Caldecott Medal Winners

Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.

Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.

A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague.

A little girl describes the magic kitchen window in her grandparents' home.

A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light.

A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments.

When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and families are traveling together, riding America's brand new transcontinental railroad. The story comes alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails,...