Caldecott Awards & My Own Personal Challenge

3-17-09 Today at school my eighth graders had a Caldecott "tea." Each had read three Caldecotts, each book from a different decade, and we sat in a circle and shared them. We read some aloud, discussed illustrations and story, and compared techniques used. I realized I hadn't read a lot of them in a long while, so I've decided to begin picking away at them. As I reread each and write a review, I'll add it to my list. So I guess you could say that this is my own personal challenge, right?

10/25/09 On the Bri Meets website, she has introduced a challenge to read all the Caldecott books. With no expiration date, why not? So here I go...
Click here for ALA site's complete list of Caldecott winners.

I'll attach my review when I've read/written it. I've read a lot previously that I've never recorded. So here goes!

2010 Winner - Lion and Mouse (Jerry Pinkney)

2010 Honor: All the World (Liz Garton Scanlon) illustrated by Marla Frazee
2010 Honor: Red Sings from Treetops (Joyce Sidman) illustrated by Zagarenski

2009 Winner - The House in the Night (Susan Marie Swanson) illustrated by Beth Krommes, 5

2009 Honor: A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever (Marla Frazee) 5
2009 Honor: How I Learned Geography (Uri Shulevitz) 3
2009 Honor: A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (Jen Bryant) illustrated by Melissa Sweet, 5

2008 Winner - The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)

2008 Honor: Henry's Freedom Box; A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Ellen Levine) illustrated by Kadir Nelson, 5

2008 Honor: First the Egg (Laura Vaccaro Seeger)

2008 Honor: The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Peter Sis)

2008 Honor: Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Mo Willems)

2007 Winner: Flotsam (David Wiesner)

2007 Honor: Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet (David McLimans)
2007 Honor: Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Carole Boston Weatherford) illustrated by Kadir Nelson 4.5

2006 Winner: The Hello, Goodbye Window (Norman Juster) illustrated by Chris Raschka

2006 Honor: Rosa (Nikki Giovanni) illustrated by Bryan Collier

2006 Honor: Zen Shorts (Jon J. Muth)

2006 Honor: Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride (Marjorie Priceman)

2006 Honor: Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (Joyce Sidman) illustrated by Beckie Prange

2005 Winner: Kitten's First Full Moon (Kevin Henkes)
2005 Honor: The Red Book (Barbara Lehman) 4.5

2005 Honor: Coming on Home Soon (Jacqueline Woodson) illustrated by E. B. Lewis

2005 Honor: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Mo Willems)

2004 Winner: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Mordecai Gerstein)
2004 Honor: Ella Sarah Gets Dressed (Margaret Chodos-Irvine)

2004 Honor: What Do You Do with a Tail Like This (Steve Jenkins & Robin Page)

2004 Honor: Don't Let the Pigeons Drive the Bus (Mo Willems)

2003 Winner: My Friend Rabbit (Eric Rohmann)

2003 Honor: The Spider and the Fly (Mary Howitt) illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi

2003 Honor: Hondo & Fabian (Peter McCarty)

2003 Honor: Noah's Ark (Jerry Pinkney)

2002 Winner - The Three Pigs, (David Wiesner) 4

2002 Honor: The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins (Barbara Kerley) illustrated by Brian Selznick

2002 Honor: Martin's Big Words: the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Doreen Rappaport) illustrated by Bryan Collier

2002 Honor: The Stray Dog (Mark Simont)

2001 Winner: So You Want to Be President? (Judith St. George) illustrated by David Small

2001 Honor: Casey at the Bat (Ernest Thayer) illustrated by Christopher Bing

2001 Honor: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type (Doreen Cronin) illustrated by Betsy Lewin)

2001 Honor: Olivia (Ian Falconer)

2000 Winner: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Simms Taback)

2000 Honor: A Child's Calendar (John Updike) illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, 5
2000 Honor: Sector 7 (David Wiesner)

2000 Honor: When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry (Molly Bang)

2000 Honor: The Ugly Duckling (Jerry Pinkney)

(the rest have not been filled in except for the titles I've read and reviewed for this blog)

1994 Honor: Peppe the Lamplighter (Elisa Bartone) illustrated by Ted Lewin 2.5/4

1992 Winner - Tuesday, (David Wiesner) 5

1953 Winner - The Biggest Bear (Lyn Ward) 3.5

1949 Winner - The Big Snow (Berta and Elmer Hader) 4.5