Caldecott Award Winners
“The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.”
| Year | Call Number | Author / Illustrator | Title |
| 2008 | j | Brian Selznick, author | The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
| 2007 | jE | David Wiesner, author | Flotsam |
| 2006 | jE | Norman Juster, author | The Hello, Goodbye Window |
| Chris Raschka, illustrator | |||
| 2005 | jE | Kevin Henkes | Kitten’s First Full Moon |
| 2004 | jE | Mordicai Gerstein | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers |
| 2003 | jE | Eric Rohmann | My Friend Rabbit |
| 2002 | jE | David Wiesner, author | The Three Pigs |
| 2001 | j973.099 | Judith St. George, author | So You Want to Be President? |
| David Small, illustrator | |||
| 2000 | jE | Simms, Taback | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat |
| 1999 | j921 | Jacqueline Briggs, author | Snowflake Bentley |
| Mary Azarian, illustrator | |||
| 1998 | j398.2 | Paul O. Zelinsky | Rapunzel |
| 1997 | j398.2 | David Wisniewski | Golem |
| 1996 | jE | Peggy Rathmann | Oficer Buckle and Gloria |
| 1995 | jE | David Diaz, author | Smoky Night |
| Eve Bunting, illustrator | |||
| 1994 | jE | Allen Say | Grandfather’s Journey |
| 1993 | jE | Emily Arnold McCully | Mirette on the High Wire |
| 1992 | jE | David Wiesner | Tuesday |
| 1991 | jE | David Macaulay | Black and White |
| 1990 | j398.2 | Ed Young | Lon Po Po |
| 1989 | jE | Karen Ackerman, author | Song and Dance Man |
| Stephen Gammell, illustrator | |||
| 1988 | jE | Jane Yolen, author | Owl Moon |
| John Schoenherr, illustrator | |||
| 1987 | jE | Arthur Yorinks, author | Hey, Al |
| Richard Egielski, illustrator | |||
| 1986 | jE | Chris Van Allsburg | The Polar Express |
| 1985 | j398.2 | Margaret Hodges, author | Saint George and the Dragon |
| Trina Schart Hyman, illustrator | |||
| 1984 | j629.13 | Alice and Martin Provensen | The Glorious Flight |
| 1983 | j811 | Blaise Cendrars, author | Shadow |
| Marcia Brown, translator and illustrator | |||
| 1982 | jE | Chris Van Allsburg | Jumanji |
| 1981 | jE | Arnold Lobel | Fables |
| 1980 | jE | David Hall, author | Ox-Cart Man |
| Barbara Cooney, illustrator | |||
| 1979 | jE | Paul Goble | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses |
| 1978 | jE | Peter Spier | Noah’s Ark |
| 1977 | J 960 | Margaret Musgrove, author | Ashanti to Zulu |
| Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators | |||
| 1976 | j398.2 | Verna Aardema, author | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears |
| Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators | |||
| 1975 | j398.2 | Gerald McDermott | Arrow to the Sun |
| 1974 | j398.2 | Harve Zemach, author | Duffy and the Devil |
| Margot Zemach, illustrator | |||
| 1973 | j398.2 | Arlene Mosel, author | The Funny Little Woman |
| Blair Lent, illustrator | |||
| 1972 | jE | Nanny Hogrogian | One Fine Day |
| 1971 | j398.2 | Gail E. Haley | A Story A Story |
| 1970 | jE | William Steig | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble |
| 1969 | j398.2 | Arthur Ransome, author | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship |
| Uri Shulevitz, illustrator | |||
| 1968 | jE | Barbara Emberley, author | Drummer Hoff |
| Ed Emberley, illustrator | |||
| 1967 | jE | Evaline Ness | Sam, Bang & Moonshine |
| 1966 | j398.2 | Sorche Nic Leodhas, author | Always Room for One More |
| Nonny Hogrogian, illustrator | |||
| 1965 | jE | Beni Montresor, illustrator | May I Bring a Friend? |
| Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, author | |||
| 1964 | jE | Maurice Sendak | Where the Wild Things Are |
| 1963 | jE | Ezra Jack Keats | The Snowy day |
| 1962 | j398.2 | Marcia Brown | Once a Mouse |
| 1961 | j398.2 | Ruth Robbins, author | Baboushka and the Three Kings |
| Nicolas Sidjakov, illustrator | |||
| 1960 | jE | Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida, authors | Nine Days to Christmas |
| Marie Hall Ets, illustrator | |||
| 1959 | j811 | Barbara Cooney | Chanticleer and the Fox |
| 1958 | j974.1 | Robert McClosky | Time of Wonder |
| 1957 | jE | Janice Udry, author | A Tree Is Nice |
| Marc Simont, illustrator | |||
| 1956 | jE | John Langstaff, author | Frog Went A-Courtin’ |
| Feodor Rojankovsky, illustrator | |||
| 1955 | j398.2 | Charles Perrault, author | Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper |
| Marcia Brown, translator and illustrator | |||
| 1954 | jE | Ludwig Bemelmans | Madeline’s Rescue |
| 1953 | jE | Lynd Ward | The Biggest Bear |
| 1952 | fjE | Will, author | Finders Keepers |
| Nicolas, illustrator | |||
| 1951 | jE | Katherine Milhous | The Egg Tree |
| 1950 | jE | Leo Politi | Song of the Swallows |
| 1949 | jE | Berta and Elmer Hader | The Big Snow |
| 1948 | jE | Alvin Tresselt, author | White Snow, Bright Snow |
| Roger Duvoisin, illustrator | |||
| 1947 | Golden MacDonald, author | The Little Island | |
| Leonard Weisgard, illustrator | |||
| 1946 | jE | Maud and Miska Petersham | The Rooster Crows |
| 1945 | j242 | Rachel Field, author | Prayer for a Child |
| Elizabeth Orton Jones, illustrator | |||
| 1944 | jE | James Thurber, author | Many Moons |
| Louis Slobodkin, illustrator | |||
| 1943 | jE | Virginia Lee Burton | Th Little House |
| 1942 | jE | Robert McCloskey | Make Way for Ducklings |
| 1941 | j920.9 | Robert Lawson | They Were Strong and Good |
| 1940 | j921 | Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire | Abraham Lincoln |
| 1939 | j220.85 | Thomas Handforth | Mei Li |
| 1938 | jE | Helen Dean Fish, author | Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book |
| Dorothy P. Lathrop |
