The Caldecott Medal

2021  We Are Water Protectors (Lindstrom/Goade)

Honors:

A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart (Elliott/Denmon)

The Cat Man of Aleppo (Latham & Shasi-Basha/Shimizu)

Me & Mama (Cabrera)

Outside Inn - Underwood (Derby)

2020 The Undefeated (Alexander/Nelson)

Honors:

Bear Came Along (Morris/Pham)

Double Bass Blues (Loney/Guiterrez)

Going Down Home With Daddy (Lyons/Minter)

2019 Hello Lighthouse (Blackall)
Honors:
Alma and How She Got Her Name (Martinez-Neal)
A Big Mooncake for Little Star (Lin)
The Rough Patch (Lies)
Thank You, Oru! (Mora)

2018  Wolf in the Snow (Cordell)
Honors:  
Big Cat Little Cat (Cooper)
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Barnes, James)
A Different Pond (Phi/Bui)
Grand Canyon (Chin)

2017  Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Steptoe)
Honors:
Leave Me Alone (Brosgol)
Freedom in Congo Square (Westherford/Christie)
Du is Tak? (Ellis)
They All Saw a Cat (Wenzel)

2016 Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Mattick/Blackall)
Honors:
Trombone Shorty (Andrews/Collier)
Waiting (Henkes)
Voice of Freedom (Weatherford/Holmes)
Last Stop on Market Street (de la Pena/Robinson) WON THE NEWBERY

2015  Adventures of Beekle (Santat)
Honors:
Nana in the City (Castillo)
Noisy Paint Box (Rosenstock/GrandPre)
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Barnett/Klassen)
Viva Frida (Morales/O'Meara)
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus (Bryant/Sweet)
This One Summer (Tamaki)

2014 Locomotive (Floca)
Honors:
Journey (Becker)
Flora and the Flamingo (Idle)
Mr. Wuffles! (Wiesner)

2013 This is Not My Hat (Klassen)
Honors:  
Creepy Carrots! (Reynolds/Brown)
Extra Yarn (Barnett/Klassen)
Green (Seeger)
One Cool Friend (Buzzeo/Small)
Sleep Like a Tiger (Logue/Zagarenski)

2012 A Ball for Daisy (Raschka)
Honors: 
Me...Jane (McDonnell)
Blackout (Rocco)
Grandpa Green (Smith)

2011 A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Stead P/Stead E)
Honors:
Dave the Potter (Hill/Collier)
Interrupting Chicken (Stein)

2010 Lion & the Mouse (Pinkney)
Honors:  All the World (Scanlon/Frazee)
Red Sings from Treetops (Sidman/Zagarenski)

2009 The House in the Night (Swanson/Krommes)
Honors:
How I learned Geography (Shulevitz)
A River of Words:  The Story of William Carlos Williams (Bryant/Sweet)
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever (Frazee)

2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Selznick)
Honors:
Henry's Freedom Box (Levine/Nelson)
First the Egg (Seeger)
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Willems)
The Wall:  Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Sis)

2007  Flotsam (Wiesner)
Honors:
Gone Wild (McLimans)
Moses: When Harriet 'Tubman Lead Her People to Freedom (Weatherford/Nelson)

2006 The Hello, Goodbye Window (Juster/Raschka)
Honors:
Rosa (Giovanni/Collier)
Zen Shorts (Muth)
Song of the Water Boatman (Sidman/Prange)
Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot Air Balloon Ride (Priceman)

2005 Kitten's First Full Moon  (Henkes)
Honors:
The Red Book (Lehman)
Coming Home Soon (Woodson/Lewis)
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Willems)

2004  The Man Who Walked Between Two Towers (Gersstein)
Honors:
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed (Chodos-Irvine)
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Willems)
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Jenkins)

2003 My Friend Rabbit (Rhomann)
Honors:
The Spider and the Fly (Howitt/DiTerlizzi)
Hondo & Fabian (McCarty)
Noah's Ark (Pinkney)

2002  The Three Pigs (Wiesner)
Honors:
Martin's Big Words (Rappaport/Collier)
The Stray Dog (Simont)
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins (Kerley/Selznik)

2001 So You Want to be President? (St. George/Small)
Honors:
Casey at the Bat (Thayer/Bing)
Olivia (Falconer)
Click, Clack, Moo:  Cows That Type (Cronin/Lewin)

2000 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Taback)
Honors:
A Child's Calendar (Updike/Human)
Sector 7 (Wiesner)
The Ugly Duckling (Pinkney)
When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry (Bang)

1999 Snowflake Bentley (Martin/Azarian)
Honors:
No, David! (Shannon)
Snow (Shulevitz)
Tibet Through the Red Box (Sis)
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince & His Orchestra

1998 Rapunzel (Zelinsky)
Honor:
The Gardener (Stewart/Small)
Harlem: a Poem (Myers W/Myers C)
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly ()Taback)

1997 Golem (Wisniewski)
Honors:
Hush! A Thai Lullaby (Ho/Meade)
The Graphic Alphabet (Pelletier)
The Paperboy (Pilkey)
Starry Messenger (Sis)

1996 Officer Buckle and Gloria (Rathmann)
Honors:
Alphabet City (Johnson)
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin (Moss/Priceman)
The Fairhful Friend (San Souci/Pinkney)
Tops & Bottoms (Stevens)

1995 Smoky Night (Bunting/Diaz)
Honors:
John Henry (Lester/Pinkney)
Swamp Angel (Isaacs/Zelinsky)
Time Flies (Rohmann)

1994 Grandfather's Journey (Say)
Honors:
Peppe the Lamplighter (Bartone, Lewin)
In the Small, Small Pond (Fleming)
Owen (Henkes)
You! Yes? (Raschka)
Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest (McDermott)

1993 Mirette on the High Wire (McCully)
Honors:
Seven Blind Mice (Young)
Working Cotton (Williams/Bayard)
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (Scieszka/Smith)

1992  Tuesday (Wiesner)
Honor:
Tar Beach (Ringgold)

1991 Black and White (Macaulay)
Honors:
Puss in Boots (Perrault/Marcellino)
"More More More, " Said the Baby (Williams)

1990  Lon Po Po (Young)
Honors:
Bill Peet: An Autobiography (Peet)
Color Zoo (Ehlert)
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale fromt he American South (San Souci/Pinkney)
Hershel and the Hanukkah Gobllin (Kimmel)

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