Caldecott Award Winners

Kids | Caldecott Medal

2024 - Vashti Harrison. Big

2023 - Doug Salati. Hot Dog

2022 - illustrated by Jason Chin, written by Andrea Wang. Watercress

2021 - Carole Lindstrom ; illustrated by Michaela Goade. We are water protectors

2020 - Kadir Nelson. The Undefeated

2019 - Sophie Blackall. Hello Lighthouse

2018 - Matthew Cordell. Wolf in the Snow

2017 - Javaka Steptoe. Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

2016 - Lindsay Mattick. Finding Winnie

2015 - Dan Santat. The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend

2014 - Brian Floca. Locomotive

2013 - Jon Klassen. This Is Not My Hat

2012 - Chris Raschka, illustrated by Erin E. Stead. A Ball for Daisy

2011 - Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Erin E. Stead. A Sick Day for Amos McGee

2010 - Jerry Pinkney. The Lion and the Mouse

2009 - Susan Marie Swanson, illustrated by Beth Krommes. The House in the Night

2008 - Brian Selznick. The Invention of Hugo Cabret

2007 - David Wiesner. Flotsam

2006 - Norton Juster. The Hello, Goodbye Window

2005 - Kevin Henkes. Kittens's First Full Moon

2004 - Gerstein, Mordicai. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

2003 - Rohmann, Eric. My Friend Rabbit

2002 - Wiesner, David. The Three Pigs

2001 - Small, David. So You Want to Be President (Text: Judith St. George)

2000 - Simms Taback. Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

1999 - Mary Azarian. Snowflake Bentley (Text: Jacqueline Briggs Martin)

1998 - Paul O. Zelinsky. Rapunzel

1997 - David Wisniewski. Golem

1996 - Peggy Rathmann. Officer Buckle and Gloria

1995 - David Diaz. Smoky Night (Text: Eve Bunting)

1994 - Allen Say. Grandfather's Journey

1993 - Emily Arnold McCully. Mirette on the High Wire

1992 - David Wiesner. Tuesday

1991 - David Macaulay. Black and White

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

1989 - Stephen Gammell. Song and Dance Man (Text: Karen Ackerman)

1988 - John Schoenherr. Owl Moon (Text: Jane Yolen)

1987 - Richard Egielski. Hey, Al (Text: Arthur Yorinks)

1986 - Chris Van Allsburg. The Polar Express

1985 - Trina Schart Hyman. Saint George and the Dragon (Text: Margaret Hodges)

1984 - Alice and Martin Provensen. The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot

1983 - Marcia Brown. Shadow (Text: Blaise Cendrars)

1982 - Chris Van Allsburg. Jumanji

1981 - Arnold Lobel. Fables

1980 - Barbara Cooney. Ox-Cart Man (Text: Donald Hall)

1979 - Paul Goble. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

1978 - Peter Spier. Noah's Ark (Text: Jacob Revius)

1977 - Leo and Diane Dillon. Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions (Text: Margaret Musgrove)

1976 - Leo and Diane Dillon. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale (Text: Verna Aardema)

1975 - Gerald McDermott. Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale

1974 - Margot Zemach. Duffy and the Devil (Text: Harve Zemach)

1973 - Blair Lent. The Funny Little Woman (Text: Arlene Mosel)

1972 - Nonny Hogrogian. One Fine Day

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

1970 - William Steig. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

1969 - Uri Shulevitz. The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (Text: Arthur Ransome)

1968 - Ed Emberley. Drummer Hoff (Text: Barbara Emberley)

1967 - Evaline Ness. Sam, Bangs & Moonshine

1966 - Nonny Hogrogian. Always Room for One More (Text: Sorche Nic Leodhas)

1965 - Beni Montresor. May I Bring a Friend? (Text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers)

1964 - Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are

1963 - Ezra Jack Keats. The Snowy Day

1962 - Marcia Brown. Once a Mouse

1961 - Nicolas Sidjakov. Baboushka and the Three Kings (Text: Ruth Robbins)

1960 - Marie Hall Ets. Nine Days to Christmas (Text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida)

1959 - Barbara Cooney. Chanticleer and the Fox (Text: adapted from Geoffrey Chaucer)

1958 - Robert McCloskey. Time of Wonder

1957 - Marc Simont. A Tree is Nice (Text: Janice May Udry)

1956 - Feodor Rojankovsky. Frog Went A-Courtin' (Text: John Langstaff)

1955 - Marcia Brown. Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper (Text: Charles Perrault)

1954 - Ludwig Bemelmans. Madeline's Rescue

1953 - Lynd K. Ward. The Biggest Bear

1952 - Nicolas Mordvinoff. Finders Keepers (Text: Will Lipkind)

1951 - Katherine Milhous. The Egg Tree

1950 - Leo Politi. Song of the Swallows

1949 - Berta and Elmer Hader. The Big Snow

1948 - Roger Duvoisin. White Snow, Bright Snow (Text: Alvin Tresselt)

1947 - Leonard Weisgard. The Little Island (Text: Golden MacDonald [Margaret Wise Brown])

1946 - Maud and Miska Petersham. The Rooster Crows

1945 - Elizabeth Orton Jones. Prayer for a Child (Text: Rachel Field)

1944 - Louis Slobodkin. Many Moons (Text: James Thurber)

1943 - Virginia Lee Burton. The Little House

1942 - Robert McCloskey. Make Way for Ducklings

1941 - Robert Lawson. They Were Strong and Good

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

1939 - Thomas Handforth. Mei Li

1938 - Dorothy P. Lathrop. Animals of the Bible