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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:

The Wave (1964)

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Author(s): Margaret Hodges
Illustrator(s): Blair Lent


Hide and Seek Fog (1965)

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Author(s): Alvin Tresselt
Illustrator(s): Roger Duvoisin


Just Me (1965)

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Author(s): Marie Hall Ets
Illustrator(s): Marie Hall Ets


Tom Tit Tot, An English Folk Tale (1965)

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Author(s): Evaline Ness
Illustrator(s): Evaline Ness


One Wide River To Cross (1966)

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Author(s): Barbara Emberley
Illustrator(s): Ed Emberley


Frederick (1966)

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Author(s): Leo Lionni
Illustrator(s): Leo Lionni


The Emperor and the Kite (1967)

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Author(s): Jane Yolen
Illustrator(s): Ed Young


Seashore Story (1967)

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Author(s): Taro Yashima
Illustrator(s): Taro Yashima


Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky (1968)

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Author(s): Elphinstone Dayrell
Illustrator(s): Blair Lent


Thy Friend, Obadiah (1969)

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Author(s): Brinton Turkle
Illustrator(s): Brinton Turkle


The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969)

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Author(s): Harve Zemach
Illustrator(s): Margot Zemach


Pop Corn & Ma Goodness (1969)

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Author(s): Edna Mitchell Preston
Illustrator(s): Robert Andrew Parker


Goggles! (1969)

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Author(s): Ezra Jack Keats
Illustrator(s): Ezra Jack Keats


Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse (1969)

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Author(s): Leo Lionni
Illustrator(s): Leo Lionni


The Angry Moon (1970)

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Author(s): William Sleator
Illustrator(s): Blair Lent


In the Night Kitchen (1970)

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Author(s): Maurice Sendak
Illustrator(s): Maurice Sendak


Frog and Toad Are Friends (1970)

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Author(s): Arnold Lobel
Illustrator(s): Arnold Lobel


If All the Seas Were One Sea (1972)

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Author(s): Janina Domanska
Illustrator(s): Unknown


Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1972)

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A beautifully rendered version of this classic tale.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): Nancy Ekholm Burkert

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Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book (1972)

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Author(s): Muriel Feelings
Illustrator(s): Tom Feelings