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:
Song of Robin Hood (1947)
Eighteen of the original ballads of Robin Hood are illustrated here. Most of them also have accompanying music.
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Anne Malcolmson
McElligot’s Pool (1947)
You don’t know what you might catch when you go fishing in McElligot’s pool.
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Fish in the Air (1948)
A tale of what Tai Fung, which means Big Wind, did to change the ideas of the little Chinese boy named Fish, who had persuaded his father, Honorable Fish, to buy him the biggest fish shaped kite he could find.
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Blueberries for Sal (1948)
The adventures of a little girl and a baby bear while hunting for blueberries with their mothers one bright summer day.
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949)
King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. He gets a royal mess.
A Child’s Good Night Book (1950)
A first going to bed book. This second edition was in a larger format.
If I Ran the Zoo (1950)
Gerald McGrew designs a new zoo.
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T-Bone: the Baby Sitter (1950)
The Two Reds (1950)
Bear Party (1951)
In this first book, William Pène du Bois introduces the bears of Koala Park who decide to reconcile their differences by having a grand costume ball.
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