Caldecott Medal

The Randolph Caldecott Medal is an award for the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It started with books in 1937.

Winners and Honor Books

Year	Author	Book	Award
1938	Dorothy P. Lathrop	Animals of the Bible	Winner
	Robert Lawson	Four and Twenty Blackbirds	Honor
	Boris Artzybasheff	Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale	Honor
1939	Thomas Handforth	Mei Li	Winner
	James Daugherty	Andy and the Lion	Honor
	Clare Turlay Newberry	Barkis	Honor
	Laura Adams Armer	The Forest Pool	Honor
	Wanda Gág	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Honor
	Robert Lawson	Wee Gillis	Honor
1940	Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire	Abraham Lincoln	Winner
	Berta and Elmer Hader	Cock-a-Doodle Doo	Honor
	Ludwig Bemelmans	Madeline	Honor
	Lauren Ford	The Ageless Story	Honor
1941	Robert Lawson	They Were Strong and Good	Winner
	Clare Turlay Newberry	April's Kittens	Honor
1942	Robert McCloskey	Make Way for Ducklings	Winner
	Maud and Miska Petersham	An American ABC	Honor
	Velino Herrera	In My Mother's House	Honor
	Holling C. Holling	Paddle-to-the-Sea	Honor
	Wanda Gág	Nothing At All	Honor
1943	Virginia Lee Burton	The Little House	Winner
	Mary and Conrad Buff	Dash and Dart	Honor
	Clare Turlay Newberry	Marshmallow	Honor
1944	Louis Slobodkin	Many Moons	Winner
	Elizabeth Orton Jones	Small Rain: Verses From The Bible	Honor
	Arnold E. Bare	Pierre Pidgeon	Honor
	Berta and Elmer Hader	The Mighty Hunter	Honor
	Jean Charlot	A Child's Good Night Book	Honor
	Plato Chan	The Good-Luck Horse	Honor
1945	Elizabeth Orton Jones	Prayer for a Child	Winner
	Tasha Tudor	Mother Goose	Honor
	Marie Hall Ets	In the Forest	Honor
	Marguerite de Angeli	Yonie Wondernose	Honor
	Kate Seredy	The Christmas Anna Angel	Honor
1946	Maud and Miska Petersham	The Rooster Crows	Winner
	Leonard Weisgard	Little Lost Lamb	Honor
	Marjorie Torrey	Sing Mother Goose	Honor
	Ruth Stiles Gannett	My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World	Honor
	Kurt Wiese	You Can Write Chinese	Honor
1947	Leonard Weisgard	The Little Island	Winner
	Leonard Weisgard	Rain Drop Splash	Honor
	Jay Hyde Barnum	Boats on the River	Honor
	Tony Palazzo	Timothy Turtle	Honor
	Leo Politi	Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street	Honor
	Marjorie Torrey	Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns	Honor
1948	Roger Duvoisin	White Snow, Bright Snow	Winner
	Marcia Brown	Stone Soup	Honor
	Dr. Seuss	McElligot's Pool	Honor
	Georges Schreiber	Bambino the Clown	Honor
	Hildegard Woodward	Roger and the Fox	Honor
	Virginia Lee Burton	Song of Robin Hood	Honor
1949	Berta and Elmer Hader	The Big Snow	Winner
	Robert McCloskey	Blueberries for Sal	Honor
	Helen Stone	All Around the Town	Honor
	Leo Politi	Juanita	Honor
	Kurt Wiese	Fish in the Air	Honor
1950	Leo Politi	Song of the Swallows	Winner
	Lynd Ward	America's Ethan Allen	Honor
	Hildegard Woodward	The Wild Birthday Cake	Honor
	Marc Simont	The Happy Day	Honor
	Dr. Seuss	Bartholomew and the Oobleck	Honor
	Marcia Brown	Henry Fisherman	Honor
1951	Katherine Milhous	The Egg Tree	Winner
	Marcia Brown	Dick Whittington and His Cat	Honor
	Nicholas Mordvinoff	The Two Reds	Honor
	Dr. Seuss	If I Ran the Zoo	Honor
	Helen Stone	The Most Wonderful Doll in the World	Honor
	Clare Turlay Newberry	T-Bone, the Baby Sitter	Honor
1952	Nicholas Mordvinoff	Finders Keepers	Winner
	Marie Hall Ets	Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo	Honor
	Marcia Brown	Skipper John's Cook	Honor
	Margaret Bloy Graham	All Falling Down	Honor
	William Pène du Bois	Bear Party	Honor
	Elizabeth Olds	Feather Mountain	Honor
1953	Lynd Ward	The Biggest Bear	Winner
	Marcia Brown	Puss in Boots	Honor
	Robert McCloskey	One Morning in Maine	Honor
	Fritz Eichenberg	Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals	Honor
	Margaret Bloy Graham	The Storm Book	Honor
	Juliet Kepes	Five Little Monkeys	Honor
1954	Ludwig Bemelmans	Madeline's Rescue	Winner
	Robert McCloskey	Journey Cake, Ho!	Honor
	Jean Charlot	When Will the World Be Mine?	Honor
	Marcia Brown	The Steadfast Tin Soldier	Honor
	Maurice Sendak	A Very Special House	Honor
	A. Birnbaum	Green Eyes	Honor
1955	Marcia Brown	Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper	Winner
	Marguerite de Angeli	Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes	Honor
	Tibor Gergely	Wheel on the Chimney	Honor
	Helen Sewell	The Thanksgiving Story	Honor
1956	Feodor Rojankovsky	Frog Went A-Courtin'	Winner
	Marie Hall Ets	Play With Me	Honor
	Taro Yashima	Crow Boy	Honor
1957	Marc Simont	A Tree Is Nice	Winner
	Marie Hall Ets	Mr. Penny's Race Horse	Honor
	Tasha Tudor	1 Is One	Honor
	Paul Galdone	Anatole	Honor
	James Daugherty	Gillespie and the Guards	Honor
	William Pène du Bois	Lion	Honor
1958	Robert McCloskey	Time of Wonder	Winner
	Don Freeman	Fly High, Fly Low	Honor
	Paul Galdone	Anatole and the Cat	Honor
1959	Barbara Cooney	Chanticleer and the Fox	Winner
	Antonio Frasconi	The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie	Honor
	Maurice Sendak	What Do You Say, Dear?	Honor
	Taro Yashima	Umbrella	Honor
1960	Marie Hall Ets	Nine Days to Christmas	Winner
	Adrienne Adams	Houses from the Sea	Honor
	Maurice Sendak	The Moon Jumpers	Honor
1961	Nicolas Sidjakov	Baboushka and the Three Kings	Winner
	Leo Lionni	Inch by Inch	Honor
1962	Marcia Brown	Once a Mouse	Winner
	Peter Spier	Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song	Honor
	Maurice Sendak	Little Bear's Visit	Honor
	Adrienne Adams	The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up	Honor
1963	Ezra Jack Keats	The Snowy Day	Winner
	Bernarda Bryson	The Sun Is a Golden Earring	Honor
	Maurice Sendak	Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present	Honor
1964	Maurice Sendak	Where the Wild Things Are	Winner
	Leo Lionni	Swimmy	Honor
	Evaline Ness	All in the Morning Early	Honor
	Philip Reed	Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes	Honor
1965	Beni Montresor	May I Bring a Friend?	Winner
	Marvin Bileck	Rain Makes Applesauce	Honor
	Blair Lent	The Wave	Honor
	Evaline Ness	A Pocketful of Cricket	Honor
1966	Nonny Hogrogian	Always Room for One More	Winner
	Roger Duvoisin	Hide and Seek Fog	Honor
	Marie Hall Ets	Just Me	Honor
	Evaline Ness	Tom Tit Tot	Honor
1967	Evaline Ness	Sam, Bangs and Moonshine	Winner
	Ed Emberley	One Wide River to Cross	Honor
1968	Ed Emberley	Drummer Hoff	Winner
	Leo Lionni	Frederick	Honor
	Taro Yashima	Seashore Story	Honor
	Ed Young	The Emperor and the Kite	Honor
1969	Uri Shulevitz	The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship	Winner
	Blair Lent	Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky	Honor
1970	William Steig	Sylvester and the Magic Pebble	Winner
	Ezra Jack Keats	Goggles!	Honor
	Leo Lionni	Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse	Honor
	Robert Andrew Parker	Pop Corn & Ma Goodness	Honor
	Brinton Turkle	Thy Friend, Obadiah	Honor
	Margot Zemach	The Judge: An Untrue Tale	Honor
1971	Gail E. Haley	A Story a Story	Winner
	Blair Lent	The Angry Moon	Honor
	Arnold Lobel	Frog and Toad Are Friends	Honor
	Maurice Sendak	In the Night Kitchen	Honor
1972	Nonny Hogrogian	One Fine Day	Winner
	Arnold Lobel	Hildilid's Night	Honor
	Janina Domanska	If All the Seas Were One Sea	Honor
	Tom Feelings	Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book	Honor
1973	Blair Lent	The Funny Little Woman	Winner
	Gerald McDermott	Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti	Honor
	Leonard Baskin	Hosie's Alphabet	Honor
	Nancy Ekholm Burkert	Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs	Honor
	Tom Bahti	When Clay Sings	Honor
1974	Margot Zemach	Duffy and the Devil	Winner
	Susan Jeffers	Three Jovial Huntsmen	Honor
	David Macaulay	Cathedral	Honor
1975	Gerald McDermott	Arrow to the Sun	Winner
	Tom Feelings	Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book	Honor
1976	Leo and Diane Dillon	Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears	Winner
	Peter Parnall	The Desert Is Theirs	Honor
	Tomie dePaola	Strega Nona	Honor
1977	Leo and Diane Dillon	Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions	Winner
	William Steig	The Amazing Bone	Honor
	Nonny Hogrogian	The Contest	Honor
	M. B. Goffstein	Fish for Supper	Honor
	Beverly Brodsky McDermott	The Golem: A Jewish Legend	Honor
	Peter Parnall	Hawk, I'm Your Brother	Honor
1978	Peter Spier	Noah's Ark	Winner
	David Macaulay	Castle	Honor
	Margot Zemach	It Could Always Be Worse	Honor
1979	Paul Goble	The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses	Winner
	Donald Crews	Freight Train	Honor
	Peter Parnall	The Way to Start a Day	Honor
1980	Barbara Cooney	Ox-Cart Man	Winner
	Rachel Isadora	Ben's Trumpet	Honor
	Chris Van Allsburg	The Garden of Abdul Gasazi	Honor
	Uri Shulevitz	The Treasure	Honor
1981	Arnold Lobel	Fables	Winner
	Ilse Plume	The Bremen-Town Musicians	Honor
	Molly Bang	The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher	Honor
	Joseph Low	Mice Twice	Honor
	Donald Crews	Truck	Honor
1982	Chris Van Allsburg	Jumanji	Winner
	Stephen Gammell	Where the Buffaloes Begin	Honor
	Anita Lobel	On Market Street	Honor
	Maurice Sendak	Outside Over There	Honor
	Alice and Martin Provensen	A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers	Honor
1983	Marcia Brown	Shadow	Winner
	Vera B. Williams	A Chair for My Mother	Honor
	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
	Trina Schart Hyman	Little Red Riding Hood	Honor
	Molly Bang	Ten, Nine, Eight	Honor
1985	Trina Schart Hyman	Saint George and the Dragon	Winner
	Paul O. Zelinsky	Hansel and Gretel	Honor
	Nancy Tafuri	Have You Seen My Duckling?	Honor
	John Steptoe	The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend	Honor
1986	Chris Van Allsburg	The Polar Express	Winner
	Stephen Gammell	The Relatives Came	Honor
	Don Wood	King Bidgood's in the Bathtub	Honor
1987	Richard Egielski	Hey, Al	Winner
	Ann Grifalconi	The Village of Round and Square Houses	Honor
	Suse MacDonald	Alphabatics	Honor
	Paul O. Zelinsky	Rumpelstiltskin	Honor
1988	John Schoenherr	Owl Moon	Winner
	John Steptoe	Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale	Honor
1989	Stephen Gammell	Song and Dance Man	Winner
	Allen Say	The Boy of the Three-Year Nap	Honor
	David Wiesner	Free Fall	Honor
	James Marshall	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Honor
	Jerry Pinkney	Mirandy and Brother Wind	Honor
1990	Ed Young	Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China	Winner
	Bill Peet	Bill Peet: An Autobiography	Honor
	Lois Ehlert	Color Zoo	Honor
	Jerry Pinkney	The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South	Honor
	Trina Schart Hyman	Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins	Honor
1991	David Macaulay	Black and White	Winner
	Fred Marcellino	Puss in Boots	Honor
	Vera B. Williams	"More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories	Honor
1992	David Wiesner	Tuesday	Winner
	Faith Ringgold	Tar Beach	Honor
1993	Emily Arnold McCully	Mirette on the High Wire	Winner
	Lane Smith	The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales	Honor
	Ed Young	Seven Blind Mice	Honor
	Carole Byard	Working Cotton	Honor
1994	Allen Say	Grandfather's Journey	Winner
	Ted Lewin	Peppe the Lamplighter	Honor
	Denise Fleming	In the Small, Small Pond	Honor
	Gerald McDermott	Raven: A Trickster Tale From The Pacific Northwest	Honor
	Kevin Henkes	Owen	Honor
	Chris Raschka	Yo! Yes?	Honor
1995	David Diaz	Smoky Night	Winner
	Jerry Pinkney	John Henry	Honor
	Paul O. Zelinsky	Swamp Angel	Honor
	Eric Rohmann	Time Flies	Honor
1996	Peggy Rathmann	Officer Buckle and Gloria	Winner
	Stephen T. Johnson	Alphabet City	Honor
	Marjorie Priceman	Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin	Honor
	Brian Pinkney	The Faithful Friend	Honor
	Janet Stevens	Tops & Bottoms	Honor
1997	David Wisniewski	Golem	Winner
	Holly Meade	Hush!: A Thai Lullaby	Honor
	David Pelletier	The Graphic Alphabet	Honor
	Dav Pilkey	The Paperboy	Honor
	Peter Sís	Starry Messenger	Honor
1998	Paul O. Zelinsky	Rapunzel	Winner
	David Small	The Gardener	Honor
	Christopher Myers	Harlem	Honor
	Simms Taback	There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly	Honor
1999	Mary Azarian	Snowflake Bentley	Winner
	Brian Pinkney	Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra	Honor
	David Shannon	No, David!	Honor
	Uri Shulevitz	Snow	Honor
	Peter Sís	Tibet Through the Red Box	Honor
2000	Simms Taback	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat	Winner
	Trina Schart Hyman	A Child's Calendar	Honor
	David Wiesner	Sector 7	Honor
	Molly Bang	When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry	Honor
	Jerry Pinkney	The Ugly Duckling	Honor
2001	David Small	So You Want to Be President?	Winner
	Christopher Bing	Casey at the Bat	Honor
	Betsy Lewin	Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type	Honor
	Ian Falconer	Olivia	Honor
2002	David Wiesner	The Three Pigs	Winner
	Brian Selznick	The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins	Honor
	Bryan Collier	Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Honor
	Marc Simont	The Stray Dog	Honor
2003	Eric Rohmann	My Friend Rabbit	Winner
	Tony DiTerlizzi	The Spider and the Fly	Honor
	Peter McCarty	Hondo & Fabian	Honor
	Jerry Pinkney	Noah's Ark	Honor
2004	Mordicai Gerstein	The Man Who Walked Between the Towers	Winner
	Margaret Chodos-Irvine	Ella Sarah Gets Dressed	Honor
	Steve Jenkins and Robin Page	What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?	Honor
	Mo Willems	Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!	Honor
2005	Kevin Henkes	Kitten's First Full Moon	Winner
	Barbara Lehman	The Red Book	Honor
	E. B. Lewis	Coming on Home Soon	Honor
	Mo Willems	Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale	Honor
2006	Chris Raschka	The Hello, Goodbye Window	Winner
	Bryan Collier	Rosa	Honor
	Jon J. Muth	Zen Shorts	Honor
	Marjorie Priceman	Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride	Honor
	Beckie Prange	Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems	Honor
2007	David Wiesner	Flotsam	Winner
	David McLimans	Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet	Honor
	Kadir Nelson	Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom	Honor
2008	Brian Selznick	The Invention of Hugo Cabret	Winner
	Kadir Nelson	Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad	Honor
	Laura Vaccaro Seeger	First the Egg	Honor
	Peter Sís	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain	Honor
	Mo Willems	Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity	Honor
2009	Beth Krommes	The House in the Night	Winner
	Marla Frazee	A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever	Honor
	Uri Shulevitz	How I Learned Geography	Honor
	Melissa Sweet	A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams	Honor
2010	Jerry Pinkney	The Lion & the Mouse	Winner
	Marla Frazee	All the World	Honor
	Pamela Zagarenski	Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors	Honor
2011	Erin E. Stead	A Sick Day for Amos McGee	Winner
	Bryan Collier	Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave	Honor
	David Ezra Stein	Interrupting Chicken	Honor
2012	Chris Raschka	A Ball for Daisy	Winner
	John Rocco	Blackout	Honor
	Lane Smith	Grandpa Green	Honor
	Patrick McDonnell	Me...Jane	Honor
2013	Jon Klassen	This is Not My Hat	Winner
	Peter Brown	Creepy Carrots!	Honor
	Jon Klassen	Extra Yarn	Honor
	Laura Vaccaro Seeger	Green	Honor
	David Small	One Cool Friend	Honor
	Pamela Zagarenski	Sleep Like a Tiger	Honor
2014	Brian Floca	Locomotive	Winner
	Aaron Becker	Journey	Honor
	Molly Idle	Flora and the Flamingo	Honor
	David Wiesner	Mr. Wuffles!	Honor
2015	Dan Santat	The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend	Winner
	Lauren Castillo	Nana in the City	Honor
	Mary GrandPré	The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art	Honor
	Jon Klassen	Sam & Dave Dig a Hole	Honor
	Yuyi Morales	Viva Frida	Honor
	Melissa Sweet	The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus	Honor
	Jillian Tamaki	This One Summer	Honor
2016	Sophie Blackall	Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear	Winner
	Bryan Collier	Trombone Shorty	Honor
	Kevin Henkes	Waiting	Honor
	Ekua Holmes	Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement	Honor
	Christian Robinson	Last Stop on Market Street	Honor
2017	Javaka Steptoe	Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat	Winner
	Vera Brosgol	Leave Me Alone!	Honor
	R. Gregory Christie	Freedom in Congo Square	Honor
	Carson Ellis	Du Iz Tak?	Honor
	Brendan Wenzel	They All Saw a Cat	Honor
2018	Matthew Cordell	Wolf in the Snow	Winner
	Elisha Cooper	Big Cat, little cat	Honor
	Gordon C. James	Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut	Honor
	Thi Bui	A Different Pond	Honor
	Jason Chin	Grand Canyon	Honor
2019	Sophie Blackall	Hello Lighthouse	Winner
	Juana Martinez-Neal	Alma and How She Got Her Name	Honor
	Grace Lin	A Big Mooncake for Little Star	Honor
	Brian Lies	The Rough Patch	Honor
	Oge Mora	Thank You, Omu!	Honor