Caldecott Medal
The Caldecott Medal is awarded each year for the preceding year’s most distinguished American picture book for children. Runners-up are called Caldecott Honor Books.
The award was named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
The Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal are the most prestigious of American children’s book awards.
Learn more: official Caldecott Medal homepage
Winners:
Time of Wonder (1957)
Two young girls spend the summer on an island in Maine.
Read online at archive.org.
Chanticleer and the Fox (1958)
Text adapted from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Nine Days to Christmas (1959)
Ceci is anxiously waiting to select a piñata for her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party.
Aurora Labastida
Aurora Labastida
Baboushka and the Three Kings (1960)
Always Room for One More (1965)
Drummer Hoff (1967)
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1968)
When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969)
A Story a Story (1970)
One Fine Day (1971)
The Funny Little Woman (1972)
Duffy and the Devil (1973)
Arrow to the Sun (1974)
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears (1975)
Leo Dillon
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions (1976)
Leo Dillon