The Caldecott Medal is awarded in January of each year by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the best American picture book for children of the previous year. It is named after the 19th-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott.

More information about the Caldecott Medal is available on the American Library Association’s web site.

2008 – The invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick

2007 – Flotsam, by David Wiesner

2006 – The hello, goodbye window, by Norton Juster

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, illustrated by David Small ; text by Judith St. George

2000 – Joseph had a little overcoat, by Simms Taback

1999 – Snowflake Bentley, by Mary Azarian

1998 – Rapunzel, by Paul 0. 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

1993 – Mirette on the High Wire, by Emily Arnold McCully

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, retold by Margaret Hodges

1984 – The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, by Alice & Martin 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 Musgrove

1976 – Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears, retold by Verna Aardema

1975 – Arrow to the Sun, by Gerald McDermott

1974 – Duffy and the Devil, by Harve Zemach

1973 – The Funny Little Woman, retold by Arlene Mosel

1972 – One Fine Day, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian

1971 – A Story A Story, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley

1970 – Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig

1969 – The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, retold by Arthur Ransome

1968 – Drummer Hoff, adapted by Barbara Emberley

1967 – Sam, Bangs & 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, retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown

1961 – Baboushka and the Three Kings, by Ruth Robbins

1960 – Nine Days to Christmas, by Marie Hall Ets

1959 – Chanticleer and the Fox, adapted from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney

1958 – Time of Wonder, by Robert McCloskey

1957 – A Tree Is Nice, by Janice Udry

1956 – Frog Went A-Courtin’, retold by John Langstaff

1955 – Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown

1954 – Madeline’s Rescue, by Ludwig Bemelmans

1953 – The Biggest Bear, by Lynd Ward

1952 – Finders Keepers, Will, pseud. [William Lipkind]

1951 – The Egg Tree, by Katherine Milhous

1950 – Song of the Swallows, by Leo Politi

1949 – The Big Snow, by Berta & Elmer Hader

1948 – White Snow, Bright Snow, by Alvin Tresselt

1947 – The Little Island, by Margaret Wise Brown

1946 – The Rooster Crows, by Maude & Miska 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 & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire

1939 – Mei Li, by Thomas Handforth

1938 – Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book, selected by Helen Dean Fish

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