Toddler Books Introduces the Caldecott Medal Winners
If you are seeking noteworthy toddler books, this is a list that may give you a few ideas. Throughout my years in teaching I have collected and used quite a few of these books
in daily reading, classroom libraries, and with literature units I have developed.
Amazon is a great source for reviews about toddler books as well as older children's books while also offering competitive prices on new and used books
and opportunities to earn free shipping, so you are encouraged to check any of the titles in the Amazon search box provided in the right column.
Other good sources for books are eBay, yard sales, and used bookstores. Checking with Amazon first is often a good way to base whether prices from
other sources are a good deal or not.
eBay is another great source for
Caldecott Medal Winners
2010 - The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
2009 - The House in the Night by Beth Krommes
2008 - The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
2007 - Flotsam by David Wiesner
2006 - The Hello, Goodbye Window, by Norton Juster
2005 - Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
2004 - The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
2003 - My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
2002 - The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
2001 - So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George
2000 - Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
1999 - Snowflake Bentley, by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
1998 - Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky
1997 - Golem by David Wisniewski
1996 - Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
1995 - Smoky Night, by Eve Bunting
1994 - Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
1993 - Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
1992 - Tuesday by David Wiesner
1991 - Black and White by David Macaulay
1990 - Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
1989 - Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman (Knopf)
1988 - Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
1987 - Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks
1986 - The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
1985 - Saint George and the Dragon retold by Margaret Hodges
1984 - The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice and Martin Provensen
1983 - Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown Original text in French by Blaise Cendrars
1982 - Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
1981 - Fables by Arnold Lobel
1980 - Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
1979 - The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
1978 - Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
1976 - Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears retold by Verna Aardema
1975 - Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
1974 - Duffy and the Devil retold by Harve Zemach
1973 - The Funny Little Woman retold by Arlene Mosel
1972 - One Fine Day, retold by Nonny Hogrogian
1971 - A Story A Story, retold by Gail E. Haley
1970 - Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
1969 - The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship retold by Arthur Ransome (Farrar)
1968 - Drummer Hoff adapted by Barbara Emberley
1967 - Sam, Bangs and Moonshine by Evaline Ness
1966 - Always Room for One More by Sorche Nic Leodhas, pseud. [Leclair Alger]
1965 - May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
1964 - Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Children's book awards winner AND a best seller of the 20th century)
1963 - The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
1962 - Once a Mouse, retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown
1961 - Baboushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins
1960 - Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida
1959 - Chanticleer and the Fox by adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cooney
1958 - Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
1957 - A Tree is Nice by Janice Udry
1956 - Frog Went A-Courtin' retold by John Langstaff
1955 - Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia Brown
1954 - Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
1953 - The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
1952 - Finders Keepers by Will, pseud. [William Lipkind]
1951 - The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
1950 - Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
1949 - The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader
1948 - White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt
1947 - The Little Island by Golden MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown]
1946 - The Rooster Crows by Maude & Miska Petersham
1945 - Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field
1944 - Many Moons by James Thurber
1943 - The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
1942 - Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Children's book awards winner AND a best seller of the 20th century)
1941 - They Were Strong and Good, by Robert Lawson
1940 - Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
1939 - Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
1938 - Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book selected by Helen Dean Fish
How the Caldecott Medal Came to Be
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to
Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Each year the Newberry Medal is awarded by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's books published the previous year.
However, as many persons became concerned that the artists creating picture books for children were as deserving of honor and encouragement as were the authors of children's books,
Frederic G. Melcher suggested in 1937 the establishment of a second annual medal. This medal is to be given to the artist who had created the most distinguished picture
book of the year and named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph J. Caldecott. The idea for this medal was also accepted enthusiastically by the
Section for Library Work with Children of ALA and was approved by the ALA Executive Board.
The Caldecott Medal "shall be awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in the United States during the preceding year.
The award shall go to the artist, who must be a citizen or resident of the United States, whether or not he be the author of the text. Members of the Newbery Medal Committee will serve as judges.
If a book of the year is nominated for both the Newbery and Caldecott Awards the committee shall decide under which heading it shall be voted upon, so that the same title shall not be considered
on both ballots." In 1977 the Board of Directors of the Association for Library Service to Children rescinded the final part of the 1937 action and approved that "any book published in the preceding
year shall be eligible to be considered for
either award or both awards." Separate committees to choose the Newbery and Caldecott Awards were established in 1978 and began with the 1980 selection committees.
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