The winner and honor information is from the ALSC Caldecott website. More complete information about each title, as well as each year’s honor books, can be found there.
The book titles are linked to the Library catalog, so you can find the book in the library.
Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938-Present
2019 Medal Winner – Hello Lighthouse, illustrated and written by Sophie Blackall
2018 Medal Winner – Wolf in the Snow, illustrated and written by Matthew Cordell
2017 Medal Winner – Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, illustrated and written by Javaka Steptoe
2016 Medal Winner – Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear, illustrated by Sophie Blackall, written by Lindsay Mattick
2015 Medal Winner – The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, written and illustrated by Dan Santat
2014 Medal Winner – Locomotive, written and illustrated by Brian Floca
2013 Medal Winner – This Is Not My Hat, written and illustrated by Jon Klassen
2012 Medal Winner – A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka
2011 Medal Winner – A Sick Day for Amos McGee, illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead
2010 Medal Winner – The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
2009 Medal Winner – The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson
2008 Medal Winner – The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
2007 Medal Winner – Flotsam by David Wiesner
2006 Medal Winner – The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated by Chris Raschka and written by Norton Juster
2005 Medal Winner – Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
2004 Medal Winner – The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
2003 Medal Winner – My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
2002 Medal Winner – The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
2001 Medal Winner – So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small, written by Judith St. George
2000 Medal Winner – Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
1999 Medal Winner – Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian, text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
1998 Medal Winner – Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky
1997 Medal Winner – Golem by David Wisniewski
1996 Medal Winner – Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
1995 Medal Winner – Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting
1994 Medal Winner – Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine
1993 Medal Winner – Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
1992 Medal Winner – Tuesday by David Wiesner
1991 Medal Winner – Black and White by David Macaulay
1990 Medal Winner – Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
1989 Medal Winner – Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman
1988 Medal Winner – Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen
1987 Medal Winner – Hey, Al, illustrated by Richard Egielski; text: Arthur Yorinks
1986 Medal Winner – The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
1985 Medal Winner – Saint George and the Dragon , illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges
1984 Medal Winner – The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen
1983 Medal Winner – Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown, Original text in French: Blaise Cendrars
1982 Medal Winner – Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
1981 Medal Winner – Fables by Arnold Lobel
1980 Medal Winner – Ox-Cart Man, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald Hall
1979 Medal Winner – The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
1978 Medal Winner – Noah’s Ark by Peter Spier
1977 Medal Winner – Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove
1976 Medal Winner – Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema
1975 Medal Winner – Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
1974 Medal Winner – Duffy and the Devil, illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach
1973 Medal Winner – The Funny Little Woman, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene Mosel
1972 Medal Winner – One Fine Day, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian
1971 Medal Winner – A Story A Story, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley
1970 Medal Winner – Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig
1969 Medal Winner – The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text: retold by Arthur Ransome
1968 Medal Winner – Drummer Hoff, illustrated by Ed Emberley; text: adapted by Barbara Emberley
1967 Medal Winner – Sam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness
1966 Medal Winner – Always Room for One More , illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger]
1965 Medal Winner – May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni Montresor; text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
1964 Medal Winner – Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
1963 Medal Winner – The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
1962 Medal Winner – Once a Mouse, retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown
1961 Medal Winner – Baboushka and the Three Kings, illustrated by Nicolas Sidjakov; text: Ruth Robbins
1960 Medal Winner – Nine Days to Christmas, illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida
1959 Medal Winner – Chanticleer and the Fox, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney
1958 Medal Winner – Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
1957 Medal Winner – A Tree is Nice , illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice Udry
1956 Medal Winner – Frog Went A-Courtin’, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by John Langstaff
1955 Medal Winner – Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown
1954 Medal Winner – Madeline’s Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
1953 Medal Winner – The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
1952 Medal Winner – Finders Keepers, illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind]
1951 Medal Winner – The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
1950 Medal Winner – Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
1949 Medal Winner – The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader
1948 Medal Winner – White Snow, Bright Snow, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt
1947 Medal Winner – The Little Island, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown]
1946 Medal Winner – The Rooster Crows by Maud & Miska Petersham
1945 Medal Winner – Prayer for a Child, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field
1944 Medal Winner – Many Moons, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber
1943 Medal Winner – The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
1942 Medal Winner – Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
1941 Medal Winner – They Were Strong and Good, by Robert Lawson
1940 Medal Winner – Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
1939 Medal Winner – Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
1938 Medal Winner – Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text: selected by Helen Dean Fish