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:
All Falling Down (1951)
A child’s-eye view of things that fall down - or don’t.
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.
Read online at archive.org.
Five Little Monkeys (1952)
Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals (1952)
One Morning in Maine (1952)
Sal goes with her father and sister Jane to the general store across the bay in Buck’s Harbor.
Read online at archive.org.
Green Eyes (1953)
Journey Cake, Ho! (1953)
When hard times come, Johnny sets out to seek his fortune with the journey cake in his knapsack. When the journey cake escapes it leads him on a merry chase, picking up animals as it goes until Johnny finds himself home again.
Read online at archive.org.
The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1953)
A favorite story from Andersen.
The Thanksgiving Story (1954)
A retelling of the story of the Pilgrims’ first thanksgiving.
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Marguerite de Angeli’s Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes (1954)
Wheel on the Chimney (1954)
The story of a family of storks as they migrate from Africa to Hungary to raise their brood, then return in the fall.
Gillespie and the Guards (1956)
Gillespie sets out to prove the three sharp-eyed guards are not as sharp as they think.