Randolph Caldecott Honor Award Winners
Date | Title | Illustrator | Author |
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2020 | Bear Came Along | LeUyen Pham | Richard T. Morris |
Double Bass Blues | Rudy Gutierrez | Andrea J. Loney | |
Going Down Home with Daddy | Daniel Minter | Kelly Starling Lyons | |
2019 | Alma and How She Got Her Name | Juana Martinez-Neal | |
A Big Mooncake for Little Star | Grace Lin | ||
The Rough Patch | Brian Lies | ||
Thank You, Omu! | Oge Mora | ||
2018 | Big Cat, Little Cat | Elisha Cooper | |
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut | Gordon C. James | Derrick Barnes | |
A Different Pond | Thi Bui | Bao Phi | |
Grand Canyon | Jason Chin | ||
2017 | Leave Me Alone! | Vera Brosgol | |
Freedom in Congo Square | R. Gregory Christie | Carole Boston Weatherford | |
Du Iz Tak? | Carson Ellis | ||
They All Saw a Cat | Brendan Wenzel | ||
2016 | trombone Shorty | Bryan Collier | troy Andrews |
Waiting | Kevin Henkes | ||
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement | Ekua Holmes | Carole Boston Weatherford | |
Last Stop on Market Street | Christian Robinson | Matt de la Peña | |
2015 | Nana in the City | Lauren Castillo | |
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art | Mary GrandPré | Barb Rosenstock | |
Sam & Dave Dig a Hole | Jon Klassen | Mac Barnett | |
Viva Frida | Yuyi Morales | ||
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus | Melissa Sweet | Jen Bryant | |
This One Summer | Jillian Tamaki | Mariko Tamaki | |
2014 | Journey | Aaron Becker | |
Flora and the Flamingo | Molly Idle | ||
Mr. Wuffles! | David Wiesner | ||
2013 | Creepy Carrots! |
Peter Brown | Aaron Reynolds |
Extra Yarn | Jon Klassen | Mac Barnett | |
Green | Laura Vaccaro Seeger | Toni Buzzeo | |
One Cool Friend | David Small | ||
Sleep Like a Tiger | Pamela Zagarenski | Mary Logue | |
2012 | Blackout | John Rocco | |
Grandpa Green | Lane Smith | ||
Me ... Jane * | Patrick McDonnell | ||
2011 | Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet Slave * | Brian Collier | Laban Carrick HIll |
Interrupting Chicken | David Ezra Stein | ||
2010 | All the World | Marla Frazee | Liz Garton Scanlon |
Red Sings from treetops: A Year in Colors | Pamela Zagarenski | Joyce Sidman | |
2009 | A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever | Maria Frazee | |
How I Learned Geography | Uri Shulevitz | ||
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams | Melissa Sweet | Jen Bryant | |
2008 | Henry's Freedom Box: A true Story of the Underground Railroad | Kadir Nelson | Ellen Levine |
First the Egg | Laura Vaccaro Seeger | ||
The Wall Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain | Peter Sis | ||
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity | Mo Willems | ||
2007 | Gone Wild: An Endangered Aniimal Alphabet | David Mc Limans | |
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Kadir Nelson | Carole Boston Weatherford | |
2006 | Rosa | Bryon Collier | Nikki Giovanni |
Zen Shorts | Jon J. Muth | ||
Hot Air: The (Mostly) true Story of the First Hot-Air Ballon Ride | Marjorie Priceman | ||
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems | Becky Prange | Joyce Sidman | |
2005 | The Red Book * | Barbara Lehman | |
Coming on Home Soon | E.B. Lewis | Jacqueline Soodson | |
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale | Mo Willems | ||
2004 | Ella Sarah Gets Dressed | Margaret Chodos-Irvine | |
What Do You Do with a Tail LikeThis? | Steve Jenkins and Robin Page | ||
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus * | Mo Willens | ||
2003 | The Spider and the Fly | Tony DiTerlizzi | Mary Howitt |
Hondo & Fabian | Peter McCarty | ||
Noah's Ark | Jerry Pinkney | ||
2002 | The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins | Brian Selznick | Barbara Kerley |
Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr | Bryan Collier | Doreen Rappaport | |
The Stray Dog | Marc Simont | ||
2001 | Casey at the Bat | Christopher Bing | Ernest Thayer |
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type * | Betsy Lewin | Doreen Cronin | |
Olivia | Ian Falconer | ||
2000 | A Child's Calendar | trina Schart Hyman | John Updike |
Sector 7 | David Wiesner | ||
When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry | Molly Bang | ||
The Ugly Duckling * | Jerry Pinkney | Jerry Pinkney from Hans Christian Andersen | |
1999 | Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and the Orchestra * | Brian Pinkney | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
No, David! | David Shannon | ||
Snow | Uri Shulevitz | ||
Tibet Through the Red Box | Peter Sis | ||
1998 | The Gardener | David Small | Sarah Stewart |
Harlem | Christopher Myers | Walter Dean Myers | |
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly | Simms Taback | ||
1997 | Hush! A Thai Lullaby | Holly Meade | Minfong Ho |
The Graphic Alphabet | David Pelletier | ||
The Paperboy | Dav Pilkey | ||
Starry Messenger | Peter Sís | ||
1996 | Alphabet City | Stephen T. Johnson | |
Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin | Marjorie Priceman | Lloyd Moss | |
The Faithful Friend | Brian Pinkney | Robert D. San Souci | |
Tops & Bottoms * | Janet Stevens | ||
1995 | John Henry * | Jerry Pinkney | Julius Lester |
Swamp Angel | Paul O. Zelinsky | Anne Issacs | |
1994 | Peppe the Lamplighter | Ted Lewin | Elisa Bartone |
In the Small, Small Pond * | Denise Fleming | ||
Raven: A trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest | Gerald McDermott | ||
Owen | Kevin Henkes | ||
Yo! Yes? | Chris Raschka | Richard Jackson | |
1993 | The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales * | Lane Smith | Jon Scieszka |
Seven Blind Mice | Ed Young | ||
Working Cotton | Carole Byard | Sherley Anne Williams | |
1992 | Tar Beach * | Faith Ringgold | |
1991 | Puss in Boots | Fred Marcellino | Malcolm Arthur translated from Charles Perrault |
"More More More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories | Vera B. Williams | ||
1990 | Bill Peet: An Autobiography | Bill Peet | |
Color Zoo | Lois Ehlert | ||
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South | Jerry Pinkney | Robert D. San Souci | |
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins | trina Schart Hyman | Eric Kimmel | |
1989 | The Boy of the Three-Year Nap | Allen Say | Diane Snyder |
Free Fall * | David Wiesner | ||
Goldilocks and the Three Bears | James Marshall | ||
Mirandy and Brother Wind | Jerry Pinkney | Patricia C. McKissack | |
1988 | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale * | John Steptoe | |
1987 | The Village of Round and Square Houses | Ann Grifalconi | |
Alphabatics | Suse MacDonald | ||
Rumpelstiltskin * | Paul O. Zelinsky | ||
1986 | The Relatives Came | Stephen Gammell; | Cynthia Rylant |
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub | Don Wood; | Audrey Wood | |
1985 | Hansel and Gretel | Paul O. Zelinsky | by Rika Lesser |
Have You Seen My Duckling? | Nancy Tafuri | ||
The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend | John Steptoe | John Steptoe | |
1984 | Little Red Riding Hood | trina Schart Hyman | trina Schart Hyman |
Ten, Nine, Eight | Molly Bang | ||
1983 | A Chair for My Mother * | Vera B. Williams | |
When I Was Young in the Mountains | Diane Goode | Cynthia Rylant | |
1982 | Where the Buffaloes Begin | Stephen Gammell | Olaf Baker |
On Market Street | Anita Lobel | Arnold Lobel | |
Outside Over There | Maurice Sendak | ||
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced travelers | Alice & Martin Provensen | Nancy Willard | |
1981 | The Bremen-Town Musicians | Ilse Plume | Ilse Plume |
The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher | Molly Bang | ||
Mice Twice | Joseph Low | ||
truck | Donald Crews | ||
1980 | Ben's trumpet | Rachel Isadora | |
The Garden Of Abdul Gasazi | Chris Van Allsburg | ||
The treasure | Uri Shulevitz | ||
1979 | Freight train * | Donald Crews | |
The Way to Start a Day | Peter Parnall | Byrd Baylor | |
1978 | Castle * | David Macaulay | |
It Could Always Be Worse | Margot Zemach | Margot Zemach | |
1977 | The Amazing Bone | William Steig | |
The Contest | Nonny Hogrogian | Nonny Hogrogian | |
Fish for Supper | M. B. Goffstein | ||
The Golem: A Jewish Legend | Beverly Brodsky McDermott | ||
Hawk, I'm Your Brother | Peter Parnall; | Byrd Baylor | |
1976 | The Desert is Theirs | Peter Parnall | Byrd Baylor |
Strega Nona * | Tomie de Paola | ||
1975 | Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book | Tom Feelings | Muriel Feelings |
1974 | Three Jovial Huntsmen | Susan Jeffers | |
Cathedral * | David Macaulay | ||
1973 | Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti * | Gerald McDermott | |
Hosie's Alphabet | Leonard Baskin | Tobias Hosea & Lisa Baskin | |
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs | Nancy Ekholm Burkert | Randall Jarrell translated & retold from the Brothers Grimm | |
When Clay Sings, | Tom Bahti | Byrd Baylor | |
1972 | Hildilid's Night | Arnold Lobel | Cheli Durán Ryan |
If All the Seas Were One Sea | Janina Domanska | ||
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book | Tom Feelings | Muriel Feelings | |
1971 | The Angry Moon | Blair Lent | William Sleator |
Frog and Toad are Friends * | Arnold Lobel | ||
In the Night Kitchen | Maurice Sendak | ||
1970 | Goggles! | Ezra Jack Keats | |
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse | Leo Lionni | ||
Pop Corn & Ma Goodness | Robert Andrew Parker | Edna Mitchell Preston | |
Thy Friend, Obadiah | Brinton Turkle | ||
The Judge: An Untrue Tale | Margot Zemach | Harve Zemach | |
1969 | Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky | Blair Lent | Elphinstone Dayrell |
1968 | Frederick | Leo Lionni | |
Seashore Story | Taro Yashima | ||
The Emperor and the Kite | Ed Young | Jane Yolen | |
1967 | One Wide River to Cross | Ed Emberley | Barbara Emberley |
1966 | Hide and Seek Fog | Roger Duvoisin | Alvin tresselt |
Just Me | Marie Hall Ets | ||
Tom Tit Tot | Evaline Ness | retold Evaline Ness | |
1965 | Rain Makes Applesauce | Marvin Bileck | Julian Scheer |
The Wave | Blair Lent; | Margaret Hodges | |
A Pocketful of Cricket | Evaline Ness | Rebecca Caudill | |
1964 | Swimmy * | Leo Lionni | |
All in the Morning Early | Evaline Ness | Sorche Nic Leodhas, [Leclaire Alger] | |
Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes | Philip Reed | ||
1963 | The Sun is a Golden Earring | Bernarda Bryson | Natalia M. Belting |
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present | Maurice Sendak | Charlotte Zolotow | |
1962 | Fox Went out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song | Peter Spier | |
Little Bear's Visit | Maurice Sendak | Else H. Minarik | |
The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up | Adrienne Adams | Alice E. Goudey | |
1961 | Inch by Inch * | Leo Lionni | |
1960 | Houses from the Sea | Adrienne Adams | Alice E. Goudey |
The Moon Jumpers | Maurice Sendak | Janice May Udry | |
1959 | The House that Jack Built: La Maison Que Jacques A Batie | Antonio Frasconi | |
What Do You Say, Dear? | Maurice Sendak | Sesyle Joslin | |
Umbrella | Taro Yashima | ||
1958 | Fly High, Fly Low | Don Freeman | |
Anatole and the Cat | Paul Galdone | Eve Titus | |
1957 | Mr. Penny's Race Horse | Marie Hall Ets | |
1 is One | Tasha Tudor | ||
Anatole | Paul Galdone | Eve Titus | |
Gillespie and the Guards | James Daugherty | Benjamin Elkin | |
Lion | William Pène du Bois | ||
1956 | Play With Me | Marie Hall Ets | |
Crow Boy * | Taro Yashima | ||
1955 | Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes | Marguerite de Angeli | |
Wheel On The Chimney | Tibor Gergely | Margaret Wise Brown | |
The Thanksgiving Story | Helen Sewell | Alice Dalgliesh | |
1954 | Journey Cake, Ho! | Robert McCloskey | Ruth Sawyer |
When Will the World Be Mine? | Jean Charlot | Miriam Schlein | |
The Steadfast Tin Soldier | Marcia Brown | M. R. James translated from Hans Christian Andersen | |
A Very Special House | Maurice Sendak; | Ruth Krauss | |
Green Eyes | A. Birnbaum | ||
1953 | Puss in Boots, | Marcia Brown | Marcia Brown translated from Charles Perrault |
One Morning in Maine | Robert McCloskey | ||
Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals | Fritz Eichenberg | ||
The Storm Book | Margaret Bloy Graham | Charlotte Zolotow | |
Five Little Monkeys * | Juliet Kepes | ||
1952 | Mr. T. W. Anthony Woo | Marie Hall Ets | |
Skipper John's Cook | Marcia Brown | ||
All Falling Down | Margaret Bloy Graham | Gene Zion | |
Bear Party | Pène du Bois | ||
Feather Mountain | Elizabeth Olds | ||
1951 | Dick Whittington and his Cat | Marcia Brown | |
The Two Reds | Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); | Will, [William Lipkind] | |
If I Ran the Zoo | Dr. Seuss, [Theodor Seuss Geisel] | ||
The Most Wonderful Doll in the World | Helen Stone | Phyllis McGinley | |
T-Bone, the Baby Sitter | Clare Turlay | ||
1950 | America's Ethan Allen | Lynd Ward; | Stewart Holbrook |
The Wild Birthday Cake | Hildegard Woodward | Lavinia R. Davis | |
The Happy Day | Marc Simont | Ruth Krauss | |
Bartholomew and the Oobleck | Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel] | ||
Henry Fisherman | Marcia Brown | ||
1949 | Blueberries for Sal * | Robert McCloskey | |
All Around the Town | Helen Stone | Phyllis McGinley | |
Juanita | Leo Politi | ||
Fish in the Air | Kurt Wiese | ||
1948 | Stone Soup | Marcia Brown | |
McElligot's Pool | Dr. Seuss, pseud. [Theodor Seuss Geisel] | ||
Bambino the Clown | Georges Schreiber | ||
Roger and the Fox | Hildegard Woodward | Lavinia R. Davis | |
Song of Robin Hood | Virginia Lee Burton | Anne Malcolmson | |
1947 | Rain Drop Splash | Leonard Weisgard | Alvin tresselt |
Boats on the River | Jay Hyde Barnum | Marjorie Flack | |
Timothy Turtle | Tony Palazzo | Al Graham | |
Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street | Leo Politi | ||
Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns | Marjorie Torrey | Opal Wheeler | |
1946 | Little Lost Lamb | Leonard Weisgard | Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown] |
Sing Mother Goose | Marjorie Torrey | Opal Wheeler songs | |
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World | Ruth Gannett | Becky Reyher | |
You Can Write Chinese | Kurt Wiese | ||
1945 | Mother Goose | Tasha Tudor | |
In the Forest | Marie Hall Ets | ||
Yonie Wondernose | Marguerite de Angeli | ||
The Christmas Anna Angel | Kate Seredy | Ruth Sawyer | |
1944 | Small Rain: Verses From The Bible | Elizabeth Orton Jones | Jessie Orton Jones |
Pierre Pigeon | Arnold E. Bare | Lee Kingman | |
The Mighty Hunter | Berta & Elmer Hader | ||
A Child's Good Night Book | Jean Charlot | Margaret Wise Brown | |
Good-Luck Horse | Plato Chan | Chih-Yi Chan | |
1943 | Dash and Dart | Mary & Conrad Buff | |
Marshmallow | Clare Turlay Newberry | ||
1942 | An American ABC | Maud & Miska Petersham | |
In My Mother's House | Velino Herrera | Ann Nolan Clark | |
Paddle-To-The-Sea | Holling C. Holling | ||
Nothing At All, | Wanda Gág | ||
1941 | April's Kittens | Clare Turlay Newberry | |
1940 | Cock-a-Doodle Doo | Berta & Elmer Hader | |
Madeline | Ludwig Bemelmans | ||
The Ageless Story | Lauren Ford | ||
1939 | Andy and the Lion | James Daugherty | |
Barkis | Clare Turlay Newberry | ||
The Forest Pool | Laura Adams Armer | ||
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Wanda Gág | ||
Wee Gillis | Robert Lawson | Munro Leaf | |
1938 | Four and Twenty Blackbirds | Robert Lawson | Helen Dean Fish |
Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale | Boris Artzybasheff | Boris Artzybasheff |
* Highly recommended. Meaning no disrespect for others.