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Caldecott Medal

The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year. It was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator...
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2008 Brian Selznick  
Selznick (born 14 July 1966 in East Brunswick, New Jersey) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, then worked for 3 years at Eeyore's Books for Children in Manhattan; his first...
The Invention of Hugo Cabret  
2007 David Wiesner  
David Wiesner (February 5, 1956-) is an American author and illustrator of children's books and publications. His work has won several honors, including three Caldecott Medals and two Caldecott Honors. He was born and raised in Bridgewater, New...
Flotsam  
2006 Chris Raschka  
Chris Raschka (born Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1959) is an American author, illustrator, and violist. His Yo! Yes? was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1993 but he is probably most famous for his Hello, Goodbye Window, winner of the 2006 Caldecott...
The Hello, Goodbye Window  
2005 Kevin Henkes  
Kevin Henkes (b. November 27, 1960, Racine, Wisconsin) is a noted children's book author and illustrator, most famous for his book, Kitten's First Full Moon, which won the 2005 Caldecott Medal. Kevin Henkes (pronounced HENK-us) thought he would be a...
Kitten's First Full Moon  
2004 Mordicai Gerstein  
Mordicai Gerstein, born November 25, 1935 in Los Angeles (California, USA), is an American artist, writer, and film director, best known for illustrating and writing children's books. In 2004, Gerstein received the Caldecott Award for his book The...
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers  
2003 Eric Rohmann  
Eric Rohmann (born in Riverside, Illinois, in 1957) is a U.S. author and illustrator of children's books. He has won the 2003 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations of My Friend Rabbit. A graduate of Illinois State University and Arizona State...
My Friend Rabbit  
2002 David Wiesner  
David Wiesner (February 5, 1956-) is an American author and illustrator of children's books and publications. His work has won several honors, including three Caldecott Medals and two Caldecott Honors. He was born and raised in Bridgewater, New...
The Three Pigs  
2001 David Small  
David Small (born February 12, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American author and illustrator. He was only 2 years old when he began drawing, health problems having kept him home for much of his childhood. David Small attended Cass Technical High...
So You Want to Be President?  
2000 Simms Taback  
Simms Taback (born 1932) is an author and illustrator. He was born in the Bronx to a Jewish family. Taback has illustrated several children's books, including the Caldecott Medal winning There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and Joseph Had a...
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat  
1999 Mary Azarian  
Mary Azarian (born 1940) is a woodcut artist and children's book illustrator. In 1999 she won the Caldecott Medal for her book, Snowflake Bentley, a picture book of the life of Wilson Bentley. She produces original prints and has illustrated over 50...
Snowflake Bentley  
1998 Paul O. Zelinsky  
Paul O. Zelinsky (born 1953) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1998 for his Rapunzel. The best-selling movable book The Wheels on the Bus is his most popular work. Paul O. Zelinsky was...
Rapunzel  
1997 David Wisniewski  
David Wisniewski (March 21, 1953 in England – September 11, 2002 in Alexandria, Virginia at age 49), was a children's author and illustrator. He attended the University of Maryland, College Park but quit after one semester to join the Ringling...
Golem  
1996 Peggy Rathmann  
Margaret Crosby "Peggy" Rathmann (born March 4, 1953) is an award-winning American author and illustrator. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota. Her first book, Ruby the Copycat, earned Ms. Rathmann the...
Officer Buckle and Gloria  
1995 David Diaz  
David Diaz (born 1960) is an American illustrator, best known for his illustrations of the dramatic book Smoky Night by Eve Bunting that won him the 1995 Caldecott Medal. He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and lives in Carlsbad, California
Smoky Night  
1994 Allen Say  
Allen Say (born James Allen Koichi Moriwaki Seii in 1937) is a Asian American author and illustrator best known for his book Grandfather's Journey, a picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again,...
Grandfather's Journey  
1993 Emily Arnold McCully  
Emily Arnold McCully is a children's author who was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1939, but grew up in Garden City, New York. She attended Brown University and Columbia University. Among the awards she has won, Ms. McCully has received a...
Mirette on the High Wire  
1992 David Wiesner  
David Wiesner (February 5, 1956-) is an American author and illustrator of children's books and publications. His work has won several honors, including three Caldecott Medals and two Caldecott Honors. He was born and raised in Bridgewater, New...
Tuesday  
1991 David Macaulay  
David Macaulay (born December 2, 1946) is an author and illustrator. Now a resident of Norwich, Vermont, United States, he is an alumnus and faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design. David Macaulay is also a board member of the National...
Black and White  
1990 Ed Young  
Ed Young (November 28, 1931 –), born Ed (Tse-chun) Young, is a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator and author of picture books. Ed Young was born on November 28, 1931 in Tianjin, China. When he was three years old, he and his family moved to...
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China  
1989 Stephen Gammell Stephen Gammell
Stephen Gammell (b. February 10, 1943) is an American illustrator of children's books. His awards include the Caldecott Medal. Stephen Gammell grew up in Iowa. His father, an art editor for a major magazine, brought home periodicals that gave...
Song and Dance Man  
1988 John Schoenherr The Falling Torch (1962 paperback edition), cover painting by John Schoenherr
John Schoenherr is an American illustrator who was born in New York City, July 5, 1935. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School. He studied art at The Art Students League of New York with Will Barnet and at Pratt Institute. Much of the...
Owl Moon  
1987 Richard Egielski  
Richard Egielski (born July 16, 1952 in New York City) is an American illustrator most famous for Hey, Al, a book that Arthur Yorinks wrote, but for which Egielski won the 1987 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations. Egielski is married to Denise...
Hey, Al  
1986 Chris Van Allsburg  
Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949 in East Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He twice won the Caldecott Medal, for Jumanji (1982) and The Polar Express (1986), both of which he wrote and...
The Polar Express  
1985 Trina Schart Hyman Trina Schart Hyman's self-portrait from Trina Schart Hyman: A Self-Portrait (Addison Wesley, 1981)
Trina Schart Hyman (April 8, 1939–November 19, 2004) was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150 books, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends, and won four Caldecott awards. Born in Philadelphia to Margaret Doris...
Saint George and the Dragon  
1984 Alice and Martin Provensen  
Alice Provensen (1918 August 14–present) and Martin Provensen (July 10, 1916, Chicago, Illinois, USA–March 27, 1987, Staatsburg, New York, USA) were an American author-illustrator team who created children's books. There was a remarkable similarity...
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot  
1983 Marcia Brown  
Marcia Joan Brown (born July 13, 1918) is an American children's author and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She has won the Caldecott Medal three times, the only person to do so until David Wiesner in 2007. She is also the winner of...
Shadow  
1982 Chris Van Allsburg  
Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949 in East Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He twice won the Caldecott Medal, for Jumanji (1982) and The Polar Express (1986), both of which he wrote and...
Jumanji  
1981 Arnold Lobel Arnold Lobel
Arnold Stark Lobel (May 22, 1933–December 4, 1987) was a popular American author of children's books. Among his most popular books are those of the Frog and Toad series, and Mouse Soup, which won the Garden State Children's Book Award from the New...
Fables  
1980 Barbara Cooney  
Barbara Cooney (1917–2000) was an American children's author and illustrator of more than 200 books and double Caldecott Medalist. She has written books for six decades. Her books have been translated into 10 languages. Cooney was born on 6 August...
Ox-Cart Man  
1979 Paul Goble Goble
Paul Goble (born September 27, 1933) is an award winning author and illustrator of children's books, mostly Native American stories. Goble has received a number of honors for his books including the prestigious Caldecott Medal. Goble, a native of...
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses  
1978 Peter Spier  
Peter Spier (born June 6, 1927 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch-born American author and illustrator who has published more than thirty children's books. Spier grew up in Broek in Waterland as the son of Jo Spier, a very popular Dutch artist and illustrator...
Noah's Ark  
1977 Leo Dillon     Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions  
Diane Dillon    
1976 Leo Dillon     Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears  
Diane Dillon    
1975 Gerald McDermott  
Gerald McDermott is an award-winning filmmaker, children’s book author & illustrator as well as an expert on mythology. His work often combines bright colors and styles with ancient imagery. His picture books encompass folktales and cultures from...
Arrow to the Sun  
1974 Margot Zemach  
Margot Zemach (November 30, 1931- November 21, 1989) was an American illustrator of more than forty children's books, many of them adaptations of folk tales from around the world. Margot Zemach was born in Los Angeles. When she was growing up there...
Duffy and the Devil  
1973 Blair Lent  
Blair Lent (January 20, 1930 – January 27, 2009) was an American author and illustrator of mostly Chinese-themed books, including the popular 1968 children's book Tikki Tikki Tembo. In 1973 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations of...
The Funny Little Woman  
1972 Nonny Hogrogian  
Nonny Hogrogian (1932-) is an Armenian-American author and illustrator. She was born on May 7, 1932 in New York City, and graduated from Hunter College. King of the Kerry Fair was the first book she illustrated, in 1960. She won the Caldecott Medal...
One Fine Day  
1971 Gail E. Haley  
Gail E. Haley (born 1939) is an American author and illustrator. She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She married mathematician Joseph A. Haley in 1959. Her first book, My Kingdom for a Dragon was published in 1962. She won the Caldecott Medal...
A Story a Story  
1970 William Steig  
William Steig (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was a prolific American cartoonist, sculptor and, later in life, an author of popular children's literature. Most noted for the books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island and Doctor De...
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble  
1969 Uri Shulevitz  
Uri Shulevitz (born February 27, 1935) is an American author and illustrator. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1969 for his illustration of The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship. He created his first picture book, The Moon in My Room, in 1963....
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship  
1968 Ed Emberley  
Edward Randolph Emberley (born October 19, 1931 in Malden, Massachusetts) is an American artist and illustrator. Emberley studied art at the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston from which he got a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and...
Drummer Hoff  
1967 Evaline Ness  
Evaline Ness (April 24, 1911 - August 12, 1986) was an American commercial artist and illustrater for award winning children's books. She was born Evaline Michelow in Union City, Ohio and grew up in Pontiac, Michigan. Ness studied at Ball State...
Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine  
1966 Nonny Hogrogian  
Nonny Hogrogian (1932-) is an Armenian-American author and illustrator. She was born on May 7, 1932 in New York City, and graduated from Hunter College. King of the Kerry Fair was the first book she illustrated, in 1960. She won the Caldecott Medal...
Always Room for One More  
1965 Beni Montresor Beni Montresor, Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1964.
Beni Montresor (born March 31, 1926 in Bussolengo, Italy -- died October 11, 2001 in Verona, Italy) was a versatile Italian artist, opera and film director, set designer, author and children's book illustrator. He won the Caldecott Medal in 1965 for...
May I Bring a Friend?  
1964 Maurice Sendak Maurice Sendak
Maurice Bernard Sendak (born June 10, 1928) is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963. Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York to Polish Jewish immigrant...
Where The Wild Things Are  
1963 Ezra Jack Keats The Snow Day, Ezra Jack Keats, 1962
Ezra Jack Keats (March 11, 1916 – May 6, 1983) (born Jacob Ezra Katz), author of The Snowy Day, was an easel artist and one of the most important children's literature authors and illustrators of the 20th Century. Keats is best known for introducing...
The Snowy Day  
1962 Marcia Brown  
Marcia Joan Brown (born July 13, 1918) is an American children's author and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She has won the Caldecott Medal three times, the only person to do so until David Wiesner in 2007. She is also the winner of...
Once a Mouse  
1961 Nicolas Sidjakov  
Nicholas Sidjakov (born December 16, 1924 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian-American illustrator of children's books. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and moved to the United States in 1954. His first book was published in 1957, and in...
Baboushka and the Three Kings  
1960 Marie Hall Ets  
Marie Hall Ets (born December 16, 1895 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American author and illustrator. She attended Lawrence College, and in 1918, Mrs. Ets journeyed to Chicago where she became a social worker at the Chicago Commons, a settlement...
Nine Days to Christmas  
1959 Barbara Cooney  
Barbara Cooney (1917–2000) was an American children's author and illustrator of more than 200 books and double Caldecott Medalist. She has written books for six decades. Her books have been translated into 10 languages. Cooney was born on 6 August...
Chanticleer and the Fox  
1958 Robert McCloskey Front cover
Robert McCloskey (September 15, 1914 – June 30, 2003) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. McCloskey, well-known for his portrayals of New England, wrote and illustrated eight books, the most famous of which was Make Way for...
Time of Wonder  
1957 Marc Simont  
Marc Simont (born November 23, 1915 in Paris) is an artist, political cartoonist, and illustrator of more than a hundred children's books. Marc, inspired by his father, Spanish painter Joseph Simont, began drawing at a very young age. Mr. Simont...
A Tree is Nice  
1956 Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky  
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky (Russian: Федор Степанович Рожанковский) (December 24, 1891 – October 12, 1970), also known as Rojan, was a Russian émigré illustrator. He is best known for his illustrations for children's books, and conversely, for...
Frog Went A-Courtin'  
1955 Marcia Brown  
Marcia Joan Brown (born July 13, 1918) is an American children's author and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She has won the Caldecott Medal three times, the only person to do so until David Wiesner in 2007. She is also the winner of...
Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper  
1954 Ludwig Bemelmans  
Ludwig Bemelmans (April 27, 1898 – October 1, 1962) was a German-American author, an internationally known gourmet and also a writer and illustrator of children's books. He is most famous today for the series of Madeline books. Bemelmans was born to...
Madeline's Rescue  
1953 Lynd Ward Beowulf wrestles with Grendel
Lynd Kendall Ward (26 June 1905 – 28 June 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, and son of Methodist minister and prominent political organizer Harry F. Ward. He illustrated some 200 juvenile and adult books. Ward worked in wood engraving,...
The Biggest Bear  
1952 Nicholas Mordvinoff  
Nicholas Mordvinoff (September 27, 1911-1973) was a Russian born American artist who won the Caldecott Medal in 1952 for Finders Keepers, by William Lipkind, both writing under the pseudonym Nicholas and Will.
Finders Keepers  
1951 Katherine Milhous  
Katherine Milhous (1894-1977) was a newspaper illustrator and book designer. Milhous won the 1951 Caldecott Award for The Egg Tree about her family's Easter traditions. She illustrated The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh which won the 1945 Newbery...
The Egg Tree  
1950 Leo Politi Leo Politi Elem School
Leo Politi (1908–1996) was an Italian-American artist and author who wrote and illustrated some 20 children's books, as well as Bunker Hill, Los Angeles (1964), intended for adults. His works often celebrated cultural diversity, and many were...
Song of the Swallows  
1949 Berta and Elmer Hader  
Berta Hoerner (1891–1976 February 06) and Elmer Stanley Hader (1889 September 07-1973 September 07) were a husband-and-wife team that illustrated more than 70 children's books, about half of which they also wrote. Their most notable contribution to...
The Big Snow  
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