Excerpt from the American Library Association site:
Awarded annually by the Children's and School Librarians Sections of the American Library Association to the artist who has created the most distinguished picture book of the year; named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott
The Caldecott Medal "shall be awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in the United States during the preceding year. The award shall go to the artist, who must be a citizen or resident of the United States, whether or not he be the author of the text. Members of the Newbery Medal Committee will serve as judges…”
From the beginning of the awarding of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, committees could, and usually did, cite other books as worthy of attention. Such books were referred to as Newbery or Caldecott "runners-up." In 1971 the term "runners-up" was changed to "honor books." The new terminology was made retroactive so that all former runners-up are now referred to as Newbery or Caldecott Honor Books.
Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present
indicates writer/illustrator
2006 | The Hello, Goodbye Window (Michael di Capua/Hyperion) |
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2005 | Kitten's First Full Moon (Greenwillow /HarperCollins) |
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2004 | The Man Who Walked Between the
Towers (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press) |
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2003 | My Friend
Rabbit (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press) |
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2002 | The Three Pigs (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin) |
2001 | So
You Want to Be President (Philomel Books) |
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2000 | Joseph
Had a Little Overcoat (Viking) |
1999 | Snowflake
Bentley (Houghton) |
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1998 | Rapunzel (Dutton) |
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1997 | Golem (Clarion) |
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1996 | Officer
Buckle and Gloria (Putnam) |
1995 | Smoky
Night (Harcourt) |
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1994 | Grandfather's
Journey (Houghton) |
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1993 | Mirette on the High Wire (Putnam) |
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1992 | Tuesday (Clarion Books) |
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1991 | Black
and White (Houghton) |
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1990 | Lon
Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (Philomel) |
1989 | Song
and Dance Man (Knopf) |
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1988 | Owl
Moon (Philomel) |
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1987 | Hey,
Al (Farrar) |
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1986 | The
Polar Express (Houghton) |
1985 | Saint
George and the Dragon (Little, Brown) |
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1984 | The
Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot (Viking) |
1983 | Shadow (Scribner) |
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1982 | Jumanji (Houghton) |
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1981 | Fables (Harper) |
1980 | Ox-Cart
Man (Viking) |
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1979 | The
Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (Bradbury) |
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1978 | Noah's
Ark (Doubleday) |
1977 | Ashanti
to Zulu: African Traditions (Dial) |
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1976 | Why
Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Dial) |
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1975 | Arrow
to the Sun (Viking) |
1974 | Duffy
and the Devil (Farrar) |
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1973 | The
Funny Little Woman (Dutton) |
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1972 | One
Fine Day (Macmillan) |
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1971 | A
Story A Story (Atheneum) |
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1970 | Sylvester
and the Magic Pebble (Windmill Books) |
1969 | The
Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (Farrar) |
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1968 | Drummer
Hoff (Prentice-Hall) |
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1967 | Sam,
Bangs & Moonshine (Holt) |
1966 | Always
Room for One More (Holt) |
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1965 | May
I Bring a Friend? (Atheneum) |
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1964 | Where
the Wild Things Are (Harper) |
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1963 | The
Snowy Day (Viking) |
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1962 | Once
a Mouse (Scribner) |
1961 | Baboushka
and the Three Kings (Parnassus) |
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1960 | Nine
Days to Christmas (Viking) |
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1959 | Chanticleer
and the Fox (Crowell) |
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1958 | Time
of Wonder (Viking) |
1957 | A
Tree Is Nice (Harper) |
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1956 | Frog
Went A-Courtin' |
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1955 | Cinderella,
or the Little Glass Slipper (Scribner) |
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1954 | Madeline's
Rescue (Viking) |
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1953 | The
Biggest Bear (Houghton) |
1952 | Finders
Keepers (Harcourt) |
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1951 | The
Egg Tree (Scribner) |
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1950 | Song
of the Swallows (Scribner) |
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1949 | The
Big Snow (Macmillan) |
1948 | White
Snow, Bright Snow (Lothrop) |
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1947 | The
Little Island (Doubleday) |
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1946 | The
Rooster Crows (Macmillan) |
1945 | Prayer
for a Child (Macmillan) |
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1944 | Many
Moons (Harcourt) |
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1943 |
The
Little House (Houghton) |
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1942 |
Make Way for Ducklings (Viking) |
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1941 | They
Were Strong and Good (Viking) |
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1940 | Abraham
Lincoln (Doubleday) |
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1939 | Mei
Li (Doubleday) |
1938 | Animals
of the Bible, A Picture Book (Lippincott) |