Caldecott Award Winners
2001-2026
2026: Fireworks
by Matthew Burgess

POP! As a hot day sizzles into evening, everyone on stoops and sidewalks looks skyward on this special summer night - the Fourth of July! Words and art blossom into flowers of fire across the sky, making this a perfect read for firework enthusiasts in cities and suburbs everywhere. POP! POP!
Fireworks by Matthew Burgess
2001-2025 Award Winners
2025: Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers
2024: Big by Vashti Harrison
2023: Hot Dog by Doug Salati
2022: Watercress by Andrea Wang
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