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Caldecott Honor Book

Caldecott Honor Book award

The Caldecott Honor Books are runners-up to the Caldecott Medal, is awarded for the previous year’s most distinguished American picture book for children.

The award was named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott.

Learn more: official Caldecott Medal and Honor homepage.


Winners:

Creepy Carrots! (2013)

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Author(s): Aaron Reynolds
Illustrator(s): Peter Brown


Extra Yarn (2013)

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Author(s): Mac Barnett
Illustrator(s): Jon Klassen


Green (2013)

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Author(s): Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Illustrator(s): Laura Vaccaro Seeger


One Cool Friend (2013)

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Author(s): Toni Buzzeo
Illustrator(s): David Small


Sleep Like a Tiger (2013)

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Author(s): Mary Logue
Illustrator(s): Pamela Zagarenski


Mr. Wuffles (2013)

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Invading space aliens join up with the ants behind the baseboard, but Mr. Wuffles, savior of the planet, is on the job.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): David Wiesner
Illustrator(s): David Wiesner

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Journey (2014)

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Author(s): Aaron Becker
Illustrator(s): Aaron Becker


Flora and the Flamingo (2014)

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Author(s): Molly Idle
Illustrator(s): Molly Idle


Nana in the City (2015)

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Author(s): Lauren Castillo
Illustrator(s): Lauren Castillo


The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art (2015)

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Author(s): Barb Rosenstock
Illustrator(s): Mary GrandPré


Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (2015)

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Author(s): Mac Barnett
Illustrator(s): Jon Klassen


Viva Frida (2015)

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Author(s): Yuyi Morales
Illustrator(s): Yuyi Morales
Tim O’Meara


The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus (2015)

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Author(s): Jen Bryant
Illustrator(s): Melissa Sweet


This One Summer (2015)

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Author(s): Mariko Tamaki
Illustrator(s): Jillian Tamaki


Last Stop on Market Street (2016)

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Author(s): Matt de la Peña
Illustrator(s): Christian Robinson


Trombone Shorty (2016)

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Author(s): Troy Andrews
Illustrator(s): Bryan Collier


Waiting (2016)

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Author(s): Kevin Henkes
Illustrator(s): Kevin Henkes


Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement (2016)

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Author(s): Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrator(s): Ekua Holmes


Leave Me Alone! (2016)

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Author(s): Vera Brosgol
Illustrator(s): Vera Brosgol


Freedom in Congo Square (2016)

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Author(s): Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrator(s): R. Gregory Christie