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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 Treasure (1980)

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Author(s): Uri Shulevitz
Illustrator(s): Uri Shulevitz


A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (1981)

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Author(s): Nancy Willard
Illustrator(s): Alice Provensen
Martin Provensen


Mice Twice (1981)

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Author(s): Joseph Low
Illustrator(s): Joseph Low


The Bremen-Town Musicians (1981)

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Author(s): Ilse Plume
Illustrator(s): Ilse Plume


The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher (1981)

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Author(s): Molly Bang
Illustrator(s): Molly Bang


Truck (1981)

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Author(s): Donald Crews
Illustrator(s): Donald Crews


On Market Street (1982)

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


Outside Over There (1982)

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


Where the Buffaloes Begin (1982)

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Author(s): Olaf Baker
Illustrator(s): Stephen Gammell


Little Red Riding Hood (1983)

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A girl, a grandmother, a wolf and a woodcutter star in this well-known tale.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Trina Schart Hyman
Illustrator(s): Trina Schart Hyman

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A Chair for My Mother (1983)

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Author(s): Vera B. Williams
Illustrator(s): Vera B. Williams


When I Was Young in the Mountains (1983)

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Author(s): Cynthia Rylant
Illustrator(s): Diane Goode


Hansel and Gretel (1984)

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Two children lost in the woods come upon a cottage made of gingerbread.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Rika Lesser
Illustrator(s): Paul O. Zelinsky

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Ten, Nine, Eight (1984)

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Author(s): Molly Bang
Illustrator(s): Molly Bang


Have You Seen My Duckling? (1985)

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Author(s): Nancy Tafuri
Illustrator(s): Nancy Tafuri


The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend (1985)

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Author(s): John Steptoe
Illustrator(s): John Steptoe


King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub (1986)

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Author(s): Audrey Wood
Illustrator(s): Don Wood


The Relatives Came (1986)

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Author(s): Cynthia Rylant
Illustrator(s): Stephen Gammell


Alphabatics (1987)

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Author(s): Suse MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Suse MacDonald


Rumpelstiltskin (1987)

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Author(s): Paul O. Zelinsky
Illustrator(s): Paul O. Zelinsky