Caldecott Medal & Honor Awards

Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore the nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep.

Illustrations and rhyming text describe the activities of animals living in and near a small pond as spring progresses to autumn.

Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds.

A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.

Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good.

Text is presented as a "newly discovered, " 100-year-old scrapbook into which newspaper articles, including Thayer's poem and other memorabilia, have been pasted, recording not only the events of the day--Casey's ninth-inning strikeout and the Mudville nine's four-to-two defeat--but also a broader view of the baseball world in 1888.

The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.