The Randolph Caldecott Medal Award Winners
| Date | Book | Illustrator and Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | The Undefeated | Kadir Nelson author Kwame Alexander |
| 2019 | Hello Lighthouse | Sophie Blackall |
| 2018 | Wolf in the Snow | Matthew Cordell |
| 2017 | Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat | Javaka Steptoe |
| 2016 | Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear | Sophie Blackall author Lindsay Mattick |
| 2015 | The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend | Dan Santat |
| 2014 | Locomotive | Brian Floca |
| 2013 | This Is Not My Hat | Jon Klassen |
| 1012 | A Ball for Daisy | Chris Raschka |
| 2011 | A Sick Day for Amos McGee | Erin E. Stead author Philip E. Stead |
| 2010 | The Lion and the Mouse | Jerry Pinkney |
| 2009 | The House in the Night | Beth Krommes author Susan Marie Swanson |
| 2008 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret * | Brian Selznick |
| 2007 | Flotsam * | David Wiesner |
| 2006 | The Hello, Goodbye Window | Chris Raschka author Norton Juster |
| 2005 | Kitten's First Full Moon | Kevin Henkes |
| 2004 | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers | Mordicai Gerstein |
| 2003 | My Friend Rabbit | Eric Rohmann |
| 2002 | The Three Pigs * | David Wiesner |
| 2001 | So You Want to be President | David Small author Judith St. George |
| 2000 | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat | Simss Taback |
| 1999 | Snowflake Bentley | Mary Ararian author Jacqueline B. Martia |
| 1998 | Repunzel * | Paul Zelinsky |
| 1997 | Golem | D Wisewski |
| 1996 | Officer BUCKLE AND Gloria | Peggy Rathman |
| 1995 | Smoly Night | David Diaz author Eve Bunting |
| 1994 | Grandfather's Journey * | Allen Say |
| 1993 | Mirette on the High Wire | Emily Arnold McCully |
| 1992 | Tuesday * | David Wiesner |
| 1991 | Black and White | David Macaulay |
| 1990 | Lon Po Po * | Ed Young |
| 1989 | Song and Dance Man | Karen Ackerman |
| 1988 | Owl Moon | Yolen |
| 1987 | Hey, Al | Arthur Yorinks |
| 1986 | The Polar Express | Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1985 | Saint George and the Dragon * | Margaret Hodges |
| 1984 | The Glorious Flight | Alice & Martin Provensen |
| 1983 | Shadow | Marcia Brown |
| 1982 | Jumanji | Chris Van Allsburg |
| 1981 | Fables | Arnold Lobel |
| 1980 | Ox-Cart Man | Donald Hall |
| 1979 | The Girl Who Loved Horses * | Paul Gobel |
| 1978 | Noah's Ark | Peter Spier |
| 1977 | Ashanti to Zulu | Margaret Musgrove |
| 1976 | Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears * | Verna Aardema |
| 1975 | Arrow to the Sun | Gerald McDermott |
| 1974 | Duffy and the Devil | Harve & Margot Zemach |
| 1973 | The Funny Little Woman | Arlene Mosel |
| 1972 | One Fine Day * | Nonny Hogrogrian |
| 1971 | A Story | Gail E. Haley |
| 1970 | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | William Steig |
| 1969 | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | Arthur Ransome |
| 1968 | Drummer Hoff | Ed Emberley |
| 1967 | Sam, Bangs and Moonshine | Evaline Ness |
| 1966 | Always Room for One More | Sorche Nic Leodhas |
| 1965 | May I Bring a Friend | Beatrice Schenk de Regniers |
| 1964 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak |
| 1963 | The Snowy Day * | Ezra Jack Keats |
| 1962 | Once a Mouse | Marcia Brown |
| 1961 | Baboushka and the Three Kings | Ruth Robbins |
| 1960 | Nine Days to Christmas | Maria Hall Ets & Aurora Labastida |
| 1959 | Chanticleer and the Fox | Barbara Cooney |
| 1958 | Time of Wonder | Robert McCloskey |
| 1957 | A Tree is Nice | Janice May Udry |
| 1956 | Frog Went a -Courtin | John Langstaff |
| 1955 | Cinderella | Marcia Brown |
| 1954 | Madeline's Rescue | Ludwig Bemelmans |
| 1953 | The Biggest Bear | Lynd Ward |
| 1952 | Finders Keepers | Will Lipkind |
| 1951 | The Egg Tree | Katherine Milhous |
| 1950 | Song of the Swallows | Leo Politi |
| 1949 | The Big Snow | Berta & Elmer Hader |
| 1948 | White Snow Bright Snow | Alvin Tresselt |
| 1947 | The Little Island | GoldenMcDonald |
| 1946 | The Rooster Crows | Maude & Miske Petersham |
| 1945 | Prayer for a Child | Rachel Field |
| 1944 | Many Moons | James Thurber |
| 1943 | The Little House | Virginia Lee Burton |
| 1942 | Make Way for Ducklings * | Robert McCloskey |
| 1941 | They Were Strong and Good | Robert Lawson |
| 1940 | Abraham Lincoln | Ingir & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire |
| 1939 | Mei Li | Thomas Handforth |
| 1939 | Animals of the Bible | Helen Dean Fish |
* Highly recommended. Meaning no disrespect for others.