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:
The Mighty Hunter (1943)
The mighty hunter skips school to go hunting, but an encounter with a bear makes him decide that he should work on his education.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
The Good-Luck Horse (1943)
A Child’s Good Night Book (1943)
A first going to bed book.
Read online at archive.org.
In the Forest (1944)
A boy with his new horn is followed by animals as he walks through the forest.
The Christmas Anna Angel (1944)
The Christmas Anna Angel makes Christmas cakes for Anna and her brother.
Read online at archive.org.
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (1945)
We don’t love people because they are beautiful. They are beautiful because we love them.
Little Lost Lamb (1945)
The little black lamb wanders off from the flock, but the shepherd and his dog go back up the mountain to find him.
You Can Write Chinese (1945)
Teaches children simple words in Chinese and how the characters are formed.
We count 60 unnumbered pages.
Read online at archive.org.
Sing in Praise: A Collection of the Best Loved Hymns (1946)
Bambino the Clown (1947)
Song of Robin Hood (1947)
Eighteen of the original ballads of Robin Hood are illustrated here. Most of them also have accompanying music.
Read online at archive.org.
Anne Malcolmson