A list of Caldecott Award-winning books is a great resource for finding quality picture books for your children.
The Caldecott Awards, named after 19th century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, are awarded each January by the American Library Association (ALA) to the illustrators of the most distinguished American picture books for children. The Caldecott Medal and Caldecott Honor winners from 2000 to 2009 are as follows.
2009 Caldecott Award Winners
- The House in the Night (Medal) by Susan Marie Swanson, illustrated by Beth Krommes
- A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever (Honor) by Marla Frazee
- How I Learned Geography (Honor) by Uri Shulevitz
- A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (Honor) by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
2008 Caldecott Award Winners
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Medal) by Brian Selznick
- Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Honor) by Ellen Levine, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- First the Egg (Honor) by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
- The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Honor) by Peter Sís
- Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Honor) by Mo Willems
2007 Caldecott Award Winners
- Flotsam (Medal) by David Wiesner
- Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet (Honor) by David McLimans
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Honor) by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
2006 Caldecott Award Winners
- The Hello, Goodbye Window (Medal) by Norton Juster, illustrated by Chris Raschka
- Rosa (Honor) by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier
- Zen Shorts (Honor) by Jon J. Muth
- Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride (Honor) by Marjorie Priceman
- Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (Honor) by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Beckie Prange
2005 Caldecott Award Winners
- Kitten’s First Full Moon (Medal) by Kevin Henkes
- The Red Book (Honor) by Barbara Lehman
- Coming on Home Soon (Honor) by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
- Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Honor) by Mo Willems
2004 Caldecott Award Winners
- The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Medal) by Mordicai Gerstein
- Ella Sarah Gets Dressed (Honor) by Margaret Chodos-Irvine
- What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Honor) by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
- Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Honor) by Mo Willems
2003 Caldecott Award Winners
- My Friend Rabbit (Medal) by Eric Rohmann
- The Spider and the Fly (Honor) by Mary Howitt, illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi
- Hondo & Fabian (Honor) by Peter McCarty
- Noah’s Ark (Honor) by Jerry Pinkney
2002 Caldecott Award Winners
- The Three Pigs (Medal) by David Wiesner
- The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins (Honor) by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick
- Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Honor) by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Bryan Collier
- The Stray Dog (Honor) by Marc Simont
2001 Caldecott Award Winners
- So You Want to Be President? (Medal) by Judith St. George, illustrated by David Small
- Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer, illustrated by Christopher Bing
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin
- Olivia by Ian Falconer
2000 Caldecott Award Winners
- Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Medal) by Simms Taback
- A Child’s Calendar (Honor) by John Updike, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
- Sector 7 (Honor) by David Wiesner
- When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry (Honor) by Molly Bang
- The Ugly Duckling (Honor) adapted and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, text by Hans Christian Andersen
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