Caldecott Medal
Given each year since 1938 by the American Library Association to the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book. United States. 380 books on this site.
2026
- Fireworks by Cátia Chien Winner
- Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan Honor
- Our Lake by Angie Kang Honor
- Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave by Drew Beckmeyer Honor
- Sundust by Zeke Peña Honor
2025
- Chooch Helped by Rebecca Lee Kunz Winner
- Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo Honor
- My Daddy is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales Honor
- Noodles on a Bicycle by Gracey Zhang Honor
- Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Yuko Shimizu Honor
2024
- Big by Vashti Harrison Winner
- In Every Life by Marla Frazee Honor
- Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter by Molly Mendoza Honor
- The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung Honor
- There Was a Party for Langston by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey Honor
2023
- Hot Dog by Doug Salati Winner
- Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds Honor
- Berry Song by Michaela Goade Honor
- Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmitt Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Janelle Washington Honor
- Knight Owl by Christopher Denise Honor
2022
- Watercress by Andrea Wang Winner
- Have You Ever Seen a Flower? by Shawn Harris Honor
- Mel Fell by Corey R. Tabor Honor
- Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Floyd Cooper Honor
- Wonder Walkers by Micha Archer Honor
2021
- We Are Water Protectors by Michaela Goade Winner
- A Place Inside of Me by Zetta Elliott Honor
- Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera Honor
- Outside In by Deborah Underwood Honor
- The Cat Man of Aleppo by Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-Basha Honor
2020
- The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander Winner
- Bear Came Along by LeUyen Pham Honor
- Double Bass Blues by Rudy Gutierrez Honor
- Going Down Home with Daddy by Daniel Minter Honor
2019
- Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall Winner
- A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin Honor
- Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal Honor
- Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora Honor
- The Rough Patch by Brian Lies Honor
2018
- Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell Winner
- A Different Pond by Thi Bui Honor
- Big Cat, Little Cat by Elisha Cooper Honor
- Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes Honor
- Grand Canyon by Jason Chin Honor
2017
- Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe Winner
- Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis Honor
- Freedom in Congo Square by R. Gregory Christie Honor
- Leave Me Alone! by Vera Brosgol Honor
- They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel Honor
2016
- Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick Winner
- Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña Honor
- Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews Honor
- Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Ekua Holmes Honor
- Waiting by Kevin Henkes Honor
2015
- The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat Winner
- Nana in the City by Lauren Castillo Honor
- Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett Honor
- The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art by Mary GrandPré Honor
- The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant Honor
- This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki Honor
- Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales Honor
2014
- Locomotive by Brian Floca Winner
- Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle Honor
- Journey by Aaron Becker Honor
- Mr. Wuffles! by David Wiesner Honor
2013
- This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen Winner
- Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds Honor
- Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett Honor
- Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger Honor
- One Cool Friend by Toni Buzzeo Honor
- Sleep Like a Tiger by Mary Logue Honor
2012
- A Ball for Daisy by Christopher Raschka Winner
- Blackout by John Rocco Honor
- Grandpa Green by Lane Smith Honor
- Me... Jane by Patrick McDonnell Honor
2011
- A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Erin E. Stead Winner
- Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Bryan Collier Honor
- Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein Honor
2010
- The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney Winner
- All the World by Marla Frazee Honor
- Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors by Pamela Zagarenski Honor
2009
- The House in the Night by Beth Krommes Winner
- A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee Honor
- A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jennifer Bryant Honor
- How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz Honor
2008
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick Winner
- First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger Honor
- Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Kadir Nelson Honor
- Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems Honor
- The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís Honor
2007
- Flotsam by David Wiesner Winner
- Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans Honor
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford Honor
2006
- The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster Winner
- Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride by Marjorie Priceman Honor
- Rosa by Bryan Collier Honor
- Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems illustrated by Beckie Prange Honor
- Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth Honor
2005
- Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes Winner
- Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson Honor
- Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems Honor
- The Red Book by Barbara Lehman Honor
2004
- The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein Winner
- Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems Honor
- Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine Honor
- What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page Honor
2003
- My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann Winner
- Hondo & Fabian by Peter McCarty Honor
- Noah's Ark by Jerry Pinkney Honor
- The Spider and the Fly by Tony DiTerlizzi Honor
2002
- The Three Pigs by David Wiesner Winner
- Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport Honor
- The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley Honor
- The Stray Dog by Marc Simont Honor
2001
- So You Want to Be President? by David Small Winner
- Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer Honor
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Betsy Lewin Honor
- Olivia by Ian Falconer Honor
2000
- Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback Winner
- A Child's Calendar by John Updike Honor
- Sector 7 by David Wiesner Honor
- The Ugly Duckling by Jerry Pinkney Honor
- When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang Honor
1999
- Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin Winner
- Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra by Brian Pinkney Honor
- No, David! by David Shannon Honor
- Snow by Uri Shulevitz Honor
- Tibet: Through the Red Box by Peter Sís Honor
1998
- Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky Winner
- Harlem by Christopher Myers Honor
- The Gardener illustrated by David Small Honor
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback Honor
1997
- Golem by David Wisniewski Winner
- Hush!: A Thai Lullaby by Holly Meade Honor
- Starry Messenger by Peter Sís Honor
- The Graphic Alphabet by David Pelletier Honor
- The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey Honor
1996
- Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann Winner
- Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson Honor
- The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci Honor
- Tops & Bottoms by Janet Stevens Honor
- Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin by Marjorie Priceman Honor
1995
- Smoky Night by Eve Bunting Winner
- John Henry by Jerry Pinkney Honor
- Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs Honor
- Time Flies by Eric Rohmann Honor
1994
- Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say Winner
- In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming Honor
- Owen by Kevin Henkes Honor
- Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone Honor
- Raven: A Trickster Tale From The Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott Honor
- Yo! Yes? by Christopher Raschka Honor
1993
- Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully Winner
- Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young Honor
- The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Lane Smith Honor
- Working Cotton by Carole Byard Honor
1992
1991
- Black and White by David Macaulay Winner
- More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories by Vera B. Williams Honor
- Puss in Boots by Fred Marcellino Honor
1990
- Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young Winner
- Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet Honor
- Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert Honor
- Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Trina Schart Hyman Honor
- The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South by Robert D. San Souci Honor
1989
- Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman Winner
- Free Fall by David Wiesner Honor
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall Honor
- Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia McKissack Honor
- The Boy of the Three-Year Nap by Dianne Snyder Honor
1988
- Owl Moon by John Schoenherr Winner
- Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe Honor
1987
- Hey, Al by Richard Egielski Winner
- Alphabatics by Suse MacDonald Honor
- Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky Honor
- The Village of Round and Square Houses by Ann Grifalconi Honor
1986
- The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg Winner
- King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Don Wood Honor
- The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant Honor
1985
- Saint George and the Dragon by Trina Schart Hyman Winner
- Hansel and Gretel by Rika Lesser Honor
- Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri Honor
- The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend by John Steptoe Honor
1984
- The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice and Martin Provensen Winner
- Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman Honor
- Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang Honor
1983
- Shadow by Marcia Brown Winner
- A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams Honor
- When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant Honor
1982
- Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg Winner
- A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard Honor
- On Market Street by Anita Lobel Honor
- Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak Honor
- Where the Buffaloes Begin by Olaf Baker Honor
1981
- Fables by Arnold Lobel Winner
- Mice Twice by Joseph Low Honor
- The Bremen-Town Musicians by Ilse Plume Honor
- The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly Bang Honor
- Truck by Donald Crews Honor
1980
- Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall Winner
- Ben's Trumpet by Rachel Isadora Honor
- The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg Honor
- The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz Honor
1979
- The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble Winner
- Freight Train by Donald Crews Honor
- The Way to Start a Day by Peter Parnall Honor
1978
- Noah's Ark by Peter Spier Winner
- Castle by David Macaulay Honor
- It Could Always Be Worse by Margot Zemach Honor
1977
- Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Leo and Diane Dillon Winner
- Fish for Supper by M. B. Goffstein Honor
- Hawk, I'm Your Brother by Byrd Baylor Honor
- The Amazing Bone by William Steig Honor
- The Contest by Nonny Hogrogian Honor
- The Golem: A Jewish Legend by Beverly Brodsky McDermott Honor
1976
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema Winner
- Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola Honor
- The Desert Is Theirs by Peter Parnall Honor
1975
- Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott Winner
- Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book by Muriel L. Feelings Honor
1974
- Duffy and the Devil by Margot Zemach Winner
- Cathedral by David Macaulay Honor
- Three Jovial Huntsmen by Susan Jeffers Honor
1973
- The Funny Little Woman by Blair Lent Winner
- Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott Honor
- Hosie's Alphabet by Leonard Baskin Honor
- Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs by Nancy Ekholm Burkert Honor
- When Clay Sings by Tom Bahti Honor
1972
- One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian Winner
- Hildilid's Night by Arnold Lobel Honor
- If All the Seas Were One Sea by Janina Domanska Honor
- Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book by Tom Feelings Honor
1971
- A Story a Story by Gail E. Haley Winner
- Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel Honor
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak Honor
- The Angry Moon by William Sleator Honor
1970
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig Winner
- Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni Honor
- Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats Honor
- Pop Corn & Ma Goodness by Robert Andrew Parker Honor
- The Judge: An Untrue Tale by Margot Zemach Honor
- Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle Honor
1969
- The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by Arthur Michell Ransome Winner
- Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky by Blair Lent Honor
1968
- Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley Winner
- Frederick by Leo Lionni Honor
- Seashore Story by Taro Yashima Honor
- The Emperor and the Kite by Jane Yolen Honor
1967
- Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness Winner
- One Wide River to Cross by Barbara Emberley Honor
1966
- Always Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas Winner
- Hide and Seek Fog by Roger Duvoisin Honor
- Just Me by Marie Hall Ets Honor
- Tom Tit Tot by Evaline Ness Honor
1965
- May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers Winner
- A Pocketful of Cricket by Evaline Ness Honor
- Rain Makes Applesauce by Marvin Bileck Honor
- The Wave illustrated by Blair Lent Honor
1964
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Winner
- All in the Morning Early by Evaline Ness Honor
- Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes by Philip Reed Honor
- Swimmy by Leo Lionni Honor
1963
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Winner
- Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow Honor
- The Sun Is a Golden Earring by Bernarda Bryson Honor
1962
- Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown Winner
- Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song by Peter Spier Honor
- Little Bear's Visit by Else Holmelund Minarik Honor
- The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up by Adrienne Adams Honor
1961
- Baboushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins Winner
- Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni Honor
1960
- Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets Winner
- Houses from the Sea by Alice E. Goudey Honor
- The Moon Jumpers by Janice May Udry Honor
1959
- Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney Winner
- The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie by Antonio Frasconi Honor
- Umbrella by Taro Yashima Honor
- What Do You Say, Dear? by Sesyle Joslin Honor
1958
- Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey Winner
- Anatole and the Cat by Paul Galdone Honor
- Fly High, Fly Low by Don Freeman Honor
1957
- A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry Winner
- 1 Is One by Tasha Tudor Honor
- Anatole by Paul Galdone Honor
- Gillespie and the Guards by Benjamin Elkin Honor
- Lion by William Pène du Bois Honor
- Mr. Penny's Race Horse illustrated by Marie Hall Ets Honor
1956
- Frog Went A-Courtin' by Feodor Rojankovsky Winner
- Crow Boy by Taro Yashima Honor
- Play With Me by Marie Hall Ets Honor
1955
- Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper by Marcia Brown Winner
- Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes by Marguerite de Angeli Honor
- The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh Honor
- Wheel on the Chimney by Margaret Wise Brown Honor
1954
- Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans Winner
- A Very Special House by Ruth Krauss Honor
- Green Eyes by Abe Birnbaum Honor
- Journey Cake, Ho! by Robert McCloskey Honor
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Marcia Brown Honor
- When Will the World Be Mine? by Miriam Schlein Honor
1953
- The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward Winner
- Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals by Fritz Eichenberg Honor
- Five Little Monkeys by Juliet Kepes Honor
- One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey Honor
- Puss in Boots by Janet Brown Honor
- The Storm Book by Charlotte Zolotow Honor
1952
- Finders Keepers by Nicholas Mordvinoff Winner
- All Falling Down by Margaret Bloy Graham Honor
- Bear Party by William Pène du Bois Honor
- Feather Mountain by Elizabeth Olds Honor
- Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo by Marie Hall Ets Honor
- Skipper John's Cook by Marcia Brown Honor
1951
- The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous Winner
- Dick Whittington and His Cat by Marcia Brown Honor
- If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss Honor
- T-Bone, the Baby Sitter by Clare Turlay Newberry Honor
- The Most Wonderful Doll in the World by Phyllis McGinley Honor
- The Two Reds by Nicholas Mordvinoff Honor
1950
- Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi Winner
- America's Ethan Allen by Steward Holbrook Honor
- Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss Honor
- Henry – Fisherman by Marcia Brown Honor
- The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss Honor
- The Wild Birthday Cake by Lavinia R. Davis Honor
1949
- The Big Snow by Berta and Elmer Hader Winner
- All Around the Town by Phyllis McGinley Honor
- Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey Honor
- Fish in the Air by Kurt Wiese Honor
- Juanita by Leo Politi Honor
1948
- White Snow, Bright Snow by Roger Duvoisin Winner
- Bambino the Clown by Georges Schreiber Honor
- McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss Honor
- Roger and the Fox by Lavinia R. Davis Honor
- Song of Robin Hood by Virginia Lee Burton Honor
- Stone Soup by Marcia Brown Honor
1947
- The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown Winner
- Boats on the River by Marjorie Flack Honor
- Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street by Leo Politi Honor
- Rain Drop Splash by Alvin Tresselt Honor
- Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns by Opal Wheeler Honor
- Timothy Turtle by Al Graham Honor
1946
- The Rooster Crows by Maud and Miska Petersham Winner
- Little Lost Lamb by Margaret Wise Brown Honor
- My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Rebecca Hourwich Reyher Honor
- Sing Mother Goose by Opal Wheeler Honor
- You Can Write Chinese by Kurt Wiese Honor
1945
- Prayer for a Child by Elizabeth Orton Jones Winner
- In the Forest by Marie Hall Ets Honor
- Mother Goose by Tasha Tudor Honor
- The Christmas Anna Angel by Kate Seredy Honor
- Yonie Wondernose by Marguerite de Angeli Honor
1944
- Many Moons by James Thurber Winner
- A Child's Good Night Book by Margaret Wise Brown Honor
- Pierre Pidgeon by Arnold E. Bare Honor
- Small Rain: Verses From The Bible by Elizabeth Orton Jones Honor
- The Good-Luck Horse illustrated by Plato Chan Honor
- The Mighty Hunter by Berta and Elmer Hader Honor
1943
- The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton Winner
- Dash and Dart by Mary and Conrad Buff Honor
- Marshmallow by Clare Turlay Newberry Honor
1942
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey Winner
- An American ABC by Maud and Miska Petersham Honor
- In My Mother's House by Velino Herrera Honor
- Nothing at All by Wanda Gág Honor
- Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling Honor
1941
- April's Kittens by Clare Turlay Newberry Honor
1940
- Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire Winner
- Cock-a-Doodle Doo by Berta and Elmer Hader Honor
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans Honor
- The Ageless Story by Lauren Ford Honor
1939
- Mei Li by Thomas Handforth Winner
- Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty Honor
- Barkis by Clare Turlay Newberry Honor
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Wanda Gág Honor
- The Forest Pool by Laura Adams Armer Honor
- Wee Gillis by Munro Leaf Honor
1938
- Animals of the Bible by Dorothy P. Lathrop Winner
- Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Helen Dean Fish Honor
- Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale by Boris Artzybasheff Honor