Honor |
1947 | Marjorie Torrey | Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns | Honor |
1948 | Roger Duvoisin | White Snow, Bright Snow | Winner |
1948 | Marcia Brown | Stone Soup | Honor |
1948 | Dr. Seuss | McElligot's Pool | Honor |
1948 | Georges Schreiber | Bambino the Clown | Honor |
1948 | Hildegard Woodward | Roger and the Fox | Honor |
1948 | Virginia Lee Burton | Song of Robin Hood | Honor |
1949 | Berta and Elmer Hader | The Big Snow | Winner |
1949 | Robert McCloskey | Blueberries for Sal | Honor |
1949 | Helen Stone | All Around the Town | Honor |
1949 | Leo Politi | Juanita | Honor |
1949 | Kurt Wiese | Fish in the Air | Honor |
1950 | Leo Politi | Song of the Swallows | Winner |
1950 | Lynd Ward | America's Ethan Allen | Honor |
1950 | Hildegard Woodward | The Wild Birthday Cake | Honor |
1950 | Marc Simont | The Happy Day | Honor |
1950 | Dr. Seuss | Bartholomew and the Oobleck | Honor |
1950 | Marcia Brown | Henry Fisherman | Honor |
1951 | Katherine Milhous | The Egg Tree | Winner |
1951 | Marcia Brown | Dick Whittington and His Cat | Honor |
1951 | Nicholas Mordvinoff | The Two Reds | Honor |
1951 | Dr. Seuss | If I Ran the Zoo | Honor |
1951 | Helen Stone | The Most Wonderful Doll in the World | Honor |
1951 | Clare Turlay Newberry | T-Bone, the Baby Sitter | Honor |
1952 | Nicholas Mordvinoff | Finders Keepers | Winner |
1952 | Marie Hall Ets | Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo | Honor |
1952 | Marcia Brown | Skipper John's Cook | Honor |
1952 | Margaret Bloy Graham | All Falling Down | Honor |
1952 | William Pène du Bois | Bear Party | Honor |
1952 | Elizabeth Olds | Feather Mountain | Honor |
1953 | Lynd Ward | The Biggest Bear | Winner |
1953 | Marcia Brown | Puss in Boots | Honor |
1953 | Robert McCloskey | One Morning in Maine | Honor |
1953 | Fritz Eichenberg | Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals | Honor |
1953 | Margaret Bloy Graham | The Storm Book | Honor |
1953 | Juliet Kepes | Five Little Monkeys | Honor |
1954 | Ludwig Bemelmans | Madeline's Rescue | Winner |
1954 | Robert McCloskey | Journey Cake, Ho! | Honor |
1954 | Jean Charlot | When Will the World Be Mine? | Honor |
1954 | Marcia Brown | The Steadfast Tin Soldier | Honor |
1954 | Maurice Sendak | A Very Special House | Honor |
1954 | A. Birnbaum | Green Eyes | Honor |
1955 | Marcia Brown | Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper | Winner |
1955 | Marguerite de Angeli | Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes | Honor |
1955 | Tibor Gergely | Wheel On The Chimney | Honor |
1955 | Helen Sewell | The Thanksgiving Story | Honor |
1956 | Feodor Rojankovsky | Frog Went A-Courtin' | Winner |
1956 | Marie Hall Ets | Play With Me | Honor |
1956 | Taro Yashima | Crow Boy | Honor |
1957 | Marc Simont | A Tree is Nice | Winner |
1957 | Marie Hall Ets | Mr. Penny's Race Horse | Honor |
1957 | Tasha Tudor | 1 is One | Honor |
1957 | Paul Galdone | Anatole | Honor |
1957 | James Daugherty | Gillespie and the Guards | Honor |
1957 | William Pène du Bois | Lion | Honor |
1958 | Robert McCloskey | Time of Wonder | Winner |
1958 | Don Freeman | Fly High, Fly Low | Honor |
1958 | Paul Galdone | Anatole and the Cat | Honor |
1959 | Barbara Cooney | Chanticleer and the Fox | Winner |
1959 | Antonio Frasconi | The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie | Honor |
1959 | Maurice Sendak | What Do You Say, Dear? | Honor |
1959 | Taro Yashima | Umbrella | Honor |
1960 | Marie Hall Ets | Nine Days to Christmas | Winner |
1960 | Adrienne Adams | Houses from the Sea | Honor |
1960 | Maurice Sendak | The Moon Jumpers | Honor |
1961 | Nicolas Sidjakov | Baboushka and the Three Kings | Winner |
1961 | Leo Lionni | Inch by Inch | Honor |
1962 | Marcia Brown | Once a Mouse | Winner |
1962 | Peter Spier | Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song | Honor |
1962 | Maurice Sendak | Little Bear's Visit | Honor |
1962 | Adrienne Adams | The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up | Honor |
1963 | Ezra Jack Keats | The Snowy Day | Winner |
1963 | Bernarda Bryson | The Sun is a Golden Earring | Honor |
1963 | Maurice Sendak | Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present | Honor |
1964 | Maurice Sendak | Where the Wild Things Are | Winner |
1964 | Leo Lionni | Swimmy | Honor |
1964 | Evaline Ness | All in the Morning Early | Honor |
1964 | Philip Reed | Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes | Honor |
1965 | Beni Montresor | May I Bring a Friend? | Winner |
1965 | Marvin Bileck | Rain Makes Applesauce | Honor |
1965 | Blair Lent | The Wave | Honor |
1965 | Evaline Ness | A Pocketful of Cricket | Honor |
1966 | Nonny Hogrogian | Always Room for One More | Winner |
1966 | Roger Duvoisin | Hide and Seek Fog | Honor |
1966 | Marie Hall Ets | Just Me | Honor |
1966 | Evaline Ness | Tom Tit Tot | Honor |
1967 | Evaline Ness | Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine | Winner |
1967 | Ed Emberley | One Wide River to Cross | Honor |
1968 | Ed Emberley | Drummer Hoff | Winner |
1968 | Leo Lionni | Frederick | Honor |
1968 | Taro Yashima | Seashore Story | Honor |
1968 | Ed Young | The Emperor and the Kite | Honor |
1969 | Uri Shulevitz | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | Winner |
1969 | Blair Lent | Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky | Honor |
1970 | William Steig | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | Winner |
1970 | Ezra Jack Keats | Goggles! | Honor |
1970 | Leo Lionni | Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse | Honor |
1970 | Robert Andrew Parker | Pop Corn & Ma Goodness | Honor |
1970 | Brinton Turkle | Thy Friend, Obadiah | Honor |
1970 | Margot Zemach | The Judge: An Untrue Tale | Honor |
1971 | Gail E. Haley | A Story a Story | Winner |
1971 | Blair Lent | The Angry Moon | Honor |
1971 | Arnold Lobel | Frog and Toad are Friends | Honor |
1971 | Maurice Sendak | In the Night Kitchen | Honor |
1972 | Nonny Hogrogian | One Fine Day | Winner |
1972 | Arnold Lobel | Hildilid's Night | Honor |
1972 | Janina Domanska | If All the Seas Were One Sea | Honor |
1972 | Tom Feelings | Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book | Honor |
1973 | Blair Lent | The Funny Little Woman | Winner |
1973 | Gerald McDermott | Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti | Honor |
1973 | Leonard Baskin | Hosie's Alphabet | Honor |
1973 | Nancy Ekholm Burkert | Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs | Honor |
1973 | Tom Bahti | When Clay Sings | Honor |
1974 | Margot Zemach | Duffy and the Devil | Winner |
1974 | Susan Jeffers | Three Jovial Huntsmen | Honor |
1974 | David Macaulay | Cathedral | Honor |
1975 | Gerald McDermott | Arrow to the Sun | Winner |
1975 | Tom Feelings | Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book | Honor |
1976 | Leo and Diane Dillon | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | Winner |
1976 | Peter Parnall | The Desert is Theirs | Honor |
1976 | Tomie de Paola | Strega Nona | Honor |
1977 | Leo and Diane Dillon | Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions | Winner |
1977 | William Steig | The Amazing Bone | Honor |
1977 | Nonny Hogrogian | The Contest | Honor |
1977 | M. B. Goffstein | Fish for Supper | Honor |
1977 | Beverly Brodsky McDermott | The Golem: A Jewish Legend | Honor |
1977 | Peter Parnall | Hawk, I'm Your Brother | Honor |
1978 | Peter Spier | Noah's Ark | Winner |
1978 | David Macaulay | Castle | Honor |
1978 | Margot Zemach | It Could Always Be Worse | Honor |
1979 | Paul Goble | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | Winner |
1979 | Donald Crews | Freight Train | Honor |
1979 | Peter Parnall | The Way to Start a Day | Honor |
1980 | Barbara Cooney | Ox-Cart Man | Winner |
1980 | Rachel Isadora | Ben's Trumpet | Honor |
1980 | Chris Van Allsburg | The Garden of Abdul Gasazi | Honor |
1980 | Uri Shulevitz | The Treasure | Honor |
1981 | Arnold Lobel | Fables | Winner |
1981 | Ilse Plume | The Bremen-Town Musicians | Honor |
1981 | Molly Bang | The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher | Honor |
1981 | Joseph Low | Mice Twice | Honor |
1981 | Donald Crews | Truck | Honor |
1982 | Chris Van Allsburg | Jumanji | Winner |
1982 | Stephen Gammell | Where the Buffaloes Begin | Honor |
1982 | Anita Lobel | On Market Street | Honor |
1982 | Maurice Sendak | Outside Over There | Honor |
1982 | Alice and Martin Provensen | A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers | Honor |
1983 | Marcia Brown | Shadow | Winner |
1983 | Vera B. Williams | A Chair for My Mother | Honor |
1983 | Diane Goode | When I Was Young in the Mountains | Honor |
1984 | Alice and Martin Provensen | The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot | Winner |
1984 | Trina Schart Hyman | Little Red Riding Hood | Honor |
1984 | Molly Bang | Ten, Nine, Eight | Honor |
1985 | Trina Schart Hyman | Saint George and the Dragon | Winner |
1985 | Paul O. Zelinsky | Hansel and Gretel | Honor |
1985 | Nancy Tafuri | Have You Seen My Duckling? | Honor |
1985 | John Steptoe | The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend | Honor |
1986 | Chris Van Allsburg | The Polar Express | Winner |
1986 | Stephen Gammell | The Relatives Came | Honor |
1986 | Don Wood | King Bidgood's in the Bathtub | Honor |
1987 | Richard Egielski | Hey, Al | Winner |
1987 | Ann Grifalconi | The Village of Round and Square Houses | Honor |
1987 | Suse MacDonald | Alphabatics | Honor |
1987 | Paul O. Zelinsky | Rumpelstiltskin | Honor |
1988 | John Schoenherr | Owl Moon | Winner |
1988 | John Steptoe | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale | Honor |
1989 | Stephen Gammell | Song and Dance Man | Winner |
1989 | Allen Say | The Boy of the Three-Year Nap | Honor |
1989 | David Wiesner | Free Fall | Honor |
1989 | James Marshall | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Honor |
1989 | Jerry Pinkney | Mirandy and Brother Wind | Honor |
1990 | Ed Young | Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China | Winner |
1990 | Bill Peet | Bill Peet: An Autobiography | Honor |
1990 | Lois Ehlert | Color Zoo | Honor |
1990 | Jerry Pinkney | The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South | Honor |
1990 | Trina Schart Hyman | Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins | Honor |
1991 | David Macaulay | Black and White | Winner |
1991 | Fred Marcellino | Puss in Boots | Honor |
1991 | Vera B. Williams | "More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories | Honor |
1992 | David Wiesner | Tuesday | Winner |
1992 | Faith Ringgold | Tar Beach | Honor |
1993 | Emily Arnold McCully | Mirette on the High Wire | Winner |
1993 | Lane Smith | The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales | Honor |
1993 | Ed Young | Seven Blind Mice | Honor |
1993 | Carole Byard | Working Cotton | Honor |
1994 | Allen Say | Grandfather's Journey | Winner |
1994 | Ted Lewin | Peppe the Lamplighter | Honor |
1994 | Denise Fleming | In the Small, Small Pond | Honor |
1994 | Gerald McDermott | Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest | Honor |
1994 | Kevin Henkes | Owen | Honor |
1994 | Chris Raschka | Yo! Yes? | Honor |
1995 | David Diaz | Smoky Night | Winner |
1995 | Jerry Pinkney | John Henry | Honor |
1995 | Paul O. Zelinsky | Swamp Angel | Honor |
1995 | Eric Rohmann | Time Flies | Honor |
1996 | Peggy Rathmann | Officer Buckle and Gloria | Winner |
1996 | Stephen T. Johnson | Alphabet City | Honor |
1996 | Marjorie Priceman | Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin | Honor |
1996 | Brian Pinkney | The Faithful Friend | Honor |
1996 | Janet Stevens | Tops & Bottoms | Honor |
1997 | David Wisniewski | Golem | Winner |
1997 | Holly Meade | Hush! A Thai Lullaby | Honor |
1997 | David Pelletier | The Graphic Alphabet | Honor |
1997 | Dav Pilkey | The Paperboy | Honor |
1997 | Peter Sís | Starry Messenger | Honor |
1998 | Paul O. Zelinsky | Rapunzel | Winner |
1998 | David Small | The Gardener | Honor |
1998 | Christopher Myers | Harlem | Honor |
1998 | Simms Taback | There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly | Honor |
1999 | Mary Azarian | Snowflake Bentley | Winner |
1999 | Brian Pinkney | Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra | Honor |
1999 | David Shannon | No, David! | Honor |
1999 | Uri Shulevitz | Snow | Honor |
1999 | Peter Sís | Tibet Through the Red Box | Honor |
2000 | Simms Taback | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat | Winner |
2000 | Trina Schart Hyman | A Child's Calendar | Honor |
2000 | David Wiesner | Sector 7 | Honor |
2000 | Molly Bang | When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry | Honor |
2000 | Jerry Pinkney | The Ugly Duckling | Honor |
2001 | David Small | So You Want to Be President? | Winner |
2001 | Christopher Bing | Casey at the Bat | Honor |
2001 | Betsy Lewin | Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type | Honor |
2001 | Ian Falconer | Olivia | Honor |
2002 | David Wiesner | The Three Pigs | Winner |
2002 | Brian Selznick | The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins | Honor |
2002 | Bryan Collier | Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Honor |
2002 | Marc Simont | The Stray Dog | Honor |
2003 | Eric Rohmann | My Friend Rabbit | Winner |
2003 | Tony DiTerlizzi | The Spider and the Fly | Honor |
2003 | Peter McCarty | Hondo & Fabian | Honor |
2003 | Jerry Pinkney | Noah's Ark | Honor |
2004 | Mordicai Gerstein | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers | Winner |
2004 | Margaret Chodos-Irvine | Ella Sarah Gets Dressed | Honor |
2004 | Steve Jenkins and Robin Page | What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? | Honor |
2004 | Mo Willems | Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! | Honor |
2005 | Kevin Henkes | Kitten's First Full Moon | Winner |
2005 | Barbara Lehman | The Red Book | Honor |
2005 | E. B. Lewis | Coming on Home Soon | Honor |
2005 | Mo Willems | Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale | Honor |
2006 | Chris Raschka | The Hello, Goodbye Window | Winner |
2006 | Bryan Collier | Rosa | Honor |
2006 | Jon J. Muth | Zen Shorts | Honor |
2006 | Marjorie Priceman | Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride | Honor |
2006 | Beckie Prange | Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems | Honor |
2007 | David Wiesner | Flotsam | Winner |
2007 | David McLimans | Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet | Honor |
2007 | Kadir Nelson | Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Honor |
2008 | Brian Selznick | The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Winner |
2008 | Kadir Nelson | Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad | Honor |
2008 | Laura Vaccaro Seeger | First the Egg | Honor |
2008 | Peter Sís | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Honor |
2008 | Mo Willems | Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity | Honor |
2009 | Beth Krommes | The House in the Night | Winner |
2009 | Marla Frazee | A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever | Honor |
2009 | Uri Shulevitz | How I Learned Geography | Honor |
2009 | Melissa Sweet | A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams | Honor |
2010 | Jerry Pinkney | The Lion & the Mouse | Winner |
2010 | Marla Frazee | All the World | Honor |
2010 | Pamela Zagarenski | Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors | Honor |
2011 | Erin E. Stead | A Sick Day for Amos McGee | Winner |
2011 | Bryan Collier | Dave the Potter | Honor |
2011 | David Ezra Stein | Interrupting Chicken | Honor |
2 Medals: Leo and Diane Dillon, Chris Van Allsburg, Barbara Cooney, Nonny Hogrogian, Robert McCloskey
3 Medals: Marcia Brown, David Wiesner
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