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Caldecott Award Winners
1938-2022
2022: Watercress
by Andrea Wang

A little girl traveling through Ohio in an old car helps her family collect muddy, snail-covered watercress from a ditch in the wild before learning the story of her immigrant heritage and how foraging for fresh food helps her loved ones stay together.

2001-2020 Award Winners
1981-2000 Award Winners
1961-1980 Award Winners
1938-1960  Award Winners
2001-2020 Award Winners
2021: We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
2020: The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
2019: Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
2018: Wolf in the snow by Matthew Cordell
2017: Radiant Child : The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
2016: Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick
 2015: The Adventures of Beekle by Dan Santat
 2014: Locomotive by Brian Floca
 2013: This is Not My Hat by J. Klassen
 2012: A Ball For Daisy by Christopher Raschka
 2011: A Sick Day For Amos McGee by Philip Christian Stead
 2010 The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
 2009: The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson
 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

1981-2000 Award Winners
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 by Ed. Young
1989: Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman
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 by Margaret Hodges
1984: The Glorious Flight by Alice Provensen
1983: Shadow by Blaise Cendrars
1982: Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
1981: Fables by Arnold Lobel

1961-1980 Award Winners
1980: Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
1979: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble
1978: Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
1977: Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove
1976: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears  by Verna Aardema
1975: Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald McDermott
1974: Duffy and the Devil; by Harve Zemach
1973: The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel
1972: One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian
1971: A Story, A Story: An African Tale, by Gail E. Haley
1970: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
1969: The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, by Arthur Ransome
1968: Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley
1967: Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine, by Evaline Ness
1966: Always Room for One More, by Sorche Nic Leodhas
1965: May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
1964: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
1963: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
1962: Once a Mouse: A Fable Cut in Wood by Marcia Brown
1961: Baboushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins

1938-1960  Award Winners
1960: Nine Days to Christmas by Marie Hall Ets
1959: Chanticleer and the Fox by Geoffrey Chaucer
1958: Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
1957: A Tree is Nice by Janice May Udry
1956: Frog Went A-Courtin' by John Langstaff
1955: Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault
1954: Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
1953: The biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
1952: Finders Keepers by Will
1951: The Egg Tree by Katherine Milhous
1950: Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
1949: The Big Snow, by Berta Hader
1948: White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt
1947: The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown
1946: The Rooster Crows by Maud Fuller Petersham
1945: Prayer For a Child by Rachel Lyman Field
1944: Many Moons by James Thurber
1943: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
1942: Make Way For Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey
1941: They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson
1940: Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'Aulaire
1939: Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
1938: Animals of the Bible by Helen Dean Fish
 
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