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Jon Klassen is the second Caldecott medal recipient to also have a Caldecott honor book in the same year. [35] Kadir Nelson's artwork has been acquired by museums including the Smithsonian. [36] Sophie Blackall is the most recent multiple Caldecott Medal winner.
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.
For biographies of winning illustrators see Category:Caldecott Medal winners. These books have won the Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children." The Medal was inaugurated in 1938 and there have been 76 Medals and winning works through 2013.
David Wiesner. Mr. Wuffles! David Wiesner (born February 5, 1956) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books including some that tell stories without words. As an illustrator he has won three Caldecott Medals recognizing the year's "most distinguished American picture book for children" [1] and he ...
192241. Make Way for Ducklings is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. First published in 1941 by the Viking Press, the book centers on a pair of mallards who raise their brood of ducklings on an island in the lagoon in the Boston Public Garden. It won the 1942 Caldecott Medal for McCloskey's ...
Ezra Jack Keats. Ezra Jack Keats (né Jacob Ezra Katz; March 11, 1916 - May 6, 1983) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the 1963 Caldecott Medal for illustrating The Snowy Day, which he also wrote. Keats wrote A Letter to Amy and Hi, Cat! but he was most famous for The Snowy Day. [1][2] It is considered one of ...
Marcia Joan Brown (July 13, 1918 – April 28, 2015) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. [1] She won three annual Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association, six Caldecott Medal honors as an illustrator, recognizing the year's best U.S. picture book illustration, [2] and the ALA's Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1992 for her career contribution to ...
Lionni produced more than 40 children's books. He received the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts (A.I.G.A.) Gold Medal and was a four-time Caldecott Honor Winner—for Inch by Inch (1961), Swimmy (1964), Frederick (1968), and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse (1970). [3] He also won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1965.