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.
About the Caldecott Medal Award
Last 10 Caldecott Medal Winners
2018 - Wolf in the Snow, Illustrated and written by Matthew Cordell (Feiwel and Friends, an Imprint of Macmillan)
2017 - Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, written and illustrated by Javaka Steptoe (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)
2016 - Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, illustrated by Sophie Blackall, written by Lindsay Mattick (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. GAV location: Main Stacks - PZ9.M378853 Fin 2015
2015 - The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginery Friend, written and illustrated by Dan Santat (Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.) GAV location: Main Stacks - PZ7.S23817 Adv 2014
2014 - Locomotive, written and illustrated by Brian Floca (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing) GAV location: Main Stacks - PZ7.F551 Loc 2013
2013 - This Is Not My Hat, written and illustrated by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press) GAV location: Main Stacks - PZ7.K678144 Th 2012
2012 - A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka (Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc.) GAV location: Main Stacks - PZ7.R1814 Bal 2011
2011 - A Sick Day for Amos McGee, illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead (A Neal Porter Book, published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing) GAV location: Main Stacks - PZ7.S808566 Si 2010
2010 - The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown & Company) GAV location: Main Stacks - PZ8.2.P456 Li 2009
2009 - The House in the Night , illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson (Houghton Mifflin Company) GAV location: Main Stacks - PZ7.S97255 Hou 2008
Full list of Medal and Honor Winners since 1938
NOTE: To find other Caldecott Medal and Honor books in the Gavilan Catalog you can search for Caldecott as a Subject
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