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.
 | 2002: The
Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)| 2001: So You
Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St.
George (Philomel Books) | 2000: Joseph
Had a Little Overcoat Simms Taback (Viking) | 1999: Snowflake
Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by Jacqueline Briggs
Martin (Houghton) | 1998: Rapunzel
by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton) | 1997: Golem
by David Wisniewski (Clarion) | 1996: Officer
Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam) | 1995: Smoky
Night, illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting (Harcourt) | 1994: Grandfather's
Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine
(Houghton) | 1993: Mirette on the High Wire
by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam) | 1992: Tuesday by David Wiesner
(Clarion Books) | 1991: Black and White by David
Macaulay (Houghton) | 1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from
China by Ed Young (Philomel) | 1989: Song and Dance Man,
illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman (Knopf) | 1988: Owl Moon, illustrated by
John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen (Philomel) | 1987: Hey, Al, illustrated by
Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks (Farrar) | 1986: The Polar Express by
Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton) | 1985: Saint George and the Dragon,
illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges (Little,
Brown) | 1984: The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel
with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen (Viking) | 1983: Shadow, translated and
illustrated by Marcia Brown; original text in French: Blaise Cendrars
(Scribner) | 1982: Jumanji by Chris Van
Allsburg (Houghton) | 1981: Fables by Arnold Lobel
(Harper) | 1980: Ox-Cart Man, illustrated
by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald Hall (Viking) | 1979: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
by Paul Goble (Bradbury) | 1978: Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
(Doubleday) | 1977: Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions,
illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove (Dial) | 1976: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears,
illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema (Dial) | 1975: Arrow to the Sun by
Gerald McDermott (Viking) | 1974: Duffy and the Devil,
illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach (Farrar) | 1973: The Funny Little Woman,
illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene Mosel (Dutton) | 1972: One Fine Day, retold and
illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (Macmillan) | 1971: A Story A Story, retold
and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (Atheneum) | 1970: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
by William Steig (Windmill Books) | 1969: The Fool of the World and the Flying
Ship, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text: retold by Arthur
Ransome (Farrar) | 1968: Drummer Hoff, illustrated
by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley (Prentice-Hall) | 1967: Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
by Evaline Ness (Holt) | 1966: Always Room for One More,
illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair
Alger] (Holt) | 1965: May I Bring a Friend?
illustrated by Beni Montresor; text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (Atheneum) | 1964: Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak (Harper) | 1963: The Snowy Day by Ezra
Jack Keats (Viking) | 1962: Once a Mouse, retold and
illustrated by Marcia Brown (Scribner) | 1961: Baboushka and the Three Kings,
illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text: Ruth Robbins (Parnassus) | 1960: Nine Days to Christmas,
illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida
(Viking) | 1959: Chanticleer and the Fox,
illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
by Barbara Cooney (Crowell) | 1958: Time of Wonder by Robert
McCloskey (Viking) | 1957: A Tree Is Nice,
illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry (Harper) | 1956: Frog Went A-Courtin',
illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff)
(Harcourt) | 1955: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper,
illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by
Marcia Brown (Scribner) | 1954: Madeline's Rescue by
Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking) | 1953: The Biggest Bear by Lynd
Ward (Houghton) | 1952: Finders Keepers,
illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud.
[William Lipkind] (Harcourt) | 1951: The Egg Tree by Katherine
Milhous (Scribner) | 1950: Song of the Swallows by
Leo Politi (Scribner) | 1949: The Big Snow by Berta
& Elmer Hader (Macmillan) | 1948: White Snow, Bright Snow,
illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt (Lothrop) | 1947: The Little Island,
illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret
Wise Brown] (Doubleday) | 1946: The Rooster Crows by
Maude & Miska Petersham (Macmillan) | 1945: Prayer for a Child,
illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field (Macmillan) | 1944: Many Moons, illustrated
by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber (Harcourt) | 1943: The Little House by
Virginia Lee Burton (Houghton) | 1942: Make Way for Ducklings by
Robert McCloskey (Viking) | 1941: They Were Strong and Good,
by Robert Lawson (Viking) | 1940: Abraham Lincoln by Ingri
& Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (Doubleday) | 1939: Mei Li by Thomas
Handforth (Doubleday) | 1938: Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book,
illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text: selected by Helen Dean Fish (Lippincott) | |