Book prize winners

Caldecott Medal winners

76 winners and 1 nominee we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

Winners

  1. 2022 Watercress by Andrea Wang First edition: Neal Porter Books 2021
  2. 2021 We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom First edition: Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing 2020
  3. 2019 Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall First edition: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2018
  4. 2018 Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell First edition: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan 2017
  5. 2016 Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick First edition: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2015
  6. 2015 The Adventures of Beekle by Dan Santat First edition: Little, Brown 2014
  7. 2014 Locomotive by Brian Floca First edition: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
  8. 2013 This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen First edition not yet identified
  9. 2012 A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka First edition: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
  10. 2011 A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip Christian Stead First edition: Roaring Brook Press 2010
  11. 2010 The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney First edition: Little, Brown 2009
  12. 2009 The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson First edition: Houghton Mifflin 2008
  13. 2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick First edition: Scholastic 2007
  14. 2007 Flotsam by David Wiesner First edition: Clarion Books 2006
  15. 2006 The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster First edition: Michael Di Capua Books 2005
  16. 2005 Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes First edition: Greenwillow Books 2004
  17. 2004 The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein First edition: Roaring Brook Press 2003
  18. 2003 My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann First edition: Roaring Brook Press 1999
  19. 2002 The Three Pigs by David Wiesner First edition: Clarion Books 2001
  20. 2000 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback First edition: Viking 1999
  21. 1999 Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1998
  22. 1998 Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky First edition: Dutton Children's Books 1997
  23. 1997 Golem by David Wisniewski First edition: Clarion Books 1996
  24. 1996 Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1995
  25. 1995 Smoky Night by Eve Bunting First edition: Voyager Books - Harcourt 1994
  26. 1994 Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1993
  27. 1993 Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1992
  28. 1992 Tuesday by David Wiesner First edition: Clarion Books 1991
  29. 1991 Black and White by David Macaulay First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1990
  30. 1990 Lon Po Po by Ed Young First edition not yet identified
  31. 1989 Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman First edition: Knopf 1988
  32. 1988 Owl Moon by Jane Yolen First edition: Philomel Books 1987
  33. 1987 Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986
  34. 1986 The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1985
  35. 1985 Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges First edition: Little, Brown 1984
  36. 1984 The Glorious Flight by Alice Provensen First edition not yet identified
  37. 1983 Shadow by Marcia Brown First edition: Scribner 1982
  38. 1982 Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1981
  39. 1981 Fables by Arnold Lobel First edition: Scholastic 1980
  40. 1980 Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall First edition: Viking 1979
  41. 1979 The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble First edition: Bradbury Press 1978
  42. 1978 Noah's Ark by Peter Spier First edition: Doubleday 1977
  43. 1977 Ashanti to Zulu by Margaret Musgrove First edition: Dial Press 1976
  44. 1976 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema First edition not yet identified
  45. 1975 Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott First edition not yet identified
  46. 1973 The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel First edition: Dutton 1972
  47. 1972 One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian First edition: Macmillan 1971
  48. 1970 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig First edition: Windmill Books 1969
  49. 1969 The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by Arthur Ransome First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1968
  50. 1968 Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley First edition: Prentice-Hall 1967
  51. 1967 Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness First edition: H. Holt 1966
  52. 1966 Always Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas First edition: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1965
  53. 1965 May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers First edition: Atheneum 1964
  54. 1964 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak First edition: Harper & Row 1963
  55. 1963 The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats First edition: Viking 1962
  56. 1962 Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown First edition: Scribner 1961
  57. 1961 Baboushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins First edition: Parnassus Press 1960
  58. 1960 Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets First edition: Viking 1959
  59. 1959 Chanticleer and the Fox by Barbara Cooney First edition: Crowell 1958
  60. 1958 Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey First edition: Viking 1957
  61. 1957 A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry First edition: Harper 1956
  62. 1956 Frog Went A-Courtin' by John M. Langstaff First edition: Harcourt, Brace 1955
  63. 1955 Cinderella by Marcia Brown First edition: Scribner 1954
  64. 1954 Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans First edition: Viking 1953
  65. 1953 The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward First edition: Scholastic Book Services 1952
  66. 1950 Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi First edition: Scribner 1949
  67. 1949 The Big Snow by Berta Hader First edition: Macmillan 1948
  68. 1948 White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt First edition: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books 1947
  69. 1947 The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown First edition: Doubleday 1946
  70. 1946 The Rooster Crows by Maud Petersham First edition: Macmillan 1945
  71. 1945 Prayer For A Child by Rachel Field First edition: Macmillan 1944
  72. 1944 Many Moons by James Thurber First edition: Harcourt, Brace 1943
  73. 1943 The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1942
  74. 1942 Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey First edition: Viking 1941
  75. 1940 Abraham Lincoln by Edgar Parin d'Aulaire First edition: Doubleday 1939
  76. 1939 Mei Li by Thomas Handforth First edition: Doubleday 1938

Shortlisted and nominated

  1. 1976 Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola First edition: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1975

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