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List: Caldecott Medal Winners, 1990-Present


A photo of Hot dog

Hot dog

A summery picture book about mindfulness, featuring an overheated--and overwhelmed-- canine in need of sea, sand, and fresh air

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Watercress

Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.

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A photo of We Are Water Protectors

We Are Water Protectors

Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.

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The Undefeated

Also available in Overdrive. "The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--

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Hello Lighthouse

Also available in Overdrive. "Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper."--

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A photo of Wolf in the Snow

Wolf in the Snow

Also available in Overdrive. When a wolf cub and little girl are lost in a snowstorm they must find their way home.

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A photo of Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Also available in Overdrive. Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message and art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.

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A photo of Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.

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A photo of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend

The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend

Also available in Hoopla. An imaginary friend waits a long time to be imagined by a child and given a special name, and finally does the unimaginable--he sets out on a quest to find his perfect match in the real world.

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A photo of Locomotive

Locomotive

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.

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A photo of This Is Not My Hat

This Is Not My Hat

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.

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A photo of A Ball for Daisy

A Ball for Daisy

A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost.

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A photo of A Sick Day for Amos McGee

A Sick Day for Amos McGee

"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.

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A photo of The Lion & The Mouse

The Lion & The Mouse

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.

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The House in the Night

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

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A photo of The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures

The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures

Also available in Overdrive. When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

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Flotsam

Also available in Hoopla. The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.

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A photo of The Hello, Goodbye Window

The Hello, Goodbye Window

Also available in RB Digital. Looking through the kitchen window, a little girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye.

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Kitten's First Full Moon

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

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My Friend Rabbit

Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.

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The Three Pigs

The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.

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So You Want to be President?

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton.

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A photo of Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

Also available in Hoopla. A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments.

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Snowflake Bentley

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

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Rapunzel

Also available in Hoopla. A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.

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Golem

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

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Officer Buckle and Gloria

Also available in Overdrive. The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips, until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches.

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Smoky Night

When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.

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Grandfather's Journey

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.

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Mirette on the High Wire

Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

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Tuesday

Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore the nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep.

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A photo of Black and White

Black and White

Four brief "stories" about parents, trains, and cows, or is it really all one story? The author recommends careful inspection of words and pictures to both minimize and enhance confusion.

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