Caldecott Award Winners

Dianna Jo Crawford(Adapted from Cheryl Youse

Colquitt County High School)

• What is the Caldecott Medal?

• The Caldecott is given out each year by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

• The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of English illustrator Randolph Caldecott who lived in the 1800’s. This is a book he wrote called “John Gilpin’s Ride.” The medal looks like the pictures from this book.

• In 1937, Rene’ Paul Chambellan designed the Caldecott Medal. It is a bronze medal with the winner’s name and the date engraved on the back.

• Fifteen Librarians who work with children’s books are chosen to be on the Caldecott committee. They read hundreds and hundreds of books so they can decided which one is the best!

picture book:   a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, esp. one for children who have not yet learned to read.

True picture books are books in which the pictures help tell the story : the pictures are needed to understand the story

• The first Caldecott Medal was presented in 1938 to Dorothy Lathrop for her book, Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book.

• Medium: black and white lithographs

(Medium means what kind of artwork/how the artwork was made)

2015 Caldecott Winner

• Author: Dan Santat

• Illustrator: Dan Santat

• Medium: Mixed media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iLWe7kS-5I

2014 Caldecott Winner

Author: Brian Floca

Illustator: Brian Floca

Medium: Pen and ink watercolor

http://brianfloca.com/Locomotive.html

2013 Caldecott Winner

Author: Jon Klassen

Illustrator: Jon KlassenMedium: Digital drawing, coloring, and water color http://www.candlewick.com/cat.asp?browse=title&mode=book&isbn=0763655996&pix=n

2012 Caldecott Winner

Author: Chris Raschka

Illustrator: Chris Raschka

Medium: Ink, watercolor, and gouache

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXoSK7W_Rc

2011 Caldecott Winner

Author: Philip C. Stead

Illustrator: Erin N. Stead

Medium: woodblock print and pencilhttp://erinstead.com/

2010 Caldecott Winner

Author: Jerry Pinkney

Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney

Medium: Pencil, pen, ink, and water colorhttp://www.jerrypinkneystudio.com/

2009 Caldecott Winner

Author: Susan Marie Swanson

Illustrator: Beth Krommes

Medium: Scratchboardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzKg2AfmX5M

2008 Caldecott Winner

Author: Brian Selznick

Illustrator: Brian Selznick

Medium: Pencil

http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/index.htm

2007 Caldecott Winner

Author: David Wiesner

Illustrator: David Wiesner

Medium: Watercolorhttp://www.hmhbooks.com/wiesner/interactive.html

2006 Caldecott Winner

• Author: Norman Juster

• Illustrator: Chris Raschka

• Medium: Watercolor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsIE4igo35Y

2005 Caldecott Winner• Author: Kevin

Henkes• Illustrator: Kevin

Henkes• Medium: Gouache

(method of painting), colored pencil

http://www.kevinhenkes.com/book/kittens-first-full-moon/

2004 Caldecott Winner

• Author: Mordecai Gerstein

• Illustrator: Mordecai Gerstein

• Medium: Ink and oil paintings

http://www.slideshare.net/mikeyiz/the-man-who-walked-between-the-towers-2282654

2003 Caldecott Winner

• Author: Eric Rohman

• Illustrator: Eric Rohman

• Medium: Colored prints

http://www.ericrohmann.com/pages/books/bk_myfriendrab.html

2002 Caldecott Winner

• Author: David Wiesner

• Illustrator: David Wiesner

• Medium: Watercolor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkyL8hRZUe8

2001 Caldecott Winner

• Author: Judith St. George

• Illustrator: David Small

• Medium: Watercolor, pen and ink, pastel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNyeuZmVfnI

2000 Caldecott Winner

• Author: Sims Taback

• Illustrator: Sims Taback

• Medium: gouache, watercolor, collage, pencil, and ink as well as die cutting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ37_s7X3jA

1999 Caldecott Winner

• Author: Jacqueline Briggs Martin

• Illustrator: Mary Azarian

• Medium: Woodcut, watercolor

http://snowflakebentley.com/

1998 Caldecott Winner

• Author: Paul O. Zelinsky

• Illustrator: O. Paul Zelinsky

• Medium: watercolor, acrylic, oil paint

http://paulozelinsky.com/rapunzel.html

1997 Caldecott Winner

• Author: David Wisniewski

• Illustrator: David Wisniewski

• Medium: Papercut collage

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-395-72618-1

1996 Caldecott Winner

• Author: Peggy Rathman

• Illustrator: Peggy Rathman

• Medium: Watercolor

http://bkflix.grolier.com/sw/node-33985/bk0015pr

1995 Caldecott Winner

• Author: Eve Bunting

• Illustrator: David Diaz

• Medium: Collage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD0RF7GYbw8

Some books each year were called “runners-up”. In 1971, that term was changed to “honor books”.

These medals look like the award except they are silver instead of bronze.

Honor books have great pictures too!

“The Red Book”, by Barbara Lehman, was an honor book in 2005.

“Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus” by Mo Willems was an Honor book in 2004.

“The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins” was an Honor book in 2002.

Books which have won the Caldecott Medal or an honor medal use pictures to help tell the story, and the pictures are really good!

Look for a Caldecott today.

Bibliography/Sources •Amazon.com, book images.

•Allen County Indiana Public Library, 2007 Mock Caldecott Election

•American Library Association Caldecott Awards.

•Caldecott Winner and Honor Books 1938-2005.

•Huck, Charlotte S. Children’s Literature in the Elementary School. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2001.•In the Artist's Studio by Paul O. Zelinsky.