Award-Winning Children's Books

California Young Reader Award

Caldecott Medal

Coretta Scott King Award

John & Patricia Beatty Award

Michael L. Printz Award

Newbery Award

Pura Belpré Award

Caldecott Medal 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. 

2010s | 2000s | 1990s | 1980s | 1970s | 1960s | 1950s | 1940s | 1930s

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2010s

This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen

Year of Award: 2013

A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka

Year of Award: 2012

A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead; Erin E. Stead, illus.

Year of Award: 2011

The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

Year of Award: 2010

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2000s

The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson; Beth Krommes,illus.

Year of Award: 2009

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Year of Award: 2008

Flotsam by David Wiesner

Year of Award: 2007

The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster; Chris Raschka, illus.

Year of Award: 2006

Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes

Year of Award: 2005

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein

Year of Award: 2004

My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann

Year of Award: 2003

The Three Pigs by David Wiesner

Year of Award: 2002

So You Want to Be President?  by Judith St. George; David Small, Illus.

Year of Award: 2001

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback

Year of Award: 2000

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1990s

Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin; Mary Azarian, Illus.

Year of Award: 1999

Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky

Year of Award: 1998

Golem by David Wisniewski

Year of Award: 1997

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

Year of Award: 1996

Smoky Night by Eve Bunting; David Diaz, Illus.

Year of Award: 1995

Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

Year of Award: 1994

Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully

Year of Award: 1993

Tuesday by David Wiesner

Year of Award: 1992

Black and White by David Macaulay

Year of Award: 1991

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

Year of Award: 1990

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1980s

Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman; Stephen Gammell, Illus.

Year of Award: 1989

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen; John Schoenherr, Illus.

Year of Award: 1988

Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks; Richard Egielski, Illus.

Year of Award: 1987

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

Year of Award: 1986

Saint George and the Dragon by retold by Margaret Hodges; Trina Schart Hyman, Illus.

Year of Award: 1985

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

Year of Award: 1984

Shadow  by translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown, Original text in French:Blaise Cendrars

Year of Award: 1983

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

Year of Award: 1982

Fables by Arnold Lobel

Year of Award: 1981

Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall; Barbara Cooney, Illus.

Year of Award: 1980

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1970s

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble

Year of Award: 1979

Noah's Ark by Peter Spier

Year of Award: 1978

Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove; Leo & Diane Dillon, Illus.

Year of Award: 1977

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by retold by Verna Aardema; Leo & Diane Dillon, Illus.

Year of Award: 1976

Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott

Year of Award: 1975

Duffy and the Devil by retold by Harve Zemach; Margot Zemack, Illus.

Year of Award: 1974

The Funny Little Woman by retold by Arlene Mosel; Blair Lent, Illus.

Year of Award: 1973

One Fine Day by retold & illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian

Year of Award: 1972

A Story A Story by retold & illustrated by Gail E. Haley

Year of Award: 1971

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

Year of Award: 1970

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1960s

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by retold by Arthur Ransome; Uri Shulevitz, Illus.

Year of Award: 1969

Drummer Hoff by adapted by Barbara Emberly; Ed Emberly, Illus.

Year of Award: 1968

Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness

Year of Award: 1967

Always Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud.(Leclair Alger); Nonny Hogrogian, Illus.

Year of Award: 1966

May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers; Beni Montresor, Illus.

Year of Award: 1965

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Year of Award: 1964

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Year of Award: 1963

Once a Mouse by retold & illustrated by Marcia Brown

Year of Award: 1962

Baboushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins; Nicolas Sidjakov, Illus.

Year of Award: 1961

Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets & Aurora Labastida; Marie Hall Ets, Illus.

Year of Award: 1960

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1950s

Chanticleer and the Fox by adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney, Barbara Cooney, Illus.

Year of Award: 1959

Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey

Year of Award: 1958

A Tree is Nice by Janice Udry; Marc Simont, Illus.

Year of Award: 1957

Frog Went A-Courtin' by retold by John Langstaff; Feodor Rojankovsky, Illus.

Year of Award: 1956

Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper by translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown, Marcia Brown, Illus.

Year of Award: 1955

Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans

Year of Award: 1954

The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward

Year of Award: 1953

Finders Keepers by Will, pseud.(William Lipkind); Nicolas, pseud.(Nicholas Mordvinoff), Illus.

Year of Award: 1952

The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous

Year of Award: 1951

Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi

Year of Award: 1950

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1940s

The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader

Year of Award: 1949

White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt; Roger Duvoisin,Illus.

Year of Award: 1948

The Little Island by Golden MacDonald, pseud.(Margaret Wise Brown); Leonard Weisgard, Illus.

Year of Award: 1947

The Rooster Crows by Maud & Miska Petersham

Year of Award: 1946

Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field; Elizabeth Orton Jones, Illus.

Year of Award: 1945

Many Moons by James Thurber; Louis Slobodkin, Illus.

Year of Award: 1944

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

Year of Award: 1943

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Year of Award: 1942

They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson

Year of Award: 1941

 

Abraham Lincoln by Ingi & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Year of Award: 1940

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1930s

 

Mei Li by Thomas Handforth

Year of Award: 1939

Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book by selected by Helen Dean Fish; Dorothy P. Lathrop, Illus.

Year of Award: 1938

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