Caldecott Award Books

The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.

A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news...

Friends James and Eamon enjoy a wonderful week at the home of Eamon's grandparents during summer vacation.

This picture book biography of William Carlos Williams traces childhood events that lead him to become a doctor and a poet.

The names of colors are woven into unrhymed poems that celebrate the seasons.

Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

A child explores the ordinary life of his extraordinary great-grandfather, as expressed in his topiary garden.