The Caldecott Medal

The Caldecott Medal is awarded each year to the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book for children by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

The award is named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott, and was originally created as sort of the flip side of the Newbery Medal. While the Newbery is awarded to the "most distinguished American children's book" of the previous year, the Caldecott is awarded specifically to illustrators.

2010 The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney


2009 The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson and Beth Krommes


2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick


2007 Flotsam by David Wiesner


2006 The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster and Chris Raschka


2005 Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes


2004 The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein


2003 My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann


2002 The Three Pigs by David Wiesner


2001 So You Want To Be President? by Judith St. George


2000 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback


1999 Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin


1998 Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky


1997 Golem by David Wisniewski


1996 Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann


1995 Smoky Night by Eve Bunting


1994 Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say


1992 Tuesday by David Wiesner


1991 Black and White by David Macaulay


1990 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story From China by Ed Young


1989 Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman


1988 Owl Moon by Jane Yolen


1987 Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks


1986 The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg


1985 Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges


1984 The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel With Louis Bleriot, July 25, 1909 by Alice Provensen


1983 Shadow by Blaise Cendrars


1982 Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg


1981 Fables by Arnold Lobel


1980 Ox-cart Man by Donald Hall


1979 The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble


1978 Noah's Ark by Peter Spier


1977 Ashanti To Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret W. Musgrove


1976 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale by Verna Aardema


1975 Arrow To the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald Mcdermott


1974 Duffy and the Devil by Harve Zemach


1973 The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel


1972 One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian


1971 A Story, a Story: An African Tale by Gail E. Haley


1970 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig


1969 The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship: Arthur Ransome by Arthur Ransome


1968 Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley


1967 Sam Bangs and Moonshine by Evaline Ness


1966 Always Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas


1965 May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers


1964 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak


1963 The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats


1962 Once a Mouse... by Marcia Brown


1961 Baboushka and the Three Kings: Ruth Robbins by Ruth Robbins


1960 Nine Days To Christmas by Marie Hall Ets


1959 Chanticleer and the Fox by Geoffrey Chaucer


1958 Time of Wonder by Robert Mccloskey


1957 A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry


1956 Frog Went A-Courtin'by John Langstaff

1955 Cinderella by Charles Perrault


1954 Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans


1953 The Biggest Bear by Lynn K. Ward


1952 Finders Keepers by Nicolas Will


1951 The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous


1950 Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi


1949 The Big Snow by Berta Hader


1948 White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt


1947 The Little Island by Golden MacDonald


1946 The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles by Maud Petersham


1945 Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field


1944 Many Moons by James Thurber


1943 The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton


1942 Make Way for Ducklings by Robert Mccloskey


1941 They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson


1940 Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'aulaire


1939 Mei Liby Thomas Handforth

1938 Animals of the Bible: A Picture Book by Dorothy P. Lathrop