Randolph Caldecott Honor Award Winners
| Date | Title | Illustrator | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.