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The Caldecott and Newbery Medals are considered the most prestigious American children's book awards. Besides the Caldecott Medal, the committee awards a variable number of citations to runners-up they deem worthy, called the Caldecott Honor or Caldecott Honor Books. The Caldecott Medal was first proposed by Frederic G. Melcher in 1937.
Online editions of Newbery Honor Books and Medal Winners by Women, 1922–1964; A collection of A collection of Newbery Medal winners as eBooks at Standard Ebooks; Newbery Medal winners at Faded Page (Canada) The Newbery & Caldecott Awards Web Extra: an archive of "distinctive essays" from previous editions of the book.
As an illustrator he won the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon (2004). Two of his books were Newbery Medal Honor Books, Olive's Ocean in 2004 and The Year of Billy Miller in 2014. [3] His picture book Waiting was named both a 2016 Caldecott Honor Book and a Geisel Honor Book. It was only the second time any author has won that ...
From 1971 they have been called Honor Books and their authors have been awarded Newbery Honor citations. For biographies of cited writers see Category:Newbery Honor winners. The Medal was inaugurated in 1922. As few as zero and as many as eight runners-up have been named but from 1938 there have been one to five annual Honors.
For articles on winning books see Category: Caldecott Medal–winning works. The award was inaugurated in 1938 and there have been 81 Medals and winning works through 2018; only 71 winning illustrators (or joint illustrators) because several of them have won more than once.
Lobel won the 1981 Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing Fables as the year's best-illustrated U.S. children's picture book. His work won the Caldecott Honor in 1971 and 1972 for Frog and Toad are Friends and Hildilid's Night. [26] He won a Newbery Honor Award in 1973 for Frog and Toad Together (1972). [27]
Many newer picks on this list of the greatest children's books ever are award winners, receiving a stamp of approval from both kids and librarians. ... In E.L. Konigsburg's 1967 Newbery Medal ...
The Singing Tree was also named a Newbery Honor book. [2] Seredy continued to write and illustrate her own books as well as those of other writers. In 1945 she illustrated The Christmas Anna Angel by Ruth Sawyer. When the Caldecott Honor list was created in 1971, Seredy was retroactively named an Honor winner for those illustrations. [4]