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:
Rapunzel (1997)
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hair!
Snowflake Bentley (1998)
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (1999)
So You Want to Be President? (2000)
The Three Pigs (2001)
The three little pigs decide not to play by the rules, but the results are much the same.
Read online at archive.org.
My Friend Rabbit (2002)
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (2003)
Kitten’s First Full Moon (2004)
Flotsam (2006)
The Melville underwater camera holds a trove of unexpected pictures.
Read online at archive.org.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007)
The House in the Night (2008)
The Lion & the Mouse (2009)
The mightiest need not disdain the aid of the least.