ShelfEvidentCaldecott Medal — Complete Winners List
88 years of winners · American Library Association · Since 1938 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Rebecca Lee Kunz | Levine Querido | |
| 2024 | Vashti Harrison | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2023 | Doug Salati | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2022 | Jason Chin | Holiday House | |
| 2021 | Michaela Goade | Roaring Brook Press | |
| 2020 | Kadir Nelson | Versify | |
| 2019 | Sophie Blackall | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2018 | Matthew Cordell | Feiwel & Friends | |
| 2017 | Javaka Steptoe | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2016 | Sophie Blackall | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2015 | Dan Santat | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2014 | Brian Floca | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | |
| 2013 | Jon Klassen | Candlewick Press | |
| 2012 | Chris Raschka | Schwartz & Wade Books | |
| 2011 | Erin E. Stead | Roaring Brook Press | |
| 2010 | Jerry Pinkney | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2009 | Beth Krommes | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 2008 | Brian Selznick | Scholastic Press | |
| 2007 | David Wiesner | Clarion Books | |
| 2006 | Chris Raschka | Hyperion Books for Children | |
| 2005 | Kevin Henkes | — | |
| 2004 | Mordicai Gerstein | — | |
| 2003 | Eric Rohmann | — | |
| 2002 | David Wiesner | — | |
| 2001 | David Small | — | |
| 2000 | Simms Taback | — | |
| 1999 | Mary Azarian | — | |
| 1998 | Paul O. Zelinsky | — | |
| 1997 | David Wisniewski | — | |
| 1996 | Peggy Rathmann | — | |
| 1995 | David Diaz | — | |
| 1994 | Allen Say | — | |
| 1993 | Emily Arnold McCully | — | |
| 1992 | David Wiesner | — | |
| 1991 | David Macaulay | — | |
| 1990 | Ed Young | — | |
| 1989 | Stephen Gammell | — | |
| 1988 | John Schoenherr | — | |
| 1987 | Richard Egielski | — | |
| 1986 | Chris Van Allsburg | — | |
| 1985 | Trina Schart Hyman | — | |
| 1984 | Alice and Martin Provensen | — | |
| 1983 | Marcia Brown | — | |
| 1982 | Chris Van Allsburg | — | |
| 1981 | Arnold Lobel | — | |
| 1980 | Barbara Cooney | — | |
| 1979 | Paul Goble | — | |
| 1978 | Peter Spier | — | |
| 1977 | Leo and Diane Dillon | — | |
| 1976 | Leo and Diane Dillon | — | |
| 1975 | Gerald McDermott | — | |
| 1974 | Margot Zemach | — | |
| 1973 | Blair Lent | — | |
| 1972 | Nonny Hogrogian | — | |
| 1971 | Gail E. Haley | — | |
| 1970 | William Steig | — | |
| 1969 | Uri Shulevitz | — | |
| 1968 | Ed Emberley | — | |
| 1967 | Evaline Ness | — | |
| 1966 | Nonny Hogrogian | — | |
| 1965 | Beni Montresor | — | |
| 1964 | Maurice Sendak | — | |
| 1963 | Ezra Jack Keats | — | |
| 1962 | Marcia Brown | — | |
| 1961 | Nicolas Sidjakov | — | |
| 1960 | Marie Hall Ets | — | |
| 1959 | Barbara Cooney | — | |
| 1958 | Robert McCloskey | — | |
| 1957 | Marc Simont | — | |
| 1956 | Feodor Rojankovsky | — | |
| 1955 | Marcia Brown | — | |
| 1954 | Ludwig Bemelmans | — | |
| 1953 | Lynd Ward | — | |
| 1952 | Nicholas Mordvinoff | — | |
| 1951 | Katherine Milhous | — | |
| 1950 | Leo Politi | — | |
| 1949 | Berta and Elmer Hader | — | |
| 1948 | Roger Duvoisin | — | |
| 1947 | Leonard Weisgard | — | |
| 1946 | Maud and Miska Petersham | — | |
| 1945 | Elizabeth Orton Jones | — | |
| 1944 | Louis Slobodkin | — | |
| 1943 | Virginia Lee Burton | — | |
| 1942 | Robert McCloskey | — | |
| 1941 | Robert Lawson | — | |
| 1940 | Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire | — | |
| 1939 | Thomas Handforth | — | |
| 1938 | Dorothy P. Lathrop | — |
