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Caldecott Honor Book
The Caldecott Honor Books are runners-up to the Caldecott Medal, is awarded for the previous year’s most distinguished American picture book for children.
The award was named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
Learn more: official Caldecott Medal and Honor homepage.
Winners:
Three Jovial Huntsmen (1973)
The three jovial huntsmen set out for a day's sport, but nary a beast do they see.
Strega Nona (1975)
When Strega Nona leaves Big Anthony alone with her magic pasta pot, he is determined to show the townspeople how it works on his own.
Castle (1977)
A detailed account of the construction of a new castle and town on the Welsh marches.
Read online at archive.org.
Little Red Riding Hood (1983)
A girl, a grandmother, a wolf and a woodcutter star in this well-known tale.
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Trina Schart Hyman
Hansel and Gretel (1984)
Two children lost in the woods come upon a cottage made of gingerbread.
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Rika Lesser
Mirandy and Brother Wind (1989)
Mirandy hopes to win first prize in the cakewalk by capturing the wind for her partner.
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South (1989)
Blanche is treated poorly by her family, but an act of kindness to a stranger yields its reward.
John Henry (1995)
Now John Henry was a steel driving man.
The Ugly Duckling (1999)
When one of the ducklings doesn’t match the rest of the hatchlings, he is shunned by the farmyard animals, until he discovers he belongs to a different family altogether.
A Child’s Calendar (1999)
A poem for every month of the year.
Sector 7 (1999)
A boy on a trip to the Empire State Building gets a tour of Sector 7, where the clouds are made.
Read online at archive.org.
Noah’s Ark (2002)
Forty days and forty nights it rained on the earth while Noah and his family and the animals in the ark floated on the waters.
The Bible
Mr. Wuffles (2013)
Invading space aliens join up with the ants behind the baseboard, but Mr. Wuffles, savior of the planet, is on the job.
Read online at archive.org.