Caldecott Award

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Caldecott Award

• Best Illustrators since 1938

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History

• The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of
  nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph
  Caldecott. It is awarded annually 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.

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1938

• The first book to win a Caldecott Medal
• Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book
• Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop
• Written by Helen D. Fish

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• Every January, member of the American Library
  Association choose one book to receive the gold
  Medal Caldecott Award. One or two books are
  chosen to receive silver medals as Caldecott
  Honor Books.

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What it looks like
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Award Rules

• American picture book published in English
• Written in United States
• Illustrator is United States citizen
• Original work
• Children are main audience

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Credits

• American Library Association
• Association for Library Service to Children