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Caldecott Honor Book

Caldecott Honor Book award

The Caldecott Honor Books are runners-up to the Caldecott Medal, is awarded for the previous year’s most distinguished American picture book for children.

The award was named in honor of the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott.

Learn more: official Caldecott Medal and Honor homepage.


Winners:

Yo? Yes! (1994)

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Author(s): Chris Raschka
Illustrator(s): Chris Raschka


John Henry (1995)

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Now John Henry was a steel driving man.

Author(s): Julius Lester
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

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Swamp Angel (1995)

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Author(s): Anne Isaacs
Illustrator(s): Paul O. Zelinsky


Time Flies (1995)

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Author(s): Eric Rohmann
Illustrator(s): Eric Rohmann


Alphabet City (1996)

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Author(s): Stephen T. Johnson
Illustrator(s): Stephen T. Johnson


The Faithful Friend (1996)

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Author(s): Robert D. San Souci
Illustrator(s): Brian Pinkney


Tops & Bottoms (1996)

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Author(s): Janet Stevens
Illustrator(s): Janet Stevens


Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin (1996)

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Author(s): Lloyd Moss
Illustrator(s): Marjorie Priceman


Hush! A Thai Lullaby (1997)

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Author(s): Minfong Ho
Illustrator(s): Holly Meade


Starry Messenger (1997)

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Author(s): Peter Sís
Illustrator(s): Peter Sís


The Graphic Alphabet (1997)

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Author(s): David Pelletier
Illustrator(s): David Pelletier


The Paperboy (1997)

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Author(s): Dav Pilkey
Illustrator(s): Dav Pilkey


Harlem (1998)

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Author(s): Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator(s): Christopher Myers


The Gardener (1998)

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Author(s): Sarah Stewart
Illustrator(s): David Small


There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (1998)

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Author(s): Simms Taback
Illustrator(s): Simms Taback


Sector 7 (1999)

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A boy on a trip to the Empire State Building gets a tour of Sector 7, where the clouds are made.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): David Wiesner
Illustrator(s): David Wiesner

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The Ugly Duckling (1999)

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When one of the ducklings doesn’t match the rest of the hatchlings, he is shunned by the farmyard animals, until he discovers he belongs to a different family altogether.

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

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Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra (1999)

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Author(s): Andrea Davis Pinkney
Illustrator(s): Brian Pinkney


No, David! (1999)

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Author(s): David Shannon
Illustrator(s): David Shannon


Snow (1999)

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Author(s): Uri Shulevitz
Illustrator(s): Uri Shulevitz