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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:

Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride (2006)

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


Rosa (2006)

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Author(s): Nikki Giovanni
Illustrator(s): Bryan Collier


Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (2006)

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Author(s): Joyce Sidman
Illustrator(s): Beckie Prange


Zen Shorts (2006)

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Author(s): Jon J. Muth
Illustrator(s): Jon J. Muth


Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet (2007)

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Author(s): David McLimans
Illustrator(s): David McLimans


Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (2007)

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Author(s): Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrator(s): Kadir Nelson


First the Egg (2008)

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Author(s): Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Illustrator(s): Laura Vaccaro Seeger


Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (2008)

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Author(s): Ellen Levine
Illustrator(s): Kadir Nelson


Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity (2008)

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Author(s): Mo Willems
Illustrator(s): Mo Willems


The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (2008)

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


A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever (2009)

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Author(s): Marla Frazee
Illustrator(s): Marla Frazee


A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (2009)

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Author(s): Jen Bryant
Illustrator(s): Melissa Sweet


How I Learned Geography (2009)

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


All the World (2010)

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Author(s): Liz Garton Scanlon
Illustrator(s): Marla Frazee


Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors (2010)

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Author(s): Joyce Sidman
Illustrator(s): Pamela Zagarenski


Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave (2011)

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Author(s): Laban Carrick Hill
Illustrator(s): Bryan Collier


Interrupting Chicken (2011)

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Author(s): David Ezra Stein
Illustrator(s): David Ezra Stein


Blackout (2012)

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Author(s): John Rocco
Illustrator(s): John Rocco


Grandpa Green (2012)

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Author(s): Lane Smith
Illustrator(s): Lane Smith


Me ... Jane (2012)

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Author(s): Patrick McDonnell
Illustrator(s): Patrick McDonnell