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)