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Caldecott Winners
Books that have won the Caldecott Medal
| Title | Plot summary | book year | Author or illustrator |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Snowy Day | A boy goes out in the snow | 1963 | Ezra Jack Keats |
| The Man Who Walked Between the Towers | (Philippe Petit's tight rope walk between Manhattan's World Trade Center towers in 1974.blank) | 2004 | Mordicai Gerstein |
| My Friend Rabbit | Rabbit and Mouse are friends. When Rabbit launches his toy airplane (with Mouse in the pilot seat at takeoff) and it gets stuck in a tree, he convinces his friend that he will come up with a plan to get it down. | 2003 | Eric Rohmann |
| The Three Pigs | three pigs collecting materials to build houses but the wolf"s huffing and puffing blows the first pig right out of the story . . . and into the realm of pure imagination. | 2002 | David Wiesner |
| So You Want to Be President? | Presidents have come in every variety. | 2001 | David Small text J. ST George |
| Joseph Had a Little Overco | Joseph had a little overcoat, but it was full of holes--just like this book! | 2000 | Simms Taback |
| Snowflake Bentley | (blank) | 1999 | Mary Azarian text J Martin |
| Rapunzel | Rapunzel's reddish-blonde mane is thick with waves and braids, and cascades like a waterfall down the walls of her isolation tower. In Zelinsky's able hands it's easy to believe that a prince would harbor no hesitations about scrambling up our fair heroi | 1998 | Paul Zelinsky |
| Golem | Rabbi Loew used his powers to create a Golem from clay in order to protect his people from persecution in the ghettos of 16th-century Prague. | 1997 | David Wisniewski |
| Officer Buckle and Gloria | Officer Buckle's school assemblies are dull, dull, dull, and the children of Napville just sleep, sleep, sleep. until Gloria the police dog is invited along! Stealthily pantomiming each safety tip behind Officer Buckle's back, Gloria wins the children's h | 1996 | Peggy Rathmann |
| Smoky Night | This is a story about cats -- and people -- who couldn't get along until a smoky and fearful night brings them together. During a night of rioting in Los Angeles, fires and looting force neighbors--who have always avoided one another--to come together. | 1995 | David Diaz text E Bunting |
| Grandfather's Journey | stories of his grandfather's life in America and Japan, Allen Say tells a family's unique cross-cultural experience. He warmly conveys his own love for his two countries, and the strong and constant desire to be in both places at once. | 1994 | Allen Say edit Walter Lorraine |
| Mirette on the High Wire | Mirette and the "Great Bellini" traverse the Paris skyline on high wire in the climactic scene of this picture book about conquering fear. | 1993 | Emily McCully |
| Tuesday | Slowly and quietly on this particular Tuesday, a few fat frogs begin hovering over a swamp, riding lily pads like magic carpets | 1992 | David Wiesner |
| Black and White | "This book appears to contain a number of stories that do not necessarily occur at the same time." Then you get hints. It might contain more than one story, or it might be four stories, or then again, four parts of one story. "Careful inspection of both w | 1991 | David Macaulay |
| Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China | three daughters left at home when their mother goes to visit their grandmother. Lon Po Po, the Granny Wolf, pretends to be the girls' grandmother, until clever Shang, the eldest daughter, suspects the greedy wolf's real identity. | 1990 | Ed Young |
| Song and Dance Man | Once a song and dance man, Grandpa reclaims his youth and profession before the delighted eyes of his three grandchildren one afternoon. | 1989 | Stephen Gammell text K. Ackerman |
| Owl Moon | A girl and her father go owling on a moonlit winter night near the farm where they live. | 1988 | John Schoenherr text J, Yolen |
| Hey, Al | Al, a janitor who lives in a dingy apartment with his dog. One day, a funny-looking bird sticks its huge head through window and proposes a journey to a terrific place of "no worries" and "no cares | 1987 | Richard Edielski text A. Yorinks |
| The Polar Express | A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa. | 1986 | Chris Van Allsburg |
| Saint George and the Dra | George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land | 1985 | Trina Hyman text M. Hodges |
| The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot | biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel. He crashed lots of times before making it. | 1984 | Alic & Martin Provensen |
| Shadow | Marcia Brown's stunning illustrations in collage, inspired by her travels in Africa, evoke the atmosphere and drama of a life now haunted, now enchanted by Shadow. | 1983 | Marcia Brown text B. Cendrars |
| Jumanji | Judy and Peter find a board game in the park, they take it home, hoping to alleviate their boredom. One live lion, an erupting volcano, and a dozen destructive monkeys later, the children are no longer bored. Their jungle adventure game has come to life! | 1982 | Chris Van Allsburg |
| Fables | ‘Short, original fables with fresh, unexpected morals poke subtle fun at human foibles through the antics of animals | 1981 | Arnold Lobel |
| Ox-Cart Man | Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons | 1980 | Barbara Cooney text D. Hall |
| The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | a young Native American girl devoted to the care of her tribe's horses. | 1979 | Paul Goble |
| Noah's Ark | the biblical rainy-day tale with practically no text | 1978 | Peter Spier |
| Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions | Explains some traditions and customs of 26 African tribes beginning with letters from A to Z | 1977 | Leo & Diane Dillon text M. Musgrove |
| Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit | 1976 | Leo & Diane Dillon text V. Aardema |
| Arrow to the Sun | Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men. | 1975 | Gerald McDermott |
| Duffy and the Devil | 'The devil can make Squire Lovel's stockings for all I care!' cries Duffy the servant girl in this comical Cornish version of Rumpelstiltskin--and that of course is just what he does | 1974 | Margot Zemach text H. Zemach |
| The Funny Little Woman | While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures from whom she escapes with the means of becoming the richest woman in Japan | 1973 | Blair Lent text A. Mosel |
| One Fine Day | One fine day a fox traveled through the great forest. When he reached the other side he was very thirsty." The red fox stole milk from a farm woman, lost his tail under the woman's knife, and spent the day bargaining to get it back. | 1972 | Nonny Hogrogian |
| A Story A Story | Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- | 1971 | Gail Haley |
| Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | On a rainy day, Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true. But when a lion frightens him on his way home, Sylvester makes a wish that brings unexpected results. | 1970 | Willaim Steig |
| The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | simple third son who, through the magical powers of the Listener, Swift-goer, Drinker, and others, performs the tasks set by the Czar and wins the princess. | 1969 | Uri Shulevitz text A. Ransome |
| Drummer Hoff | A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off | 1968 | Ed Emberley text B. Emberley |
| Sam, Bangs & Moonshine | Sam is a fisherman’s daughter who dreams lovely dreams--moonshine, her father says. But when her stories bring disaster to her friend Thomas and cat Bangs, Sam learns to distinguish between moonshine and reality. | 1967 | Evaline Ness |
| Always Room for One More | (The welcoming chap invites all passersby into his home, until the wee house literally explodes with his goodwill. Luckily, the grateful visitors devise a plan to help Lachie and his family (and themselves as well). | 1966 | Nonny Hogrogian ext S. Leodhas |
| May I Bring a Friend | King & Queen invite a boy as their guest for tea, breakfast, lunch, dinner, apple pie, and Halloween, and each time he asks if he can bring a friend, waits for their assent, then brings a hippo, monkeys, an elephant, . . . | 1965 | Beni Montresor text B. Schenk de Regniers |
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