Award-Winning Books

Caldecott Medal Books

  • 2011: A Sick Day for Amos McGee illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead (Neal Porter Books/Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)
  • 2010: The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown and Company)
  • 2009:  The House in the Night illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson (Houghton Mifflin Company)
  • 2008: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic)
  • 2007: Flotsam by David Wiesner  (Clarion)
  • 2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window Illustrated by Chris Raschka, written by Norton Juster (Michael di Capua/Hyperion)
  • 2005: Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollinsPublishers)
  • 2004: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)
  • 2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann (Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press)
  • 2002: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin)
  • 2001: So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St. George (Philomel Books)
  • 2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback (Viking)
  • 1999: Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian ; text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton)
  • 1998: Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)
  • 1997: Golem by David Wisniewski (Clarion)
  • 1996: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann (Putnam)
  • 1995: Smoky Night , illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting (Harcourt)
  • 1994: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine (Houghton)
  • 1993: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Putnam)
  • 1992: Tuesday by David Wiesner (Clarion Books)

Newbery Medal Books

  • 2011: Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)
  • 2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)
  • 2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean (HarperCollins)
  • 2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
  • 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
  • 2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
  • 2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
  • 2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press) 
  • 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children) 
  • 2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin) 
  • 2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Dial) 
  • 2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte) 
  • 1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster) 
  • 1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
  • 1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
  • 1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
  • 1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
  • 1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry(Houghton)
  • 1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
  • 1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
  • 1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
  • 1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
  • 1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
  • 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
  • 1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
  • 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
  • 1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
  • 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
  • 1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)

Coretta Scott King Award Books

  • “One Crazy Summer,” written by Rita Williams-Garcia
  • Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (published by Scholastic)
  • “Lockdown” byWalter Dean Myers, published by Amistad
  • “Zora and Me,” published by Calewick Press
  • Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
  • Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester
  • Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison
  • The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
  • The Land by Mildred Taylor
  •  Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
  • Heaven by Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
  • Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia (Delacorte)
  • From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press)
  • Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter (Lothrop)