Caldecott Honor Book
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:
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (1981)
Martin Provensen
Little Red Riding Hood (1983)
A girl, a grandmother, a wolf and a woodcutter star in this well-known tale.
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Trina Schart Hyman
Hansel and Gretel (1984)
Two children lost in the woods come upon a cottage made of gingerbread.
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Rika Lesser