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Caldecott List
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. This is a complete list of Caldecott medal and honor books from 1938 to present.
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The House in the Night |
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Susan Marie Swanson |
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Beth Krommes |
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Houghton Mifflin Books |
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A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever |
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Marla Frazee |
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Harcourt |
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| How I Learned Geography |
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Uri Shulevitz |
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Farrar Straus Giroux |
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| A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams |
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Jen Bryant |
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Melissa Sweet |
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Eerdmans Books |
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| 2008 |
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
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Brian Selznick |
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Scholastic |
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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad |
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Ellen Levine |
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Kadir Nelson |
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Scholastic |
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| First the Egg |
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Laura Vaccaro Seeger |
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Roaring Brook/Neal Porter |
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| The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain |
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Peter Sis |
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Farrar/Frances Foster |
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| Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity |
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Mo Willems |
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Hyperion |
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| 2007 |
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Flotsam |
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David Wiesner |
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Clarion |
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Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet |
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David McLimans |
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Walker |
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| Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom |
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Carole Boston Weatherford |
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Kadir Nelson |
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Hyperion / Jump at the Sun |
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| 2006 |
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The Hello, Goodbye Window |
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Norton Juster |
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Chris Raschka |
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Michael di Capua Books / Hyperion Books for Children |
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Rosa |
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Nikki Giovanni |
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Bryan Collier and |
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Henry Holt and Company |
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| Zen Shorts |
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Jon J. Muth |
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Jon J. Muth |
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Scholastic Press |
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| Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride |
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Marjorie Priceman |
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Marjorie Priceman |
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An Anne Schwartz Book / Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster |
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| Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems |
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Joyce Sidman |
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Beckie Prange |
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Houghton Mifflin Company |
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Kitten's First Full Moon |
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Kevin Henkes |
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Kevin Henkes |
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Greenwillow Books / HarperCollinsPublishers |
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The Red Book |
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Barbara Lehman |
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Houghton Mifflin Company |
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| Coming on Home Soon |
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Jacqueline Woodson |
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E.B. Lewis |
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G.P. Putnam's Son's / Penguin Young Readers Group |
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| Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale |
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Mo Willems |
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Mo Willems |
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Hyperion Books for Children |
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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers |
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Mordicai Gerstein |
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Roaring Brook Press / Millbrook Press |
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Ella Sarah Gets Dressed |
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Margaret Chodos-Irvine |
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Harcourt, Inc. |
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| What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? |
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Steve Jenkins and Robin Page |
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Steve Jenkins and Robin Page |
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Houghton Mifflin Company |
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| Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus |
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Mo Willems |
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Hyperion |
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| 2003 |
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My Friend Rabbit |
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Eric Rohmann |
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Roaring Brook Press / Millbrook Press |
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The Spider and the Fly |
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Mary Howitt |
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Tony DiTerlizzi |
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
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| Hondo & Fabian |
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Peter McCarty |
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Henry Holt & Co. |
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| Noah's Ark by Jerry Pinkney |
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SeaStar Books, a division of North-South Books Inc. |
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The Three Pigs |
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David Wiesner |
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Clarion / Houghton Mifflin |
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The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins |
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Barbara Kerley |
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Brian Selznick |
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Scholastic |
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| Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Doreen Rappaport |
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Bryan Collier |
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Jump at the Sun / Hyperion |
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| The Stray Dog |
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Marc Simont |
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HarperCollins |
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So You Want to Be President? |
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Judith St. George |
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David Small |
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Philomel |
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| Honor Books |
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Casey at the Bat |
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Ernest Thayer |
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Christopher Bing |
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Handprint |
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| Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type |
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Doreen Cronin |
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Betsy Lewin |
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Simon & Schuster |
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| Olivia |
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Ian Falconer |
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Atheneum |
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| 2000 |
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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Simms Taback |
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Viking |
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A Child's Calendar |
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John Updike |
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Trina Schart Hyman |
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Holiday House |
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| Sector 7 |
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David Wiesner |
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Clarion Books |
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| When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry |
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Molly Bang |
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Scholastic |
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| The Ugly Duckling |
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Hans Christian Andersen |
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Jerry Pinkney |
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Morrow |
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