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Caldecott Award Winners

Description: The Caldecott Medal is awarded each year to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. Bookshare is pleased to offer the Medal winner for each year as well as Honor books that are currently in our collection. #award #kids


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The Desert Is Theirs

by Byrd Baylor

Simple text and illustrations describe the characteristics of the desert and its plant, animal and human life.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1976

Award: Honors Book

What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

by Steve Jenkins

A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this beautifully illustrated interactive guessing book by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.

Winner of the Caldecott Honor

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 2004

Award: Honors Book

Grandpa Green

by Lane Smith

From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farm boy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come. Grandpa Green is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Books title for 2011. One of School Library Journal's Best Picture Books of 2011.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 2012

Award: Honors Book

Dick Whittington and His Cat

by Marcia Brown

This a the well-loved tale of the London waif whose cat's prowess as a ratter results in Dick's becoming a successful merchant and Lord Mayor of London.

Winner of the Caldecott Honor

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1951

Award: Honors Book

The Spider and the Fly

by Tony Diterlizzi and Mary Howitt

A New Version of an Old Story first appeared in The New Year’s in 1829 and five years later in Mary Howitt’s Sketches of Natural History. Teaches a moral - Not everyone who talks sweetly offers sweets.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 2003

Award: Honors Book

Martin's Big Words

by Doreen Rappaport

This picture book biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. brings his life and the profound nature of his message to young children through his own words. Martin Luther King, Jr. , was one of the most influential and gifted speakers of all time. Doreen Rappaport uses quotes from some of his most beloved speeches to tell the story of his life and his work in a simple, direct way. A timeline and a list of additional books and web sites help make this a standout biography of Dr. King.

Winner of the Caldecott Honor

Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Winner

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 2002

Award: Honors Book

Duke Ellington

by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, "King of the Keys," was born on April 29, 1899, in Washington, D.C. "He was a smooth-talkin', slick-steppin', piano-playin' kid," writes master wordsmith Andrea Pinkney in the rhythmic, fluid, swinging prose of this excellent biography for early readers. It was ragtime music that first "set Duke's fingers to wiggling." He got back to work and taught himself to "press on the pearlies." Soon 19-year-old Duke was playing compositions "smoother than a hairdo sleeked with pomade" at parties, pool halls, country clubs, and cabarets. Skipping from D.C. to 1920s Harlem, "the place where jazz music ruled," Duke and his small band called the Washingtonians began performing in New York City clubs, including the Cotton Club, where Duke Ellington and his Orchestra was officially born.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1999

Award: Honors Book

Swamp Angel

by Anne Isaacs and Paul O. Zelinsky

Swamp Angel can lasso a tornado, and drink an entire lake dry. She single-handedly defeats the fearsome bear known as Thundering Tarnation, wrestling him from the top of the Great Smoky Mountains to the bottom of a deep lake.

Caldecott Medal-winning artist Paul O. Zelinsky's stunning folk-art paintings are the perfect match for the irony, exaggeration, and sheer good humor of this original tall tale set on the American frontier.

A Caldecott Honor Book
An ALA Notable Book
A Time magazine Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year
Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1995

Award: Honors Book

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

by John Steptoe

The king is going to marry. Mufaro has two very beautiful daughters. One is kind and considerate, the other selfish and spoiled. Which daughter will be chosen "The Most Worthy and Beautiful Daughter in the Land"? Which daughter will the king choose to be his wife?

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Medal

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1988

Award: Honors Book

April's Kittens

by Clare Turlay Newberry

(Book has picture descriptions) Many children understand April's dilemma when her cat, Sheba, has three kittens. April is thrilled until her father insists that theirs is strictly a one-cat household. April must give up three cats, but which ones? The aptly named Charcoal? Tiger-striped Butch? Sweet-faced Brenda? -- or even Sheba? How April eventually comes up with the perfect solutions makes for a heartwarming story that has appealed to many young cat lovers and will continue to delight generations of children everywhere.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1941

Award: Honors Book

The Boy of the Three-Year Nap

by Dianne Snyder

A poor Japanese woman maneuvers events to change the lazy habits of her son

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1989

Award: Honors Book

A Child's Calendar

by John Updike

A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.

Winner of the Caldecott Honor

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 2000

Award: Honors Book

Castle

by David Macaulay

The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern man?

With typical zest and wry sense of humor punctuating his drawings, David Macaulay traces the step-by-step planning and construction of both castle and town.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1978

Award: Honors Book

The Treasure

by Uri Shulevitz

A poor man, inspired by a recurring dream, journeys to a far city to look for a treasure, only to be told to go home and find it.

[This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts for grades 2-3 at http://www.corestandards.org.]

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1980

Award: Honors Book

The Right Word

by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet

2015 Caldecott Honor Book

2015 Sibert Medal Winner

For shy young Peter Mark Roget, books were the best companions -- and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important reference books of all time.

Readers of all ages will marvel at Roget's life, depicted through lyrical text and brilliantly detailed illustrations. This elegant book celebrates the joy of learning and the power of words.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 2015

Award: Honors Book

Coyote

by Gerald Mcdermott

Coyote, who has a nose for trouble, insists that the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in disaster for him.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1994

Award: Honors Book

Andy and the Lion

by James Daugherty

When Andy goes to the library, he checks out a book about lions. Suddenly, lions are everywhere! A charming story. This file should make an excellent embossed braille copy.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1939

Award: Honors Book

Fly High, Fly Low

by Don Freeman

A Caldecott Honor Book. This is a heartwarming story of two birds making a home – and then making another one – in one of America’s great cities.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1958

Award: Honors Book

A Pocketful of Cricket

by Rebecca Caudill

"Chee! Chee!" Inside Jay's dark pocket Cricket began fiddling. The talking stopped. Everybody listened. A Caldecott Honor classic that celebrates friendship and new experiences-back in print on its 40th anniversary. One afternoon late in August, before the start of a new school year, Jay finds Cricket. Cricket fits just right in small spaces-like under a tea strainer or in Jay's very own pocket-and Cricket makes the most exciting sounds. But what happens when it's time to go back to school? Will Cricket come too? Forty years after its original publication, this charming tale continues to capture the imaginative world of a child.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1965

Award: Honors Book

A Very Special House

by Ruth Krauss

Continuing a two-year program to bring back twenty-two Maurice Sendak treasures long out of print, our second season of publication highlights one of the most successful author-illustrator pairings of all time. A pioneer of great children's literature, Ruth Krauss published more than thirty books for children during a career that spanned forty years. Krauss and Sendak collaborated on eight books, and we are delighted to reintroduce four of these gems in brand-new editions, together with a favorite Maurice Sendak picture book.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1954

Award: Honors Book

America's Ethan Allen

by Stewart H. Holbrook

This book presents the life and legends of Colonel Ethan Allen and Green Mountain boys of the American Revolution.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1950

Award: Honors Book

If I Ran the Zoo

by Dr Seuss

Young Gerald McGrew imagines the animals he'd have in the zoo if he were in charge.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1951

Award: Honors Book

The Judge

by Harve Zemach

A horrible thing is coming this way Creeping closer day by day-- Its eyes are scary, Its tail is hairy... I tell you, Judge, we all better pray! Anxious prisoner after anxious prisoner echoes and embellishes this cry, but always in vain. The fiery old Judge, impatient with such foolish nonsense, calls them scoundrels, ninnyhammers, and throws them all in jail. But in the end, Justice is done--and the Judge is gone. Head first! Harve Zemach's cumulative verse tale is so infectious that children won't be able to avoid memorizing it. And Margot Zemach's hilarious pictures are brimming with vitality as well as color.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1970

Award: Honors Book

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present

by Charlotte Zolotow

The heroine of this book has a problem. And at first it does not look as though Mr. Rabbit is going to be much help in solving it. For everyone knows you cannot give your mother a red roof, a yellow taxi-cab, a green caterpillar, or a blue lake for her birthday. But then all the little girl had said was that her mother liked red, yellow, green, and blue--and so Mr. Rabbit was trying.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1963

Award: Honors Book

McElligot's Pool

by Dr Seuss

A young man dreams of all the fish that might just be coming to be caught in McElligot's pool, from whales, to dogfish, from catfish to eels. Let your imagination run wild in this delightful story.

Date Added: 05/25/2017


Year: 1948

Award: Honors Book


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