1. Caldecott Award Winners
Dianna Jo Crawford
(Adapted from Cheryl Youse
Colquitt County High School)

2. What is the Caldecott Medal?

3. The Caldecott is given out each year 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.

4. The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of English illustrator Randolph Caldecott who lived in the 1800’s. This is a book he wrote called “John Gilpin’s Ride.” The medal looks like the pictures from this book.

5. In 1937, Rene’ Paul Chambellan designed the Caldecott Medal
In 1937, Rene’ Paul Chambellan designed the Caldecott Medal. It is a bronze medal with the winner’s name and the date engraved on the back.

6. Fifteen librarians who work with children’s books are chosen to be on the Caldecott committee. They read hundreds and hundreds of books so they can decided which one is the best!

7. Picture book:   a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
True picture books are books in which the pictures help tell the story; the pictures are needed to understand the story

8. The first Caldecott Medal was presented in 1938 to Dorothy Lathrop for her book, Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book.
Medium: black and white lithographs
(Medium means what kind of artwork/how the artwork was made)

9. 2016
Caldecott
Winner
Author: Lindsay
Mattick
Illustrator: Sophie
Blackall
Medium: Chinese ink and water color
on hot-press paper

10. 2015 Caldecott Winner
Author: Dan Santat
Illustrator: Dan Santat
Medium: Mixed media

11. 2014 Caldecott Winner
Author: Brian Floca
Illustator: Brian Floca
Medium: Pen and ink watercolor

12. 2013 Caldecott Winner
Author: Jon Klassen
Illustrator: Jon Klassen
Medium: Digital drawing, coloring, and water color

13. 2012 Caldecott Winner
Author: Chris Raschka
Illustrator: Chris Raschka
Medium: Ink, watercolor, and gouache

14. 2011 Caldecott Winner
Author: Philip C. Stead
Illustrator: Erin N. Stead
Medium: woodblock print and pencil

15. Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
2010 Caldecott Winner
Author: Jerry Pinkney
Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
Medium: Pencil, pen, ink, and water color /

16. 2009 Caldecott Winner
Author: Susan Marie Swanson
Illustrator: Beth Krommes
Medium: Scratchboard

17. 2008 Caldecott Winner
Author: Brian Selznick
Illustrator: Brian Selznick
Medium: Pencil

18. 2007 Caldecott Winner
Author: David Wiesner
Illustrator: David Wiesner
Medium: Watercolor

19. 2006 Caldecott Winner
Author: Norman Juster
Illustrator: Chris Raschka
Medium: Watercolor

20. 2005 Caldecott Winner
Author: Kevin Henkes
Illustrator: Kevin Henkes
Medium: Gouache (method of painting), colored pencil

21. 2004 Caldecott Winner
Author: Mordecai Gerstein
Illustrator: Mordecai Gerstein
Medium: Ink and oil paintings

22. 2003 Caldecott Winner
Author: Eric Rohman
Illustrator: Eric Rohman
Medium: Colored prints

23. 2002 Caldecott Winner
Author: David Wiesner
Illustrator: David Wiesner
Medium: Watercolor

24. 2001 Caldecott Winner
Author: Judith St. George
Illustrator: David Small
Medium: Watercolor, pen and ink, pastel

25. 2000 Caldecott Winner
Author: Sims Taback
Illustrator: Sims Taback
Medium: gouache, watercolor, collage, pencil, and ink as well as die cutting

26. 1999 Caldecott Winner
Author: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Illustrator: Mary Azarian
Medium: Woodcut, watercolor

27. 1998 Caldecott Winner
Author: Paul O. Zelinsky
Illustrator: O. Paul Zelinsky
Medium: watercolor, acrylic, oil paint

28. 1997 Caldecott Winner
Author: David Wisniewski
Illustrator: David Wisniewski
Medium: Papercut collage

29. 1996 Caldecott Winner
Author: Peggy Rathman
Illustrator: Peggy Rathman
Medium: Watercolor

30. 1995 Caldecott Winner
Author: Eve Bunting
Illustrator: David Diaz
Medium: Collage

31. Some books each year were called “runners-up”
Some books each year were called “runners-up”. In 1971, that term was changed to “honor books”.
These medals look like the award except they are silver instead of bronze.
Honor books have great pictures too!

32. “The Red Book”, by Barbara Lehman, was an honor book in 2005.

33. “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus” by Mo Willems was an Honor book in 2004.

34. “The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins” was an Honor book in 2002.

35. Books which have won the Caldecott Medal or an honor medal use pictures to help tell the story, and the pictures are really good! Look for a Caldecott today.

36. Bibliography/Sources
Amazon.com, book images.
Allen County Indiana Public Library, 2007 Mock Caldecott Election
American Library Association Caldecott Awards.
Caldecott Winner and Honor Books
Huck, Charlotte S. Children’s Literature in the Elementary School. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2001.
In the Artist's Studio by Paul O. Zelinsky.