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 Village of Round and Square Houses (1987)
Free Fall (1988)
What followed on reading the Atlas. . . .
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1988)
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (1988)
Mirandy and Brother Wind (1989)
Mirandy hopes to win first prize in the cakewalk by capturing the wind for her partner.
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap (1989)
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South (1989)
Blanche is treated poorly by her family, but an act of kindness to a stranger yields its reward.