Caldecott Award Books
The American Library Association annually awards The Randolph Caldecott Medal to the illustrator of the most distinguished American childrens book. Below are listed the title and illustrator of each years award winner.
2009 winner:
- 2009: House in the Night / Susan Marie Swanson
Previous winners:
- 2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village / Laura Amy Schlitz
- 2007: Flotsam / David Wiesner
- 2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window / Chris Raschka
- 2005: Kitten's First Full Moon / Kevin Henkes
- 2004: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers / Mordicai Gerstein
- 2003: My Friend Rabbit / Eric Rohmann
- 2002: The Three Pigs / David Weisner
- 2001: So You Want To Be President? / David Small
- 2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat / Simms Taback
- 1999: Snowflake Bentley / Mary Azarian
- 1998: Rapunzel / Paul O. Zelinsky
- 1997: Golem / David Wisniewski
- 1996: Officer Buckle and Gloria / Peggy Rathmann
- 1995: Smoky Night / David Diaz
- 1994: Grandfather's Journey / Allen Say
- 1993: Mirette on the High Wire / Emily Arnold McCully
- 1992: Tuesday / David Wiesner
- 1991: Black and White / David Macaulay
- 1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China / Ed Young
- 1989: Song and Dance Man / Stephen Gammell
- 1988: Owl Moon / John Schoenherr
- 1987: Hey, Al / Richard Egielski
- 1986: The Polar Express / Chris Van Allsburg
- 1985: Saint George and the Dragon / Trina Schart Hyman
- 1984: The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot / Alice and Martin Provensen
- 1983: Shadow / Marcia Brown
- 1982: Jumanji / Chris Van Allsburg
- 1981: Fables / Arnold Lobel
- 1980: Ox-Cart Man / Barbara Cooney
- 1979: Girl Who Loved Wild Horses / Paul Goble
- 1978: Noah's Ark / Peter Spier
- 1977: Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions / Leo & Diane Dillon
- 1976: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears / Leo & Diane Dillon
- 1975: Arrow to the Sun / Gerald McDermott
- 1974: Duffy and the Devil / Margot Zemach
- 1973: The Funny Little Woman / Blair Lent
- 1972: One Fine Day / Nonny Hogrogian
- 1971: A Story, A Story / Gail E. Haley
- 1970: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble / William Steig
- 1969: The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship / Uri Shulevitz
- 1968: Drummer Hoff / Ed Emberley
- 1967: Sam, Bangs and Moonshine / Evaline Ness
- 1966: Always Room for One More / Nonny Hogrogian
- 1965: May I Bring a Friend / Beni Montresor
- 1964: Where the Wild Things Are / Maurice Sendak
- 1963: The Snowy Day / Jack Ezra Keats
- 1962: Once A Mouse / Marcia Brown
- 1961: Baboushka and the Three Kings / Nicolas Sidjakov
- 1960: Nine Days to Christmas / Marie Hall Ets
- 1959: Chanticleer and the Fox / Barbara Cooney
- 1958: Time of Wonder / Robert McCloskey
- 1957: A Tree is Nice / Marc Simont
- 1956: Frog Went A-Courtin' / Feodor Rojankovsky
- 1955: Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper / Marcia Brown
- 1954: Madeline's Rescue / Ludwig Bemelmans
- 1953: The Biggest Bear / Lynd Ward
- 1952: Finders Keepers / Nicholas Mordvinoff
- 1951: The Egg Tree / Katherine Milhous
- 1950: Song of the Swallows / Leo Politi
- 1949: The Big Snow / Berta and Elma Hader
- 1948: White Snow, Bright Snow / Roger Duvoisin
- 1947: The Little Island / Leonard Weisgard
- 1946: The Rooster Crows / Maude and Miska Petersham
- 1945: Prayers for a Child / Elizabeth Orton Jones
- 1944: Many Moons / Louis Slobodkin
- 1943: The Little House / Virginia Lee Burton
- 1942: Make Way for Ducklings / Robert McCloskey
- 1941: They Were Strong and Good / Robert Lawson
- 1940: Abraham Lincoln / Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
- 1939: Mei Lei / Thomas Handforth
- 1938: Animals of the Bible / Dorothy P. Lathrop