Caldecott Honor

The Caldecott Honor is a citation given by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA). The Caldecott Honor is given to worthy runners-up for the Caldecott Medal, a higher honor. Though the Caldecott Honor was initiated in 1971, specially cited runners-up for the Caldecott Medal from previous years were retroactively named Caldecott Honor books.

The following is a list of Caldecott Honor books, in chronological order:

Recipients

Year	Illustrator	Title	Author
1938	Robert Lawson	Four and Twenty Blackbirds	Helen Dean Fish
1938	Boris Artzybasheff	Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale	Boris Artzybasheff
1939	James Daugherty	Andy and the Lion	James Daugherty
1939	Clare Turlay Newberry	Barkis	Clare Turlay Newberry
1939	Laura Adams Armer	The Forest Pool	Laura Adams Armer
1939	Wanda Gág	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Wanda Gág
1939	Robert Lawson	Wee Gillis	Munro Leaf
1940	Berta and Elmer Hader	Cock-a-Doodle Doo	Berta and Elmer Hader
1940	Ludwig Bemelmans	Madeline	Ludwig Bemelmans
1940	Lauren Ford	The Ageless Story	Lauren Ford
1941	Holling C. Holling	Paddle-to-the-Sea	Holling C. Holling
1941	Clare Turlay Newberry	April's Kittens	Clare Turlay Newberry
1942	Maud and Miska Petersham	An American ABC	Maud and Miska Petersham
1942	Velino Herrera	In My Mother's House	Ann Nolan Clark
1942	Wanda Gág	Nothing At All	Wanda Gág
1943	Mary and Conrad Buff	Dash and Dart	Mary and Conrad Buff
1943	Clare Turlay Newberry	Marshmallow	Clare Turlay Newberry
1944	Elizabeth Orton Jones	Small Rain: Verses From The Bible	Jessie Orton Jones
1944	Arnold E. Bare	Pierre Pidgeon	Lee Kingman
1944	Berta and Elmer Hader	The Mighty Hunter	Berta and Elmer Hader
1944	Jean Charlot	A Child's Good Night Book	Margaret Wise Brown
1944	Plato Chan	Good-Luck Horse	Chih-Yi Chan
1945	Tasha Tudor	Mother Goose	Tasha Tudor
1945	Marie Hall Ets	In the Forest	Marie Hall Ets
1945	Marguerite de Angeli	Yonie Wondernose	Marguerite de Angeli
1945	Kate Seredy	The Christmas Anna Angel	Ruth Sawyer
1946	Leonard Weisgard	Little Lost Lamb	Golden MacDonald
1946	Marjorie Torrey	Sing Mother Goose	Opal Wheeler
1946	Ruth Gannett	My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World	Becky Reyher
1946	Kurt Wiese	You Can Write Chinese	Kurt Wiese
1947	Leonard Weisgar	Rain Drop Splash	Alvin Tresselt
1947	Jay Hyde Barnum	Boats on the River	Marjorie Flack
1947	Tony Palazzo	Timothy Turtle	Al Graham
1947	Leo Politi	Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street	Leo Politi
1947	Marjorie Torrey	Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns	Opal Wheeler
1948	Marcia Brown	Stone Soup	Marcia Brown
1948	Dr. Seuss	McElligot's Pool	Dr. Seuss
1948	Georges Schreiber	Bambino the Clown	Georges Schreiber
1948	Hildegard Woodward	Roger and the Fox	Lavinia R. Davis
1948	Virginia Lee Burton	Song of Robin Hood	Anne Malcolmson
1949	Robert McCloskey	Blueberries for Sal	Robert McCloskey
1949	Helen Stone	All Around the Town	Phyllis McGinley
1949	Leo Politi	Juanita	Leo Politi
1949	Kurt Wiese	Fish in the Air	Kurt Wiese
1950	Lynd Ward	America's Ethan Allen	Stewart Holbrook
1950	Hildegard Woodward	The Wild Birthday Cake	Lavinia R. Davis
1950	Marc Simont	The Happy Day	Ruth Krauss
1950	Dr. Seuss	Bartholomew and the Oobleck	Dr. Seuss
1950	Marcia Brown	Henry Fisherman	Marcia Brown
1951	Marcia Brown	Dick Whittington and His Cat	Marcia Brown
1951	Nicholas Mordvinoff	The Two Reds	William Lipkind
1951	Dr. Seuss	If I Ran the Zoo	Dr. Seuss
1951	Helen Stone	The Most Wonderful Doll in the World	Phyllis McGinley
1951	Clare Turlay Newberry	T-Bone, the Baby Sitter	Clare Turlay Newberry
1952	Marie Hall Ets	Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo	Marie Hall Ets
1952	Marcia Brown	Skipper John's Cook	Marcia Brown
1952	Margaret Bloy Graham	All Falling Down	Gene Zion
1952	William Pène du Bois	Bear Party	William Pène du Bois
1952	Elizabeth Olds	Feather Mountain	Elizabeth Olds
1953	Marcia Brown	Puss in Boots	Charles Perrault
1953	Robert McCloskey	One Morning in Maine	Robert McCloskey
1953	Fritz Eichenberg	Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals	Fritz Eichenberg
1953	Margaret Bloy Graham	The Storm Book	Charlotte Zolotow
1953	Juliet Kepes	Five Little Monkeys	Juliet Kepes
1954	Robert McCloskey	Journey Cake, Ho!	Ruth Sawyer
1954	Jean Charlot	When Will the World Be Mine?	Miriam Schlein
1954	Marcia Brown	The Steadfast Tin Soldier	Hans Christian Andersen
1954	Maurice Sendak	A Very Special House	Ruth Krauss
1954	A. Birnbaum	Green Eyes	A. Birnbaum
1955	Marguerite de Angeli	Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes	Marguerite de Angeli
1955	Tibor Gergely	Wheel On The Chimney	Margaret Wise Brown
1955	Helen Sewell	The Thanksgiving Story	Alice Dalgliesh
1956	Marie Hall Ets	Play With Me	Marie Hall Ets
1956	Taro Yashima	Crow Boy	Taro Yashima
1957	Marie Hall Ets	Mr. Penny's Race Horse	Marie Hall Ets
1957	Tasha Tudor	1 is One	Tasha Tudor
1957	Paul Galdone	Anatole	Eve Titus
1957	James Daugherty	Gillespie and the Guards	Benjamin Elkin
1957	William Pène du Bois	Lion	William Pène du Bois
1958	Don Freeman	Fly High, Fly Low	Don Freeman
1958	Paul Galdone	Anatole and the Cat	Eve Titus
1959	Antonio Frasconi	The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie	Antonio Frasconi
1959	Maurice Sendak	What Do You Say, Dear?	Sesyle Joslin
1959	Taro Yashima	Umbrella	Taro Yashima
1960	Adrienne Adams	Houses from the Sea	Alice E. Goudey
1960	Maurice Sendak	The Moon Jumpers	Janice May Udry
1961	Leo Lionni	Inch by Inch	Leo Lionni
1962	Peter Spier	Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song	Peter Spier
1962	Maurice Sendak	Little Bear's Visit	Else H. Minarik
1962	Adrienne Adams	The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up	Alice E. Goudey
1963	Bernarda Bryson	The Sun is a Golden Earring	Natalia M. Belting
1963	Maurice Sendak	Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present	Charlotte Zolotow
1964	Leo Lionni	Swimmy	Leo Lionni
1964	Evaline Ness	All in the Morning Early	Sorche Nic Leodhas
1964	Philip Reed	Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes	Philip Reed
1965	Marvin Bileck	Rain Makes Applesauce	Julian Scheer
1965	Blair Lent	The Wave	Margaret Hodges
1965	Evaline Ness	A Pocketful of Cricket	Rebecca Caudill
1966	Roger Duvoisin	Hide and Seek Fog	Alvin Tresselt
1966	Marie Hall Ets	Just Me	Marie Hall Ets
1966	Evaline Ness	Tom Tit Tot	Evaline Ness
1967	Ed Emberley	One Wide River to Cross	Barbara Emberley
1968	Leo Lionni	Frederick	Leo Lionni
1968	Taro Yashima	Seashore Story	Taro Yashima
1968	Ed Young	The Emperor and the Kite	Jane Yolen
1969	Blair Lent	Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky	Elphinstone Dayrell
1970	Ezra Jack Keats	Goggles!	Ezra Jack Keats
1970	Leo Lionni	Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse	Leo Lionni
1970	Robert Andrew Parker	Pop Corn & Ma Goodness	Edna Mitchell Preston
1970	Brinton Turkle	Thy Friend, Obadiah	Brinton Turkle
1970	Margot Zemach	The Judge: An Untrue Tale	Margot Zemach
1971	Blair Lent	The Angry Moon	William Sleator
1971	Arnold Lobel	Frog and Toad are Friends	Arnold Lobel
1971	Maurice Sendak	In the Night Kitchen	Maurice Sendak
1972	Arnold Lobel	Hildilid's Night	Cheli Durán Ryan
1972	Janina Domanska	If All the Seas Were One Sea	Janina Domanska
1972	Tom Feelings	Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book	Muriel Feelings
1973	Gerald McDermott	Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti	Gerald McDermott
1973	Leonard Baskin	Hosie's Alphabet	Hosea, Tobias and Lisa Baskin
1973	Nancy Ekholm Burkert	Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs	Randall Jarrell
1973	Tom Bahti	When Clay Sings	Byrd Baylor
1974	Susan Jeffers	Three Jovial Huntsmen	Susan Jeffers
1974	David Macaulay	Cathedral	David Macaulay
1975	Tom Feelings	Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book	Muriel Feelings
1976	Peter Parnall	The Desert is Theirs	Byrd Baylor
1976	Tomie de Paola	Strega Nona	Tomie de Paola
1977	William Steig	The Amazing Bone	William Steig
1977	Nonny Hogrogian	The Contest	Nonny Hogrogian
1977	M. B. Goffstein	Fish for Supper	M. B. Goffstein
1977	Beverly Brodsky McDermott	The Golem: A Jewish Legend	Beverly Brodsky McDermott
1977	Peter Parnall	Hawk, I'm Your Brother	Byrd Baylor
1978	David Macaulay	Castle	David Macaulay
1978	Margot Zemach	It Could Always Be Worse	Margot Zemach
1979	Donald Crews	Freight Train	Donald Crews
1979	Peter Parnall	The Way to Start a Day	Byrd Baylor
1980	Rachel Isadora	Ben's Trumpet	Rachel Isadora
1980	Chris Van Allsburg	The Garden of Abdul Gasazi	Chris Van Allsburg
1980	Uri Shulevitz	The Treasure	Uri Shulevitz
1981	Ilse Plume	The Bremen-Town Musicians	Ilse Plume
1981	Molly Bang	The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher	Molly Bang
1981	Joseph Low	Mice Twice	Joseph Low
1981	Donald Crews	Truck	Donald Crews
1982	Stephen Gammell	Where the Buffaloes Begin	Olaf Baker
1982	Anita Lobel	On Market Street	Arnold Lobel
1982	Maurice Sendak	Outside Over There	Maurice Sendak
1982	Alice and Martin Provensen	A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers	Nancy Willard
1983	Vera B. Williams	A Chair for My Mother	Vera B. Williams
1983	Diane Goode	When I Was Young in the Mountains	Cynthia Rylant
1984	Trina Schart Hyman	Little Red Riding Hood	Trina Schart Hyman
1984	Molly Bang	Ten, Nine, Eight	Molly Bang
1985	Paul O. Zelinsky	Hansel and Gretel	Rika Lesser
1985	Nancy Tafuri	Have You Seen My Duckling?	Nancy Tafuri
1985	John Steptoe	The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend	John Steptoe
1986	Stephen Gammell	The Relatives Came	Cynthia Rylant
1986	Don Wood	King Bidgood's in the Bathtub	Audrey Wood
1987	Ann Grifalconi	The Village of Round and Square Houses	Ann Grifalconi
1987	Suse MacDonald	Alphabatics	Suse MacDonald
1987	Paul O. Zelinsky	Rumpelstiltskin	Paul O. Zelinsky
1988	John Steptoe	Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale	John Steptoe
1989	Allen Say	The Boy of the Three-Year Nap	Diane Snyder
1989	David Wiesner	Free Fall	David Wiesner
1989	James Marshall	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	James Marshall
1989	Jerry Pinkney	Mirandy and Brother Wind	Patricia C. McKissack
1990	Bill Peet	Bill Peet: An Autobiography	Bill Peet
1990	Lois Ehlert	Color Zoo	Lois Ehlert
1990	Jerry Pinkney	The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South	Robert D. San Souci
1990	Trina Schart Hyman	Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins	Eric Kimmel
1991	Fred Marcellino	Puss in Boots	Charles Perrault
1991	Vera B. Williams	"More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories	Vera B. Williams
1992	Faith Ringgold	Tar Beach	Faith Ringgold
1993	Lane Smith	The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales	Jon Scieszka
1993	Ed Young	Seven Blind Mice	Ed Young
1993	Carole Byard	Working Cotton	Sherley Anne Williams
1994	Ted Lewin	Peppe the Lamplighter	Elisa Bartone
1994	Denise Fleming	In the Small, Small Pond	Denise Fleming
1994	Gerald McDermott	Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest	Gerald McDermott
1994	Kevin Henkes	Owen	Kevin Henkes
1994	Chris Raschka	Yo! Yes?	Richard Jackson
1995	Jerry Pinkney	John Henry	Julius Lester
1995	Paul O. Zelinsky	Swamp Angel	Anne Issacs
1995	Eric Rohmann	Time Flies	Eric Rohmann
1996	Stephen T. Johnson	Alphabet City	Stephen T. Johnson
1996	Marjorie Priceman	Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin	Lloyd Moss
1996	Brian Pinkney	The Faithful Friend	Robert D. San Souci
1996	Janet Stevens	Tops & Bottoms	Janet Stevens
1997	Holly Meade	Hush! A Thai Lullaby	Minfong Ho
1997	David Pelletier	The Graphic Alphabet	David Pelletier
1997	Dav Pilkey	The Paperboy	Dav Pilkey
1997	Peter Sís	Starry Messenger	Peter Sís
1998	David Small	The Gardener	Sarah Stewart
1998	Christopher Myers	Harlem	Walter Dean Myers
1998	Simms Taback	There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly	Simms Taback
1999	Brian Pinkney	Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra	Andrea Davis Pinkney
1999	David Shannon	No, David!	David Shannon
1999	Uri Shulevitz	Snow	Uri Shulevitz
1999	Peter Sís	Tibet Through the Red Box	Peter Sís
2000	Trina Schart Hyman	A Child's Calendar	John Updike
2000	David Wiesner	Sector 7	David Wiesner
2000	Molly Bang	When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry	Molly Bang
2000	Jerry Pinkney	The Ugly Duckling	Hans Christian Andersen
2001	Christopher Bing	Casey at the Bat	Ernest Thayer
2001	Betsy Lewin	Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type	Doreen Cronin
2001	Ian Falconer	Olivia	Ian Falconer
2002	Brian Selznick	The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins	Barbara Kerley
2002	Bryan Collier	Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Doreen Rappaport
2002	Marc Simont	The Stray Dog	Marc Simont
2003	Tony DiTerlizzi	The Spider and the Fly	Mary Howitt
2003	Peter McCarty	Hondo & Fabian	Peter McCarty
2003	Jerry Pinkney	Noah's Ark	Jerry Pinkney
2004	Margaret Chodos-Irvine	Ella Sarah Gets Dressed	Margaret Chodos-Irvine
2004	Steve Jenkins and Robin Page	What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?	Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
2004	Mo Willems	Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!	Mo Willems
2005	Barbara Lehman	The Red Book	Barbara Lehman
2005	E. B. Lewis	Coming on Home Soon	Jacqueline Woodson
2005	Mo Willems	Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale	Mo Willems
2006	Bryan Collier	Rosa	Nikki Giovanni
2006	Jon J. Muth	Zen Shorts	Jon J. Muth
2006	Marjorie Priceman	Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride	Marjorie Priceman
2006	Beckie Prange	Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems	Joyce Sidman
2007	David McLimans	Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet	David McLimans
2007	Kadir Nelson	Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom	Carole Boston Weatherford
2008	Kadir Nelson	Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad	Ellen Levine
2008	Laura Vaccaro Seeger	First the Egg	Laura Vaccaro Seeger
2008	Peter Sís	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain	Peter Sís
2008	Mo Willems	Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity	Mo Willems
2009	Marla Frazee	A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever	Marla Frazee
2009	Uri Shulevitz	How I Learned Geography	Uri Shulevitz
2009	Melissa Sweet	A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams	Jen Bryant

External links

• Caldecott Medal official site