Caldecott Medal Winners

The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association to honor outstanding picture books.

2007 Flotsam - by David Wiesner

2006 The Hello, Goodbye Window - illustrated by Chris Raschka, text by Norton Juster

2005 Kitten's First Full Moon - by Kevin Henkes

2004 The Man Who Walked Between the Towers - by Mordicai Gerstein

2003 My Friend Rabbit - by Eric Rohmann

2002 The Three Pigs - by David Wiesner

2001 So You Want to Be President? - illustrated by David Smal, text by Judith St. George

2000 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat - by Simms Taback

1999 Snowflake Bentley - illustrated by Mary Azarian, text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

1998 Rapunzel - illustrated and retold by Paul O. Zelinsky

1997 Golem - by David Wisniewski

1996 Officer Buckle and Gloria - by Peggy Rathmann

1995 Smoky Night - illustrated by David Diaz, text by Eve Buntin

1994 Grandfather's Journey - by Allen Say

1993 Mirette on the High Wire - by Emily Arnold McCully

1992 Tuesday - by David Wiesner

1991 Black and White - by David Macaulay

1990 Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China - by Ed Young

1989 Song and Dance Man - illustrated by Stephen Gammell, text by Karen Ackerman

1988 Owl Moon - illustrated by John Schoenherr, text by Jane Yolen

1987 Hey, Al - illustrated by Richard Egielski, text by Arthur Yorinks

1986 The Polar Express - by Chris Van Allsburg

1985 Saint George and the Dragon - illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, retold by Margaret Hodges

1984 The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot - by Alice and Martin Provensen

1983 Shadow - translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown, text by Blaise Cendrars

1982 Jumanji - by Chris Van Allsburg

1981 Fables - by Arnold Lobel

1980 Ox-Cart Man - illustrated by Barbara Cooney, text by Donald Hall

1979 The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses - by Paul Goble

1978 Noah's Ark - by Peter Spier

1977 Ashanti to Zulu - illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, text by Margaret Musgrove

1976 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears - illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, retold by Verna Aardema

1975 Arrow to the Sun - by Gerald McDermott

1974 Duffy and the Devil - illustrated by Margo Zemach, retold by Harve Zemach

1973 The Funny Little Woman - illustrated by Blair Lent, retold by Arlene Mosel

1972 One Fine Day - by Nonny Hogrogian

1971 A Story, A Story - by Gail E. Haley

1970 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble - by William Steig

1969 The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship - illustrated by Uri Shulevitz, retold by Arthur Ransome

1968 Drummer Hoff - illustrated by Ed Emberley, adapted by Barbara Emberley

1967 Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine - by Evaline Ness

1966 Always Room for One More - illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian, text by Sorche Nic Leodhas

1965 May I Bring a Friend? - illustrated by Beni Montresor, text by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

1964 Where the Wild Things Are - by Maurice Sendak

1963 The Snowy Day - by Ezra Jack Keats

1962 Once a Mouse - by Marcia Brown

1961 Baboushka and the Three Kings - illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov, text by Ruth Robbins

1960 Nine Days to Christmas - by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida

1959 Chanticleer and the Fox - by Barbara Cooney

1958 Time of Wonder - by Robert McCloskey

1957 A Tree Is Nice - illustrated by Marc Simont, text by Janice Udry

1956 Frog Went A-Courtin' - illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky, retold by John Langstaff

1955 Cinderella - illustrated and retold by Marcia Brown

1954 Madeline's Rescue - by Ludwig Bemelmans

1953 The Biggest Bear - by Lynd Ward

1952 Finders Keepers - illustrated by Nicolas Mordvinoff, text by Will Lipkind

1951 The Egg Tree - by Katherine Milhous

1950 Song of the Swallows - by Leo Politi

1949 The Big Snow - by Berta and Elmer Hader

1948 White Snow, Bright Snow - illustrated by Roger Duvoisin, text by Alvin Tresselt

1947 The Little Island - illustrated by Leonard Weisgard, text by Golden MacDonald

1946 The Rooster Crows - by Maude and Miska Petersham

1945 Prayer for a Child - illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones, text by Rachel Field

1944 Many Moons - illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, text by James Thurber

1943 The Little House - by Virginia Lee Burton

1942 Make Way for Ducklings - by Robert McCloskey

1941 They Were Strong and Good - by Robert Lawson

1940 Abraham Lincoln - by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

1939 Mei Li - by Thomas Handforth

1938 Animals of the Bible - illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop, text by Dean Fish