Caldecott Medal
Randolph Caldecott Award
Named for 19th century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott, this honor is awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
The 2008 Caldecott Award Winner:
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures
Illustrated by Brian Selznick
| YEAR | TITLE | ILLUSTRATOR | AUTHOR (IF DIFFERENT) |
| 2007 | Flotsam | David Wiesner | |
| 2006 | Hello, Goodbye Window | Charles Raschka | Norton Juster |
| 2005 | Kitten's First Full Moon | Kevin Henkes | |
| 2004 | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers |
Mordecai Gerstein |
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| 2003 | My Friend Rabbit | Eric Rohmann | |
| 2002 | The Three Little Pigs | David Wiesner | |
| 2001 | So You Want to be President? | David Small | Judith St. George |
| 2000 | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat | Simms Taback | |
| 1999 | Snowflake Bentley | Mary Azarian | Jacqueline Briggs Martin |
| 1998 | Rapunzel | Paul O. Zelinsky | |
| 1997 | Golem | David Wisniewski | |
| 1996 | Officer Buckle and Gloria | Peggy Rathmann | |
| 1995 | Smoky Night | David Diaz | Eve Bunting |
| 1994 | Grandfather's Journey | Allen Say | Walter Lorraine, ed. |
| 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 | Karen Ackerman |
| 1988 | Owl Moon | John Schoenherr | Jane Yolen |
| 1987 | Hey, Al | Richard Egielski | Arthur Yorinks |
| 1986 | The Polar Express | Chris Van Allsburg | |
| 1985 | Saint George and the Dragon | Trina Schart Hyman | retold by Margaret Hodges |
| 1984 | The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot |
Alice and Martin Provensen | |
| 1983 | Shadow | Marcia Brown | translated by Marcia Brown from the French text by Blaise Cendrars |
| 1982 | Jumanji | Chris Van Allsburg | |
| 1981 | Fables | Arnold Lobel | |
| 1980 | Ox-Cart Man | Barbara Cooney | Donald Hall |
| 1979 | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | Paul Goble | |
| 1978 | Noah's Ark | Peter Spier | |
| 1977 | Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions | Leo & Diane Dillon | Margaret Musgrove |
| 1976 | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | Leo & Diane Dillon | retold by Verna Aardema |
| 1975 | Arrow to the Sun | Gerald McDermott | |
| 1974 | Duffy and the Devil | Margot Zemach | retold by Harve Zemach |
| 1973 | The Funny Little Woman | Blair Lent | retold by Arlene Mosel |
| 1972 | One Fine Day | Nonny Hogrogian | retold by Nonny Hogrogian |
| 1971 | A Story, A Story | Gail E. Haley | retold by Gail E. Haley |
| 1970 | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | William Steig | |
| 1969 | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | Uri Shulevitz | retold by Arthur Ransome |
| 1968 | Drummer Hoff | Ed Emberley | adapted by Barbara Emberley |
| 1967 | Sam, Bangs & Moonshine | Evaline Ness | |
| 1966 | Always Room for One More | Nonny Hogrogian | Sorche Nic Leodhas |
| 1965 | May I Bring A Friend? | Beni Montresor | Beatrice Schenk de Regniers |
| 1964 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | |
| 1963 | The Snowy Day | Ezra Jack Keats | |
| 1962 | Once a Mouse | Marcia Brown | retold by Marcia Brown |
| 1961 | Baboushka and the Three Kings | Nicolas Sidjakov | Ruth Robbins |
| 1960 | Nine Days to Christmas | Marie Hall Ets | Marie Hall Ets & Aurora Labastida |
| 1959 | Chanticleer and the Fox | Barbara Cooney | |
| 1958 | Time of Wonder | Robert McCloskey | |
| 1957 | A Tree is Nice | Marc Simont | Janice Udry |
| 1956 | Frog Went A-Courtin' | Feodor Rojankovsky | retold by John Langstaff |
| 1955 | Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper | Marcia Brown | translated by Marcia Brown from the French text by CharlesPerrault |
| 1954 | Madeline's Rescue | Ludwig Bemelmans | |
| 1953 | The Biggest Bear | Lynd Ward | |
| 1952 | Finders Keepers | Nicolas (pseud., Nicolas Mordvinoff) | Will (pseud., William Lipkind) |
| 1951 | The Egg Tree | Katherine Milhous | |
| 1950 | Song of the Swallows | Leo Politi | |
| 1949 | The Big Snow | Berta & Elmer Hader | |
| 1948 | White Snow, Bright Snow | Roger Duvoisin | Alvin Tresselt |
| 1947 | The Little Island | Leonard Weissgard | Golden MacDonald |
| 1946 | The Rooster Crows | Maude & Miska Petersham | |
| 1945 | Prayer for a Child | Elizabeth Orton Jones | Rachel Field |
| 1944 | Many Moons | Louis Slobodkin | James Thurber |
| 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 & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire | |
| 1939 | Mei Li | Thomas Handforth | |
| 1938 | Animals of the Bible, a Picture Book | Dorothy P. Lathrop | text selected by Helen Dean Fish |
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