Caldecott Award Winners and Honors List and Reviews

A quick note about how I’ve organized this.  Any book shown in italics, I have either read, or will do so soon.  Any book with a red link, I have reviewed on my daycare website.  All other links are posts on this blog.

• A Child’s Calendar – Updike  [ill: Hyman]  (2000 Honor)
• Abraham Lincoln – Aulaire  (1940 Medal)
• Ageless Story, The – Ford (1940 Honor)
• Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse – Lionni (1970 Honor)
• All Around the Town – McGinley (1949 Honor)
• All Falling Down – Zion (1952 Honor)
• All in the Morning Early – Leodhas (1964 Honor)
• Alphabatics – MacDonald (1987 Honor)
• Alphabet City – Johnson (1996 Honor)
• Always Room for One More – Leodhas (1966 Medal)
• Amazing Bone, The – Steig (1977 Honor)
• America’s Ethan Allen – Holbrook (1950 Honor)
• American ABC, An – Petersham (1942 Honor)
• Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti – McDermott ( 1973     Honor)
• Anatole – Titus (1957 Honor)
• Anatole and the Cat – Titus (1958 Honor)
• Andy and the Lion – Daugherty (1939 Honor)
• Angry Moon, The – Sleator  [ill: Lent]  (1971 Honor)
• Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book – Fish (1938 Medal)
• Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals – Eichenberg (1953    Honor)
• April’s Kittens – Newberry (1941 Honor)
• Arrow to the Sun – McDermott (1975 Medal)
• Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions – Musgrove  [ill: Dillon]    (1977 Medal)
• Baboushka and the Three Kings – Robbins (1961 Medal)
• Bambino the Clown – Schreiber (1948 Honor)
• Barkis – Newberry (1939 Honor)
• Bartholomew and the Oobleck – Seuss (1950 Honor)
• Bear Party – du Bois (1952 Honor)
• Ben’s Trumpet – Isadora (1980 Honor)
• Big Snow, The – Hader (1949 Medal)
• Biggest Bear, The – Ward (1953 Medal)
• Bill Peet: An Autobiography – Peet (1990 Honor)
• Black and White – Macaulay (1991 Medal)
• Blueberries for Sal – McCloskey (1949 Honor)
• Boats on the River – Flack (1947 Honor)
• Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes – de Angeli (1955 Honor)
• Boy of the Three Year Nap, The – Snyder  [ill: Say]  (1989 Honor)
• Bremen-Town Musicians, The – Plume (1981 Honor)
• Casey At the Bat – Thayer  [ill: Bing]  (2001 Honor)
• Castle – Macaulay (1978 Honor)
• Cathedral – Macaulay (1974 Honor)
• Chair for My Mother, A – Williams (1983 Honor)
• Chanticleer and the Fox – Cooney (1959 Medal)
• Child’s Good Night Book, A – Brown (1944 Honor)
• Christmas Anna Angel, The – Sawyer (1945 Honor)
• Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper – Perrault  [ill: Brown]  (1955 Medal)
• Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type – Cronin  [ill: Lewin]  (2001 Honor)
• Cock-a-Doodle-Doo – Hader (1940 Honor)
• Color Zoo – Ehlert (1990 Honor)
• Coming on Home Soon – Woodson  [ill: Lewis]  (2005 Honor)
• Contest, The – Hogrogian (1977 Honor)
• Crow Boy – Yashimo (1956 Honor)
• Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, A – Frazee (2009 Honor)
• Dash and Dart – Buff (1943 Honor)
• Day We Saw the Sun Come Up, The – Goudey (1962 Honor)
• Desert is Theirs, The – Baylor  [ill: Parnall]  (1976 Honor)
• Dick Whittington and his Cat – Brown (1951 Honor)
• Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, The – Kerley  [ill: Selznick]  (2002 Honor)
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus – Willems (2004 Honor)
• Drummer Hoff – Emberley (1968 Medal)
• Duffy and The Devil – Zemach (1974 Medal)
• Duke Ellington – A. Pinkney  [Ill: B. Pinkney]  (1999 Honor)
• Egg Tree, The – Milhous (1951 Medal)
• Ella Sarah Gets Dressed – Chodos-Irvine (2004 Honor)
• Emperor and the Kite, The – Yolen (1968 Honor)
• Fables – Lobel (1981 Medal)
• Faithful Friend, The- San Souci (1996 Honor)
• Feather Mountain – Olds (1952 Honor)
• Finders Keepers – Will (1952 Medal)
• First the Egg – Seeger (2008 Honor)
• Fish for Supper – Goffstein (1977 Honor)
• Fish in the Air – Wiese (1949 Honor)
• Five Little Monkeys – Kepes (1953 Honor)
• Flotsam – Wiesner (2007 Medal)
• Fly High, Fly Low – Freeman (1958 Honor)
• Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, The – Ransome (1969 Medal)
• Forest Pool, The – Armer (1939 Honor)
• Four and Twenty Blackbirds – Fish (1938 Honor)
• Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night – Spier (1962 Honor)
• Frederick – Lionni (1968 Honor)
• Free Fall – Wiesner  (1989 Honor)
• Freight Train – Crews (1979 Honor)
• Frog and Toad Are Friends – Lobel (1971 Honor)
• Frog Went A-Courtin’ – Langstaff (1956 Medal)
• Funny Little Woman, The – Mosel (1973 Medal)
• Garden of Abdul Gasazi, The – Van Allsburg (1980 Honor)
• Gardener, The – Stewart  [ill: Small]  (1998 Honor)
• Gillespie and the Guards – Elkin (1957 Honor)
• Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, The - Goble (1979 Medal)
• Glorious Flight, The – Provensen (1984 Medal)
• Goggles! – Keats (1970 Honor)
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Marshall (1989 Honor)
• Golem - Wisniewski (1997 Medal)
• Golem: A Jewish Legend, The – McDermott (1977 Honor)
• Gone Wild – McLimans (2007 Honor)
• Good-Luck Horse – Chan (1944 Honor)
• Grandfather’s Journey – Lorraine (1994 Medal)
• Graphic Alphabet, The – Pelletier (1997 Honor)
• Green Eyes – Birnbaum (1954 Honor)
• Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, The - Bang (1981 Honor)
• Hansel and Gretel – Lesser (1985 Honor)
• Happy Day, The – Krauss (1950 Honor)
• Harlem – W. Myers  [ill: C. Myers]  (1998 Honor)
• Have You Seen My Duckling? – Tafuri (1985 Honor)
• Hawk, I’m Your Brother – Baylor  [ill: Parnall]  (1977 Honor)
• Hello, Goodbye Window, The – Juster [ill: Raschka] (2006 Medal)
• Henry Fisherman – Brown (1950 Honor)
• Henry’s Freedom Box – Levine [ill. Nelson] (2008 Honor)
• Herbert The Lion – Newberry (1998 Honor)
• Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins – Kimmel  [ill: Hyman]  (1990 Honor)
• Hey, Al – Yorinks  [ill: Egielski]  (1987 Medal)
• Hide and Seek Fog – Tresselt (1966 Honor)
• Hildilid’s Night – Ryan  [ill: Lobel] (1972 Honor)
• Hondo and Fabian – McCarty (2003 Honor)
• Hosie’s Alphabet – Hosea, et al  [ill: Baskin] (1973 Honor)
• Hot Air – Priceman (2006 Honor)
• House That Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie, The – Fransconi (1959 Honor)
• House in the Night, The - Swanson [ill Krommes] (2009 Medal)
• Houses From the Sea – Goudey (1960 Honor)
• How I Learned Geography – Shulevitz (2009 Honor)
• Hush! A Thai Lullaby – Ho (1997 Honor)
• If All the Seas Were One Sea – Domanska (1972 Honor)
• If I Ran the Zoo – Seuss (1951 Honor)
• In My Mother’s House – Clark (1942 Honor)
• In the Forest – Ets (1945 Honor)
• In the Night Kitchen – Sendak (1971 Honor)
• In the Small, Small Pond – Fleming ( 1994 Honor)
• Inch by Inch – Lionni (1961 Honor)
• Invention of Hugo Cabret, The – Selznick (2008 Medal)
• It Could Always Be Worse – Zemach (1978 Honor)
• Jambo Means Hello – M. Feelings  [ill: T. Feelings]  (1975 Honor)
• Joseph Had a Little Overcoat – Taback (2000 Medal)
• John Henry – Lester  [ill: Pinkney]  (1995 Honor)
• Journey Cake, Ho! – Sawyer (1954 Honor)
• Juanita – Politi (1949 Honor)
• Judge: An Untrue Tale, The – H. Zemach  [ill: M. Zemach]  (1970 Honor)
• Jumanji – Van Allsburg (1982 Medal)
• Just Me – Ets (1966 Honor)
• King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub – A. Wood  [ill: D. Wood]  (1986 Honor)
• Kitten’s First Full Moon – Henkes (2005 Medal)
• Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale – Willems (2005 Honor)
• Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity – Willems (2008 Honors)
• Lion – du Bois (1957 Honor)
• Little Bear’s Visit – Minarik (1962 Honor)
• Little House, The – Burton (1943 Medal)
• Little Island, The – Brown (1947 Medal)
• Little Lost Lamb – MacDonald, pseud. Brown (1946 Honor)
• Little Red Riding Hood – Hyman (1984 Honor)
• Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China – Young (1990 Medal)
• Madeline’s Rescue – Bemelmans (1954 Medal)
• Madeline – Bemelmans (1940 Honor)
• Man Who Walked Between the Towers, The – Gerstein (2004 Medal)
• Make Way for Ducklings – McCloskey (1942 Medal)
• Many Moons – Thurber (1944 Medal)
• Marshmallow – Newberry (1943 Honor)
• Martin’s Big Words – Rappaport  [ill: Collier]  (2002 Honor)
• May I Bring A Friend – de Regniers (1965 Medal)
• McElligot’s Pool – Seuss (1948 Honor)
• Mei Li – Handforth (1939 Medal)
• Mice Twice – Low (1981 Honor)
• Mighty Hunter, The – Hader (1944 Honor)
• Mirandy and Brother Wind – McKissack  [ill: Pinkney]  (1989 Honor)
• Mirette on the High Wire – Arnold (1993 Medal)
• Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book – M. Feelings  [ill: T. Feelings]   (1972 Honor)
• Moon Jumpers, The – Udry (1960 Honor)
• “More, More, More,” Said the Baby – Williams (1991 Honor)
• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom – Weatherford [ill. Nelson]  (2007 Honor)
• Most Wonderful Doll in the World, The – McGinley (1951 Honor)
• Mother Goose – Tudor (1945 Honor)
• Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes – Reed (1964 Honor)
• Mr. Penny’s Race Horse – Ets (1957 Honor)
• Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present – Zolotow (1963 Honor)
• Mr. T.W. Anthony Woo – Ets (1952 Honor)
• Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – Steptoe (1988 Honor)
• My Friend Rabbit – Rohmann (2003 Medal)
• My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World – Reyher (1946 Honor)
• Nine Days to Christmas – Ets and Labastida (1960 Medal)
• No, David! – Shannon (1999 Honor)
• Noah’s Ark – Spier (1978 Medal)
• Noah’s Ark – Pinkney (2003 Honor)
• Nothing At All – Gag (1942 Honor)
• Officer Buckle and Gloria - Rathmann (1996 Medal)
• Olivia – Falconer (2001 Honor)
• On Market Street – Lobel (1982 Honor)
• Once a Mouse – Brown (1962 Medal)
• One Fine Day – Hogrogian (1972 Medal)
• 1 is One – Tudor (1957 Honor)
• One Morning in Maine – McCloskey (1953 Honor)
• One Wide River to Cross – Emberley (1967 Honor)
• Outside Over There – Sendak (1982 Honor)
• Owen – Henkes (1994 Honor)
• Owl Moon – Yolen  [ill: Schoenherr]  (1988 Medal)
• Ox-Cart Man – Hall (1980 Medal)
• Paddle-To-The-Sea – Holling (1942 Honor)
• Paperboy, The – Pilkey (1997 Honor)
• Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street – Politi (1947 Honor)
• Peppe the Lamplighter – Bartone  [ill: Lewin]  (1994 Honor)
• Pierre Pigeon – Kingman (1944 Honor)
• Play With Me – Ets (1956 Honor)
• Pocketful of Cricket, A – Caudill (1965 Honor)
• Polar Express, The – Van Allsburg (1986 Medal)
• Pop Corn & Ma Goodness – Preston  [ill: Parker]  (1970 Honor)
• Prayer for a Child – Field (1945 Medal)
• Puss in Boots – Perrault  [ill: Brown]  (1953 Honor)
• Puss in Boots – Perrault  [ill: Marcellino]  (1991 Honor)
• Rain Drop Splash – Tresselt (1947 Honor)
• Rain Makes Applesauce – Scheer (1965 Honor)
• Rapunzel – Zelinksy (1998 Medal)
• Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest – McDermott (1994 Honor)
• River of Words: The Story of William Carols Williams, A – Bryant, [ill Sweet]
• Red Book, The – Lehman (2005 Honor)
• Relatives Came, The – Rylant  [ill: Gammell]  (1986 Honor
• Roger and the Fox – Davis (1948 Honor)
• Rooster Crows, The – Petersham (1946 Medal)
• Rosa – Giovanni  [ill: Collier]  (2006 Honor)
• Rumpelstiltskin – Zelinsky (1987 Honor)
• Saint George and the Dragon – Hodges  [ill: Hyman]  (1985 Medal)
• Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine – Ness (1967 Medal)
• Seashore Story – Yashima (1968 Honor)
• Sector 7 – Wiesner (2000 Honor)
• Seven Blind Mice – Young (1993 Honor)
• Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale – Artzybasheff (1938 Honor)
• Shadow – Brown (1983 Medal)
• Sing in Praise – Wheeler (1947 Honor)
• Sing Mother Goose – Wheeler (1946 Honor)
• Skipper John’s Cook – Brown (1952 Honor)
• Small Rain: Verses from the Bible – Jones (1944 Honor)
• Smoky Night – Bunting (1995 Medal)
• Smudge – Newberry (1975 Honor)
• Snippy and Snappy – (1931 Honor)
• Snow – Shulevitz (1999 Honor)
• Snowflake Bentley – Briggs (1999 Medal)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Grimm  [ill: Ekholm]  (1973 Honor)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Grimm  [ill: Gag]  (1939 Honor)
• Snowy Day, The – Keats (1963 Medal)
• So You Want To Be President – Small (2001 Medal)
• Song and Dance Man – Ackerman  [ill: Gammell]  (1989 Medal)
• Song of Robin Hood – Malcolmson (1948 Honor)
• Song of the Swallows – Politi (1950 Medal)
• Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems – Sidman  [ill: Prange]  (2006 Honor)
• Spider and the Fly, The – Howett (2003 Honor)
• Starry Messenger – Sis (1997 Honor)
• Steadfast Tin Soldier, The – Anderson [ill: Brown] (1954 Honor)
• Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The – Scieszka  [ill: Smith]  (1993 Honor)
• Stone Soup – Brown (1948 Honor)
• Storm Book, The – Zolotow (1953 Honor)
• Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend, The – Steptoe (1985 Honor)
• Story, A Story, A – Haley (1971 Medal)
• Stray Dog, The – Simont (2002 Honor)
• Strega Nona – de Paola (1976 Honor)
• Sun is a Golden Earring, The – Belting (1963 Honor)
• Surrender Tree, The : Cuba’s Struggle For Freedom (2009 Honor)
• Swamp Angel – Issacs  [ill: Zelinsky]  (1995 Honor)
• Swimmy – Lionni (1964 Honor)
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig (1970 Medal)
• T-Bone, the Baby Sitter – Newberry (1951 Honor)
• Talking Eggs, The – San Souci  [ill: Pinkney]  (1990 Honor)
• Tar Beach – Ringgold (1992 Honor)
• Ten, Nine, Eight – Bang (1984 Honor)
• Thanksgiving Story, The – Dalgliesh (1955 Honor)
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly – Taback (1998 Honor)
• They Were Strong and Good – Lawson (1941 Medal)
• Three Jovial Huntsman – Jeffers (1974 Honor)
• Three Pigs, The – Wiesner (2002 Medal)
• Thy Friend, Obadiah – Turkle (1970 Honor)
• Tibet; Through the Red Box – Sis (1999 Honor)
• Time Flies – Rohmann (1995 Honor)
• Time of Wonder – McCloskey (1958 Medal)
• Timothy Turtle – Graham (1947 Honor)
• Tom Tit Tot – Ness (1966 Honor)
• Tops and Bottoms – Stevens (1996 Honor)
• Treasure, The – Shulevitz (1980 Honor)
• Tree is Nice, A – Udry (1957 Medal)
• Truck – Crews (1981 Honor)
• Tuesday – Wiesner (1992 Medal)
• Two Reds, The – Will (1951 Honor)
• Ugly Duckling, The – Anderson  [ill: Pinkney]  (2000 Honor)
• Umbrella – Yashimo (1959 Honor)
• Very Special House, A – Krauss (1954 Honor)
• Village of Round and Square Houses, The – Grifalconi  (1987 Honor)
• Visit to William Blake’s Inn, A – Willard  [ill: A. & M. Provensen]  (1982 Honor)
• Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, The – Sis (2008 Honor)
• Wave, The – Hodges (1965 Honor)
• Way to Start a Day, The – Baylor  [ill: Parnall]  (1979 Honor)
• Wee Gillis – Leaf (1939 Honor)
• What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? – Jenkins & Page (2004 Honor)
• What Do You Say, Dear? – Joslin (1959 Honor)
• Wheel On The Chimney – Brown (1955 Honor)
• When Clay Sings – Baylor  [ill: Bahti]  (1973 Honor)
• When I Was Young in the Mountains – Rylant  [ill: Goode]  (1983 Honor)
• When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really Angry – Bang (2000 Honor)
• When Will The World Be Mine? – Schlein (1954 Honor)
• Where the Buffaloes Begin – Baker  [ill: Gammell]  (1982 Honor)
• Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak (1964 Medal)
• White Snow, Bright Snow -Tresselt (1948 Medal)
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears – Aardema  [ill: Dillon]  (1976 Medal)
• Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky – Dayrell (1969 Honor)
• Wild Birthday Cake, The – Davis (1950 Honor)
• Working Cotton – Williams  [ill: Byard]  (1993 Honor)
• Yo! Yes? – Jackson (1994 Honor)
• Yonie Wondernose – de Angeli (1945 Honor)
• You Can Write Chinese – Wiese (1946 Honor)
• Zen Shorts – Muth  (2006 Honor)
• Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin – Moss (1996 Honor)