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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 Lovely Book for Children

A Lovely Book for Children is a book that was written for children. Children say it is lovely.

Author(s): None
Illustrator(s): None


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.

Author(s): Helen Dean Fish
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale (1937)

King Douda enlists the seven Simeons to help him find a bride.

Author(s): Boris Artzybasheff
Illustrator(s): Boris Artzybasheff

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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.

Author(s): James Daugherty
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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Barkis (1938)

Author(s): Clare Turlay Newberry
Illustrator(s): Clare Turlay Newberry


The Forest Pool (1938)

Author(s): Laura Adams Armer
Illustrator(s): Laura Adams Armer


Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)

The classic tale of Snow White.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Wanda Gág
Illustrator(s): Wanda Gág

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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

Author(s): Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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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.

Author(s): Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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The Ageless Story (1939)

Author(s): Lauren Ford
Illustrator(s): Lauren Ford


Cock-a-Doodle Doo (1939)

In this case it’s a rooster raised by a duck in a familiar story.

Author(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader

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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

Author(s): Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s): Ludwig Bemelmans

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An American ABC (1941)

Each letter has a large illustration and a patriotic essay.

Author(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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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?

Author(s): Clare Turlay Newberry
Illustrator(s): Clare Turlay Newberry

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In My Mother’s House (1941)

Author(s): Ann Nolan Clark
Illustrator(s): Velino Herrera


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.

Author(s): Wanda Gág
Illustrator(s): Wanda Gág

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Paddle-to-the-Sea (1941)

Explore the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway with Paddle.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s): Holling C. Holling

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Dash and Dart, two Fawns (1942)

Author(s): Conrad Buff
Mary M. Buff
Illustrator(s): Conrad Buff


Marshmallow (1942)

Author(s): Clare Turlay Newberry
Illustrator(s): Clare Turlay Newberry


A Child’s Good Night Book (1943)

A first going to bed book.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Jean Charlot

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