Children's Book Prize Archive
Caldecott Medal
Annual
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This award is presented for the most distinguished American picture book for children published during the preceding year. It was named after the English illustrator Randolph Caldecott (1846-86). Instituted in 1938. Announced January/February each year.
Most Recent Winner
2011A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C Stead, illus. by Erin E. Stead (Roaring Brook Press)
Previous Winners
2010The Lion & the Mouse, illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown)
2009The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson, illus. by Beth Krommes (Houghton Mifflin)
2008The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)
2007Flotsam by David Weisner
2006The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norten Juster and Chris Raschka (illus)
2005Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
2004The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)
2003My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)
2002The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)
2001So You Want to Be President? by David Small (written by Judith St. George) (Philomel Books, USA)
2000Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback (Viking Children's Books, USA)
1999Snowflake Bentley, illustrated by Mary Azarian, text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton Mifflin)
1998Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton Children's Books)
1997Golem by David Wisniewski (Clarion Books)
1996Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)
1995Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz, text by Eve Bunting (Harcourt Brace)
1994Grandfather's Journey, illustrated by Allen Say, text edited by Walter Lorraine (Houghton Mifflin)
1993Mirette on a High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam)
1992Tuesday by David Wiesner (Clarion Books)
1991Black and White by David Macaulay (Houghton)
1990Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young (Philomel)
1989Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, text by Karen Ackerman (Knopf)
1988Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr, text by Jane Yolen (Philomel)
1987Hey, Al, illustrated by Richard Egielski, text by Arthur Yorinks (Farrar)
1986The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
1985St George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, retold by Margaret Hodges (Little, Brown)
1984The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen (Viking)
1983Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown, original text in French by Blaise Cendrars (Scribner)
1982Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton)
1981Fables by Arnold Lobel (Harper)
1980The Ox-Cart Man, illustrated by Barbara Cooney, text by Donald Hall (Viking)
1979The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble (Bradbury)
1978Noah's Ark by Peter Spier (Doubleday)
1977Ashanti to Zulu, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, text by Margaret Musgrove (Dial)
1976Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, retold by Verna Aardema (Dial)
1975Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald McDermott (Viking)
1974Duffy and the Devil, illustrated by Margot Zemach, text by Harve Zemach (Farrar)
1973The Funny Little Woman, illustrated by Blair Lent, retold by Arlene Mosel, original text by Lafcadio Hearn (Dutton)
1972One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian (Macmillan)
1971A Story A Story, illustrated and retold by Gail E Haley (Atheneum)
1970Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Windmill Books)
1969The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz, retold by Arthur Ransome (Farrar)
1968Drummer Hoff, illustrated by Ed Emberley, text adapted by Barbara Emberley (Prentice-Hall)
1967Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness (Holt)
1966Always Room For One More, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian, text by Sorche Nic Leodhas (Holt)
1965May I Bring a Friend?, illustrated by Beni Montresor, text by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (Atheneum)
1964Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Harper)
1963The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (Viking)
1962Once a Mouse, illustrated and retold by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
1961Baboushka and the Three Kings, illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov, text by Ruth Robbins (Parnassus)
1960Nine Days to Christmas, illustrations and text by Marie Hall Ets, text by Aurora Labastida (Viking)
1959Chanticleer and the Fox, illustrated and adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney (Crowell)
1958Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
1957A Tree Is Nice, illustrated by Marc Simont, text by Janice Udry (Harper)
1956Frog Went A-Coutin', illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky, retold by John Langstaff (Harcourt)
1955Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, illustrated and translated (from Charles Perrault) by Marcia Brown (Scribner)
1954Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
1953The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward (Houghton)
1952Finders Keepers, illustrated by Nicolas Mordvinoff, text by Will Lipkind (Harcourt)
1951The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous (Scribner)
1950Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi (Scribner)
1949The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader (Macmillan)
1948White Snow, Bright Snow, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin, text by Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop)
1947The Little Island, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard, text by Golden MacDonald (Doubleday)
1946The Rooster Crows by Maud and Miska Petersham (Macmillan)
1945Prayer for a Child, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones, text by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
1944Many Moons, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, text by James Thurber (Harcourt)
1943The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton)
1942Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Viking)
1941They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson (Viking)
1940Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (Doubleday)
1939Mei Li by Thomas Handforth (Doubleday)
1938Fish Animals of the Bible by Dorothy P. Lathrop, text selected by Helen Dean (Lippincott)
