Caldecott Medal
The Caldecott Medal is awarded each year for the preceding year’s most distinguished American picture book for children. Runners-up are called Caldecott Honor Books.
The award was named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
The Caldecott Medal and the Newbery Medal are the most prestigious of American children’s book awards.
Learn more: official Caldecott Medal homepage
Winners:
Noah’s Ark (1977)
Peter Spier tells the story in pictures of Noah, the Ark and the Flood.
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (1978)
Fables (1980)
Jumanji (1981)
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot (1983)
Martin Provensen
Martin Provensen
The Polar Express (1985)
Song and Dance Man (1988)
Black and White (1990)
A surrealist exercise with four simultaneous, possibly interconnected stories going on. Too clever by half? or The (Caldecott) Emperor’s New Clothes?
Read online at archive.org.
Tuesday (1991)
It’s Tuesday and the frogs on their lily pads are out in force.
Read online at archive.org.