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:
Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1937)
This is a compilation of longer traditional nonsense verse such as The Robber Kitten and Frog Went A-Courting. Many are quite violent.
Read online at Internet Archive.
Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale (1937)
King Douda enlists the seven Simeons to help him find a bride.
Andy and the Lion (1938)
A little boy named Andy was interested in lions. On his way to school, he met a real lion with a thorn stuck in its paw.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
The classic tale of Snow White.
Read online at archive.org.
Wee Gillis (1938)
This is the story of how Wee Gillis decides whether to live in the Scottish lowlands like his mother’s family or in the highlands like his father’s people.
This is the second book by the author and illustrator of Ferdinand.
Read online at archive.org.
Wee Gillis (1938)
This is the story of how Wee Gillis decides whether to live in the Scottish lowlands like his mother’s family, or in the highlands like his father’s people. This is the second book by the author and illustrator of Ferdinand.
This is the limited edition: 525 copies bound in burlap and signed by the author and illustrator.
Cock-a-Doodle Doo (1939)
In this case it’s a rooster raised by a duck in a familiar story.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
Madeline (1939)
The smallest of the twelve French orphans under the care of Madame Clavel wakes up one night with a tummy ache.
Read online at archive.org.
An American ABC (1941)
Each letter has a large illustration and a patriotic essay.
Miska Petersham
Miska Petersham
April’s Kittens (1941)
April’s cat Sheba has three kittens. But her father insists that theirs is strickly a one-cat household. April must give up three cats, but which ones?
Nothing At All (1941)
When his two visible brothers are chosen as pets by a two children, their invisible brother realizes he must get to work and make himself visible so he too can become a pet.
Paddle-to-the-Sea (1941)
Explore the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway with Paddle.
Read online at archive.org.
A Child’s Good Night Book (1943)
A first going to bed book.
Read online at archive.org.
The Mighty Hunter (1943)
The mighty hunter skips school to go hunting, but an encounter with a bear makes him decide that he should work on his education.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
The Christmas Anna Angel (1944)
The Christmas Anna Angel makes Christmas cakes for Anna and her brother.
Read online at archive.org.
Little Lost Lamb (1945)
The little black lamb wanders off from the flock, but the shepherd and his dog go back up the mountain to find him.
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (1945)
We don’t love people because they are beautiful. They are beautiful because we love them.
McElligot’s Pool (1947)
You don’t know what you might catch when you go fishing in McElligot’s pool.
Read online at archive.org.
Song of Robin Hood (1947)
Eighteen of the original ballads of Robin Hood are illustrated here. Most of them also have accompanying music.
Read online at archive.org.
Anne Malcolmson
Blueberries for Sal (1948)
The adventures of a little girl and a baby bear while hunting for blueberries with their mothers one bright summer day.
Read online at archive.org.
