Caldecott Honor Book
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:
John Henry (1995)
Now John Henry was a steel driving man.
Time Flies (1995)
Alphabet City (1996)
Tops & Bottoms (1996)
Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin (1996)
Hush! A Thai Lullaby (1997)
Starry Messenger (1997)
The Graphic Alphabet (1997)
The Paperboy (1997)
Harlem (1998)
The Gardener (1998)
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (1998)
Sector 7 (1999)
A boy on a trip to the Empire State Building gets a tour of Sector 7, where the clouds are made.
Read online at archive.org.
The Ugly Duckling (1999)
When one of the ducklings doesn’t match the rest of the hatchlings, he is shunned by the farmyard animals, until he discovers he belongs to a different family altogether.